The family of Frank Thomas
and
Wilhelmina Tratbar
Frank Thomas and Wilhelmina Tratbar married in Germany before they came to the U.S. around 1883. The story goes that they had 10 children in Germany before they came to America and 10 more after they moved here. Only seven survived their youth to live into adulthood. Some died in infancy. They lived in the Hammonton andWilliamstown, NJ areas and raised dahlias commercially.

Elizabeth Thomas (top right) was born in 1880 and is the great grandmother of George Beu who created this site and lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Wilhelmina (Tratbar) and Frank Thomas and family. George's (the author of this site) great grandmother, Elizabeth, is the tall girl on the far right. Elizabeth was born in Germany in 1880 and came to the U.S. on the last sailing ship when she was about 3 years old. Photo was taken in Philadelphia at Applegate's at 8th and Vine.
Frank I and Wilhelmina Thomas
Frank and Wilhelmina Thomas with Elizabeth's brother, George. Photo taken in Hamburg, Germany.
Frank Thomas I and Frank Thomas II, brother of Elizabeth, my great grandmother.
Eleanor Thomas, sister of my great grandmother.
Frank and Wilhelmina's son Frank II with his second wife Edith and their granddaughter, Wilhemina (Mina) Thomas.
Frank and Wilhelmina's son George Thomas. He had a glass eye that he got in Germany before he came to the United States. He was naturalized when he was 55 years old.


September 11, 1933, Wilhelmina Thomas and her husband, Frank Sr.

Elizabeth's brothers George and Frank Jr.
Minnie Thomas, sister of my great grandmother.
Wilhelmina Thomas, (nee Tratbar)
Wilhelmina Thomas and son Alvin, Elizabeth's brother.
 Wilhelmina Thomas, Elizabeth with the dog, brother George sitting down, and Minnie being held by her mother.
Wilhelmina Thomas at the family dahlia farm in Williamstown, NJ.
Wilhemina Thomas Curletti (daughter of Frank Thomas, Jr and his wife Sadie) and her daughter Mina. The younger Mina later married a fellow by the last name of Valentino and had a daughter, Donna. Wilhemina's second husband was Roy Bentley from Hammonton.
Elizabeth Thomas, age 18 years. She is my great grandmother.
 This is also Elizabeth Thomas. Photo was taken in Philadelphia at Applegate's at 8th and Vine.
   
Sadie and Frank Thomas, Jr. Sadie was his first wife.
Frank Thomas Jr. and second wife Edith Thomian

 

 

 
The identity of this young woman is unknown. Any ideas? Martha I's daughter Martha and her first husband, Johnny Jones, September 9, 1944. Her second husband's name was Jim Beck.

Donna, Mina II's daughter, age 7, Christmas 1967

Eleanor Thomas, neice of Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Elizabeth's brother, George. She was a teacher in Berlin, NJ. Retired in 1970 (?)

L. to R. Mina Thomas Curletti, her brother Frank Thomas III, his wife Vera Little Thomas, Mina Curletti Valentino, and Albert Valentino, ca. 1964 in the driveway of the house on Egg Harbor Road in Hammonton. Donna is the daughter of Mina II and Albert.

Frank Thomas Jr., Frank Thomas Sr., and Alwin (aka Alvin)

 



Wilhelmina Thomas, probably in Williamstown, NJ.



Alvin Thomas, Frank Thomas Sr. and Frank Thomas Jr.

Frank Thomas Sr., Wilhelmina, Frank Jr.'s second wife Edith, and Frank Thomas Jr.

Dahlia farm, likely in Williamstown, NJ.


Frank Thomas III and his wife Vera with their son Frank IV, February 1958.

Elizabeth Thomas and her brother George, summer 1955 in back yard at 4222 N. 7th in Philadelphia.

Frank Jr., Wilhelmina, and Frank Sr. at home in Berlin, N, said to be just behind the school. This isn't actually their home, though. They thought the neighbor's house looked better, so they went there to have family photos taken. Their home was at 41 Haines Ave. in Berlin, NJ.

House next door to the Thomas home in Berlin, NJ. Many of the family photos were taken in front of this house because they thought their own house wasn't attractive enough to be in the family photos!

George Thomas, Frank Thomas, Eleanor Thomas, Florence and Harry Seppy, Alberta Thomas (daughter of Otto Thomas), and Mina Curletti at the wedding of Harry and Florence.The young boy in front of Harry is unidentified.