[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Integration of Germans with Polish

[Jerry Frank]

Just a note of clarification, Guenther.  This marriage took place in Plock, Russian Poland and not in Prussia.  I think the Catholic Church there did have more power.


Jerry




----- Original Message -----
From: Günther Böhm <GHBoehm at ish.de>
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Integration of Germans with Polish

> Rachael Patterson schrieb:
> 
> >Yes...this "is" fun. The M Rec translation I attached was of the 
> son of my
> >3GGrandmother who had the possible Polish name of Terezja Witkowska
> >(Witkowski), whoes religion was apparently Catholic, as her son my
> >2GGrandfather was not allowed to send bans of announcement out to his
> >Church, yet three bans were sent out to the Evangelical Church. 
> Thus, he
> >Terezja Witkowska may have been of the Polish ethnicity, because 
> as Jerry
> >mentions if there is Catholic involved, then there may be Polish. 
> Perhaps>Terezja's husband converted to the Catholic faith when he 
> married his
> >Polish? wife. But after seeing your research on your family with 
> respect to
> >the Catholic faith...who really knows?? This is tough....:)
> >
> 
> Hello Gilda,
> we must recognize the political circumstances under which these 
> mixed 
> marriages took place. It was the evangelical and religiously 
> relatively 
> permissive Prussia (I think, the catholic church had no 
> possibility to 
> enforce conversions toward catholicism). The catholic (Polish) 
> partner 
> of the mixed couple was allowed to keep his/her confession but it 
> was 
> the official object in view to baptize the children evangelically.
> 
> Günther
> 
> 
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