Edward (Emil) Bechtinger

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Occupation: physician

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Residence: 1893-1920, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 1915, Rua da Quitanda 120, 1° andar, Rio; 1916, Rue Primeiro de Marco 101, Rio; 1920 [legal domicile Baltimore, MD], 295 Broadway, New York City.

Occupation: 1920, manager, The General Commerical Company, Ltd, Rio office.

Travel: Emil E Bechtinger, 32, b. 3 Jul 1887, Brooklyn, New York, 37 Pearl St., New York, arrived New York City, 14 May 1920 aboard the Vauban from Rio de Janeiro, 29 Apr 1920.

Birth:
Birth information provided in Emil's 1920 US passport application and Brooklyn birth certificate.

Died:
A celebratory mass was said for Emil Edward Bechtinger, 11 a.m. 31 Jul 1962, Ingreja de Sao Francisco de Paula Diario de Noticias.

Emil married Orminda (João) Rodocanachi on 06 Nov 1909 in 03° Circunscrição, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Orminda (daughter of João Ernesto (Hypatios) Rodocanachi and Adelaide Fernandes Lima) was born on 12 Jan 1884 in Fortalezza, Ceara, Brazil; died in Nov 1936 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; was buried on 17 Nov 1936 in Cemiterio S. Francisco Xavier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence: 1915-16, Rua Henrique Dias 35, Rocha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [listed different from husband's on his annual American citizens abroad registration].

Orminda Bechtinger & family and Adelaide Rodocanachi arrived Rio de Janeiro, abt. 8 Jun 1914 from Southampton, England, aboard the Andes (Jornal do Brasil, 8 Jun 1914, p. 13).

Buried:
Burial notice for Orminda Rodocanachi Bechtinger, Santa Casa, appeared in A Noite [Rio de Janeiro], 17 Nov 1936, p. 2.

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Emil had a second marriage: to Hilda Celestino, whose burial was noted in Jornal do Brasil, 7 Jul 1939, p. 23. The notice mentions E. E. Bechtinger's children Violeta [later married Rangel], Ivone [later married Simon], and Roberto. Roberto Celestino Bechtinger (10 May 1930 - 27 Apr 2008, buried Natal, RN, Brazil) married Zuleika Goncalves Vieira. They had a son Roberto Bechtinger and two daughters Viviane Bechtinger (m Lahamar) and Elyane Vieira Bechtinger (m Castro). Roberto and Zuleika divorced; Roberto remarried (Solange) and they had a son, Eric Bechtinger (b. Los Angeles). Zuleika never remarried.

Married:
Wedding noted in O Paiz, 7 Nov 1909, p. 4.

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Arrived USA about 1864; naturalized US citizen San Francisco, 25 Aug 1875.

In his 1878 application for a USA passport, he lists his family: wife Wilhelmina; daughter Josephine, 15, b. abt 1863; daughter Barbara, 14, b. abt 1864; son Charles, 8, b. abt 1870; Joseph 4, b. abt 1874; daughter Eugene, 1 1/2, b. abt 1876.

San Francisco 1875 voter registration: Joseph Nicholas Bechtinger, 40, b. Austria, physician, 704 Sacramento [St.], naturalized 25 Aug 1875, registered 27 Aug 1875.

Occupation: physician

Residence: 1864, Washington, DC; 1865, 1866, 1875, San Francisco; 1880, New York City.

1880 US federal census: The household residing at 11 East Houston Street, New York City, headed by Joseph Bechtinger, 44, surgeon, b. Italy, father b. France, mother b. Italy; wife Wilhelmina, 24, b. Egypt, parents b. France;daughters Josephine, 18, b. Austria, father b. Italy, mother b. Hungary; Bettina, 17, b. Austria, father b. Italy, mother b. Hungary; sons Joseph, 9, b. East India, father b. Italy, mother b. Egypt; Charles, 6, b. New York, father b. Italy, mother b. Egypt; Eugene, 3, b. Calaz(?), Spain.

Joseph Bechtinger, 40, physician, wife Wilhelmine Bechtinger, 18, and Rudolph Bechtinger, 13, arrived New York 27 Nov 1874 from Hamburg, Germany and Le Havre, France aboard the Silesia.

Taxes: District of Columbia tax assessment list, 1864: 27 May, Dr. Bechtinger, 502 Pa Ave, physician, $10 license tax; 1865 California, Jos Bechtinger, 629 Day? [St.], physician, $5; 1866 California, Dr. Bechtinger, 629 Day, physician, $10.

Birth:
Information from his US passport application and his son Emil's 1920 US passport application.

Joseph married Alma da Costa-Gomez. Alma was born about 1866 in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1930 US federal census: Wilhelmina Bechtinger, 74, married, lodged at 315 S. Prieur St., New Orleans, LA. b. Austria, m. age 16, parents b. Austria, m. age 16.

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Alma was apparently his third wife, preceeded by Betty (bearing Josephine, 1862; and Betinna, 1863) and then Wilhelmina (Joseph, 1871; Charles, 1874-1921, Eugene, 1877; Alphonse, 1880).

Emil may have had siblings, including Mario Leopoldo (buried 14 Jan 1958; married to Ignez Furchi) and Paul, b. 1882.

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Occupation: 1878-, astronomer, Imperial Observatorio Astronomico, Rio de Janeiro

João married Adelaide Fernandes Lima. Adelaide was born on 12 Oct 1864 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died in Jan 1936 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; was buried on 15 Jan 1936 in Cemiterio de Sao Joao Batista, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Adelaide Rodocanachi, 48, arrived Southampton, England, from Rio de Janeiro, 26 Jul 1913 aboard the Asturias.

Orminda Bechtinger & family and Adelaide Rodocanachi arrived Rio de Janeiro, abt. 8 Jun 1914 from Southampton, England, aboard the Andes (Jornal do Brasil, 8 Jun 1914, p. 13.

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Catsiyannis says he was in London before 1838 and emigrated to Brazil around 1843-44. (Christopher Long)

3 Mar 1836: Hypatios M. Rodocanachi, 16, single, born Chios, arrived Syros 1820, student, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the town hall, Ermoupolis, Syros.

Apparently trading in Rio de Janeiro under the name of João Baptista Rodocanachi & Co., 1856-1890.

Almanak Administrativo, Mercantil e Industrial do Rio de Janeiro, 1881, p 182, under rubric "accrescimos e alteracoes; sobrevindos durante a impressao" [changes that arose during printing], cited on p. 88: João Baptista Rodocanachi, Observatorio Astronomico (68). Apparently, he was omitted from the listing under names beginning with João. His son João Ernesto was employed there.

Often introduced in shipping news items in the 1860s, Diário do Rio de Janeiro, as 'o grego' [the Greek]. By 1870 he worked with the company Franghiadi & Rodocanachi.

Hypatios married Anna Clarisse (João) Midosi. Anna died after 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]