Re: BROSIUS I am looking for my family history.
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Re: BROSIUS I am looking for my family history.
3/05/99
Hallo :.)
Our "Brosch" family speakes the name as if written polonian "Brorz" - this name results as a short form of "Am_brozius", the name of a great bishop (4th century Milano the first - the Saint of composing great hymns),
and a polonian bishop in 17th century named so, too - (one of those who fetched Masovian people to Eastern Prussia) - some relatives spoke that language.
This Brosch family were good farmers near Allenstein - their forfathers named Brosch, Surrey and Schirmacher and were catholics
- my grandma *1891-1963^named Marte and they were 9 children, their father named Josef & Maria Surrey, Josefs father named Thomas & a born Schirmacher - this Thomas built a nice farmhouse in Gross Lemkendorf (pol. Lamkowo) near Allenstein (today Olzstyn) in Eastern Prussia (today Polonian North-West woydwod-capital)
the first born brother of my grandma named again Josef and is buried in cemetary of Gr. Lemkendorf - I saw his tombstone in 1998.
There are a lot of families in Germany, the most write Brosch, severals write Broczius or similar
I'm sorry - we never had a Jacob - but Chicago was a place where a lot of Eastern Prussians went away in early 20th century and since 1858, too.
- my fathers fathers - the Wippich - were sellers or merchants, both not poor - both lost all in 1945.