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Schincke or Shincke

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Re: Schincke or Shincke

Posted: 1 Jul 2014 12:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
I believe my husband's ggg-grandmother, Caroline (Schinke/Schunke) Kuester may well have been a sister to your John Schinke. She was born July 20, 1824 also in Pomerania. She married Christian Friedrich Kuester in Germany in 1845, and they immigrated to the US in 1856. They settled first in Wisconsin, and then moved to Cuming Co., Nebraska in 1866 (same year your John and family came there from Canada!). On the 1870 Cuming Co. NE census, Fred and Caroline and family are there, in the same township as your John and Charlotte, and John's brother Michael and family. Also in the same township is a William and Louise (Schinke) Neimann, born about 1830. I believe she is likely a sister to John, Michael, and my Caroline. Also very interesting on the 1870 census in the same Cuming Co. township is a listing for a Schuenke (first name listed as "farmer"), b.1800 in Prussia, and his wife Joanna b.1803 in Prussia. Could these be the parents of the 4 Schinke siblings? The family story passed down was that Caroline's parents had come with them to Cuming Co. NE, but I've never been able to find any cemetery records for them.
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almostgold48 18 Nov 2013 1:37AM GMT 
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