[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] HAMMERMEISTER, WINTER, HANSCH, REINAS, BABLITZ, OTTO, WINKELMAN families fr/Volhynia to Alberta Canada & Washington state

[Katherine Jeffrey]

I do have a copy of the pages, but the pages with the photos are scanned so
that the text closest to the binding is in a shadow.  Would you be willing
to try scanning those pages for me, please?  By any chance, are there any
entries for the extended family?

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard Stein <ra_stein at telus.net> wrote:

> Katharine,
> The rural history book South Edmonton Saga contains the story of Johann
> Hammermeister and his wife Amelia Renas.  They immigrated to the Ellerslie
> district in 1894 and later moved to Tacoma, Washington.  There are also
> stories of  their son Emil and Louise (Vogel) Hammermeister and grandson
> Herbert and Gladys (Gutknecht) Hammermeister.  There are also photos.
>
> Perhaps you already have these articles.  If not, I will be glad to scan
> the 4 pages and send them to you by e-mail.
>
> Dick Stein
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katherine Jeffrey" <
> katherinemjeffrey at gmail.com>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:32 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] HAMMERMEISTER, WINTER, HANSCH, REINAS,
> BABLITZ, OTTO, WINKELMAN families fr/Volhynia to Alberta Canada & Washington
> state
>
>
>  I'm trying to research these related families.  I have some stories in
>> letters from an aunt who wanted to preserve our family history.  The
>> letters
>> were written over a ten year period, full of interesting details- mostly
>> unsourced.  I took the letters and plugged what I could into
>> ancestry.comand into the Washington state digital archives (half the
>>
>> family emigrated to
>> Canada, half to Washington;) my paternal greatgrandparents and
>> grandparents(HAMMERMEISTERs) w/their children emigrated from Prussia in
>> the
>> 1890s-1904 to Canada, then to Washington about 1920. Johann
>> HAMMERMEISTER(1882-1953) and Caroline HAMMERMEISTER(1891-1969) married in
>> Ellerslie, Alta 20 Oct 1907.  Robert SCHIEWE, Dan RIENAS, Julianna
>> HAMMERMEISTER and Lydia WINTER signed it along w/Father LOEB.  Aside from
>> the pastor, they were all related somehow (REINAS is the maiden name of
>> Johann HAMMERMEISTER's mother; A SCHIEWE married a niece of the couple
>> later.)  Carolina's sisters were Lydia WINTER OTTO(1890-?after 1969) and
>> Wanda WINTER BABLITZ(1893-1976) who both lived in Bruce, Alberta in 1969,
>> and a younger sister Locadia WINTER WINKELMAN(1898-1920) who died in
>> Vader,
>> WA.  Their mother, Louise HANSCH WINTER was a BABLITZ for a brief period
>> of
>> time, then resumed the last name WINTER.  She lived with Lydia and Peter
>> OTTO in 1912 at the time of the census in Strathcona, and reportedly lived
>> with Wanda BABLITZ's family after living with the OTTOs.  Louise had one
>> more child in Canada: Edward BABLITZ(1907-?) While these people were in
>> Canada, the rest of the WINTERs and HANSCHs emigrated to the USA.  Wilhelm
>> WINTER(1835-1910) and Rosalia BIEDINGER(1839-1925; names verified fr/their
>> daughter's death certificates) emigrated with their daughter Julianna
>> WINTER
>> KROLL's(1875-1954) family.  First they lived in Berrien, MI, then moved to
>> WA by way of Racine WI.  Later Peter's other sister(spelled
>> Emilie/Emilia/Amelia1862-1941) who had married Louise's brother
>> (August1870-?) and had a large family in Volhynia moved to the USA. There
>> were 2 other brothers who remained in Volhynia: Adam HANSCH had a paper
>> factory which was prosperous until WW2 when the germans took his factory.
>> Stephen HANSCH was a Lutheran/Baptist preacher who was taken away to
>> Siberia
>> and starved.  (I don't know for sure when these events occurred, and I am
>> only guessing their last names; my aunt's letters are puzzles in places.)
>> I
>> guess I should send for microfilm and review the whole file for clues.  If
>> these family names sound familiar to anyone else with german russian
>> relatives in Alberta Canada or anywhere else, I'll be happy to share the
>> notes about the different branches. Johann HAMMERMEISTERs(1882-1953) birth
>> location is Welingen, Russia(Wolhynen?) and his father's is Compreva Van
>> Jofske, Poland(how it's written on his US Naturalization papers.)  Maiden
>> names of wives on that side were Amelia REINAS(1862-1940) whose parents
>> were
>> Ludwig REINAS and _ KARWALSKY (I am uncertain I have spelled these
>> peoples'
>> last names correctly) and the generation before either BARTH or KERNS. Any
>> help, any clues, any leads...  Whether in Canada or in Volhynia, or even
>> earlier in Poland, I would be very grateful for any help about where and
>> how
>> to look.  Thank you for your time and help, Katherine Jeffrey
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