[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Introduction: Searching for info on surnameFLATT from Marianowka

[Richard Stein]

Stacy,
Your assumption that the place is Marjanowka, Kreis Lutzk is probably 
correct.  This village is in Rozyszcze Lutheran parish.  The SGGEE database 
for Volhynia has many Flat/Flatt/Flath names but none from Marjanowka and no 
Adolf/Adolph.  However, there is a Lydia Matschinski born 17 Mar 1882 at 
Marienkow or Marinkow to Adolph Matschinski / Wilhelmine Strohschein.  There 
are 4 other children born to this couple.

Hope this helps.
Dick Stein
Calgary, Canada

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stacy Flatt" <stacylm at gmail.com>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:24 AM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Introduction: Searching for info on 
surnameFLATT from Marianowka


> Hello,
>
> My name is Stacy and I'm researching my father's family history,
> specifically the surname FLATT.  This is what I know from family
> stories:
>
> Catherine the Great invited Germans to settled Russia, so my ancestors
> did.  They lived as farmers in an area not far from Lviv.  It may have
> been Russia, Poland, Germany, or Ukraine, or any combination of those
> at the times my ancestors lived there.  Things got bad and in the
> early 1900s, my great grandparents moved to the United States where
> the settled in the UP of Michigan, near other friends and family
> members.  They had many children, and the children grew up speaking
> Low German as their first language.  They learned English in school.
> They were Lutheran.
>
> This is what I'm able to document:
>
> Adolph and Lydia Flatt came to the US through Ellis Island in 1905.
> Their names are sometimes spelled Adolf and Flat.  They are Flat on
> the Ellis Island site.  Their previous home is listed as what I can
> best read as Marianowka Crest in Russia.  In the 1930 census records,
> their previous country is listed as Poland (NOT Russia, which
> indicates to me that their town was affected by the Poland/Russia
> border changes happening in the early half of the century).
>
> There are no parents listed and though I can find other Flatts in
> other people's genealogies, I cannot connect them to these two since
> I'm missing so much information.  I want to try looking at village
> records for where they lived, but Marianowka Crest does not seem to
> exist.
>
> However, there is a Marjanowka Kreis Luck that I've seen reference
> too.  I wonder if this could be it?  It doesn't seem far from Lviv,
> seems like it was a Lutheran community, and the Kreis could sound like
> Crest.  It also looks like it could have been in Russia in 1905 but
> Poland in 1930.  It is now in Ukraine.
>
> My questions: Does this sound like a reasonable theory?  What does the
> Kreis Luck designate?  Where can I access records for Marjanowka Kreis
> Luck?  Has anyone else done research on the FLATT surname and what
> have you found?  Has anyone else researched the Russian Germans in the
> Upper Peninsula of Michigan?  (FLATT, SEIB, MATSCHENSKI, SCHMIDT,
> etc?)
>
> Thanks!
> Stacy
>
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