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Sramek genealogy

Posted: 28 Nov 2000 4:12AM GMT
Edited: 9 Aug 2002 10:46PM GMT
My father's father, Henry Schrammeck, was brought "as an infant" from Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) by his father, whose name I do not know. Henry was born 7 Feb 1852. I was told that Henry's mother died but I don't know if that happened in Bohemia or in the U.S. They settled somewhere in Wisconsin. He told my father that he remembered holding his father's hand and walking to church, Roman Catholic. Henry's father died when Henry was about 12 years old. Henry had at least one older brother. Soon after his father died, Henry left home. He stayed for a while in Edwardsville, Illinois. It is believed that while he was there a teacher persuaded him to change the spelling of his surname to Schrammeck. He drove a team of horses with a wagon train to Montana. He homesteaded in Cascade, Montana, married and raised a family of nine children. He died 7 Apr 1913
in Cascade. I have not been able to find any record of Henry Schrammeck or Henry Sramek in Wisconsin and searches of ships passenger lists have not shown a man whose name was Sramek with an infant son named Henry. Perhaps in their searching someone has found someone who fits that description. If so, please send me e-mail. I'm living in Korea at present and the internet is my only source of information. Thanks, Hope Wood

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Posted: 5 Feb 2001 9:42PM GMT
Edited: 17 Nov 2002 5:40AM GMT
Hello relative. I believe Henry Schrammeck was my great grandfather. My grandfather was Walter Schrammeck (born and raised around Cascade on the homestead.) He raised his four children in Great Falls. He was one of Henry's nine children. My father was Paul Schrammeck who grew up in Great Falls Montana. Unfortunately I don't know anymore about Henry except family legend says he was a nasty man and all of his nine children left home at an early age. There are so few people left with the name Schrammeck. In my family there is no male child to carry on the name. I kept it as a middle name when I got married because it is so unusual. I would love ot here of any information you are able to uncover about Henry Schrammeck. Let me know if I can provide you with any more details. It was fun to find your posting on the internet.

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Posted: 1 Oct 2002 9:58AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Hope. I have just discovered a Schrammeck connection to my family through Henry and Clara's only daughter Oddia. She married my great uncle James R Jones who was from Delaware OH about 1903. I am wondering if you might have anything you can share with me about Oddia.

Thank you.
Pam Zeirott
Johnstown OH

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Posted: 1 Oct 2002 10:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Kay. I have just discovered a Schrammeck connection to my family through Henry and Clara's only daughter Oddia. She married my great uncle James R Jones who was from Delaware OH about 1903. I am wondering if you might have anything you can share with me about Oddia.

Thank you.
Pam Zeirott
Johnstown OH

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Posted: 1 Oct 2002 8:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
I sent a message but it came up error and refused to post. So I f it did go through and this is a duplicate, please excuse it. Oddia Schrammeck Jones was born Monday, 12 May 1884 in Cascade, Cascade County. She was the third of nine children and a lot of help to her mother with all the little boys who came after her. My father was one of them. She was his only sister and much beloved. I didn't actually meet "Aunt Oddie" until after she had a stroke in her old age and came to live with my parents in Tacoma, WA for a while. By that time I was grown with a family of my own, living on the Oregon Coast. But during the summer, I would bring the children up to visit. Aunt Oddia had long auburn hair, still thick and showing only a few strands of gray hair. I loved to braid it or put it in a French roll for her. Her brothers had all had curly hair and she felt cheated that hers was straight. We had a lot of good coversations together. Even though she'd had a stroke she was still very sharp, an obviously intelligent person. When she was young she played the piano and sang. She used to take her younger brothers, my dad included, to Sunday School at the Methodist Church where she played the organ for services. I have been told that she had kept records of the Schrammeck family but I don't know what happened to them. I hope this meager info has been helpful. If you think of questions about this please let me know. Hope

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Ralph Schrammeck (View posts)
Posted: 10 Nov 2002 8:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Schrammeck, Rohonsky
Hi, here's Ralph Schrammeck from Germany - perhaps we all are allrelatives too.
While my father is working on our ancestry I was searching in the web and found this.
What I know is that my grandfather Erich Walther Schrammeck was born 1899 in Fürstlich Langenau. His father Johann Schrammeck was the son of Leopold Schrammeck and Josepha Schrammeck (born with Surname Hofferek). So perhaps from the age Leopold and Henry could be brothers. Especially while they where living in Silesia (the early Bohemia) too.
Leopold itself was the son of Johann and Katharina Schrammeck (born Rohonsky).
So have you perhaps ever heard the name Rohinsky as Henrys mother?

