Question

Who were her parents?

Answer 1

Hi Jacqueline!  Welcome to WikiTree!

May i suggest adding some additional tags to your question, to bring it to the attention of researchers who are working in the same geographical areas as Anna lived? Maybe Hessen, and Germany, and Ohio....and german_roots...

Best regards

Shirlea

Answer 2

Hi Jacqueline,

This came up on my feed due to the Walter name. From the sources listed on FamilySearch.org it looks like Anna Walter is the mother of Peter Troutman (Trautmann) and not Mary (currently attached). Some links for searching with sources:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MPTK-ZZ1

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KNZ6-N1G

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LZVG-Z1X

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30401304

Happy researching!

Answer 3

Hi Jacqueline!  I've started a sketch of this family in Ancestry sandbox.  Here is Anna Maria Walther: https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/163928258/person/222152523778/facts

We pick her up on the 1860 Census.  Still have to look for the family in 1850.

According to her final census in 1900, she came to the US in 1825.  She would have been 11 years old.  Thus we should expect her marriage to have been in the States.  That contradicts some family trees who have found a marriage for her back in Hesse.  It wasn't usual to make the difficult passage back to the old country to get married, but it is theoretically possible....also it is possible that whoever gave the 1825 immigration date to the census-taker was misinformed.  It would not have been first hand knowledge for anyone there except Anna Maria, and we don't know that she was the actual informant.  It could have been the immigration date of one of the other ancestors of the informant, or just a number taken out of the air.

As Koreen pointed out, it looks like Anna Maria's marriage relationship is mixed up here on WikiTree.  She married Trautmann.  Hoskins is her daughter-in-law, not her actual daughter.  Anna Maria is indeed the grandmother of Annie M Trautman Taylor, but on the other side, the Trautman side.  

Comments

Since the Trautman sons (Leonard, Peter and George) are consistently enumerated as born in Hessen/Darmstadt in the early 1840s, the old-country marriage becomes more likely.  The 1825 immigration date becomes more suspect.

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gave a pretty good effort at looking for this family on the 1850 US Census, but didn't find them.  Maybe they were just arriving in the US around this time.

The oldest son gives an arrival year of 1847 when asked by the census taker in 1900.

The middle son is not alive to ask in 1900, but the youngest son gives an arrival year of 1852.  In other words, they both say they were 7 years old at the time of arrival.  Of course, this is not impossible.  The oldest may have come with his dad earlier, and the wife and babies a few years later.  This would help explain why there are only three children in this family - could have been some years of separation while the father was establishing a life in the new country and then sent for the rest of the family.....NOTE THAT THIS IS ALL SPECULATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF GENERATING RESEARCH AVENUES