Stroschein & Pehlke Family Tree & Story
(The Stroschein/Pehlke story follows the family tree)
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Stroschein Family Tree
The Stroschein and Pehlke families lived near Hohenkirch, West Prussia, Prussia.
Hohenkirch is now Ksiazki, Poland.
Michael Rosenau, Born: 1791
Marriage 1: Elisabeth Templin, 25 Nov 1830
Elisabeth was Born: 5 Jun 1810
Her parents were Jacob & Christina (Goss/Gose) Templin
Jacob was a farmer in Klein Brudzaw (1 mile east of Hohenkirch)
Child of Michael & Elisabeth (Templin) Rosenau:
Karolina (Caroline) Rosenau, Born: 27 Aug 1834
Child 1: Caroline Rosenau married Gottfried Strohschein (a widower), 14 Nov 1854
Gottfried Strohschein was from Budziszewo (north of Hohenkirch), West Prussia, Prussia
Gottfried Strohschein Died: 19 Sep 1857 in Waitzenauy (Budziszewo)
He was a cottager (one who had a cottage and possible some land) and a
Wheelwright (repairs wheels, carts, wagons, etc)
Children of Gottfried & Caroline (Rosenau) Strohschein:
Child 1: Johann (John) Strohschein,
Born: 13 Dec 1855, Hohenkirch, West Prussia, Prussia (now Ksiazki, Poland)
John Strohschein Died: 26 Dec 1925, Westfield, Marquette, WI
He Immigrated: 1882/1883
He Married: Gustina Pehlke in Prussia
(see following Pehlke tree)
Child 2: Michael Strohschein, Born: 18 Nov 1857
Following are birth records that were found for children of Gottfried Strohschein from a previous marriage.
Children of Gottfried & Gottlieba (Goerke) Strohschein
(following children were all born in Hohenkirch, West Prussia, Germany - now Ksiazki, Poland)
Child 1: Anna Strohschein, Born: 3 Jul 1843
Child 2: Eva Strohschein, Born: 19 Mar 1845
Child 3: Gottlieba* Strohschein, Born: 18 Jan 1847
Child 4: Gottlieba* Strohschein, Born: 11 Jan 1849
* The daughter born in 1847 probably died and the next daughter born in 1849 was given the same name.
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Pehlke Family Tree
The Pehlke family towns are all in/near the Hohenkirch parish in West Prussia
The numbers at left of a name are the number of generations prior to Johann (John) Strohschein.
Johann Pehlke of Groß Ksionsken (Hohenkirch), West Prussia, Prussia (now Ksiazki, Poland)
Birth and death dates not known.
Marriage 1: abt 1847 to Wilhelmine Mankopf in West Prussia
Note; Mankopf is also found with the spelling "Mahnkopf"
Wilhelmine was Born: 1822, (place unknown), Died: 1911, Marquette Co, WI
She had at least two siblings; Dorothea and Carl Ludwig Mahnkopf
Wilhelmine immigrated with her daughter and grand children in 1884.
NOTE: Her gravestone says "M. Pehlke", she went by "Minni".
Johann Pehlke apparently died in Prussia.
Children of Johann & Wilhelmine (Mankopf) Pehlke
Child 1: Emillie Dorothea (Dora) Pehlke, Born 22 Feb 1848, Gross Ksionsken, West Prussia
Died:date unknown, probably in Ohio
Child 2: Carl Friedrich Pehlke, Born: 28 Feb 1850, Rehden, Graudenz, West Prussia
Died:date & place unknown
There was a Carl/Fred Pehlke who lived in Adams/Marquette county who
may have been the son of Child 2 above. He is said to have moved to Texas.
Child 3: Friedrich Wilhelm Pehlke, Born: 17 Sep 1854, Briesen, West Prussia
Died: date & place unknown
Child 4: Wilhelmine (Minni) Pehlke, Born 9 Sep 1857
Died:date unknown, probably in Ohio
Child 5: (Louisa?) Pehlke, Born: 21 Jan 1860, Died date unknown
A church birth record was found for a child with no name listed.
This is likely Louisa - the only other known daughter of Johann & Whilhelmine Pehlke.
All of the above children immigrated, Dora & Minni in 1875.
Immigration dates for Carl/Fred & Lousia are not known.
The two of the daughters married and lived in Ohio and the son lived in Texas.
Child 6: Justine (Gustina) Elisabeth Pehlke, Born: 11 Apr 1861, Groß Ksionsken (Hohenkirch)
Marriage 1: 6 Jan 1881 to Johann Strohschein in Hohenkirch, West Prussia, Prussia
After immigrating her first name appears as both Justine and Gustina
but she was known mostly as Gustina.
