One of my immigrant ancestor's neices, Julianna Mathilde Birkholz, married a August Janke 10 Aug 1899, presumably in Monroe county. This family branch had settled in the Warrens area, towards the NE corner of the county. Julianna was born 3 Apr 1877 in Kreis Kolmar, Posen, Prussia. Her family immigrated to Wisconsin about 1881, I believe, so she'd have been three at the time. My memory might be in error, but I thought there was some trivial benchmark about their wedding, like they were the first couple in the county to receive a goverment-issued marriage license, or to be married after some law took effect perhaps. In her father's obit, she is called "Mrs. Tillie Yanke". A Rev. Hanke conducted the funeral at the German Lutheran church. I presume that Hanke is not a spelling variant of Janke/Yanke, but could be wrong. I have a 1953 platt map of the county and can provide photocopies of the townships of your interest. I seem to remember a few plots of Yanke land scattered around Warrens... James Birkholz >X-Message: #1 >Date: 23 Nov 2001 14:16:29 -0700 >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [WIMONROE ] Re: Emil Yahnke >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Janke, Hubert >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/220.305 > >Message Board Post: > >I am looking for information on Jankes in Monroe County. My family was >supposed to have emigrated from Germany in 1873 to Sparta. I have the >names of August, Frederick and Wilhelmina (my gggrandmother) so far. Is >this the family that you are researching as well? If so, I'd like to >share information with you. Please either post a reply or e-mail >directly. Thank you!