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Timeline of Lipke/Liepka events
in West Prussia prior to emigration
and Gazetteer



14 March 1866 – August Lippke born in/near Lünau near Dirschau, Stüblau, W. Prussia to Johann Lipke and Augustyna Richers [found record in Germany]

5 November 1867 – his brother Johannes Lipke born Güttland, District Dirschau, Kreis Danzig; [they had two other brothers Frank and Michael born when and where??]

9 February 1875 -- Elisabeth KRAFT / KREFT / KREFFT born in St. Albrecht, (small town south of Danzig)

7 November 1889 to 24 September 1891 – Johannes served with the 10th Company of King Friedrich I’s infantry regiment No. 5. [where? Berlin?]

1891-1897 – time period when Johann Carl Lipke (and additional babies) could have been born to Johann and Elisabeth

20 May 1893 – District Dirschau, County Danzig, “Certificate of Marriage between the worker Johann Lipke living at Czattkau, district Dirschau, and Elisabeth Kreft living at Czattkau, marriage has been made in the presence of the signed registrar; Güttland” (civil record).

21 May 1893 – From the Registry of Marriages from the (Catholic) Parish of Dirschau, Kreisstadt, Altstadt, Westpreussen: 1893, marriage no. 23, May 21st, between Joannes Lipke, engineer, age 26, and Elisabeth Krefft, age 20, from the jurisdiction of Czattkau; Joannes Tormaniko and Franciscus Lipke, witnesses. (church record) [Were there two different marriage ceremonies?]

17 June 1893 – Frank Thomas Liepka born in Wittland (near Kiel), West Prussia [Why Kiel?]

7 December 1893 – August Lipka family immigrates to Syracuse on the S.S. Stuttgart (out of Bremen) from “Danzig” per son Frank’s later naturalization papers

21 April 1894 – Franz/Frank M. (Michael? Mickels?) LIPKE born to Johann and Elisabeth Lipke in Czattkau

4 July 1896 – Helen (Magdalena?) Elisabeth LIPKE born July 4, 1896 in Czattkau

8 February 1897 – death of Johann Carl LIPKE, born ?, cause of death and age unknown. “Registry office, Stüblau: The Feb. 8, 1897 death of Johann Carl Lipke, son of the worker Johann Lipke and the frau Elisabeth, born Kreft living at Czattkau has been entered today under no. 3 into the death register. Güttland, the 8th of February 1897.”

23 September 1897 – Anna LIPKE born in Czattkau

24 October 1898 – Johann (“Jack”) LIPKE born in Czattkau

1904 – Lipkes claimed on their ship’s passenger manifest that their last residence was in Brodsack (now Chlebowka?)

19 Nov 1904 – S.S. Chemnitz leaves Bremen for New York with the Lipke family aboard

2 December 1904 – Johann Lipke family arrives at Ellis Island on their way to Syracuse from “Danzig.” Also on the boat headed for Syracuse: WINICKI, ?-albert, 25, and Paul, 24, from Zerna, headed to sister Zofia Wiznicko, Marcellus no. 418, Syracuse, NY.


Gazetteer
of related places in West Prussia



Brodsack (East 19°03’ North 54°08’ across the Wistula River in Kreis Marienburg? now Chlebowka, Elbaskie Province, about 2.8 km from Neuteich now called Nowy Staw)

 

Czattkau (East 18°47’ or 18°49’ North 54°08’; also known then as Schattkau; was in Kreis Dirschau; was in the Catholic parish of Subkau 1905; now called Czatkowy in Gdanski province)

 

Danzig (Baltic port city on the mouth of the Vistula River; this area was part of Prussia from 1772 to 1919; now Gdansk, Poland)

 

Dirschau (20 miles south of Danzig, now Dirschau is called Tczew)

 

Güttland (East 18°48’ North 54°09 or 54°10’, Kreis Dirschau, 2.1 km from Stüblau (seat of civil registry); also known then as Coeslin, Gotland; was in the Catholic parish of Mühlbanz (1905); now Kozliny in Gdanski province)

 

Lipki Wielkie -- starting place for our surname and our people? (Map.)


Mühlbanz (East 18°43’ North 54°08’, Kreis Dirschau; was seat of the Catholic parish for Güttland (1905); now called Milobadz; 4.7 km from Czatkowy and 7.4 km from Tczew  in Gdanskie province)

 

Neuteich (seat of the Catholic parish for Brodsack (1908); today called Nowy Staw in Elblaskie province)

 

Pomorskie Wojewodztwo (Pomeranian Province)

 

Rathstube (East 18°44’ North 53°59’, Kreis Dirschau 1905, Civil registry seat for Czattkau; now called Radostowo in Pomorskie Province)

 

St. Albrecht (East 18°39 or 38’ North 54°18 or 17’, Kreis Danzig, Westpreussen, is now called Swiety Wojciech in the Gdanskie province about 2.7 km from Praust, today known as Pruszcz Gdanski)

 

Stüblau (was the seat of civil registry for Güttland; today Steblewo)

 

Subkau (East 18°46’ North 54°00’, Kreis Dirschau, 1905; alternate names Schobkow, Sobcouo, Sobkow, Zopcow; Catholic parish seat for Czattkau; now called Subkowy in Gdanskie Province)

 

Suchy Dab (today’s township in Pruszcz Gdánski where Kozliny and Czatkowy lie)

 

Wittland (East 10°05’ North 54°20’, near the Baltic seaport of Kiel)




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