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Welcome to the Pooch Board

Posted: 23 Aug 2001 6:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pooch, Poch
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

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

Posted: 3 Feb 2002 7:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 5 Feb 2002 4:52AM GMT
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

John (View posts)
Posted: 4 Feb 2002 8:16PM GMT
Classification: Cemetery
Surnames: Pooch
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

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

John Stewart (View posts)
Posted: 26 Jun 2002 1:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Polk Pooch
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

John (View posts)
Posted: 27 Jun 2002 9:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Polk, Pooch
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

Re: Welcome to the Pooch Board

John Stewart (View posts)
Posted: 24 Jul 2002 12:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pooch, Polk, Kreiger
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

Posted: 1 Sep 2006 5:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: MIELKE KRUEGER RUJAHN KALK
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
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