[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] WINTERs and HAUSCH families of Zhitomir priorto 1904

[Richard Stein]

Katharine,

I picked up the mention of Strathcona, Alberta because I have an interest in 
that area.  However, in the rural history book that covers Strathcona there 
is no mention of the families you list.  I also looked them up in the SGGEE 
database for Volhynia (St. Petersburg).  Are you sure your Wilhelm Winter 
family moved from Zhitomir parish to Leschachow in Rozyszcze parish.  The 
birth record of Julianna Winter 1875 gives the parents as Wilhelm Winter and 
Rosalie Biedinger, whereas the birth records of sons Wilhelm 1877 and 
Michael 1878 give the mother as Rosine Wegner for one and Rosine Werner for 
the other.  And the marriages of the children Peter Winter and Emilie Winter 
are both back in Zhitomir in 1885.  There may be two Wilhelm Winters. 
Finally, the name Hansch can easily be misread as Hausch, or vice versa.

The first world war deportation to Siberia of Germans from Volhynia could be 
an explanation for the disappearance of families.  Many families were 
decimated by the hardships and disease during this time, or they remained 
far away in Siberia.

I hope this helps.
Dick Stein

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katherine Jeffrey" <katherinemjeffrey at gmail.com>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] WINTERs and HAUSCH families of Zhitomir 
priorto 1904


>I am looking for information on these families.  Wilhelm and Rosalia WINTER
> (b. abt 1835 & 1839) were my gggrandparents.  Their son Peter m. Luise
> HANSCH Mar 27, 1885.  These were my ggrandparents.  I can't finad any
> records for him, but family lore says the bolsheviks took him away and he
> was never seen again (probably after their youngest was conceived in 1897
> and before wife emigrated to Canada in 1904?)  His sister Julianna WINTER
> was b. Sep 18, 1875 in Marianin.  She later married a widower, much older
> than she was, a Wilhelm KROLL.  The KROLLs emigrated through Ellis Island
> w/her WINTER parents in the late 1890s/1900.  WINTERs also had a 
> son/brother
> Michael who died Jan 30, 1880 in Rozyszce parish, Lezachow.  Amelia 
> WINTER,
> a daughter/sister had her baby, Adolf, there in 1883.    Amelia WINTER 
> went
> on to marry August HANSCH, brother of Luise in the 1880s (can't find a
> record) and they had 12 children, 7 of whom died in a smallpox epidemic in
> 1905.  I believe there were a couple more HANSCHs who remained in 
> Zhitomir,
> Adam and Stefan.  A sister, Karolina HANSCH, emigrated either before or
> after marrying a man w/the last name MAIER (I think...)  I don't know 
> where
> else to look besides the St. Petersberg Extractions.  I believe
> Luise(Louise) died somehwere in Strathcona, Alta, but I don't know when.
> She lived with her daughters' families there; they married OTTO and
> BABLITZ.  I assume they are buried in some Lutheran Cemetery.  I'm new to
> this website and new to searching for information outside the US.  Can
> anyone help me with these families?
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