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Re: Searching for Pooch, Poch, Polk in Germany or Wisconsin

jensearch1 — 2012-02-06 03:51:42Z

I am helping my cousin's wife research this family also. She is descended from their daughter Adeline.

This family settled in Marquette County, Wisconsin. By the 1880 census they are in Boone County, Illinois. By the 1900 census they are back in Wisconsin in Dane County, Wisconsin.

I would be interested in corresponding with you on the side.

Jennifer

Re: The Wisconsin Pooch's

Menke1852 — 2008-03-18 12:57:17Z

Ernestine is definitely part of this Pooch family. I will have to look back at my research as I think she is buried next to her father. My e-mail address is kmdcb@aol.com. Please contact for further research.

Karel Buck

Re: The Wisconsin Pooch's

davidgmarks — 2008-03-17 20:33:54Z

I have been searching for info on the Pooch family. The Ernestine Pooch mentioned in these messages was my Great Grandmother who married august Ludwig Marks in 1868 in Marquette Co.
Have info on this family back to Kreis Rummelsburg and am looking for further info and have much to share.

Rgds, David Marks

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

KruegerKD — 2006-09-01 05:22:43Z

Are you still researching Pooch from Pritzig? I am unfamiliar with that surname, but my grandmother is Alvina Ernestina Caroline Krueger, born Mielke in 1886 in Pritzig.Pritzig isn't a very big place, so I would bet our ancesters knew each other.

Alvina's parents are August and Auguste Mielke, born Rojahn. I believe August was born about 1852. Their son, August, was born in Nov 1873; Matilda Johanna was born Mar 1879; Auguste was born in 1883. These siblings emigrated in 1892 to Rib Lake, WI. I do not know and would like to uncover what happened to their parents.

I did recently find reference to my grandma's grandfather, August Mielke (what else could it be? they were stuck on the name!) as witness at a wedding in Besswitz 30 Apr 1875. The groom's mother's maiden name is Kalk and that matches notes I have that my grandmother spoke of a "Grandma Kalk". August Mielke was 49, so that makes him born about 1826 in that neck of the woods.

I'm curious what you've learned about your family and this area of Pommerania!

Sincerely,
Katie Krueger

Melchert

2004-09-20 21:21:44Z

Hi Thorsten,

spricht du deutsch? Or just english?
There is surely a connection between
your and my MELCHERTs. I have many
Melcherts from Cremerbruch and the
villages around.
What about you? Please answer me to
my email-adress feel-the-groove@gmx.net
Greetings from Germany...

Daniel

Re: Pooch from Rummelsburg

2004-09-20 19:47:03Z

Pooch from Rummelsburg
Author: Daniel Gowitzke Date: 2 Aug 2003 1:16 PM GMT
Surnames: Pooch, Nemitz, Melchert
Classification: Biography
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Hello,

my name is Thorsten and my great-grandfather was
Franz Leo Melchert. He was born 13.03.1865 in Cremerbruch, Rummelsburg and married Minna Limberg. They lived in Rügenwalde. His father was Johann Melchert, he was born 4.2.1834 . .. perhaps there is a conection?

Sincerly, Thorsten
Johannes parents were Johann Pooch and Luise Pooch (born Nemitz), they lived in Diebswehr, Rummelsburg.
I read, that there were also some Pooch´s from the area of Rummelsburg, who emigrated to the USA...perhaps, there´s a connection...!?

sincerely, daniel

(please answer to my email-adress)

Re: The Wisconsin Pooch's

ArlinKrueger — 2004-03-21 22:36:55Z

My grandfather is the Carl (Charles) Pooch from Lamberton MN that is listed in your message. According to my records, Heinrich (Henry) Pooch was the 4th of 6 children of John and Charlotte (Stemitz) Pooch. The other brothers are Charles, John August Louis, William, and Frank. Their one sister was Augusta. This is not a perfect match with your information but close enough that it must be the same family. John Pooch, Sr obituary lists his birthplace as Reinfeld, Kreis Rummelsburg, District of Koslin, (Pomerania).

FINDING RELATIVES

2003-12-28 07:08:39Z

my last name is Pooch..first name spelled Debra then...before i was adopted.
born in sandusky, ohio in 1954..
trying to find some relation...any information regarding relatives or siblings would be appreciated.

Pooch from Rummelsburg

2003-08-02 13:16:37Z

Hello,

my name is Daniel and my great-great-great-grandmother was
Johanna Henriette Wilhelmine Pooch. She was born 15.10.1857 in Reinwasser, Rummelsburg and married Friedrich Melchert. They lived in Cremerbruch, Rummelsburg.
Johannes parents were Johann Pooch and Luise Pooch (born Nemitz), they lived in Diebswehr, Rummelsburg.
I read, that there were also some Pooch´s from the area of Rummelsburg, who emigrated to the USA...perhaps, there´s a connection...!?

sincerely, daniel

(please answer to my email-adress)

Re: Charley Poch, Elsie Pooch and the orange beads

2003-06-07 23:03:58Z

I forgot to ask, do you know if Daniel Brumm had any brothers? What was his father's name? Did he have any sisters? There could be a connection. It would be interesting to check out.

