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Her Name was Ottilie . . .What?

Otillie Audrey Lieberknecht. What a mouthful. Her New Jersey birth certificate said "Otille Lieb," born on September 20, 1908, in Jersey City to Wm. C Lieb, 39, and Florence Wenzel, 25. They lived at 243 Montgomery St. She was the 2nd child and the only one living. I suspect the first child was named Dorothy as Momma Audrey said I was named after her sister. Audrey was the 2nd or 3rd female child of William's, the first two were with Mary A. Carter, his first wife. William's mother was named Ottilie. There's a little discrepancy here with his supposed 1st child who was born 5 months before the marriage, and the DNA doesn't match with William's sister's line and mine. William liked to be called Lieb and that is what Florence called him. Lieberknecht was his step-father's name and William used that most of his life having grown up with George Lieberknecht as his father since he was 7 years old. But that's another story when I write about Willia...