[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Emmigration Pommern to Volhynia

[Richard Benert]

Marlo,

If your mother-in-law is correct about their need to leave Volhynia in 1888
because of death threats, I'd really like to know the details, which I
realize you are unlikely to have.  There was no governmental decree to that
effect.  There was a new decree in effect in that year that limited the
right of some German colonists to acquire more land, and there was a general
fear in some official quarters and in the press that the German colonists
were a threat to Russian security.  Many colonists did feel threatened by
one or both of these facts, no doubt, but I've never heard or read that they
were in danger for their lives.  Could it have been some kind of
neighborhood conflict?

Dick Benert
-----Original Message-----
From: Marlo <Marlo at nwonline.net>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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Date: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Emmigration Pommern to Volhynia


>My husbands grandparents emigrated from the area of Pommerania, Stolp,
>Lauenburg or Rummelsburg to area Volhynia, villages of Elisabethin.
>Elzbiecin. I think the largest city near by was something starting
>with Rosz---.
>I know this isn't much but I wonder why they emigrated to Volhynia
>around 1878.   My mother-in-law once told me they had to leave
>Volhynia in 1888 or be killed. That's when they came to America and
>settled in SW Michigan.  She never explained any more.  Can someone
>help?
>The information about Volhynia villages is out of the St. Petersburg
>birth records.
>Marlo
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