Re: Anna Warmke(aka Warnke) b. 1844 in Duza Cerkwica
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In reply to:
Anna Warmke(aka Warnke) b. 1844 in Grou00df Zirkwitz
Kevin Strattan 3/06/13
Hi Kevin,
There is a July, 1869 Baltimore passage record for an Anna Warnke.
She sailed from the Port of Bremen, Germany on board the S.S. Berlin.
According to the manifest, she was born in “G. Lirkwitz”(probably should be Grob Zirkwitz) in 1845.
There is also an 1870 U.S. census that shows an Anna Warnke living in Watertown Ward 2, Jefferson County, WI.According to that document, Anna was born in Prussia in 1849.She was a housekeeper for the Julius Stallmann family.
You correctly pointed-out that the former Prussian village of Grob Zirkwitz is now known as Duza Cerkwica.The population of the village today is about 400.It is located about 3 kilometers east of the town of Kamien Krajenski (formerly Kamin) with a population of about 2,327.
In all likelihood, Anna’s ancestral village was too small to support a Roman Catholic parish, so all of the Sacraments were administered at a parish in Kamien Krajenski.
Here is as index to the church vital records (births/baptisms, marriages and deaths) for the town of Kamien Krajenski:
Kamien Krajenski (Zlotow) 5332 1732 BY
Kamin
Roman Catholic parish
Diocesan Archive in Pelplin
B 1657-1750 1773-1842 1863-1883
M 1680-1695 1703-1709 1713-1787 1806-1911
D 1713-1902
Local Roman Catholic Parish
B 1883-
M 1911-
D 1902-
LDS microfilms
B 1832-1842 462324 #2
D 1842-1901 462325
B 1784-1808 462779 #1
B 1863-1883 1713-1748 1809-1831 587549
D 1832-1842 1784-1831 FHL-INTL 587550
MD 1713-1774 M 1863-1911 1832-1862 1806-1831 BM 1675-1711 FHL-INTL 587551
B 1883-1890 1569314 #6
You can rent and view the LDS microfilms at your local public Library.
Thanks to a grass roots effort called the POZNAN PROJECT,
http://poznan-project.psnc.pl/http://poznan-project.psnc.pl/
You can locate digitized marriage indexes for grooms with the Warmke/Warnke surname that were married circa 1844 in and around the town of Kamien Krajenski
Go to the web site and for the for the Groom surname type-in Warmke or Warnke.Next, in the Region drop-down box select BYDGOSZCZ to filter your search.Also, in the Time Frame select 1820 to 1849 as an additional filter.
As you will see from the search results, there are no grooms with the given name of George.There are Jacobs, Johns and Josephs.
The people, who created this Poznan Project Marriage Index, also provided a list of the source documents where these records were found. To see a list of those source documents merely click-on the Kamien Krajenski hyperlink.I already provided this same information above in my posting.
As you can see, many of the Polish records are available on LDS (Later Day Saints) microfilm and can usually be rented and viewed locally at your public library. “D” = death, “B” = birth/baptism and “M” = marriage.
Finally, Anna’s ethnicity may have been Polish.At the time that Anna was born and immigrated to the U.S., Poland as we know it today, was partitioned between Germany (Prussia), Russia and Austria.It was not until after WW I that Poland regained its independence and identity.
Best regards,
Norbert