"Gustina" is on her gravestone and her nickname was "Gusta".
In the remainder of this family tree the name "Gustina" is used.
Gustina Died: 27/28 Feb 1948, Oxford, Marquette Co, WI
Child of Gustina Pehlke & Unknown Father
Child 1: Augusta M Pehlke, Born: 21 Dec 1879, (click here to view her birth record)
Died: 24 Dec 1966, Oxford, Marquette Co, WI
Augusta M Pehlke's name after the marriage was Augusta M Strohschein.
It is not know if she was formally adopted by Johann/John Strohschein.
Marriage 1: 23 Jan 1896 to J. Lewis Bruckner in New Chester, Adams, WI
Marriage 2: 2 Dec 1913 to Fred E. Henke 2 Dec 1913 in New Chester, Adams, WI
Children of John and Gustina (Pehlke) Strohschein
(Strohschein generation shown below)
Child 1: Emil H. Stroschein, Born: Mar 1882, West Prussia, Prussia
Died: 1960, Oxford, Marquette Co, WI
Married: Alvina Bertha Schubert, 21 Aug 1906, WI
Alvina was Born: 1885, Died: 1935, WI
Child 2: Robert (Rob) Stroschein, Born: 11 Apr 1885,WI, Died: 6 Jul 1973, WI
Married: Ruth Paddock, 4 Apr 1915, Born: 25 Jul 1895, Died: Jun 1977, WI
Children of Robert & Ruth Stroschein
John R Stroschein, Born: 1916, Died: 28 Dec 1934, WI
Arthur C. Stroschein, Born: 1920 Died: 29 Dec 1934, WI
Both died from diphtheria
Child 3: William (Wille) Stroschein, Born: 29 Mar 1890, WI, Died: Dec1969, WI
Married: Rebena Paddock, B:1897, Died: 1960, WI, No children
Note; Robert & William Stroschein married sisters.
Johann Strohschein Immigrated in 1882/83, he was a master shoemaker in Prussia.
The spelling of Johann Strohschein was apparently changed to John Stroschein by immigration.
John's wife Gustina, Step-daughter Augusta, son Emil, and Gustina's mother W. Pehlke immigrated to WI in 1884.
John & Gustina farmed near Fenner Lake in Marquette, County, WI for 31 years.
John & Gustina retired and moved to Westfield in 1915.
John Strohschein Died: 28 Feb 1925, Marquette Co, WI (click here to view his death record)
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John Stroschein was a shoemaker, or cobbler, in the Hohenkirch area of West Prussia. After WWII West Prussia was made part of Poland and Hohenkirch is now called Ksiazki in Poland. He was born in 1855 and in 1880 he married an un-wed mother, Justine (Gustina) Pehlke, who had a daughter named Augusta.
There are two stories about how Gustina came to be an un-wed mother. One story is that Augusta's father was a French migrant farm worker that worked on the same farm as her mother. They were working in flax fields and the workers slept in tents at night. Another story is that Gustina Pehlke had worked as a seamstress in Berlin and she became pregnant by a person above her social class who could not marry her, possibly a Prussian military officer. She went home and married John Stroschein who was someone who knew her before she got pregnant.
The Pehlke's lived in the Pinwitz area (now Piwnice, Poland) which is just south of Hohenkirch where John Stroschein lived. John raised Augusta as his own child but it is not known if there was a legal adoption. Emil was born to John and Gustina in Germany about two years after they married.
Gustina had a younger half sister Louise who had already immigrated with her husband to Ohio and they had written that America was a wonderful land and encouraged her and John to come. Later two other sisters, Minnis and Dora, and brother Carl/Fred immigrated. The two sisters also settled in Ohio but Carl/Fred went to Texas.
About 1883, John Stroschein left his family in Prussia and went to Wisconsin to see if it was as good in America as the letters said. It is not known why he went to Wisconsin rather than Ohio where his wife's sister lived. He acquired a farm just east of Fenner Lake in Adams County and built a log cabin and log barn. He bought a couple cows and horses. About a year later he sent for his family.
Gustina, Augusta, Emil, and Gustina's mother Wilhelmine (Minnie) Pehlke immigrated to Wisconsin in May of 1884. Emil was about 2-1/2, and Augusta remembered having to watch over Emil to keep him from falling overboard. Augusta and the ship's crew had a time with Emil. Once he tried to climb the mast and one of the sailors gave him a good spanking. When Gustina's mother got off the train in Wisconsin, she said she felt like she was in a wilderness with trees everywhere. She wished she could go back to her comfortable home in Germany. She was a good seamstress and sewed for wealthy people in Germany and was used to being in fine homes.
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