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Re: Schincke or Shincke

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 1:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Shincke Schinke
This is what I have on my line of the Schinke family..

John and Charlotte (Lüdtke) Schinke had immigrated to Ontario, Canada from Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia (now Szceczin, Poland) around 1848/49 with their 4 year old daughter Fredricka "Reka." Their second child William (my 2nd gg) was born there in 1849. About 1866 after Samuel was born, John and Charlotte and their (11?) children moved to West Point, Cuming, Nebraska. They had two more children there.

At least William, Frank and Samuel moved to Washington state at some point. William (now spelled Shincke) and his wife Helen (Robbins) were pioneers and homesteaders in the South Bay area of the Puget Sound (now Olympia), Washington around 1879. By the 1889 census, William's younger brother Frank (22) was also living in the area with presumably his wife Mary. I have no record of John and Charlotte moving to Olympia, but there is a J. Shincke that died in 1890 that is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Tumwater, Washington. If John, he would have been about 65 at the time of his death. He is buried near Frank and Frank's son, so he was likely an ancestor of Frank's. Charlotte lived with Samuel after that in Spokane, Washington (1901), then in Eugene Oregon, where she died in 1904 and is buried. Samuel is listed in a Eugene city directory at the time as a carpenter (no wife mentioned) living at 843 Oak Street. Don't know where Samuel lived after that.

I can talk to some of the William Shincke line in Olympia if anyone needs it.

Re: Schincke or Shincke

Posted: 1 Jul 2014 6:52PM 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.

Re: Schincke bios in ourroots.ca

Posted: 2 Jul 2014 5:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Schincke
Found two bios of Nathaniel Schincke's family in the history book site. Bio starts on page 455 in this one. http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1451 and on page 600 in this one. http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=11979 Do a Schincke search in the book for tidbits. Butch
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