Heritage

This collects materials on the Liipfert family heritage.

Most (if not all) of people in the US with the given last name Liipfert descend from Franz Julius Liipfert (1834-1895), who came to the US, arriving in New York on May 21, 1853. 

Franz Julius had four sons and three daughters.  The sons were William Joseph Liipfert (1860-1911), Frank Julius Liipfert ((1866-1927), Otto Liipfert (1870-1933), and Charles Liipfert (1874-1943).

William Joseph Liipfert had two sons, William Joseph Liipfert II ((1891-1962) and Benjamin Bailey Liipfert (1898- 1911), and a daughter, Gertrude London Hill (1893-1966).

William Joseph Liipfert II had two sons, William Joseph Liipfert III and James Crane Liipfert (1921-1980), and a daughter, Betty Liipfert ().

William Joseph Liipfert III had two sons

James Crane Liipfert

Benjamin Bailey Liipfert had two sons and a daughter

Otto Liipfert had two sons, Otto Liipfert Junior (1914-    ) and Eugene Transou Liipfert (1918 - 2000). 

Eugene T. Liipfert had two sons, John Turney Liipfert (1947 - ) and Christian Eugene Liipfert (1951-  )

John T. Liipfert had a daughter, Carrie Anne Liipfert (1970-  ),  and a son, John Turney Liipfert, Junior (1977-   ).

Carrie Anne Liipfert had two sons, John Patrick Caulfield Scanlon (1998 -  ) and James Messina (   ).

Christian Eugene Liipfert (that's me) had a daughter, Jocelyn Elizabeth Liipfert (1985-  ), and a son, Todd Alexander Liipfert (1989 -  ).

The Liipfert Heritage Book, in German, is here.  The English version, translated by Karl Zeissig, is here.