[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for clues
kitchur at mts.net
kitchur at mts.net
Fri Mar 9 15:24:23 PST 2012
try the website
http://ourroots.ca/ it has a lot of family-town history books for Saskatchewan and after a quick lookthere is a lot of books with the Greger family out there.
Darrel
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:41:41 -0700
> From: wjmilner at shaw.ca
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for clues
>
> Hello listers
> Three brothers emigrated to Canada from Volhynia.
>
> ,
> Surname: *Greger*
> Given Name: * Ferdinand*
> Age: 28
> Sex: M Nationality: Po
> Date of Arrival: * 1925/05/29* (/YYYY/MM/DD/)
> Port of Arrival: Quebec Ship: MINNEDOSA, Canadian Pacific
> Reference:
> RG76 - IMMIGRATION, series C-1-a
> Volume: 1925 volume 4
> Page Number: 125 Microfilm reel: T-14715
>
> Surname: * Greger*
> Given Name:*Ludwik*
> Age:25
> Sex:M
> Nationality:Pol
> Date of Arrival:*1926/10/15* (/YYYY/MM/DD/)
> Port of Arrival:*Quebec*
> Ship:*MINNEDOSA*, Canadian Pacific
> Reference:RG76 - IMMIGRATION, series C-1-a
> Volume:1926 volume 2 Page Number:133
> Microfilm reel:T-14728
>
> Name: *Fridrich Gregor*
> Gender: Male
> Age: 20
> Estimated Birth Year: abt 1906
> Birth Country: Poland
> Date of Arrival: *15 Oct 1926*
> Vessel: *Minnedosa*
> Search Ship Database: View the 'Minnedosa' in the 'Passenger Ships and
> Images' database
> <http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&f2=Minnedosa&db=passengerships>
> Port of Arrival: Montreal, Quebec
> Port of Departure: Southampton, England
> Roll: T-14728
>
>
>
> Arthur Domes wrote: "Ferdinand Greger and his younger brother Lew
> (Ludwig) came to work on my Dad's farm at Verwood. Ferdinand had been
> shot through the throat in the war and as a result he could only talk in
> a loud whisper. It wasn't long that he acquired the nick name in the
> district as "Whispering Ferdie." After leaving my dad's farm he
> acquired a wife and some land north of Assiniboia, Sk. and became a
> fairly successful farmer. I know he had children. Lew Greger left the
> community not to be heard of again."
>
> From the 1925 passenger list Ferdinand's nearest relative in Poland was:
> *Brother:* * Ludwik Greger, Kol Tuczyn, District Rovne,
> Wolhyn, Poland.*
>
> The images for the 1926 passenger list are too faint to be legible .
>
> Does anybody out there know where they may have lived in Canada. All
> clues Welcome.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Jack Milner
>
>
>
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