Heinrich Joseph Formazin

I contacted a man, Heinrich Formazin in Germany and we are comparing our Formazin families.
His

Charles Fermazin Church Records 1861 Neidenburg East Prussia

O n LDS film # 72445 it shows the Baptismal record of my great grandfather Charles Fermazin as born in Neidenburg, Pomern to Daniel Fermazin. Here is a copy of the record

Treasure Chest Thursday: Charles Daniel Fermazin

Charles Fermazin Family 1913

This was a picture taken on the day of the funeral of Charles Fermazin (1859-1913).
The house was turned into a boarding house to support the family with Minnie running it.

I received this picture from my dad's Aunt Charlotte Stuber. I appreciated that she labeled the photo for me.  Charlotte said that each of the 7 children of Charles Fermazin received a copy of this photo at the time it was taken.

Bottom Row: Roy was my grandfather. His full name was Robert August Fermazin. Nickname: Roy.
Grandpa was handsome. This was taken the year before he married my Grandma, Mary Linden. They eloped to Chicago. I think because he was Lutheran and she was Catholic.

Wordless Wednesday: FERMAZIN GIRLS

FERMAZIN GIRLS:  Nancy and Mary                1948

Scrapbooking Family History

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In 2008, I made a FERMAZIN family scrapbook for my grandson, Peter, my sister, Mary, and my cousin Karen and, of course, myself. I'd like to share some of those pictures with you. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making the book. In my post I have tried to remember some of the stories and vignettes that accompany the pictures. I love scrapbooking especially hybrid and digital. My first family scrapbook was all digital, but since then I have been doing mostly hybrid scrapbooking. I dedicate these pages to my mom, Grace Lorraine Worthing Fermazin (1917-2001).

Left: Mom and Dad [Robert Fermazin 1916-2005 and Grace Worthing Fermazin 1917-2001]; Karen Lambert and Nancy about 1946; Mom, Dad, Nancy Fermazin in front of Grandma and Grandpa's house about 1945.

The map is one I made of Posen, Prussia where my 
great-great-grandfather, Friedrich Fermazin, lived before coming to the USA. 






Schubin, Posen, Prussia.

Picture of present day Bydgoszcz, Szubin, Poland. When my ancestors lived there it was Prussia and they lived in Kreis Schubin and Kreis Wongrowitz. Some of my ancestor villages were: Bagno, Rynarzewo, Labischin, and  Kwieciszewo in addition to other villages.

This  is a picture of the Charles Fermazin Family on June 13, 1913 when my great-grandpa died. Taken at front of house on Claim and Liberty Streets, Aurora, Illinois. Those are his seven children and wife Minnie Pluecker Fermazin. Next to the photo is a pedigree chart I made from Family Tree Maker charts. I think this is my favorite scrapbook page. When you enlarge the picture by clicking on it you can see the details. 

Back row: Roy, Carl, Jean, Harry; Top row: Irene, Lottie, Minnie, Bill Fermazin.



Fermazin Family Tree starting with my dad, Robert Fermazin and including Fermazin; Linden; Waggoner; Pluecker; Herbold; Pott, Bivier.

This is a page I made with a Family Group Sheet and a census sheet of the Friedrich Fermazin Family.

                         

Above: Page layout Oral History of Fermazin Family.  

I wrote a poem about my  FERMAZIN Family History and it was published in Everton's magazine in December 2008. I have also placed the entire poem on my blog. 

Pictured are Robert (Roy) August Fermazin, son of Charles Fermazin and grandson of Friedrich Fermazin and his wife, my grandmother, Mary Linden. I loved my Grandma and Grandpa and miss them terribly. We moved to California when I was a senior in high school in 1959.  Grandma and Grandpa came every year to visit. Grandpa died in 1960 and Grandma died in 1968.  Grandpa had the largest coin collection in the state of Illinois and founded the Aurora Coin Club.  Grandma was a seamstress (made my cheerleading outfits), a gourmet cook, a famous flower gardener with pictures of her flowers in the Aurora Beacon News society page every Spring with the headlines: " We know it's Spring when Mary Fermazin's flowers are in Bloom." Her flowers adorned St. Therese Catholic Church and Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Aurora for many years at Sunday Mass throughout the spring and summer. She was famous for her peonies, lilacs, and roses. Grandpa made birdhouses for the yard. He was an electrician, a farmer, a carpenter, a journeyman machinist and a coin collector. Wow! What people!

