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| surname: |
| Bruss |
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| given name(s): |
| (Michael) Friedrich Wilhelm |
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| usually known as: |
| Fritz, Friedrich |
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| birth date/place: |
| 8 July
1818 |
Cammin, Pomerania, Prussia |
| died: |
| 18 July
1909 |
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| cemetery/city: |
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| father: |
| Martin Bruss (1) |
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| mother: |
| Dorothea S. Ginnow |
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| spouse: |
| Wilhelmina H. Buth |
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| marriage date/place: |
| 14 November 1843 |
Wisconsin |
| children: |
| |
| Wilhelmine Bruss |
| (1845--?) |
| Johanna Bruss |
| (1846--?) |
| Johann F. Bruss |
| (1847--?) |
| Maria Bruss |
| (1849--?) |
| Gottfried Bruss |
| (1850--?) |
| Friedrich W. Bruss |
| (1852--?) |
| Martin Bruss (2) |
| (1854--?) |
| Juliana Bruss |
| (1856--?) |
| Heinrich Bruss |
| (1858--1880) |
| Margaretha K. Bruss |
| (1860--1938) |
| Helena Bruss |
| (1862--?) |
| Auguste Bruss |
| (1863--?) |
| Magdalena Bruss |
| (1865--?) |
occupation: Farmer
immigration: Arrived in USA (port of New York) Sept. 5, 1839, with parents, and two brothers and two sisters, aboard the ship "Republic". From New York City went to Buffalo, NY. In 1840 (?) he came to Milwaukee, and then in 1841 moved to Freistadt.
records and documents:
additional information:
Information from the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt (and the history of
Trinity Lutheran Church, Freistadt [2]) gives his first
name as "Martin"
and his mother's name as "Dorothea Chennow". However, in the
baptismal records
from Cammin (microfilmed by the LDS), I found the name
"Michael Friedrich Bruss", with the mother's name as "Dorothea Sophia
Ginnow".
I will use this interpretation, unless contradictory
evidence is found.
The town of
Cammin, sometimes
called "Cammin in Pommern",
in the kreis of Cammin, is on the Cammin Bay (or lagoon)
about 6 km from the Baltic Sea coast.
A long article about their 60th wedding anniversary provided
much of this information. However, that article says he arrived
in the US in 1838. But other documentation shows it was really
1839.
John Bartelt
2006-01-30
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