Date

Subject / Details

Source

1858

Heimatschein (Certificates of Citizenship) granted to Samuel L Aufrichtig in respect of his sons Moritz and Carl.

Boskovice Archive Records

1864

Travel grant for Moritz Aufrichtig, born 1845, son of the gold worker Samuel Aufrichtig

Boskovice Jewish Records

17 October 1869

Married Bettie Zeimer in Manhattan, New York, New York. Parents entered as Samuel L Aufrichtig and Betti Merman.

Manhattan Marriage Registers (1869-1880)

1870/71

First son Samuel born in California.

U.S. 1880 Census

1872-1875

Appeared to have been residing in New York as both 2nd and 3rd sons Isaac (b.1871/2) and Louis (b.1873/74) were entered on Census form as having been born there. According to Boskovice Records, may also have re-visited Boskovice at this time.

U.S. 1880 Census

1877/78

Daughter Lily born

U.S. 1880 Census

8 June 1880

Lived at 116 Sixth Street, San Francisco. Appeared on U.S. Census form under Anglicised first name of Morris, and wife Betti referred to as Bertha.

U.S. 1880 Census

1880

Daughter Rachel born

U.S. 1900 Census

1889

Business addresses listed at 927 Market and 1216 Fulton, San Francisco. 

San Francisco Directory 1889-91

1890

Business addresses listed at 927 Market and 905 Market, San Francisco. 

San Francisco Directory 1889-91

2 June 1900

Lived at 509 Franklin Street, San Francisco. Appeared on US Census form as Morris Aufrichtig, living with wife Bertha and daughter Rachel. Further transcription listed this as Moses Aufrichtig.

U.S. 1900 Census

22 April 1910

Lived at 3927 Dalton Avenue, Los Angeles. Appeared on US Census form as Moritz F Aufrichtig - the only known document to feature a reference to his middle name.

U.S. 1910 Census

29 April 1911

Betti Zeimer, Moritz's wife of 42 years, died in Los Angeles, California on 29 April 1911. She was buried 1 May 1911 in Salem Memorial Park, south of San Francisco.

Death Certificate

20 September 1911

Moritz F Aufrichtig was a passenger on board SS Kaiser Wilhelm II sailing from Southampton, England on 20 September 1911, arriving at New York on 27 September 1911. Moritz's name wrongly transcribed as M S Auprichtig. Of special interest on the manifest is that his address was given as 3915 Dalton Avenue, Los Angeles. One year earlier, in the 1910 Census, Moritz and wife Betti were listed as living at 3927 Dalton Avenue. Immediately underneath their entry, at 3915 Dalton were Lawrence E Thompson and his wife Rae Thompson, subsequently identified as Moritz's daughter Rachel Aufrichtig.

U.S. 1910 Census, U.S. 1920 Census and U.S. Immigration Records

1920

Moritz Aufrichtig's name wrongly transcribed as Monty Anfrichtig. Described as a widower and a Boarder at Post Street, his age was given as 74.

U.S. 1920 Census

1920

Moritz receives a visitor from Czechoslovakia - Berta Aufrichtig, the daughter of Alois Aufrichtig and Franziska Schwarz of the Prague-Moravia group of Aufrichtigs. Berta's entry on the SS-Noordam manifest stated that she was travelling to the United States to stay with her Uncle Moritz Aufrichtig in San Francisco,  thereby linking the two groups.

US Immigration Records

1922

Moritz and Bertha Aufrichtig both included in directory as living at 344 17th Avenue, San Francisco. Bertha [Betti] Zeimer had died 29 April 1911. It is assumed that the listed Bertha was his niece, who had travelled to San Francisco from Czechoslovakia in 1920.

San Francisco, California 1922 City Directory

1930

Moritz's name was entered as Morrit Aufrechteg. He was now 84 and living at 344 Seventeenth Avenue. Sharing his residence were Carrie Upright described as "Niece", and nephews Robert Upright and Egon Upright. Carrie Upright, in fact, was Kamilla Patzowski, Moritz's niece-in-law and the widow of his nephew, Eduard Aufrichtig. [Other documentation confirms her identity as Camilla Upright and her maiden name as Patzowski.] Robert was the son of Moritz's elder brother, Alois, and Egon the son of Eduard and Kamilla - each, therefore, great-nephews of Moritz. All three had adopted Upright - the literal English translation of the name Aufrichtig - following U.S. naturalisation. 

U.S. 1930 Census

1932

Moritz died on 31 March 1932 in San Francisco. He was buried alongside his wife Betti at Salem Memorial Park on 1 April 1932. Death registration was carried out by eldest son Samuel. 

Death Certificate

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