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Re: Fred and Katherine Willis (Mercer County, PA)
Posted by: Adrian (ID *****8884) Date: January 21, 2008 at 11:59:31
In Reply to: Re: Fred and Katherine Willis (Mercer County, PA) by Robert Jerin of 1955

This is a copy of a post someone just made in response to my query on another board:


1930 US Census
Mercer Co., Pennsylvania

Wills, fred, Head, aged 51, married, at age 26, b. Serbia (Yugoslavia), parents b. same, German ethnicity, emigrated 1904, laborer
Wills, Katherine, Wife, aged 46, married, at age 26, b. Serbia (Yugoslavia), parents b. same, German ethnicity, emigrated 1904
Wills, Fred, Son, aged 20, single, b. PA
Wills, Frank, Son, aged 19, single, b. PA
Wills, Elizabeth, Daughter, aged 17, single, b. PA

1920 US Census
Ward 3, Sharon, Mercer Co., PA
Cottage Street

Well, Fred, Head, aged 46, married, emigrated 1904, alien, b. Austria/Hungary (German), parents b. same, laborer, tin mill
Well, Katherine, Wife, aged 34, married, emigrated 1904, b. Austria/Hungary (German), parents b. same
Well, Katherine, Daughter, aged 14, single, b. PA
Well, Fred, Son, aged 11, single, b. PA
Well, Frank, Son, aged 9, single, b. PA
Well, Elizabeth, Daughter, aged 7, single, b. PA

1910 US Census
Ward 3, Sharon, Mercer Co., PA

Vill, Fred, Head, aged 30, married once, 6 years, b. Austria-Hungary, parents b. same, electrician, foundry
Vill, Katie, Wife, aged 25, married once, 6 years, 2 children born/living, b. Austria-Hungary, parents b. same
Vill, Katy, Daughter, aged 4, single, b. PA
Vill, Fred, Son, aged 2, single, b. PA

Next door:
Vill, Matau (or Mateu), Head, aged 25, married once, 1 year, b. Austria, Hungary, parents b. same, moulder, foundry
Vill, Anna, Wife, aged 26, married once, 1 year, 0 children born/living, b. Austria-Hungary, parents b. same

I found Friedrich & Katharina Will arriving on the SS Kroonland into New York on 26 February 1905, out of Antwerp, last of Neu Pazna; originally listed as Croatian; crossed out and replaced with German; bound for a friend, Fredrich Lebherz of Sharon, Pennsylvania. He is 25, and she is 18. They are travelling with a Friedrich Busman, also of Neu Pazna.

Neu Pazna may be rightly Neu Pasua, which is today, Nova Pazova.

There is an association of Donauschwaben from this village alive and well in Reutlingen, Germany, and their website (in German) is available here:

http://www.neu-pasua.de/

http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia-slavonia/




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