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| Johann Friedrich Christian MOEWS
Friederike Charlotte SOPKE |
| Please Note: There is a circumstantial link here, which consists
of equating the parents in the 1848 birth record in Germany (see Source
#2 below) with the widow who emigrated to Indianapolis, IN, with her
children by 1888 (see Source #3 below). Considering
how rare their names are and that they're from very small villages in a
region not heavily populated at the time, the probability is very high
that it's the same couple — high enough that I'm willing to make the connection.
Still, it would be desirable to find direct evidence that this is the same
couple.
The best evidence we have is in the Indiana marriage record of our subjects' son, August Ferdinand MOEWS (q.v.), whose parents are named there as Johanna (sic) MOEWS & Friederike SOBKE (=SOPKE), and that Friederike MOEWS, "widow of John," shows up with August and the other children in Indianapolis by at least 1888 — and that all seem to have been born in Stolp (see below for discussion of geography). Please Note Also: that the children of two different couples are being mixed up by secondary sources. The key here is the marriage record of our subjects' son, Charles Louis MOEWS, who married Minnie MOEWS. Their Indiana marriage record names their parents, and while Charles does name our subjects as his parents, Minnie names her parents as Friedrich MOEWS & Johanna MILLER. Some secondary sources have attached the children of Friedrich & Johanna to our subjects, with the result that Charles Louis appears to have married his sister! The MOEWS who immigrated to Indianapolis, IN, in the 1880s and '90s were the children of at least two different couples. Charles Louis undoubtedly married a cousin, but she was definitely not his sister! |
| Husband: Johann Friedrich Christian MOEWS
Birth said to be: ca. 1826 Death said to be (cholera): 1866, Prussia, German Confederaton [now Poland] "Johanna" is a woman's name, and that spelling is undoubtedly either a recording error or a transcription error in son August's marriage record. |
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| Wife: Friederike Charlotte SOBKE / SOPKE
Birth: ca. 1830 Death said to be: 1899, Neu Damerow, Kr. Stolp, Pomerania, Prussia, German Empire [now Poland] Immigration: by 1888, in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN I don't know the source for the date and place of Friederike's death. She was in the U.S. as late as 1893, so, did she go back to Germany? This family seems to have been reasonably affluent, enough so for some of them to have made the crossing more than once (see records for their children), so her return is not unreasonable. |
| Proven Children — Kr. Stolp, Pomerania, Prussia, German Confederation [now Poland]: |
| 1. Johann Martin Friedrich MOEWS, b 27 Feb 1848, Gross
Dubsow — birth record names both parents, including maiden name of mother
2. August Ferdinand MOEWS, b. 8 May 1852 — marriage record names both parents, including maiden name of mother 3. Martin W. MOEWS, b. 5 Apr 1864, Rathsdamnitz — ship's manifest names August as his brother, who is adjacent on the same manifest 4. Carl / Charles Louis Walter MOEWS, b. 27 Jun 1860/62 — marriage record names both parents, includes only given name of mother |
| Keywords for search engines: genealogy; POL, PL, Poland, Polen, Polska, PM, Pomorskie, Powiat Słupsk; USA, US, United States, IN, Indiana |
| Geographical Note:
The geographical history of northern continental Europe is exceeding complex. In as simple an outline as possible… The parents and children of this family were born in Kr. Stolp, which was then a German kreis (district/county) in the eastern Province of Pomerania, in the Kingdom of Prussia, which was a state of the German Confederation [Deutscher Bund] (1815-1866), which later became the North German Confederation [Norddeutscher Bund] (1867-1871). The children grew up and emigrated during the period of the German Empire [Deutsches Reich] (1871-1919). After WWI, the German Empire was reduced to the Weimar Republic [Weimarer Republik] (1919-1933). The Polish Republic [Rzeczpospolita Polska] was reborn in the east (1919-1939) only to be reconquered and divided by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII. After WWII, Poland was reconstituted, first as a Communist nation in 1945, then as a Democratic one in 1989. Several online family trees have placed County Stolp in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Germany, but this location is incorrect. County Stolp is much further east, in the northwestern corner of the Pomeranian Province of Poland, not Germany.
Today's Poland is divided into three administrative levels: provinces
[województwa (sing. województwo)], counties [powiaty (sing. powiat),
and comunes or municipalities (comparable to townships or boroughs in the
U.S.) [gminy (sing. gmina)]. In English, "województwo" is
frequently transliterated "voivodeships," rather than being translated
as "province." "Kr." is the abbreviation for "Kreis," a German civil
division that is usually translated as "district," sometimes as "county";
German "landkries" is usually translated, "state." Powiat is abbreviated
"P.," Pomorskie as "PM," and Poland as POL or PL.
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| Sources:
1. Marriage Record: 2. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (online at familysearch.org):
3. Polk's Indianapolis (Marion County, Ind.) City Directory. R.L. Polk & Co., Indianapolis, IN (online at Ancestry.com and/or fold3.com):
4. Pomeranian Genealogy (online at www.genealoger.com). |
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