[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lutheran House of Prayer Ciechanowiec

[Paul Rakow]

  Hello Marcia,

      Yes, there was a Grodno parish, founded in the 1790s,
 serving the city Grodno, some nearby villages, and the more
 distant towns Slonim, Isabellin, and Czollo.

    Sorry - I see that sentence below wasn't written as clearly
 as it should have been. E.H. Busch was the author of several
 books about the Lutheran congregations in Russia and Poland -
 describing their history, and geography, and size. (Google Books
 says the author was "von Busch" - but looking at the cover pages,
 I now think he was probably just plain Busch).

    Anyway, what I was trying to say, is that (according to
 Busch's book):
 Friedrich Julius Hoffmann was Pastor in Grodno from 1843 onwards.

     Busch's books would give you several pages
 of general information about the parish. What is your
 interest - which places and dates?

     I don't know about church records of BMD - I'll have a quick
 check to see if I can find anything.

                 Paul

On Sun, April 12, 2015 20:33, Marcia Ritke-Momose wrote:
> Paul,
>
>
> I was surprised to read your response below to Vera.
> I don’t mean to butt in here, but this is the first I’ve heard of a Grodno
> parish. Can you tell me where I can get more information on this parish?
> Are there records?
> And, am I understanding you correctly that Von Busch was the pastor of
> Grodno parish?
>
>
> Thank you!
> Marcia
>
>
>
>> On Apr 12, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Paul Rakow <paul.rakow at cantab.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Vera,
>>
>>
>> I believe I've found your Pastor Hoffmann,
>> According to von Busch, the Pastor in Grodno parish,
>> the neighbour parish to Bialystok, was Friedrich Julius Hoffmann,
>> from 1843 till "now" (The book was published in 1867).
>>
>>
>> So either the marriage was performed by
>> the Pastor from Grodno - or maybe Pastor Hoffmann changed parishes, but
>> too late to show up in von Busch's book.
>>
>> Reference
>> Ergänzungen der Materialien zur Geschichte und Statistik
>> des Kirchen und Schulwesens der Ev-Luth Gemeinden in Russland,  Band 1 E.
>> H. Busch
>> published 1867 in St Petersburg and in Leipzig. page 689
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On Sun, April 12, 2015 14:15, Paul Rakow wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Hello Vera,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When did the marriage take place? Is it one of the ones
>>> that's online from the Latvian Archives?
>>>
>>> There are some biography books about the Pastors in Russia
>>> and about the Lutheran Pastors in Poland - they might give some
>>> detail.
>>>
>>> Busch wrote a book on the history of all the Lutheran
>>> congregations in Russia. He lists the Bialystok parish pastors from
>>> the start (1796) up till his time (the 1860s), but he doesn't mention
>>> a pastor Hoffmann.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul Rakow
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, April 9, 2015 20:14, Vera Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello all,I just noticed a pastor named J. Hoffman as a pastor for
>>>> Lutheran House of Prayer Ciechanowiec.My Hoffman family came from
>>>> Ciechanowiec. The pastor was serving for a Lamprecht marriage.
>>>> Lamprecht
>>>> is another name in my family in the same area.Is there anyway to
>>>> find more information on this pastor?Finding information on this
>>>> pastor may help make a major breakthrough on this tough line of a
>>>> very common name.Any advice would be appreciated.Vera
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
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