Re: Charley Poch, Elsie Pooch and the orange beads

2003-06-07 23:01:44Z

I am sorry, but it does not sound familiar. Gram's mom was Caroline, and she was only married once. Gram had a sis named Sophie, but she too was only married once for some 57 years. Were your relatives from the Chicagoland area?

Re: Charley Poch, Elsie Pooch and the orange beads

2003-06-07 02:30:15Z

Hi Ester- I think my grt.grt. Grandfather married your 98 yr old Emma's mother. His name was Henry Miller and he married Sophia Brumm in 1895 (it was his 2nd marriage). Sophia was 38 yrs old at the time. I think Sophia was the widow of Daniel Brumm and had at least two children - Louisa and Emma. Does any of this sound familiar to you? I would like to hear from you if it does.

Re: WWW.POOCH.TV

JohnPooch — 2003-04-18 17:35:31Z

The non-commercial, POOCH/POCH specific stuff will now be located at...

http://surname.pooch.tv

I took down the message board for now but if you have old family stories, narratives, or other interesting info that might be useful to post there, please let me know.

-J

WWW.POOCH.TV

2003-03-02 06:36:02Z

Another message board, also let me know if interested in using a POOCH.TV domain for your related web pages (YOU.POOCH.TV, WWW.POOCH.TV/YOU, etc.), maybe we can work something out.

http://www.pooch.tv

The Wisconsin Pooch's

Menke1852 — 2003-01-22 20:28:44Z

I have just started researching this line. The person of interest to me is Heinrich Pooch who came to America probably in the late 1850's as a young boy from Rummelsburg. I think his parents were John Pooch, Senior and Hannah. So far I think his brothers were John, William and Fred. There may have been a sister Ernestine. The family also had an old obituary of Carl Pooch who came to America in 1859. Perhaps he is also a brother - He eventually moved to Lamberton, MN. What I do have is the following from the 1870 census taken in the town of Neshkora, county of Marquette, State of WI. There are three Pooch families living next to each other:

Pooch, John - age 31, farmer, b. Prussia
Pauline, age 27, Keeping House, b. Prussia
Alvina, age 2, b. Wisconsin
Edward, age 5 months, b. Wisconsin

Pooch, William, age 26, farm laborer, b. Prussia
Augusta, age 23, keeping house, b. Prussia
Bertha, age 4, b. Wisconsin
Adeline, age 2, b. wisconsin
Emma, age 3 months, b. Wisconsin
Kregor, Caroline, age 18, without occupation, b. Prussia
Pooch, Henry, age 23, farm laborer, b. Prussia

Pooch, John Sen., age 60, Farmer, b. Prussia
Hannah, age 60, keeping house, b. Prussia
Fred, age 15, farm laborer, b. Prussia
Lutesh, Minnie, age 76, without occupation, b. Prussia

The Lutesh is interesting as may indicate Hannah's maiden name - mother or sister.

I'm off to the library - if anyone has any clues I would appreciate them - am going to start by trying to get marriage records to indicate who parents were.

Re: Charley Poch, Elsie Pooch and the orange beads

jtstewart54 — 2002-12-01 16:16:54Z

I don't know if this will help, William or Whilhiem Pooch (changed to Polk in 1874) came to america in 1857 from the town of Pomen or Posen in germany the area then called Prussia. His wife was Augusta Kreuger, there Children were
Albertina Louisea
MaryEdward William
Minnie Augusta
Frederick Albert
William John
Lulu Albertina
Julia Ethel
Alice Forence
they were in wisconsin

Pooch, polk, Indian Massacre

jtstewart54 — 2002-12-01 16:16:54Z

Charley Poch, Elsie Pooch and the orange beads

estherlbozeman — 2002-08-05 05:18:23Z

Boy, I'm glad to find this board. The Poch, Pooch name shows up with our family on a few occasions, but no one seems to know why. My grandmother, Emma Marie (Brumm) Wick of Chicagoland, 98 and a half and still of great memory, says she had a cousin named Elsie Pooch who lived near her in Wheeling Township in Illinois back around 1910 or so. She said Elsie was a beautiful girl who wore lovely orange beads around her neck. She married a man named Funke and Emma lost track of her. Emma's sister left a note about "Uncle Charlie Poch who came to America with Grandma and Grandpa Behlke from Mechlinburg/Pomerasia area of Germany" Emma's sister said Charley tried homesteading in WI but too many wild animals sent him back here to Illinois. Emma's sister, Sophia Brumm was baptized at St. John's Lutheran in Northfield Illinois in 1889, and one of the witnesses is Augusta Poch.

