[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Polish village location
Günther Böhm
GHBoehm at ish.de
Tue Nov 1 15:19:46 PDT 2011
Am 01.11.2011 21:34, schrieb Joyce E.:
> Good news,
>
> I found my grandfather on the immigration list for Baltimore, Maryland in May 1900.
>
> Bad News, It shows his village at Josephow , Plock . There are a lot of Josephow or
> Jozefow in Russia Poland.
>
> On the next two lines on the ship's manifest are a mother and son from "Szonict", Plock.
>
> After that is another passenger, Friedrich Dorn, from "Rochuo" Plock.
>
> All of these people are going to the same city in Ohio.
>
> I am sure that the person writing down this information on the original document
> butchered the names of the villages.
>
> The rest of the passengers show the province at Warsaw and Kowna.
>
> Would anyone know the location of Josephow, Plock, Russia Poland?
>
> My grandfather was Lutheran and German. Thank you for any help. Joyce
Hello Joyce,
maybe Josephow = Brodne-Józefów (35 km sse of Plock)
Szonict = Szoniec (42 km north of Plock)
and Rochuo = Bądkowo-Rochny (16 km nnw of Plock)?
Günther
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