Re: Haas + Hamm from Freifeld (Cieszanow)
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Re: Haas + Hamm from Freifeld (Cieszanow)
Kathy Holland 8/06/00
Thanks for your message, David. My Haas(s) came from now what is southeast Poland (close to the present day Ukrainian border). Yours came from Prussia, which is by the Baltic coast (present day northern Poland). People will confuse the city of Ciechanow with the city of Cieszanow (where Ludowica Haas was married on Feb. 3,1880). Ciechanow is a great deal north and west of Cieszanow. Your area was ruled by the Germans, while mine was administered by the Austrians. In Canada Ludowica's children married other Roman Catholics (who happened to be Germans and Poles). I've heard (and it was proven by my Haas relatives), a German Roman Catholic family would put their religion before their ethnicity, preferring their children to marry a Polish Roman Catholic before a German Lutheran!