[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Oconto Wi COnnection Dr Oshwaldt

[Sigrid Pohl Perry]

Gene,

Members might be able to help more if you provide the names of your 
grandparents and their children. Also, the names of the Oswald witnesses 
may be helpful. Witnesses/godparents were often related to one of the 
parents of the baby being baptized. There should be some information in 
the community about when Dr. Herman Oswald/Oshwaldt immigrated and where 
he received his medical training. Pursuing some of these clues should 
help solve this mystery.

Sigrid Pohl Perry

On 5/18/2013 2:50 AM, Gene Markiewicz wrote:
> Hello,  seeing several recent references to Oconto County WI., I have a
> lingering question.
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> My grandparents along with three children  immigrated from general Radom
> area in 1899.  I do not know how/why they chose Oconto Falls but family
> stories have indicated they were sponsored by long time Oconto Co physician
> Dr Herman Oshwaldt.  Their passage record indicated they were going to
> Oconto to a cousin Oswalt first name is something like Ja?n?.  I have
> noticed that several different Oswald names appear on birth records of
> family members from Polish registers as witnesses or godparents.
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> I have never been able to determine a more direct connection or
> understanding of this relationship.   He did delivery their US born children
> and attested to  deaths of a couple.
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> I am curious as to whether others with the Oconto connection have any
> knowledge of role Dr Oshwaldt may have had in sponsoring immigrants.
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> Gene
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