My great-grandmother, Minnie Pluecker Fermazin who was married to Charles Fermazin lived in Lakefield, Rost Township, Jackson, Minnesota and Aurora, Kane, Illinois. She was widowed at age 27. She had seven children. The youngest was 13 when her husband Charles Fermazin died. After his death she turned  their home in Aurora, on Liberty and Claim Streets into a boarding house to raise money to support the family.  My grandfather Roy and his brother Carl continued to provide financial support even after they were married. This helped her keep the house and raise the children still at home. Minnie had a rough life. She grew up in Aurora, married an immigrant German, and moved away from home and family to Lakefield, Minnesota, for 13 years to farm with her husband and then uprooted life on the farm to move back to Aurora about a year before Charles died. Possibly he was ill and they wanted live closer to family.

Wilhelmina (Minnie) Pluecker

Birth: 6 JUN 1868 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, USA

Residence: 1910 Aurora Ward 6, Kane, Illinois

Death: 17 APR 1952 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, USA

Burial: 21 APR 1952 Riverside Cemetery, Aurora, Illinois

School days in Lakefield, Minnesota.

Individual pictures of Harry, Lottie, Willie and Irene.

Classroom picture with Charles Fermazin, the 5th person in the top row. To the right is the class list for the years 1904-1905.

Public School No. 74 for Des Moines, Belmont, Hunter and Heron Lake Townships, Jackson County, Minnesota. By the 1904-1905 school year Grandpa Roy (Robert August) Fermazin was already out of school and farming with his half- brother Reinhart in Lemon, South Dakota.

Public School No. 74.  for  Des Moines,
 Belmont, Hunter and Heron Lake Townships in Jackson County Minnesota which includes the official Roster for School Year 1904-1905.

Left: Grandma Mary Linden Fermazin and her aprons. These are not Grandma Mary's aprons but I liked them so well I put them on the digital scrapbook page to tell the story. Grandma was famous for her seamstress achievements, making delicious pies, especiall strawberry and apple, growing lilacs and peonies, and for just being Grandma, Mom, Wife etc.

                                                                                   

Left side of page is Grandpa Roy (Robert August) Fermazin in his car. Grandpa was a Lutheran until the day he died. He married my grandmother and raised his children Catholic. This is the car he used to drive the nuns from Sacred Heart Catholic School for shopping. Sacred Heart Catholic School is where my dad and his sister Lola attended grade school, before East Aurora High School. This was the "French" Catholic School. Dad learned to speak French when going here besides the German and English he spoke at home. Father Simard (sp) was the Priest at the time my dad attended school here. Dad always spoke highly of Father Simard. The car on the right-hand side is my dad's first car that he bought with $ 5.00 he earned during the Depression. He always said it didn't run when he purchased it but Grandpa got it going. I used Graphics 45 paper for this layout.

On the left is a collage of the house my Grandpa Roy built at 942 Sixth Ave, Aurora, Illinois.

Grandma called it the "schack" and even wrote that on the back of the picture. In front of the house are Grandma, Mary Linden Fermazin, Uncle Nick Linden (Grandma's brother), my dad, Robert, and his sister, Lola. The page depicts the house in 1924, 1945, and 2004.  The house is still inhabited and is across the street from Phillips Park, which is still a nice neighborhood after all these years. I always remember the house  when it was brown shingles. The people living there now bought it from my grandparents and moved the house up to the street. Prior to this there was about a half acre in front and back. In front and along the driveway was where my grandma grew her flowers. In the back yard were Grandpa's work house/carpenter house and a big old apple tree. At the bottom of the picture are my dad, mom, and I about 1945. I remember playing in the day room on rainy days with my sister Mary, cousin Karen and Grandma, when we cut out paper dolls from Vogue and Simplicity pattern magazines.  On the left are my dad and his car on a map of Aurora, Illinois. I just think that old car is NEAT!

Remember these? We had so much fun playing paper dolls on Grandma's sun porch. Aunt Lola brought home the pattern books from work and we cut out our paper dolls. We always had many Simplicity and Vogue pattern books to chose from.

