Bonifaz and Maria (Neumann) Matuschke lived at 29 Augustrasse in Breslau for a number of years - at least between 1879 and 1914. He had eight daughters and one son and died between 1914-1926. He operated a beer garden and might have been from Schonwalde, Frankenstein Kr. where a number of Matuschke families lived in the 1800s. His grandson was Walter Matuschke, a book publisher in Germany during the 1950s. Any Matuschke info appreciated.

Mary

Not related and not researching this surname. Just want to give you some websites.
A map of Austria-Hungary empire :
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm
http://feefhs.org/maps/gere/ge-siles.html
www.genealogienetz.de/reg
www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator
A good locator of a town whose name is from the old regime is : www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm
The town of Breslau is now called Wroclaw, Poland.
In 1990 in Poland there were 9 MATUSCHKEs and 4259 NEUMANNS.
www.herby.com.pl/herby
http://maxpages.com/poland
www.sggee.org/index.html
The LDS-Mormons (Family History Center) have filmed the church records so check out their website what they might have for the two towns that you mentioned.

Thanks for your reply. Evidently some family members moved to Germany - Berlin and Darmstadt. I've searched the FHL library records but can't seem to find the Breslau Civil Registration District for 29 Augustrasse between 1914 and 1926, when Bonifaz died. Will pursue your leads. Mary.

Mary, I have sent you a lengthy e-mail directly.

Robert

Thanks, Robert. I have been hoping to find a Matuschke researcher who had the same background information I had. Recently I did find the name of a twentieth century male descendant, Walter Matushcke, who was a prominent book publisher and still living in 1970, evidently in Darmstadt and had a son Wolfgang (not the Wolfgang Matuschke in Berlin), who was a US exchange student in the early 70s. Now I have a dead end!. But I appreciate your input. Mary.

Mary, I have sent you another direct e-mail.

Robert

I am the son of the late Aurther Pierre Ernest Matuschke of Cologn. My father came to America in the 1920s. He had a brother, sister ,and father in Germany until WWII. He was never able to locate them after the war.

Thanks for your Matuschke reply. Apparently Matushcke is not an uncommon name in Germany. My research concerns Bonifaz Matuschke who was living in Breslau, Silesia, (now Wroclaw, Poland) from about 1879 until about 1915. He had seven daughters and one son. He was married to Maria Neumann. I have identified 4 daughters but not the son. Daughter Anna Elizabeth, b. Sep 1879 Breslau, immigrated to US in 1901 and married a Swiss Anton Renner and lived in California the rest of her life. Second daughter: Margaret (no further information); third daughter Gertrude, no further information but probably lived in Berlin after WWII; fourth daughter Martha Louisa Ann Matuscke was a teacher in Berlin in 1903 and had a son Walter Matuschke who became a prominent man in the German printing business. He had a son Wolfgang Matuschke who came to the US after WWII as an exchange student but haven't found anything further on him. Anything sound familiar?

Do you have any evidence of the existance of Wolfgang Matuschke

Bonifaz Matuschke is my grand-grand-father.