[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Pries Family

[Rose Ingram]

Gary,

I would be inclined to stick to Lena's story.

You say the manifest shows the family  "as having been born in Russia, of 
Lithuanian race and lists their
religion as "Greek Ch."".  Was this actually written in the same line for 
father Edward, and ditto marks for the rest of the family, or was this 
information ditto'd from the previous family?

Rose Ingram


From: "Gary Gomes"
> After years of following erroneous "leads" in trying to trace my
> grandmother's family migration from Eastern Europe (Russia or Poland) to
> Yorkton, Saskatchewan, I finally stumbled onto the record of their passage
> from Liverpool to Quebec in 1909.
>
> The Pries family (spelled Preis in the Liverpool records and Pries in the
> Quebec records), Edward (age 48) and Caroline (age 26-53) and youngest
> children Olga & Lena (twins age 7) and Paul (age 4) sailed on the 
> Megantic,
> arriving Quebec 7/30/1909 destined for Yorkton, SK.  The eldest son Paul
> followed later because he had been conscripted into the Russian army just
> before the family's departure (bad luck but he eventually did join them in
> Saskatchewan).
>
> My oral history (from Lena) was that they were "Polish", from the area
> around Lublin, although I found a handwritten reference to a "Rodiez 
> Lutsk"
> as possible birthplace of the eldest son, Paul.  I have assumed they were
> from the general Lublin-to-Lutsk area where other family branches (Lange,
> Schindler, Pudel) resided in the late 1800's and early 1900's. I have been
> unable to locate any reference to this Pries family on the SGGEE or Odessa
> sites.
>
> The Megantic manifest, however introduces a couple of twists.  The family 
> is
> shown as having been born in Russia, of Lithuanian race and lists their
> religion as "Greek Ch."
>
> Can anyone tell me what "Greek Ch." would stand for? Greek Orthodox 
> Church?.
> I have my grandmother's childhood bible and it's written in German.
>
> I would also appreciate any suggested sources to pursue to identify their
> Eastern European heritage.
>
> Gary Gomes