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1891 census Tottington Higher End – Glen Villa, Lumb

August Graemiger 30, cotton dyer born G. St. Gullien, Switzerland
Wife, Eva came from Rhode Island, USA as did two children, Joseph aged 2 and Sophie aged 4. Daughter Hedwig, 9 months was born in Manchester
Brother, Joseph Graemiger 24, also a cotton dyer born G. St. Gullien, Switzerland

The question is if they were born in the City St. Gallen or in the Canton St. Gallen.
I saw the surname Grämmiger in Mosnang, Toggenburg, Canton St. Gallen in 1886.
I didn't do any further researches about this Grämmigers, although the parish records are online.

http://scope.staatsarchiv.sg.ch/archivplansuche.aspx?id=778314

In this database you also see some Grämigers from the Toggenburg region of the Canton St. Gallen.
https://www.geneal-forum.com/tng/search.php?mylastname=Gr%C3%A4miger&lnqualify=&mybool=AND&nr=50&showspouse=&showdeath=&offset=0&tree=&tngpage=1

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Svenja

Hi

Wikipedia says there are 18 places named Jankowice in Poland.
3 places are situated in Silesia, and 2 other places in Silesia have a part of the name as Jankowice.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankowice

It is also important to know that only Lower Silesia belonged to Prussia (Germany).
Upper Silesia belonged to Austria and after WWI was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia.

So it is important to know which Jankowice the family you are investigating came from.

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Svenja

Hi Norman

I'm French speaking and I tried to find some census entries yesterday, but the site was too slowly, I will try it again later. His birth record mentions a street name, so it should be easy to find the family in the census.

Edit: His birth record can be found under naissances 1847 on page 180.
I looked at the 1851 census and didn't find them at the rue du Fresnoy.

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Svenja

Hi

If Rickarde (or Richard) Gerard Pluss lived in Australia, the first step should be to search all documents about him in Australia (passenger manifest, naturalisation, marriage and death record or death notice in the newspapers).

If some of this documents mention his place of birth or place of origin, you can search in the churchbooks of this place. Places of origin for Plüss in the Canton Aargau, Switzerland are Vordemwald and Murgenthal. Microfilms of the churchbooks of the Canton Aargau (catholic and evangelic) are held at the State Archives of the Canton Aargau and are not available online.

Vordemwald belonged to the parish of Zofingen.

Genealogical Research in the Canton Aargau, Switzerland
https://www.ag.ch/de/bks/kultur/archiv_bibliothek/staatsarchiv/benutzung_recherche/familienforschung_1/familienforschung.jsp

Churchbooks at the State Archives of the Canton Aargau
https://www.ag.ch/de/bks/kultur/archiv_bibliothek/staatsarchiv/bestaende_sammlungen/kirchenbuecher/kirchenbuecher.jsp

Regards
Svenja

Hi

Did you already look on familysearch? They have some records of the catholic church of Sitterdorf listed in their catalog, but I can't look at this records.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=161597&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Switzerland%2C%20Thurgau%2C%20Sitterdorf%22%20%2Bavailability%3AOnline

If you don't find him there you should write to the the state archives of the canton Thurgau.

https://staatsarchiv.tg.ch/de/recherche.html/789
https://query-staatsarchiv.tg.ch/resultatliste.aspx

Regards
Svenja