Matt Melcher

Ancestors

Son of Joe Junior Melcher and Barbara Ann (Richmond) Melcher

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Biography

Matt Melcher is a Hawkeye.

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Matthew C. Melcher married Shannon Gabrielle Stevens in 1992.

Looking for my people.

I'm primarily interested in identifying all the immigrants in my family tree. Most of my ancestors have been in the United States since the 1700's (many before the country was formed), while the most recent émigré came to the states in the mid 1800's. I have identified a few Palatinate emigrants from Germany, and Irish emigrants that left due to the Great Famine. I have found ancestors that served in every war this country has ever fought from The Revolution through Vietnam.

Through Wikitree I have identified unknown ancestors going back hundreds of years. That only happens because of the shared tree and collaboration of many people that were using this site well before I got here. I thank them all for their work.

Most of the information on my mother's (Richmond) side of the family comes from a significant family tree completed in the late 1980's. It traces all of the decedents of Samuel Richmond Richmond-3191. I still haven't identified the first immigrant from this line. I know they came from Virginia to Kentucky to Iowa, with a few other places in between.

I also have a Melcher family tree that traces them back to Germany. It was shared with me by a gentleman that traced all of the descendants from a small town in Germany (Zeltingen-Rachtig). It's quite detailed and well researched. They came straight from Germany to settle in Iowa.

The Brantingham's were Quakers from England that came through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and eventually to Iowa. I never knew they were Quakers until I started this project.

The Duncan's came from Ireland through Canada and ended up in Iowa. I guess that means they emigrated twice.

My wife and I are the gatherers and holders of our family trees, and we want to get accurate and complete information as far back as we can.

Until I break through some brick walls I feel like I've gone as far back as I can. Now I'm going back and adding sources, expanding biographies, adding siblings, spouses, and children. Still so much to do!

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Matt Melcher at registration.
• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KYTZ-K7R : 23 May 2014), Matthew C Melcher, Residence, Norwalk, Iowa, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.

My Surnames

Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor

Bell, Bernard , Blackburn , Boulton , Brantingham

Campbell, Cousins

Duncan

Ehlen

Ferguson, Fey , Ficklin

Gamble, Gardner , Geiter , Grinstead

Harmon (Hermann) , Haut , Hillis , Hopper

Jackson, Johns

Kappes, Keifer , Keiser

McClanahan, McGee , Melcher , Miller , Moseler

O'Neill

Reed, Richmond , Robbins , Rogers , Rowlett

Skaggs, Stanley

Varner, Vaughn

Waggoner (Wagner) , Walton , Wilson , Wood , Wynn