• Catherina's marriage license application lists her birth date as 6 Apr 1868. 6 This date can be disproven by her birth record entry in the Ober-Metzenseifen church records.
• She emigrated about 1886 from Austria-Hungary. 7
• She appeared in the 1900 census on 13 Jun 1900 in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny, PA. 7
• She appeared in the 1920 census on 9 Feb 1920 in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny, PA. 8
• She appeared in the 1930 census on 23 Apr 1930 in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny, PA. 9
Catherina married Joseph Francis ORIENT, son of Michael ORIENT and Anna Maria FRIEDL, on 11 Apr 1888 in St. Joseph, Carnegie, PA.12 (Joseph Francis ORIENT was born on 28 Dec 1864 in Ober-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 3, christened on 28 Dec 1864 in Ober-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 3, died on 30 Jan 1911 in Carnegie, Allegheny, PA 4 and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Carnegie, PA 5.)
Sources
1
Joseph Fleckinger, Marriage Record of Joseph Orient and Katherine Schmotzer, (Pittsburgh, PA, 11 Apr 1888).
2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1885-1950, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011, FamilySearch® Labs http://search.labs.familysearch.org).
3
St. Mary Magdalene Parish Register, Christening Records, 1807-1886, (Ober Metzenseifen, Slovakia (LDS Film 2010722)).
4
Sr. Beatrice Orient, The Orient Family Tree (unpublished), (Pittsburgh, PA, Aug 1997).
5
Thomas Hoey, Cemetery Headstone, St. Joseph Cemetery, (Carnegie, PA, 28 Dec 2000).
6
Clerk of the Orphan's Court, Application for Marriage License for Joseph Orient and Katherine Schmotzer, (Pittsburgh, PA, 6 Apr 1888).
7
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, 1900 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 516, Sheet 10, Line 55.
8
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, 1920 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 838, Sheet 7, Line 18.
9
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, 1930 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 2-840, Sheet 18, Line 29.
