This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Anton Otremba's immigration card

Look what Larry found!  It's full of clerical mistakes, but it's the record of one part of our family arriving in the US.

Anton Otremba, 40, was accompanied by "Cathe-46, Marie 15" (actually, Catherine Schalwig Otremba was 36, and Mary was 12 in 1868).
The other kids--Anna, Frank, Joseph and Martha-- were listed on the back, evidently.  One more daughter, Margaret, was born the next year in Pierz.

The "last permanent address" would have been Pommern, not Tommern...and they arrived in Baltimore 149 years ago, yesterday.

Wow, huh?

Later:  HERE'S the ships list of the Berlin.  Otrembas start at 701.  Look at the professions on that ship, and the full load of passengers.  It was late in the season, but people came anyway.
Posted by Marlys Hesch Sebasky at 12:45 PM
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