[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ship Manifest Emil Schmidt Help With Location

[Jerry Frank]

Though the image you provided was unreadable, another member 
forwarded a good copy to me.

The village name appears to be Knewegoizet.  This is totally 
unrecognizable to me and a search of several map resources came up 
blank.  While there are towns in Poland beginning with Kn...,  there 
are none beginning Kne....

There are some additional clues in the next column.  It appears that 
this place is in the district of Sochaczew, province of 
Warsaw.  There is one other sub-district name that I am having 
trouble reading.  Looks like Gusk but that doesn't seem correct.

Of interest is that the Drews family immediately below is from the 
same district.  However, they lived in the village of Janeschew near 
Ilow.  Could it be that they were travelling together?


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca




At 05:34 PM 19/03/2008, Joan wrote:
>Hello to the group,
>
>   My research generally concerns Germans from Russia in the central 
> area of Poland, Rypin to be specific.
>
>   However, recently, I discovered on ancestry.com that my 
> grandfather apparently had a
>   brother I was unaware of, who met him when he emmigrated to 
> Philadelphia.  This brother's name is Emil Schmidt. My mother told 
> me that she had relatives in the Philadephia area,
>   so this find excited me.  I did a search on ancestry to see when 
> and where Emil emmigrated to the USA, and it was in 1907 to Cleveland.
>
>   My hunch that he was indeed my grandfather's brother was 
> confirmed by the ship manifest
>   stating his father as Gottlieb Schmidt, the same as my grandfather.
>
>   What I cannot understand is the location that is listed.  Emil 
> Schmidt is about
>   eleven people down, just after the big group that is listed 
> together.  He is listed as 18 years old, a farm laborer, Russian 
> nationality, German ethnicity, Russian language, but the location 
> is one I have never heard of if I am reading it correctly.
>
>   I am inserting a link to the document and hope someone can read 
> this location better than
>   I am able.  I have not been able to find any place with this 
> spelling in the area I am familiar with, and now wonder if the 
> family may have moved to the Ukraine or Volga areas like many of 
> the other Germans from Russia in this group.
>
>   Here is the link:
>
>   http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e87/Softsong/EmilSchmidt.jpg
>
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>   Joan Allen
>
>