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Pommerndatenbank - Die Datenbank für Familienforschung in Pommern has provided me with family addresses in Schneidemuhl in 1934 / 1938. All the "Woycke' names in Schneidermuhl listed were part of my extended famiily. (My Great Uncles, Oma, Great Grandmother and Great Aunt).
Thank you Svenja.


Gertrud Woycke was "lost" when the inhabitants of Schneidrmuhl fled. It is believed that she was one of many who died by the roadside and was buried by the snow drifts in Jan 1945.

My Great Grandmother was Marie Luise Woycke nee Klose and born c 1874 and died aged 77 in Nov 1944 before the Russians took Schneidermuhl. She used to work in the Railway station as a cook. She was Lutheran.

She was married to Paul or Peter? Woycke, a furniture maker in Usch. He apparently shot himself rather than go bankrupt which led to the breakup of his family in about 1912. He was buried in Usch. I understand that the family could not visit the grave during the War years as the town of Usch was divided and the cemetery was on the wrong side of the border.

I am wanting to research my mother's family ;
My Great Grandmother was born "Close" on a barge near Nagot-Spitze, part of the river Weichsel near Gdansk;
My Grandmother was born "Woycke" in Usch (now a Polish name), and then spent time in an orphanage in Posen after her father committed suicide about 1911.
My Mother was born "Woycke" in Schneidermuhl" ,now Pila in Poland.

I understand that a lot of the German records were destroyed after WW2 when this part of Germany reverted to Poland.

My German is limited.

Any suggestions on where/how to start looking for information?

Thankyou,

Mustang Sally

Hello Ben,

Thank you for replying.

William Guthrie married Eleanor Tarsey at St John, Clerkenwell in 1789.

I assume that he was the Quaker and she was not.

I believe that there were "Guthries" in Scotland that were of the Quaker faith but I have not traced where William came from originally.

The Guthrie burials all appear to be of the same family as you suggest. Maybe the "Pritchard" name comes from William's line.

 

Thank you  for your input.

"Mechanic" sounds good.

 I believe from my searching on "Family Search" (Index # M11628-1) that:
Alexander Allan married Mary Corbett  on 6 Jan 1862 , Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

That doesn't show me their parents though.
I believe that I know Mary's parents but am awaiting her death "printout" to confirm.

I didn't know of those websites so thank you for those.

Mustang Sally