[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Introduction: Searching for info on surnameFLATT from Marianowka

[Stacy Flatt]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply!  I'm pretty sure that is my Lydia in
Marienkow/Marinkow!  I would need to double check, but the birthday
date sounds correct.  Do you know the names of the other children?

Thanks!
Stacy

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Richard Stein <ra_stein at telus.net> wrote:
> Stacy,
> Your assumption that the place is Marjanowka, Kreis Lutzk is probably
> correct.  This village is in Rozyszcze Lutheran parish.  The SGGEE database
> for Volhynia has many Flat/Flatt/Flath names but none from Marjanowka and no
> Adolf/Adolph.  However, there is a Lydia Matschinski born 17 Mar 1882 at
> Marienkow or Marinkow to Adolph Matschinski / Wilhelmine Strohschein.  There
> are 4 other children born to this couple.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Dick Stein
> Calgary, Canada
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacy Flatt" <stacylm at gmail.com>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:24 AM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Introduction: Searching for info on
> surnameFLATT from Marianowka
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Stacy and I'm researching my father's family history,
>> specifically the surname FLATT.  This is what I know from family
>> stories:
>>
>> Catherine the Great invited Germans to settled Russia, so my ancestors
>> did.  They lived as farmers in an area not far from Lviv.  It may have
>> been Russia, Poland, Germany, or Ukraine, or any combination of those
>> at the times my ancestors lived there.  Things got bad and in the
>> early 1900s, my great grandparents moved to the United States where
>> the settled in the UP of Michigan, near other friends and family
>> members.  They had many children, and the children grew up speaking
>> Low German as their first language.  They learned English in school.
>> They were Lutheran.
>>
>> This is what I'm able to document:
>>
>> Adolph and Lydia Flatt came to the US through Ellis Island in 1905.
>> Their names are sometimes spelled Adolf and Flat.  They are Flat on
>> the Ellis Island site.  Their previous home is listed as what I can
>> best read as Marianowka Crest in Russia.  In the 1930 census records,
>> their previous country is listed as Poland (NOT Russia, which
>> indicates to me that their town was affected by the Poland/Russia
>> border changes happening in the early half of the century).
>>
>> There are no parents listed and though I can find other Flatts in
>> other people's genealogies, I cannot connect them to these two since
>> I'm missing so much information.  I want to try looking at village
>> records for where they lived, but Marianowka Crest does not seem to
>> exist.
>>
>> However, there is a Marjanowka Kreis Luck that I've seen reference
>> too.  I wonder if this could be it?  It doesn't seem far from Lviv,
>> seems like it was a Lutheran community, and the Kreis could sound like
>> Crest.  It also looks like it could have been in Russia in 1905 but
>> Poland in 1930.  It is now in Ukraine.
>>
>> My questions: Does this sound like a reasonable theory?  What does the
>> Kreis Luck designate?  Where can I access records for Marjanowka Kreis
>> Luck?  Has anyone else done research on the FLATT surname and what
>> have you found?  Has anyone else researched the Russian Germans in the
>> Upper Peninsula of Michigan?  (FLATT, SEIB, MATSCHENSKI, SCHMIDT,
>> etc?)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Stacy
>>
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