I am hoping something here rings a bell with someone. Maybe Grandmother Behlke was originally a Poch? Her first name was Henrietta and she was born in Jun of 1837. Her husband's name was Behlke, but first name is unclear. Could have been Gustave, Carl, or Charles. Gram says it was "Grandpa" :)

On the 1900 Census Henrietta Behlke says she is the mother of six living children. So far we have found Carolina Behlke Brumm, Wilhelmina Behlke Straub Edecker, Gustaph Behlke, Ernestina Behlke Wichmann, and Bertha Behlke Heins. Gram's sister says the sixth child was Charley Poch. Although, I don't see how, unless he was illigitimate.

Does this do anything for anyone? Please say YES. Esther

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

2002-07-24 12:50:42Z

Yes, William or Whilhiem Pooch (changed to Polk in 1874) came to america in 1857 from the town of Pomen or Posen in germany the area then called Prussia. His wife was Augusta Kreiger, there Children were
Albertina Louisea
MaryEdward William
Minnie Augusta
Frederick Albert
William John
Lulu Albertina
Julia Ethel
Alice Forence
they were in wisconsin

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

2002-06-27 09:19:36Z

Hi John, we've gotten a batch of new information to process and more will be posted soon. Do you know the name of your relative who moved here?

Thanks,

-J

Searching for Pooch, Poch, Polk in Germany or Wisconsin

LouiseStewart20720 — 2002-06-27 02:40:58Z

Searching for relatives of Wilhelm /William Polk/Pooch, son of John Pooch, born in Germany on December 20, 1842. Unknown when he settled in America but was married to Augusta H. Kruger on September 24, 1865 in Neshkora, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin.

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

2002-06-26 13:41:35Z

My family name is Polk, but was Pooch when they came to the us I would like to trace the family back as far as I can, so let me know if I can help. thank you John

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

DOLLYMANDT — 2002-02-05 04:52:49Z

Hello John:
I just recently started working on tracing ancestors. I'm very new with a computer and geneology, so please bear with me. My father is Elmer John Pooch who was born on February 6, 1913. His father, who I was told came from Germany when he was 5yrs old, was Frank Ernest Pooch. Franks fathers name was John L. Pooch and his mothers name was Charlotte D. (my father thought her maiden name was Eke or something like that). We are from the Deerfield area and Frank had neices who live in Milwaukee, Fort Atkinson and a brother who live in the Jefferson area. From my fathers recollection, Frank had 5 siblings by the name of Herman, John, Mrs. Charles Schroeder, Matilda Wolf, Mrs. Carl Wolf (he said two sisters married brothers). My father, Elmer is now 89yrs old.
John and Charlottes grave stones are located in a country cemetery near Krogville (which is sort of between Cambridge and Deerfield. Johns stone says he was born in 1842 and died in 1918. Charlottes stone says she was born in 1840 and died in 1888. Elmer thinks she died shortly after she and the children arrived in US leaving Joh with 6 children to care for. Elmer said John worked 2 years in US before he had money to send for his family. There are other Pooch grave stones in the Krogville cemetery. Sincerley, Dolores (Dolly) Pooch Mandt.

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

2002-02-04 20:16:28Z

Thanks for the information! I'll forward your info to my dad and see if he recognizes any of those names (I don't offhand), he was born in Whitewater in 1934. I'll post whatever he knows on reply. Good luck!

-J

Boche

2001-12-04 20:38:14Z

Here is another resource that may shed some light on the origins of the Poch > Pooch surname...

http://home.wi.rr.com/klings/boche_family_name_history.htm

Welcome to the Pooch Board

JohnPooch — 2001-08-23 18:47:29Z

I created this board to further reach others who might be interested in reading or adding to the following family history, as well as for all Pooch surname interests.

My great-grandfather, Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Poch, was born July 8, 1878, and emigrated from Pritzig, Germany, Kries Rummelsburg, in 1886.

His father was Johann Poch and his mother was Charlotte Yok, and his father was known as Trouta Poch, apparently named for his hobby of poaching trout from the ponds, rivers, and streams of the ruling duchy of that region.

The family traveled to Deerfield or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, and settled as farmers in Deerfield and Jefferson, Wisconsin. Some of the family branch surnames were apparently changed to 'Pooch' by U.S. immigration officials, and that is my last name today (other relatives have changed their names back to the original spelling of 'Poch').

During World War II, my grandfather and his family sent CARE packages to relatives back in east German Pomerania, Hinterpommern, which was east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers and later annexed by Poland after the war. Thus, Pritzig is now officially known as Przytocko. Many of the German residents there were driven from this area by Poles as part of an ethnic cleansing program in revenge for earlier Nazi atrocities. Their farms, home, and possessions were confiscated by Poland, and all means of contact were lost with those relatives since 1945.

I would be interested in tracing this side of my family as far back as possible. Many of the official records of that area may have been relocated to one of several Lutheran Evangelical Church central repositories in Germany, which I am in the process of contacting.

Please let me know if you might have any information on the Poch or Pooch surnames in Pomerania.

Thanks,

John Pooch