Gottfried? Bohemia? prior to 1800
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Gottfried? Bohemia? prior to 1800
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Posted: 4 Jan 2009 11:57PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gottfried, Pecka, Repka
Anyone have Gottfried ancestors from Bohemia? I have hit a wall.
My ancestor Joseph Gottfried b. 1814 oldest son of John Gottfried & Anna Repka immigrated to US in 1849. Joseph m. 1853 Mary Pecka b. abt 1836 in Bohemia. They eventually settled down to farming in southwest Indiana after being in MO, OH and WI.
I found a record that he may have arrived in NY via Glasgow, Scotland. Census records all say Bohemia as homeland, but native tongue was German. So, I assume the family were Germanic and not Czech.
HELP!!
Jason Walley
My ancestor Joseph Gottfried b. 1814 oldest son of John Gottfried & Anna Repka immigrated to US in 1849. Joseph m. 1853 Mary Pecka b. abt 1836 in Bohemia. They eventually settled down to farming in southwest Indiana after being in MO, OH and WI.
I found a record that he may have arrived in NY via Glasgow, Scotland. Census records all say Bohemia as homeland, but native tongue was German. So, I assume the family were Germanic and not Czech.
HELP!!
Jason Walley