[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Daniel Becker

[Wilbert and Marilyn Roth]

On the Ellis Island site, registration is free, but you need to register in order to view additonal information.  Also, sometimes, instead of giving the full name,  you need to check for some other item such as BECKER arriving in 1909 because only exact spelling matches may appear.   Caroline is listed as Carolina.  The individual data says Carolina Becker,  aged 37,  married,  German of Germany,  last residence Ronojad, Germany, arrived 6 July 1909 on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, port of departure Bremen. [ MapQuest doesn't have Ronohad, Konohad, Kossohad, or any alternative I could think of.  Hallwag shows Rosenjoch southeast of Innsbruck. ]

You need to view the manifest to find the family together.  I was unable to read the copy of the actual manifest, but you can click to view the text version.  That shows #18 - 26.  BECKER, Carolina, 37; Reinhard, 15; Daniel, 14; Alliertina {Albertina}; 11+; Gustav, 10+; Stephan, 9; Johann, 7+; Hermann, 6; & Angus {female, Augusta?}, 3.  [I used + for the one-half year listed on the children's ages.]

I don't have the actual census, but the database for 1930 has in Lane Co., OR, with approximate year of birth but not divided into households, BECKER:  
Steven 1900, Lottie L. 1910, Helen L. 1929
Daniel 1892, Rosella 1898, Rachel  L. 1925, Arlo C. 1926, Sylvia C 1930
Gustav A. 1903, Mabel F. 1904, Harold D. 1925, Phyllis A. 1929. 
In Larimer Co., CO:  BECKER, Reinhard, 1895; Emilie, 1898; David, 1917; Marie, 1920; & Raymond, 1925.  

I cannot find any Nowin or a Novin without a suffix, but a major city of Nikolayev (over 300,000 population in my atlas)  is in the southern Ukraine. MapQuest shows several Nikolayevs.   There is a Noviny, Ukraine, which is not too far from Poland.  

There are many William / Wilhelm BECKER entries for Ellis Island in the years preceding 1909.  One of interest is Wilhelm BECKER, 34, married, last residence Womyu, Russia,  Ethnicity Russia, German, arrived 26 Feb. 1908 on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, port of departure Bremen.  [He was married, but his family wasn't with him on the manifest.  I cannot find Womyu.]

Kimball, Kimball Co., is in the southwestern corner of the panhandle,  Nebraska.  USGenWeb indicates that a Frederick BECKER was in Kimball Co. for the 1910 Census, Freidrick BECKER patented there in 1911, Homestead, Twp. 14-56, Section 6 NW (east half), and there is probate for him Kimball Co.,  A-45.  That was the only BECKER Homestead, so Carolina & children must have been too late.  There was a John BECKER, 30, there in 1929.   There were also Kimball Co., NE, WW I draft registrations in 1918 for Gustave, b. 26 Mar. 1897, &  William BECKER, b. 18 Feb. 1874  [ Is that uncle / dad of the migration record? ]   

Karl STUMPP's Emigration fr. Germany to Russia, 1763 - 1862:  

BECKER, Georg Philipp aus Hennental / Bad Schapbach-He 1805, nach Freudental/Od.
[There are many other BECKER migrants, but this one was in the same colony as SCHENKENBERGER.]

