----- Original Message ----- From: "Patsy Hand" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Karl Schuenemann >A big Texas thanks to those who responded to my plea for Karl Schuenemann. >Patsy Hand > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patsy Hand" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:46 AM > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Karl Schuenemann > > >> My gg grandfather, Karl August Schuenemann b. 1836 and died in Goliad >> Co. TX in 1915. His obit states he was b. in Pommern. From a record kept >> by one of his daughters, I found Karl and wife, Wilhelmine Hermine >> (Kluge) in Protestant church records in Czerniejewo (Gniezno), Poznan, >> Poland beginning in 1863. There are baptisms records in those church >> records for 8 children. (one record was for triplets who all died). Karl >> is listed as a baker master on all the baptisms. On 8 Sept 1883 the >> family left Bremen on the ship Weser and landed at Galveston on 29 Sept >> 1883 and settled in Goliad Co.. Only 6 children came with parents, Emma, >> Bertha, Martha, Clara, Ernest, and Herman. I have searched for many years trying to locate Karl before >>1863. His oldest daughter, Emma, b. 1861 (my ancestor) was not in those >>baptism records from Czerniejewo. Any suggestons or comments would be >>appreciated. Thank you. Patsy Hand, Texas >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >