Re: Rose Family in Fellhammer, Kr. Waldenburg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany
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In reply to:
Re: Rose Family in Ottendorf - Okrilla near Radeburg/Dresden in ca. 1905 - 1910
Erich Rose 1/04/10
Erich, my background includes six years studying history at the University of Munich in Germany, and I am thus very familiar with archives and their holdings.
You say "Fellhammer records may have been purged after WWII", but that is not true.The residents of Fellhammer attended church in nearby Gottesberg until Fellhammer got a church of its own, which I think was around 1906.Gottesberg's Evangelical Lutheran church records have survived, going back to the 1740s, and are with the Evangelical Lutheran Archives in Waldenburg (Walbrzych).Fellhamamer's Evangelical Lutheran church records are available from 1907 forward, and are likewise with the Evangelical Lutheran Archives in Waldenburg.(You were given incorrect information on the Poland message board as to where to look for those records.They are not in Berlin; they are in Waldenburg.)
The state of Prussia introduced the civil registration of births, deaths, and marriages in 1874, and Fellhammer's civil registers survived the war for the most part.Fellhammer's civil registers of births, deaths, and marriages covering the years 1874 to 1908 are with the Polish State Archives in Breslau (Wroclaw), and the civil registers from 1909 forward are with the Registry Office in Gottesberg-Rothenbach (Boguszow-Gorce), of which Fellhammer (Kuznice Swidnickie) has formed a part since 1973.(In Poland, birth, marriage, and death records more than 100 years old are sent to the State Archives.)
Kreis Waldenburg as a whole was Lower Silesia's largest industrial region.By the late 19th century, Fellhammer had become a mining town, but it was coal mining, not silver mining.
There is a genealogist who lives in Waldenburg (Walbrzych), a man by the name of Andreas Richter.I'll give you the link to his website.The website is in German.However, he's written something in English at the bottom of the particular page that I'll be giving you the link to.Either scroll down the page or click on the Union Jack.I would suggest that you send him an e-mail.He should be able to assist you with whatever records are available there, and there are more than you seem to have realized:
http://www.waldenburg.pl/index.php#enhttp://www.waldenburg.pl/index.php#en
And one last thing:You can forget the webpage about Scots in Poland that you were referred to on the Poland message board, because Silesia did not become part of Poland until after World War II, at which time all the original German inhabitants were of course expelled.Silesia has only been part of Poland for 64 short years.Scots did not migrate to Silesia.Furthermore, Rose is a German surname anyway, and a relatively common one at that.There is a Scottish surname Rose, but there's no connection.That's coincidence.
Robert
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Re: Rose Family in Fellhammer, Kr. Waldenburg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany
Erich Rose 2/21/10
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Erich Rose 1/06/10
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Re: Rose Family in Fellhammer, Kr. Waldenburg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany
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Re: Rose Family in Fellhammer, Kr. Waldenburg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany