Photo Gallery: BEHRENS (NY)

A Work in Progress

We now know how the Behrens family is related to the Havemann family -- read it here.

Here are more Behrens photos with captions. Researchers and "cousins," please feel free to get in touch!

The caption reads: 1931. Front row: Wallie1, Margie1, Wm. Behrens2 Second row: Uncle Henry, Aunt Augusta's grandson (Edgar Willendrup), Aunt Anna (Wm's mother)3 & his children 4, Nellie (Wm's wife)2 Rear -- young Edgar's mother, Tanny5, Grandma5, Edgar (Aunt Augusta's son), Dorothy (Wm's sister) 6

1 Walter HAVEMANN, brother of Alfred; Margie, his first wife 2 William Wohlsen Behrens and Nellie VASEY 3 Anna Dorothy WOHLSEN Behrens, mother of W.W. Behrens 4 If "his children" refers (as it seems) to "Wm," then these would be William W. Jr. and Patricia Anne Behrens 5 'Tanny' is Anna HAVEMANN; Grandma is Mary WINGENDORFF Havemann 6 Dorothy BEHRENS, it seems

Notes:

• If you look closely at Wm. Behrens, you can see the top of someone's head in front of him. This is Patricia BEHRENS Cameron.



• Walter HAVEMANN and Margie were divorced; his second wife was named Meg SPINDLER. They lived for a time at 16 Seeley Avenue, Staten Island. Walter HAVEMANN had no children by either wife. He worked at Bankers Trust Company in New York in the 1930s; however, their personnel office could find no record of him despite being given his SS number. He also apparently worked at the Richmond County National Bank in Staten Island, NY circa 1957.

Caption reads: #1 - Ray Whiting; #2 - Uncle Will's wife Augusta; #3 - Tony Behrens Whiting #5 - Uncle Will Behrens; Augusta's daughter-in-law

Notes:

• We have no idea who the WHITING people are!
• "Tony" -- Antonia, perhaps?
• The caption writing is a bit jumbled. "Augusta" and her DiL are not numbered, and in fact their names appear last. At first glance, it could appear that Augusta (Uncle Will's wife) is the last woman on the right, but other evidence suggests that his wife is the one on whom his arm rests.