Rodust Family, San Francisco

The Rodust family when they lived in San Francisco, on Washington Street, near Larkin, about 1885. Left to right: Bernhard (father), "Addie," "Birdie," "Daisy" (in front of Frank), "Frank," Mary (mother).

The children were known by their nicknames all their adult lives. I believe their actual names were Adelaide, Corolla, Mary Estelle (or Stella), and Adolph Francis Bernhard.

Birdie is listed in the 1880 census as a stepdaughter of the head of the household. Her father was probably Mr. Meyer, Mary Remarque Rodust's first husband. (Mary was better known as Marie when she worked as head seamstress at the City of Paris department store.)

I believe Birdie died between 1910 and 1920. Addie died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Frank and Daisy, the twins, lived to the 1940's. Frank never married; Daisy was the mother of Victor M. Margutti.