I would be remiss if I did not put my sister Mary in any of the pictures. On the left is a favorite picture of mine. Nancy Fermazin age 6 and my sister Mary Fermazin age 3, about 1949. On the right is the picture of my sister, Mary's, First Holy Communion at St. Therese Catholic Church, Farnsworth and Coolidge Avenues in Aurora, Illinois. The picture to the right of Mary is Karen Lambert Mahrenholz, my cousin and my dad's niece [Lola Fermazin daughter] and Grandma Mary Linden Fermazin and Nancy Fermazin [me] at our Confirmation in 1956 at St.Therese Catholic Church. I think the picture was taken at 251 Hillside Avenue, Aurora Illinois.

My tribute to Aunt Lola Fermazin and Uncle Theron Lambert on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. This was taken on January 28, 1993. I don't have any copies of their wedding pictures.  They were married  in North Carolina where Uncle was stationed before he was sent to the European Theater to fight for our freedom in WWII. 

I started a vintage scrapbook for my husband. Above is a picture of their family home in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.  It is a red brick house on Cherry Street, on the left side coming off of Easton Road. On the front porch is seated Bill's dad, Everhard (Harvey), with his brother, Richard to the left of Dad and Bill sitting on his lap. The photo on the right is Richard, Barbara pushing her doll baby carriage, and Bill. Barbara looks so proud. Richard looks bored with the whole thing and Bill is a happy kid smiling. I think they posed for that picture.




Written for the 96th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy: Scrapbooking Your Family History
© 2010, copyright Nancy Fermazin

Friedrich Fermazin and Caroline Hartwig

Friedrich Formazin  and Caroline Hartwig:

He is listed as Einwohner in his records,

Their children:

Emilie

Born: Aug.21,1862 Piardowo

Bapt: Aug.23,1862

Godparents: Daniel Ristau, Ottilie  Fermazin Marx

Entry # 146/1862 page 69

Bertha

Born: Nov.29,1864 Godziwy

Bapt: Jan.8,1865

Godparents: August Hartwich, Caroline Harhala (spelling)

Entry # 9/1865 page 77

Otto Reinhard

Born: Nov.8,1867 Godziwy

Reinhart

Born Jan 28, 1875

      Records checked: 1821-1874 births, marriages and deaths, with a gap in marriages in          years 1861-1874

In Schubin there are mentioned by you two families, and two Friedrichs by the same last names:

Friedrich Formazin ( Einwohner – resident) and Caroline Ristau:

Auguste Emilie

Born: Feb.28,1858 Neu Schottland

Godparents: Christian Ristau, Henriette Reipreis (sp.)

Entry # 36/1858

Robert Michael

Born: Aug.12,1861 Kowalewo

Bapt: Aug. 18,1861

Godparents: Michael Gruning, Justine Hartwich

Entry # 128/1862

Died: Feb.27,1862 in Kowalewo.

Entry # 26/1862

Adolphine Florentine

Born: May 22,1863 Kowalewo

Bapt: Jun.7,1863

Godparents: Adam Foss, Louise Ristau

Entry # 106/1863 page 66

Ernst Eduard

Born: Jun.9, 1865 Kowalewo ( later Gruenhagen)

Bapt. Jun.22,1865

Godparents: Ludwig Kohert, Wilhelmine Arnold

Entry # 17/1865 page 77

Freidrich Reinhold

Born: Apr.17,1868 Neuwelt

Bapt: May 3,1868

Witnesses: Eduard August, Wilhelm Beyer

Entry # 74/1868 page 2

Birth records of 1869-1874 show no other children of Friedrich Fermazin and Caroline Ristau. No marriage was found in earlier record and no additional deaths.  I did discovered remarriage of Caroline in later civil records of Schubin land 1:

[Caroline became a widow so this ruled out this Friedrich Formazin as my gggrandfather but I think this Friedrich Formazin is son of August Formazin who is son of Friedrich Formazin and Louise Bonau.]

Sep.30,1877 Schubin  Entry # 10/1877

Laborer Heinrich Engel born on Mar. 28,1830  in Gorzykowo, county of Bromberg, resided in Schottland , son of deceased in Klein Wolfhaus, county Bromberg Friedrich Engel and deseased in lein Bartelsee Henriette nee Sabecka

Got married to

Laborer Caroline Formazin nee  Ristau, born in Kolaczkowo now Rensdorf, resided in Gruenhagen, age about 50 (exact date unknown), daughter of deceased in Zamosc Johann Ristau and deceased in Schoenmadel Louise Strohschein.

