[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Emmigration Pommern to Volhynia

[Marlo]

Richard, sorry but this is the only bit I know.  She only said it once
and I got the idea she didn't want to talk about it so I never asked.
No one else in the family knows anything more.  These people never
wanted to talk about their past.   Marlo
----- Original Message -----
From: " Richard Benert" <benovich at montanadsl.net>
To: "Marlo" <Marlo at nwonline.net>;
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Emmigration Pommern to Volhynia


> 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
> <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> 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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