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