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Sourwine Family Ancestors Page
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This is a working copy of a home page looking at the Sourwine family of Buffalo, New York,
specifically the decendants of Valentine Sourwine who emigrated to New York
from Hesse Darmstat in Germany in the 1830s.
This page is maintained by Mary Morman, a granddaughter of Major James Arthur Sourwine.
You can contact her by email using the complex (but not difficult) instructions
here if you have any problems with the page,
if you would like more information, or if you have information that should be included here.
Links below will take you to each of these family members and their
descendants. Or, you can choose to return to the
Sourwine Family home page.
This page is still in progress and not all of these links may be working at this time.
This page was last updated 12 June 2012
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Valentine Sourwine
Barbara Metzler Sourwine
The Sourwines and the Mootes
Sourwine Family Bible
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Michael Sourwine
Peter Sourwine
James Henry Sourwine
James Arthur Sourwine
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Valentine Sourwine
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Johan Valentin Sauerwine was born on 7 September 1782 in Germany. He married his first wife, Mary Michael, in Germany sometime before 1817,
and they had a son, Adam, born in 1818. Mary Michael seems to have died soon after. Valentine remarried to Barbara Metzler in 1818 in
Altheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. I have a copy of their marriage "before the Duke" in which Valentine makes provision
for his son from the previous marriage and arranges for him to have all of his mother's estate with none of it to pass
to any children to be born of his second marriage. We next see Valentine again when he emigrates to New York in 1832
and settles in Buffalo with his family. The oldest son, Adam, is left behind to be raised by his mother's family,
but something goes wrong with this arrangement and Adam later and separately emigrates to the US sometime in the mid-1830s.
The story of Adam being "cheated out of his inheritance" is told, in various versions, in all the different branches of the family.
Valentine and Barbara lived for a time in Buffalo, and their youngest son was born there in 1833.
We know of the following children, but there may be others.
| Name |
Born |
Died |
| Michael Sourwine |
4 July 1819 in Germany |
28 February 1877 in Buffalo, NY |
| Coonrad Sourwine |
1821 in Germany |
unknown |
| Catharine Sourwine |
25 December 1822 in Germany |
14 Sep 1886 Canborough Township, Ontario, Canada |
| Elizabeth Sourwine |
4 July 1819 in Germany 25 Dec 1825 Hesse, Prussia |
20 November 1902 in Anaheim, Orange County, California |
| George Sourwine |
unknown |
unknown |
| Peter Sourwine |
1833 in Buffalo, New York |
in Yakima, Washington |
Sometime after the birth of his youngest son, Peter, Valentine may have moved further west,
apparently leaving his wife behind in New York and taking with him his son George, and possibly
other sons. They may have homesteaded land in the Mississippi valley. The extensive Sourwine
families of Burlington, Iowa may be descendents of this branch of the family. According to Henry Sourwine,
son of Peter Sourwine, son of Valentine Sourwine, Valentine died and was buried in
St. Louis, Missouri on his way to visit his son Peter in Holton, Kansas. When he did not arrive
his son went looking for him and was advised of his death.
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Anna Barbara Metzler Sourwine |
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Anna Barbara Metzler Sourwine was born on 16 February 1797 in Germany.
She married widower Valentine Sourwine in Hesse-Darmstat, Prussia in 1818 and
emigrated with him to Buffalo, New York in 1832. She lived the last part of her
live across the river from Buffalo in Canboro, Ontario with her daughters Catharine and Elizabeth
and is buried in the Canboro cemetery.
gravestone of Barbara Sourwine
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Michael Sourwine |
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Michael Sourwine, the oldest son of Valentine Sourwine and Barbara Metzler Sourwine, was born in Germany on 4 July 1819. He emigrated to America with his family in 1832 and spent the rest of his life in the Buffalo, New York area. He was a mason belonging to Lodge #xx in XXX. He married Eleanor Jane Doan (born 25 March 1820) in Buffalo sometime in or before 1840, and they had seven children over the next eighteen years. Eleanor died on 8 January 1871, and Michael, then 52, married Candice Ward on 3 September of 1871. Their daughter Jessica Adeline Sourwine was born on 23 July 1875. Michael died on 28 February 1877 in Buffalo, New York of xxxx.
The children of Michael Sourwine and Eleanor Jane Doan were:
| Name |
Born |
Died |
| Peter Sourwine |
7 February 1841 in Buffalo, NY |
19 April 1873 in Buffalo, NY |
| Daniel Sourwine |
8 October 1842 in Buffalo, NY |
August of 1893, probably in California |
| Albert Sourwine |
7 February 1844 in Buffalo, NY |
9 January 1883 |
| Robert Sourwine |
29 October 1846 in Buffalo, NY |
22 June 1847 in Buffalo, NY |
| James Henry Sourwine |
31 January 1854 in Buffalo, NY |
1906 in California |
| Mary Margaret Sourwine |
15 January 1857 in Buffalo, NY |
August 1894 |
| John Michael Sourwine |
21 January 1859 in Buffalo, NY |
29 Dec 1940 in Los Angeles, CA |
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Michael Sourwine
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Peter Sourwine
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Peter Sourwine, oldest son of Michael Sourwine and Eleanor Doan Sourwine, was born in Buffalo, New York on 7 February 1841. He married Sarah Boaleah on 24 June 1864, and their son, Charles Sourwine, was born on 19 September 1866. Sarah died less than four years later on 19 February 1870. Peter married Anna Tims sometime in the next two years, and their son, William Sourwine, was born on 5 February 1873. Peter died two months later on 19 April 1873 leaving his widow, Anna Tims Sourwine, with a newborn son and a six year old stepson. |
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James Henry Sourwine
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James Henry Sourwine was the fifth of the six sons of Michael Sourwine and Eleanor Joan Sourwine. He was born in Buffalo, New York on 31 January 1854. On 24 May 1882 he married Anna Tims Sourwine, widow of his eldest brother, Peter Sourwine.
An existing copy of a title search on the family home in Buffalo, where Anna had been living with her son, Charles, and stepson, William, shows that the house was sold to the city at about that time. The house belonged to the heirs of Michael Sourwine in seven undivided portions, with James Henry listed as guardian for his half-sister Jessica and his two nephews, Charles and William (each with half of a seventh share). There does seem to be some correlation between this family property being sold (leaving Anna with no place to raise her family) and her marriage to James Henry. The witnesses at the wedding were all family members, with Anna's sister-in-law Mary Margaret Sourwine acting as her bridesmaid and witness.
James Henry and Anna had three children of their own, two of whom died in infancy, leaving them to raise their three variously related sons. Charles and William, the sons of Peter Sourwine, were half brothers. William and James Arthur, the sons of Anna Tims Sourwine, were also half brothers. Charles was both first cousin and step-brother to James Arthur.
The children of James Henry Sourwine and Anna Tims Sourwine were:
| Name |
Born |
Died |
Mabel Eleanor Sourwine |
21 April 1883 |
27 July 1883 |
James Arthur Sourwine |
8 June 1884 |
1956 in Washington, DC |
John Chester Sourwine |
21 July 1886 |
9 February 1887 |
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James Henry Sourwine
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