Hello, I hope someone can help me prove or disprove a connection between my partner's family (Decker, descended from John Nicholas Decker 1802-1891) and artist Frank Duveneck, biological son of Bernard Decker (d. 1849 in Cincinnati cholera epidemic).
The family lore is that there is a relationship. However, everything I have found so far establishes that Bernard's line is from Damme, Oldenburg, Germany, and Nicholas's line is from France (haven't figured out where specifically, maybe Lorraine).
Bernard had an older brother named Frank or Franz Bernard (1818-1874) who was the only sibling to survive the Cincinnati cholera epidemic of 1849. Biographical sources (especially Frank Duveneck: painter-teacher written by Frank Duveneck's daughter-in-law Josephine W. Duveneck) have given me these sibling relationships, but not parents' names. Frank and Bernard Decker's mother (not named, just a "widow" in the book above) may have come to Cincinnati between 1840 and 1849 with their sisters Mary and Elizabeth (also died of cholera, 1849).
I don't have sources for Nicholas Decker's parents, so any help there would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
