Re: Weinke & Froelich
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Re: Weinke & Froelich
Tabea Huse 5/14/03
I posted in the FROELICH forum but thought I'd check here too.Your Karl FROELICH was my great-grandmother Albertine Froelich WEINKE's brother.She and her husband Gustav were the ones who sponsored Karl and Amelia.To complicate things, one of Gustav's sisters married a SCHULTZ!
Karl and Albertine also had a brother August, who is buried near Albertine and Gustav in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Greenwood, Johnson County, Indiana.
I was told that the family came from Kallies, Pommern, Germany or possibly Denzig, Pommern, which is a few miles away.The Weinke obituaries and Ellis Island papers say DANZIG, but they worked on a large rural estate, and Denzig fits the description more than Danzig, a large city.
The Weinkes were very closed-mouthed about family history when I was a kid and asking a lot of questions, which has frustrated me greatly!
If you'd like to compare notes, please e-mail me.