[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] HAMMERMEISTER, WINTER, HANSCH, REINAS, BABLITZ, OTTO, WINKELMAN families fr/Volhynia to Alberta Canada & Washington state

[Richard Stein]

Katharine,
The rural history book South Edmonton Saga contains the story of Johann 
Hammermeister and his wife Amelia Renas.  They immigrated to the Ellerslie 
district in 1894 and later moved to Tacoma, Washington.  There are also 
stories of  their son Emil and Louise (Vogel) Hammermeister and grandson 
Herbert and Gladys (Gutknecht) Hammermeister.  There are also photos.

Perhaps you already have these articles.  If not, I will be glad to scan the 
4 pages and send them to you by e-mail.

Dick Stein
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katherine Jeffrey" <katherinemjeffrey at gmail.com>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:32 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] HAMMERMEISTER, WINTER, HANSCH, REINAS, 
BABLITZ, OTTO, WINKELMAN families fr/Volhynia to Alberta Canada & Washington 
state


> I'm trying to research these related families.  I have some stories in
> letters from an aunt who wanted to preserve our family history.  The 
> letters
> were written over a ten year period, full of interesting details- mostly
> unsourced.  I took the letters and plugged what I could into
> ancestry.comand into the Washington state digital archives (half the
> family emigrated to
> Canada, half to Washington;) my paternal greatgrandparents and
> grandparents(HAMMERMEISTERs) w/their children emigrated from Prussia in 
> the
> 1890s-1904 to Canada, then to Washington about 1920. Johann
> HAMMERMEISTER(1882-1953) and Caroline HAMMERMEISTER(1891-1969) married in
> Ellerslie, Alta 20 Oct 1907.  Robert SCHIEWE, Dan RIENAS, Julianna
> HAMMERMEISTER and Lydia WINTER signed it along w/Father LOEB.  Aside from
> the pastor, they were all related somehow (REINAS is the maiden name of
> Johann HAMMERMEISTER's mother; A SCHIEWE married a niece of the couple
> later.)  Carolina's sisters were Lydia WINTER OTTO(1890-?after 1969) and
> Wanda WINTER BABLITZ(1893-1976) who both lived in Bruce, Alberta in 1969,
> and a younger sister Locadia WINTER WINKELMAN(1898-1920) who died in 
> Vader,
> WA.  Their mother, Louise HANSCH WINTER was a BABLITZ for a brief period 
> of
> time, then resumed the last name WINTER.  She lived with Lydia and Peter
> OTTO in 1912 at the time of the census in Strathcona, and reportedly lived
> with Wanda BABLITZ's family after living with the OTTOs.  Louise had one
> more child in Canada: Edward BABLITZ(1907-?) While these people were in
> Canada, the rest of the WINTERs and HANSCHs emigrated to the USA.  Wilhelm
> WINTER(1835-1910) and Rosalia BIEDINGER(1839-1925; names verified fr/their
> daughter's death certificates) emigrated with their daughter Julianna 
> WINTER
> KROLL's(1875-1954) family.  First they lived in Berrien, MI, then moved to
> WA by way of Racine WI.  Later Peter's other sister(spelled
> Emilie/Emilia/Amelia1862-1941) who had married Louise's brother
> (August1870-?) and had a large family in Volhynia moved to the USA. There
> were 2 other brothers who remained in Volhynia: Adam HANSCH had a paper
> factory which was prosperous until WW2 when the germans took his factory.
> Stephen HANSCH was a Lutheran/Baptist preacher who was taken away to 
> Siberia
> and starved.  (I don't know for sure when these events occurred, and I am
> only guessing their last names; my aunt's letters are puzzles in places.) 
> I
> guess I should send for microfilm and review the whole file for clues.  If
> these family names sound familiar to anyone else with german russian
> relatives in Alberta Canada or anywhere else, I'll be happy to share the
> notes about the different branches. Johann HAMMERMEISTERs(1882-1953) birth
> location is Welingen, Russia(Wolhynen?) and his father's is Compreva Van
> Jofske, Poland(how it's written on his US Naturalization papers.)  Maiden
> names of wives on that side were Amelia REINAS(1862-1940) whose parents 
> were
> Ludwig REINAS and _ KARWALSKY (I am uncertain I have spelled these 
> peoples'
> last names correctly) and the generation before either BARTH or KERNS. 
> Any
> help, any clues, any leads...  Whether in Canada or in Volhynia, or even
> earlier in Poland, I would be very grateful for any help about where and 
> how
> to look.  Thank you for your time and help, Katherine Jeffrey
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