Re: Kolonie Karlinufka

Leah Treder , Sonntag, 08.02.2009, 23:04 (vor 6148 Tagen) @ Jerry Frank †

Hello Jerry and thank you.

I have very limited information but I do know this:

My Ur Oma, Amalia Grenke is listed as being born in Karlinufka, Wolhynien, Russia on February 3rd, 1899 to Ludwig and Pauline Grenke (nee Witkowski)
Ludwig's parents were Kristof and Amalia Grenke (nee Shorshinski)

Amalia's siblings were:
Karl
Emilie
Florentine
Pauline
Heinrich
Gottlieb
Kristof

In 1912 Amalia and her family immigrated to Manitoba Canada where they stayed for awhile before returning to Karlinufka prior to 1914. On July 15 1915 they were forced out of their home due to the war and fled to Siberia. Some time after when it was safe, they returned to Wolhynien where Amalia married Emil Zwar son of Johann and Karolin Zwar. They stayed and ran the Zwar family farm until until 1940 at which time they moved to Germany to farm until 1950 when they immigrated back again to Canada where they both lived until their deaths.

According to family records Emil Zwar was baptised by Pastor M. Jeske in 1923 in Kolowert, Wolhynien.

Emil's father Johann was born in 1871 in Wolhynien.

Johann's parents were Christian (1839) and Augusta (1840) Zwar. They moved to Wolhynien from Kaliz, Poland in 1862 and both lived there until their deaths. They had 7 children. The eldest of those 7 seven children was named Friedrich. He was the brother to Johann.

Friedrich had a daughter named Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina was also my Ur Oma.
My great grandparents were 1st cousins and my fathers parents were second cousins.

Friedrich's history lists him as having moved to Wolhynien at the age of 4. He attended the Lutheran church in Zhitomir. He and his father were both carpenters. In 1881 he married Juliana Hinz and bought a farm in the village of Kolowert. In 1905 Friedrich took his wife and 12 children to Canada but in less than a year also returned back to Kolowert to his 60 acre farm. In 1912 Friedrich decided to move to East Prussia in Angerupp.