[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: [G-P-V] Tchechei; place-names

[gpvjem]

    It would be difficult to say Karl,  without simultaneously examining contemporary Catholic and Lutheran records for a specific area.  I can say this much from what I have seen, at least in some of the inter faith marriages, the births of the children were recorded in the Lutheran church. I don't know how open the Catholic church was at the time to accept marriages of Catholics "outside the church" or if it had any bearing on where the children were christened.
    Preparing a database of all the marriage, birth and death records of Lodz Trinity Lutheran parish for a 25 year period and establishing family units as I am doing, is an interesting project, one that gives rise to all sorts of fascinating questions and occasionally, revelations.

John Marsch

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  To take it one step further, in general, what church did these "mixed" marriages tend to ascribe to as their families grew up? Did they go with the Catholic church where there was a predominance of Poles or did they go to the Lutheran church and thus hang out with the Germans?

  gpvjem <gpvjem at sasktel.net> wrote: 
    My assumption is that Catholic single men moved into the Lodz area to take advantage of the employment offered in the textile industry and ended up marrying the local women. I have encountered very few Lutheran Lodz Trinity records where Catholic women married Lutheran men which leads me to that conclusion. Perhaps in Catholic records a different picture might emerge.


    John Marsch

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    Does this imply, John, that Catholic women did not tend to marry Lutheran 
    men? If so, are there any suggestions as to why Lutheran women would marry 
    Catholic men more than the other way around?

    Dick Benert

    From: "gpvjem" 
    To: ; 
    Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:11 AM

    > In response to Al's email. My attempt to determine the size and 
    > location of Tchechei by relating it to Sudetenland was obviously 
    > incorrect. However, as result of the many replies received, I have a 
    > better picture of the specific area which mentioned so often in the 
    > Lutheran Lodz Trinity records
    > I could add many place names (from Tchechei) to the list Al has 
    > prepared if there is any benefit to be gained. It is surprising to find 
    > so many people from that area moved into central Poland to the Lodz area, 
    > almost all of them were weavers and were of the Catholic faith. 
    > Lutheran/Catholic marriages were a fairly common event between Catholic 
    > men and Lutheran women.
    >
    > Thank you to all who responded to my query.
    > John Marsch
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