[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schmidtke of Chelm, Poland, Russia

[Sigrid Pohl Perry]

Mhairi and Charlotte,

I am a member of the Lublin Project team which is indexing parish 
records from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church from about 1840 to 
1940. This includes the area around Chelm. You can find the index for 
those records we have examined to date on the SGGEE website: 
http://www.sggee.org/research/parishes/lublin_records/lublinsearchinstruct.html
Records can be ordered from the church. Some are in German; many are in 
Polish or Russian Cyrillic. Schmidt and its common variation of 
Schmidtke are fairly common surnames. Winkler or Winkel are not as 
common, and Fuhl is so rare I don't think I have seen it. Charlotte, it 
would be helpful if you can provide the parents' names for Henriette 
Bertha Schmidtke and brothers Michael and Daniel. Michael Schmidt(ke) is 
a very common name.

Because Chelm had its own Lutheran church, records were not always 
duplicated and reported to Lublin. We have also only completed about 
half of the 70+ dvds with digitized parish records; some remaining would 
include information from Chelm between 1878 and 1900. For someone to be 
found in any of these records, there generally has to be a birth, 
marriage or death involved; there are some confirmation tables. I 
searched and did not find a Heinrich Schmidt(ke) and Justina Winkler at 
this time, nor did I find the surname Fuhl.

Regards,
Sigrid Pohl Perry
Searching Pohl, Domres, Hapke, Mantei, Bittner/Buettner, Scheffler, 
Dalke, Gatzke et al.

On 4/16/2011 10:54 AM, Charlotte Gorley wrote:
> Mhairi and all,
>
> My great-grandmother's name was Henretha (or Henrietta) Bertha Schmidtke.
> I've also seen it spelled Schmidtkey and Schmidt.  She was born April 16,
> 1861 in Poland.  Today was her birthday.  What a gift it would be to find
> relatives, or others who were searching this family line.
>
> I'm told she had two brothers, Michael and Daniel, who stayed in the old
> country.  Henrietta came to Canada in 1903 with her husband and family.
> They settled in Saskatchewan.  She died in Melville Saskatchewan in 1948.
>
> Does her name, or her brothers' names appear in any records?
>
> Charlotte
>
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> [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Mhairi
> Patterson
> Sent: April-15-11 4:45 PM
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> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schmidtke of Chelm, Poland, Russia
>
> Juliane Schmidtke, born Feb 2, 1878 in Chelm, Province of Poland, Russia
>
> Father Heinrich Schmidtke, mother Justina Winkler
>
> She married my grandfather in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada on May 13, 1908.  At
> that time she was a widow called Juliane Fuhl (nee Schmidtke), and had a
> daughter Emma born Aug 25, 1902.
>
> The only other record I can find of her is the 1916 Manitoba, Canada census.
> On this census it says she immigrated in 1907 as did her daughter Emma.
>
> I have exhausted all avenues in Canada and can find nothing further about
> her.
>
> I am looking for any information that may be available on the German
> Genealogy in Eastern Europe, so far my searches have come up empty, and I am
> at a loss as to how to go about
>
> finding any information.
>
>
>
> Mhairi Patterson
>
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