Witnesses: Carl Dragorius age 50 of Schubin, Louise Krause age 42 of Neuwelt

Unfortunately, I have not seen the deaths of 1876 & 77 to prove death of Friedrich Fermazin. It will wait for my next trip to archives in Bydgoszcz – along with other records that await discovery.

I checked the marriages 1874-1877 for Schubin Land 1. I have not found the marriage of Peter Hinz to Henriette Formazin, but I found two of their children:

Julius Wilhelm

Born: Apr.17,1876 Guenhagen

Registered: Apr. 19,1876

Informant: grandmother – Caroline Formazin of Gruenhagen

Father’s status: Einwohner – resident

Entry # 58/1876

Civil Registry Schubin Land 1.

Ottilie Emma

Born: Jul. 2,1878 Blumenthal

Registered Jul.4,1878

Civil registry Schubin Land 2.

Entry # 93/1878

Question here is wheather this family could have one more child between 1858 and 1861.

Only if they moved somewhere else for 2 years – outside of Labischin and Schubin Parishes.


Research compiled with help of Kasia from Poland

Wordless Wednesday: Lola Fermazin Graduates from Sacred Heart Catholic School 1926

Lola Fermazin 1926

8th Grade Graduation

Sacred Heart Catholic School

Aurora, Illinois

Friedrich Fermazin and Justine Brauer: 2nd marriage

Friedrich Fermazin remarried, also in LabischJan.9,1853 Friedrich Formazin widower of Rynarzewo age 31, “Einwohner”

Got married to Justine Brauer, daughter of mailman of Arnoldowo age 25 years, 6 months

1. Evangelische Kirche labischin (Kr Schubin), Tote 1852-1863 -- Taufen, Tote, Heiraten 1852 -- Heiraten, Taufen, Tote 1853 -- Geburten, Heiraten, Tote 1854-1857. Marriages Item  Entry # 7/1853

   FHL microfilm 714,894.

There  were no more Formazins in Labischin parish up to 1862 when parish records end.

Later, in the civil registry of Rynarschewo, I found no birth, marriage nor death records up to 1881.So, they moved out.

Louise Bonau: First Wife of Friedrich Formazin

Today I am writing about the marriage of Friedrich Formazin [Fermazin] and Louise Bonau.  Fredrich married Louise Boanau in Ruhden, Posen, Prussia. He was single and the marriage papers stated his father was deceased.

In researching our family history in Posen, Prussia, [present day Poland] we found Friedrich Formazin was the son of Daniel Formaezyn born about 1785 and Mariana Soblinska. 
FHL # 245334, p.118 marriage 1806

We pick Friedrich Vormazin up in Labischin, Kreis Schubin in 1840 as a 21 year old lad getting married to Louise Bonau. Friedrich Vormazin Formazin married Louise Bonau (possibly Huguenaut name) in Labischin on Dec.6,1840.Per his marriage records he was single, age 21, and resided in Ruhden, his father was deceased at time of marriage, while Louise is also listed as single 24 years and 5 months. Their children were:

August (recorded as Vormazin)

Born: Sep.7,1841 Florentowo

Bapt.: Sep.12,1841

Witnesses: Carl Meyer, August Reddmann, Renate Pinau (? spelling), Eva Meyer

Entry #  264 pages 138-139

Henriette

Born: Oct.9, 1843 Florentowo

Bapt: Oct.29,1843

Godparents: Michael Fenske, Justine Reddmann, Christine Wegner, Anna Schmidt, Justine Lurke

Entry # 358/1843 pages 332-333

Stephan

Born Oct.15, 1847 Bagno

Bapt: Oct. 17,1847 Schubin

Father – Einwohner - resident

Witnesses: Heinrich Brachschein, Justine Brachschein, Daniel Kopicke

Caroline

Born: Aug.13,1850 Rynarzewo

Bapt. Aug. 18,1850

Witnesses: Eduard Zillmmer, Louise Wienkauf, August Bartung

Father – Einwohner

Entry # 271/1850 page 320-321

Two years later two family members die of cholera: Louise and Henriette

Louise Formazin nee Bonau age 34, spouse of  Freidrich Formazin, Einwohner;  died Sep. 25,1852  Rynarzewo; she left behind 3 children

Entry # 120/1852  pages 6,7

Henriette Formazin daughter of Friedrich and Louise Bonau died at the age of 8 years and 11 months on Sep. 27,1852 in Rynarzewo

Entry #  223/1852 pages: 6,7

I know quite a bit about August Fermazin so will write a post about him and his family. One member of his family came to Chicago to see her Grandpa Friedrich Fermazin and stayed on to get married in Michigan. Then of course we lose her in the records. [Friedrich Fermazin came to the USA in 1879 with his third wife, Caroline Hartwig. I am getting ahead of myself. 


