Hi, Searching through a book of Dutch Immigrants to the US for the years 1820-1880 there is a gentleman by the name of; LUCK FLORENZ age 38, mechanic, destination an unspecified US city/state. Country of origin also unspecified. Departed Rotterdam aboard LOUVRE on 12-15-1848. US port of entry New York. This may or may not be someone you are interested in. Success! Joanne van der Ree-Warelis Winnipeg Manitoba Canada :) >From: Alex Luck <jaluck@optonline.net> >Reply-To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com >To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WiMilwau] Whatever happened to the LUCK family? >Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:37:07 -0500 > >Dear Listers, > > I'm searching for descendants of Joachim Friedrich LUCK and Anna Sophia >(HELM) LUCK, an early "Alt Lutheraner" family who immigrated to Freistadt, >WI from Bünnewitz, Kreis Cammin, Pommern in 1839 and then moved to >Milwaukee in 1841. Joachim had been a "Freiheitkampfer" and was a school >teacher in Germany. I believe he was also a teacher and lay pastor in >Freistadt and was involved in founding Trinity Lutheran Church in Milwaukee >after his move there. In 1843 he and his oldest son purchased land in >Washington County, but I don't believe they ever lived there. > > Joachim and Anna came to Wisconsin with five children: > >1. Anna Maria Albertine Wilhelmine LUCK, b. 24 Oct 1822 >2. William Friedrich Ferdinand LUCK, b. 17 Feb 1824 >3. Franz Eduard LUCK, b. 25 Feb 1827 >4. Elwine Sophie LUCK, b. 5 Jan 1830 >5. Johanna Friederike Elizabeth LUCK, b. 30 Oct 1834 > >All five children were born in Bünnewitz. > > Joachim was a cousin of my G-G-G-GF, Michael LUCK, and was the first >known person to emigrate from Bünnewitz to the United States. I'm looking >for descendants of his, not just to find distant cousins, but in the >desperate hope they might be able to solve what I call "my Johann problem". > Joachim and Michael LUCK were each born to a Johann LUCK. The two >Johann's were first cousins, one born to a Martin LUCK and the other to >Martin's brother Hans LUCK. Unfortunately, I don't know which Johann is my >G-G-G-G-GF and which one is his cousin, and the surviving church records >don't go back that far. > > So, is anybody here connected to this family, or has anybody come >across >them in their research? > >Thanks, ...Alex > > Julius Alexander Luck > Lamoine, Maine, USA > > jaluck@optonline.net > juliusluck@netscape.net > <http://luckfamily.8m.com/alex.htm>; My LUCK family genealogy site! > > > > > > >==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== >For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.