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The Dragorius family came from the Posen region - further south and closer to Poland. The ethnic mix was around 50% Germans who had migrated there in the 1600s…
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Erna Boldewahn's mother was Ernestine Dragorius. This is a photo of her in the 1890s.
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A photo of Ernestine in her later years.
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Ernestine's famiy was from a village called "Romanshof" located in Kreis Czarnikau, Posen. Czarnikau was both the name of the Kreis" (county) and the name of a…
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Czarnikau Map 1902. The majority of German settlers arrived in the late 1500s from Brandenburg, Pommern (Northern Prussia) und Schlesien. Many of the settlers…
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Map of Romanshof village. The settlement was founded in 1796. It was situated on cliffs overlooking the Netze river and backed up against the Romanowo forest.…
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Google Earth Map of Romanshof as it is today in Poland
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Upper Romanshof looking towards the river Netze (2015) via Google Earth
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Ernestine Wilhelmine Dragorius was born on Sept 12, 1859 and baptized in the Protestant church in Czarnikau, Posen. Her parents were Friedrich Dragorius and…
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In 1865, a Friedrich Dragorius, his wife Louise and his daughter Ernestine came to America via Canada, leaving Hamburg May 1, 1865 on the sailship Othello.…