I am trying to do more research on Louise Bonau. I think the Bonau name is Huguenaut.  Looking for birth and family records for Louise. I am hoping by finding more out about the Bonau's I might find where the Fermazin's were living before Posen. [Possibly The Netherlands or Alsace Lorraine]


Louise Bonau is not my direct line.  After her death Friedrich married twice more. I am descended from the second family: Friedrich Formazin and Justine Brauer.
Source:  FHL film # 0714893
Alternate spellings: Vormagen, Vormazin, Formazin, Formaeyn, Fermazin

On the Boardwalk

On the Boardwalk

Looks like summer fun is here.

Swim suit weather is upon us. I have been looking through my collection of old photos for swim suits. Isn't it funny that I don't have any pictures of myself in a swim suit growing up.  Hmmmnn. We spent many a summer on Lake Geneva swimming.  We also used to go to my Great-Uncle and Aunt's:  Carl and Margaret Fermazin's cabin in southern Wisconsin and swim at the lake. We played with inner tubes, snorkled, built sand castles, fished, dived,  etc. 

I did find some pictures of family through out the years that I'd like to share with you.

  I found this picture of my Grandma Fermazin and Aunt Lola and Aunt Margaret having fun along the Fox River in Aurora, Illinois. What a shocker. I could never imagine Grandma in a bathing suit.  I always knew Grandma in a flowered dress with an apron making Apple pies and Strawberry pies in the kitchen and baking cookies at Christmas time.

Here they are!  Margaret Steil Fermazin sister-in-law to Mary Linden Fermazin my grandma.  Aunt Lola, my dad's sister looks to be about 13 years old here so this must be a picture from about 1927. The picture of my Grandma Mary, Aunt Margaret, and Aunt Lola looks like it was taken at the same place as the vintage post card below.

Grandma Mary Linden Fermazin

Fox River

Aurora, Illinois ca.1927

However, I could never picture Grandma as a young woman in a bathing suit. What a treasure to find this picture.

                                                Pin Up Girls   1927

Ca: 1927

Grandma Mary Linden Fermazin

Margaret Steil Fermazin

Lola Fermazin

Fox River

Aurora, Illinois

The Fox River runs north and south in Illinois.  Dad spent many a summer fishing along the banks At one time he even owned an island in the Fox River.  When we were kids growing up he took us every night to fish with him while mom worked.

http://www.cardcow.com/c/67100/illinois-aurora/

 vintage post cards of the Fox River in Aurora, Illinois

http://www.cardcow.com/c/67100/illinois-aurora/

I dabble in scrapbooking: Digital; Hybrid; Classic.
I want to share two pages I made using my Grandma's Swim pictures.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them.

                                      I just know they were having a great time!

Grace Worthing age 12; Charlie Worthing age 46, Ed Castor, Rose Castor, Maxine Worthing 

Here is a picture of my mom, Grace Worthing and her dad Charlie Worthing visiting from Truro, Iowa in Sandusky, Ohio with his niece and nephew Ed and Rose Castor (parents of Annie Castor Glenn) and Maxine Worthing daugher of Walter Worthing who was son of Charlie Worthing. What a CATCH! Great day fishing.  Maxine Worthing grew up in New Concord, Ohio to become a registered nurse. She was raised by Eppa and Guy Mossholder of New Concord, Ohio.

                                        

                                             Bathing Beauties of the 1954 era

Aren't they happy girls.  Oh those are the good ole days.

Summer fun at 251 Hillside Avenue, Aurora, Illinois. Mary Fermazin and her best friend Judy Mindar enjoying "getting a tan".  I remember this year. My sister Mary got a really bad 3rd degree sunburn from too much sun.

Now we move on to 2010 with bikinis and speedos. Here is a picture of my grandson, Peter on the high school swim team and he even plays water polo in the Fall. He is really a handsome young man.  I bet the girls say, "What a hunk!". Pete, I am so proud of you. Mom and dad have done a great job.  You are indeed my pride and joy.

Peter 2010

Swim Team

Water Polo

And then one last picture from 2010 having fun on the beach in Hawaii.

© 2010, copyright Nancy Fermazin