A photograph of the sitter in her twenties.
Adelina Müller (28 May 1863 – 22 December 1927) was the sixth child of the nineteen children of Carl Alois (Luigi) Müller (1825 – 1885) and his wife Genovefa Lombardi (1836 – 1920). She met her future husband Ernst Gähler (died 1932), a ‘Bleicherei und Fabrikant’, at the Hotel Löwen in Herisau, Canton Appenzell, Switzerland, then owned by her parents and where she had worked for a short while, and married him in 1894. It was a love match, and a very happy marriage, of which there were four offspring, three girls – Margrit, Irma and Erna – and a boy (who died as a child by drowning in a garden pond) probably called Ernst after his father. Only Irma Gahler (1899 – 1974), who married businessman Franz Josef Conrad (1899 – 1974) in London in October 1920 (he came from Bremgarten in Canton Aargau) had any offspring – a girl Irma Beatrix (Trixie) who was born in 1922, Rolf Ernest (Rolli) who was born in 1923, and Frank Peter (Peter) who was born in 1929 and died in 1991. Erna Gähler married Werner Minder (died 1989?), but there were no children of the marriage. Margrit Gähler, who died in 1988, was also unmarried.
