bitsch/pietsch family genealogy - School of Aquatic and Fishery ...

egimental band in Wilhelmsburg, Germany; listed in Baltimore City Directory of
1860 as W.F. Thiede, Piano Depot, 82 West Fayette, 142 North Paca Street; six
children, three died as infants.
Children of Mary Eva Pietsch and William F. Thiede:
i. Mary Carolina Thiede, born 31 March 1859, died 2 April 1861, aged 2 years, 2
days; buried in Thiede lot at Loudon Park Cemetery (“Dear little Mary
only daughter of Wm F. and Mary E. Thiede”).
ii. Florence Thiede, born 7 December 1860, died 7 June 1861; buried in Thiede lot
at Loudon Park Cemetery (“To our baby Florence, daughter of Wm F. and
M. E. Thiede”).
iii. William Ferdinand Thiede, Jr., born 1861, died 7 January 1936; married Ella
Goettman, born 1860, died 1935; both buried in Thiede lot at Loudon Park
Cemetery (Lot 87, Sec. AA).
iv. Thomas Jefferson Jackson (“Tommy”) Thiede, born 21 February 1863, died 16
January 1865, aged 23 months, 5 days; buried in Thiede lot at Loudon
Park Cemetery (“To our beloved Tommy”).
v. Emma Louisa (“Loulie” or “Lulu”) Thiede, born 3 July 1865, died 9 October
1886; buried in Thiede lot at Loudon Park Cemetery (“In Memory of
Loulie beloved wife of Wm Ashman daughter of Wm F. & Mary E.
Thiede”); married William Ashman; at least one child.
Child of Loulie Thiede and William Ashman:
i. Lulu Ashman, born , died ; a raving beauty, was on the stage.
vi. Gustav Adolf Thiede, born 14 May 1872.
vii. Anna M. (“Annie”) Thiede, born 1875, died December 1961; married Henry
Paddington Startzman, born 1871, died 1933; both buried in Thiede lot at
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore.
ii. Louisa Caroline (Mary?) Pietsch, born 2 August 1842, died ; mentioned in the
census of 1870; married Alfred Gallagher; lived on a farm on Pikesville Road,
Crownsville (?), outside Baltimore; the Gallagher farm was located on what is
now Pimlico Race Track; at one time, the club house for Pimlico was the old
Gallagher home; in addition to horses they had fruit trees and game cocks and
were friends with Governor Ritchie (Charles Richard Irving, “Uncle Dick,” St.
Petersburg, Florida, pers. comm., 3 June 2009); he had a famous trotter as his
carriage horse; she was a spiritualist; two children.
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