Hi, the name of the ton is Petrikau, today in the center of Poland. Today:Piotrków Trybunalski. That part of Poland was Prussian in the late 18th Century, than Polish, and Russian. There lived lot's of people of German origin. Good luck! Brigitte Am 04.04.2011 05:53, schrieb juliasgenes: > Thanks for the information. It's interesting to me, anyway! > > Once they got to Cleveland, some of the EWERT brothers became EVERT and my GF became EVERETT (don't know what he did about his accent, though!). > > Thanks for the query, but I know nothing of EWERTs beyond my GF and his siblings in Cleveland. Perhaps, way back in Europe, they connect somehow. > > I'll upload two images onto the message board of the Americanized version of the EWERT's town. It looks like "Petrikan" to me, but I've been told that there's no such place. Maybe it'll remind list members of something when they see it. > > Thanks. > > > --- On Sun, 4/3/11, Brigitte Jahnke<brigitte@brigittejahnke.com> wrote: > > ...comcentration in Pommern and Hannover area...big chance that your Ewert originate from Mecklenburg or Pommern... > > For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com > > Please visit and participate in our new forum > http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks for the town clarification, though I have gotten quite fond of thinking of the place as "Pertrikan". Would you happen to know if mining was an industry there, at least in the 1890s? That's the occupation given for my GF on his passenger manifest. I shall now try to find Pertrikau on a map... .^_^. --- On Mon, 4/4/11, Brigitte Jahnke <brigitte@brigittejahnke.com> wrote: ...name of the ton is Petrikau, today in the center of Poland. Today:Piotrków Trybunalski... Brigitte

Never mind - according to Wikipedia, there was coal mining there: "In 1867 Russian authorities formed the Oblast (province) of Piotrków, which included within Łódź, Częstochowa, and the coal fields of Dąbrowa Górnicza and Sosnowiec." I never heard about Russians controlling things - I just know that my aunts were adamant that of course my GM was German because my GF would NEVER have married a Pole. Meanwhile, I have some slight evidence that her name might have been something like OBAROWSKY. That doesn't sound German to me, but of course, I'm no expert. --- On Mon, 4/4/11, juliasgenes <juliasgenes@yahoo.com> wrote: ...Would you happen to know if mining was an industry there, at least in the 1890s? That's the occupation given for my GF on his passenger manifest...