In 1870, we find August living in Baltimore Maryland attending confectionary school.  By 1875, August is back in New York and his occupation listed in the 1875 city directory is  “laborer” but by the 1880 census  he is listed as a baker.  August married Anna Appolonia Trillich , who immigrated from Forst, Bavaria in 1863.  The 1880 census lists 7 children of August and Anna Appolonia, six boys and one girl but the interment list for the Knatz family plot at Calvary cemetery lists 4 additional children who died young, two which died at home when the family was living at 366 East 10^th Street, New York City.

1. John, born December 1862. (Note John was born in Bavaria before his mother emigrated to the United States in 1863. Who’s your daddy, John?)
2. Jacob, born  October 1863
3. Catherine, born December 1867, married a man named Muller but died at age 20 in 1888 with no children
4. Conrad, born August 1868
5. Elizabeth, born circa 1871, died 1878 at age 7
6. Charles (also known as Carl), born August, 1872
7. Andrew, born circa 1873, died young circa 1881(?)
8. Edward, born circa 1874, died 1881 at age 7 at home at 366 10^th St.
9. George, born circa 1874, died 1891 at age 16
10. Louisa, born 1879, died at age 4 months at home at 366 10^th St.

Six children of August Knatz and Anna Appolonia married but only 4 had children that survived. 

Descendants of Jacob, Charles, Conrad and August are living today in the United States. 

I have collected information on these 4 men and their descendants.  I am descended from the family of Charles (Carl) Knatz.  PK Knatz (affectionately known as August “Paul” the 4^th), descended from August Knatz the 2^nd  maintains a website at Knatz.com.  Two of my cousins Carol Taylor Beards and Diane Taylor have researched the family descended from Conrad Knatz.  (Note this Conrad is the son of August who emigrated from Germany, not the Conrad who is August's brother.). Links below will have additional information added about these four Knatz families.

Jacob Knatz b.1865 d Married Kate Hill

Conrad Knatz b.1868 d..1957 Married Anna Eberhardt

Charles Knatz b.1872 d.1953 Married Anna Bergner

August (the 2nd) Knatz b.1877 d.1956 Married  Elizabeth Hempel

Other Knatz’s in the United States

August Knatz emigrated with his younger brother Conrad (born 1838).  This Conrad married Elizabeth (born 1843 in Germany)  and from the 1900 census, we see he had the following children in New York

1. Freddie, born 1876

2. Louisa, born 1878

3. Eddie, born, 1882

3. Elizabeth, born 1885

4. Annie, born 1890

I have not researched this Conrad Knatz family yet so I do not know if they married and had children.  If anyone has done research on this family line, please contact me.

The first evidence of a Knatz in the United States is a Hessian soldier that fought in the Revolutionary War.  Niedenstein is in the state of Hesse so it will be interesting to find out  if this Knatz also came from Niedenstein.  There is a Knatz from the Maryland/Virginia area who fought as a confederate soldier in the Civil War. 

I have searched the Knatz family back to Germany about 400 years.  Fortunately, the family has been found in the town of Niedenstein since the Bells of Meunster rang out for peace at the end of the 30 years war in 1648.  I will provide a history of the town of Niedenstein in a future update of this website. 

This website is dedicated to the Knatz family everywhere but it is a work in process.  I intend to add the family letters written from Germany to our immigrant ancestors, August and Conrad.  I have photographs of the Knatz ancestral home and many family members here and from Germany.  I also have documented the family tree along numerous lines and have done research in archives and churches in Germany.  After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I immediately went to the former area of East Germany to seek records on family lines from that portion of Germany.  I hope to add this information over time to the website.   If you have any information on the Knatz family, you would like to share or would like to link to this website, please CONTACT ME. This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.  I would like to remind all researchers that this information is difficult to maintain so PLEASE VERIFY ANY INFORMATION for your own records.

THE JACOB KNATZ FAMILY- More information to be provided here in the future

THE CONRAD KNATZ FAMILY- More information to be provided here in the future

THE CHARLES KNATZ FAMILY-More information to be provided here in the future

THE AUGUST KNATZ FAMILY- More information to be provided here in the future.  

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