Freudental evangelical colony, Revisionsliste 1816.  
Household 19, BECKER, Nikolaus 53, seine Frau Magdalena 52, seine Kinder Peter 21, Katharina 16, Elisabeth 14, Eva 1812 verheiratet, Nikolaus 12.  
H. 38, BECKER, Adam 53, seine Frau Katharina 46, seine Kinder Johann 20, Wilhelmina 14, Katharina 12, Jakob 8, Adam gestorben 1812.
Friedrich 24, dessen Frau Elisabeth Lesmeister 23, 1815 aus der Kolonie Kandel eingeheiratet.  
H. 44, BECKER, Lukretia gestorben 1812, Philipp 44 aus Hennental/Bad Schwalbach-He, seind Frau Margaretha 40, seine Kinder Barbara 20, Elisabeth 17, Jakob 14, Heinrich 8, Leonhard gestorben 1816, Margaretha 6, Magdalena 4, sein Schwiegersohn Georg Leonhard 24, dessen Frau Magdalena 22, deren Kinder Elisabeth 3, Christina 1/4.  
H. 76, BECKER, Ludwig 34, seine Frau Margaretha 28, seine Kinder Magdalena 8, Andreas 4, Philippina 1.  
H. 77, BECKER, Leonhard 41, seine Frau Magdalena 43, seine Kinder Margaretha gestorben 1816, Katharina 12, Magdalena gestorben 1815, Philipp 3.  
H. 91 BECKER, Andreas 26, 1807 angekommen.
H. 73.  SCHENKENBERGER, Philipp 62, seine Frau Susanna 48, seine Kinder erster Ehe Adam 20, Juliana 17, Stephan gestorben 1813, Karl gestorben 1813, Heinrich 7.    Peter 28 dessen Frau Jakobina 23, seine Kinder Katharina 2, Johann 1/4.    Ferner der Schwiegersohn Johann GRAUR 28, dessen Frau Elisabeth 25, deren Kinder Pater gestorben 1816, Friedrika 1/4.  Aus Zell?-Pf 1807.  

The SCHENKENBERGER Homestead patents in Bon Homme Co., SD, were John 1881, Christina 1882, & Jacob 1888, all in Twp. 95-59, Section 1.  

Can anyone help determine where the BECKER family actually lived in Europe?  

Marilyn Roth


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donne, Alexsana" <ADonne at sara.com>
To: "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>; <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> First where did you find all this additional information?  I found the Ellis Island record, but it just listed names, so I assumed everyone traveling together with the last name of Becker was related, but not necessarily mother and children. But as to the $1000 and going to Oregon and the rest, I hadn't found that. Clearly there is more to the Ellis Island records than I found.
> 
> I found Daniel in Kimball, NE in 1917 which is where he registered for the WW1 draft (it looks like Novin, Nikolaiv, Russia on the part where he signed where he was born), and saying he had a mother to support. Then I found him in the 1920 census in South Dakota, which made sense as he married a Rosella Schenkenberger (who had 10 -13 siblings!), who lived in Emmons, North Dakot, but were mostly born in Bon Homme South Dakota  (her parents came from Russia also, mother was born in Baliev (sp?).
> 
> Daniel and Rosella were in California sometime in the 1920's as my dad and oldest aunt were born there, and then in Eugene for the 1930's Census.  I have found Reinhard and Hermann in census and registration cards, but only after they came to the US. I don't have any information on Daniel's parents, but assumed Caroline was his mother as a starting place. My mother remembers mention of them being Lutherans, and I remember hearing that they came from a part of Russia that went back and forth between Poland, but they definitely spoke German. I never remembered hearing Daniel's parents names, and neither does my mother.  My father is dead, and I am tracking down his sisters to see what they remember.
> 
> I am a newbie and have just started researching.  I have a copy of Greg Rath's book Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas. I've been to ancestry.com, familysearch.org, all the German-Russian heritage sites I can find, and am overwhelmed with branches to search as I hadn't been able to even find Daniel's city of birth.  At this point I am emailing and mailing my few living aunts to see what they can remember.  
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> Daniel's mother, Caroline, is travelling alone on this boat with 8
> children !!!!  ranging in age from 3 to 15 - from oldest, Reinhard,
> Daniel, Albertine, Gustav, Stephan, Johann, Hermann and Auguste.  If
> they all survived to adulthood, bearing children, you have a very
> extensive family from which to obtain info.  :-)
> 
> The 6 oldest children were born in Nowin, Russia.  The 2 youngest in
> Konojad / Kossojad (?), Germany.  Caroline is 37 years old (= born
> c.1872) in Draschbin (sp?), Podole, Russia.
> 
> The family has $1000 with them (seems rather wealthy compared to
> others).  They are travelling to Eugene, Oregon to be with Wilhelm
> Becker.  But how does he connect?  The oldest child, Reinhard reports
> that this is his uncle.  All the other children show him as
> father.  On the other hand, he is said to be a "friend" of
> Caroline.   So is Caroline in fact the mother of these
> children?