Would be interesting for me and all other Schrammecks (about 30) in Germany to here from you, to find out if we can get a relationship between Henry and Leopold.

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Hope Schrammeck Wood (View posts)
Posted: 11 Nov 2002 2:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Schrammeck Sramek
To Ralph Schrammeck from Hope Wood in Arizona, USA
I would be so delighted if we turned out to be related. I have tried so hard to find about Henry Schrammeck. There is a family tradition, maybe it's a myth, that Henry's surname was spelled Sramek with a little mark over the S to make it a "sh" sound. It is said that Henry's teacher in the US persuaded him to change the spelling to Americanize it. But if Silesia is another name for Bohemia, I'm wondering if the name was spelled Schrammeck before Henry came. I don't know what Henry's mother's maiden name was. I was told that she died when Henry was a child. I don't know if that happened before they came to the US or after they came here. When I saw your message I was so excited I forgot the name of the person who could be Henry's brother, or was it his father's brother? I'm sorry. Do you have relatives who came to America? Henry, and at least one brother came with their father and maybe their mother sometime between 1852 and 1858. They were in Wisconsin at first. My grandfather, Henry Schrammeck, told me he remembered walking to church (Roman Catholic) with his father holding his hand. Henry's father died when Henry was about 12 years old. His brother assumed the roll of head of the house. Henry, being an independent Schrammeck, like the rest of us! didn't like being told what to do. So he left home and drove a team of oxen or horses, the stories are not always the same, out to Montana. Henry homesteaded and took out tree claims in Cascade. He eventually owned one of the largest cattle ranches in that part of Montana. I don't remember how much I told In my message that you read. If I am repeating myself, please forgive me. I was living in Korea then and that seems like a long time ago. I don't know if my address will appear in this message. It is hopewood67@hotmail.com Please let me hear from you. Maybe with a few more details we can find a connection. Thanks so much for your message. Hope

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Posted: 10 Dec 2002 3:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Schrammeck Burch
Hi Kay (when I finish this I'll put the info I have about the Burches--Henry's wife's family) in an e-mail to you. I was just looking around at Schrammeck messages to see what was interesting. For some reason I had not read this one from you before. It's interesting, your family legend about Henry being a mean man. Maybe your grandfather, Walter, had some info I don't have.
Let me fill in a little of what my Dad told me about his father, Henry. He died at 61. About a year before that, he had been kicked in the chest by a horse. His obit doesn't tell what he died of but my father, Clifford Schrammeck, said it was a heart attack and he felt that a problem started with Henry's heart when the horse kicked him. His father went out to do chores in the barn and came back in to lie down, something he never did. He died soon after. When he died the obit in the Cascade paper said my dad, Robert, and Victor resided in Cascade and George was away, going to school at Mount Ellis Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school where my dad and Uncle Rob had also gone to school. At the time Henry died, Victor was only eleven years old, George was 14, Rob was 20, Leo (Wallis Leo) was 26, and my dad was 28. These guys were still at home when their father, Henry Schrammeck died.
I have pictures of Ivon and Victor in the snow. They are handsome guys in chaps made of cowhide with the hair left on--real cowboys! They look like normal, responsible young men. It doesn't sound like they were so unhappy at home that they left at an early age. But like I say, maybe I don't have all the details. Look in your e-mail for more info.
Pam Zeirott is related to Walter also. Her father found some interesting info in a book about early citizens of Montana. Have you heard from her? Her family is interested in Schrammeck history too. Bye for now, Hope

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Hope Schrammeck Wood (View posts)
Posted: 21 Jan 2003 4:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ralph Schrammeck, I have not seen another message from you on the board. I was so intrigued by your message posted in Nov 2002 and hoping our lines might merge. I have tried to see if Henry and Leopold Schrammeck could be brothers. I have figured dates and tried to estimate when Leopold Schrammeck might have been born. It seems to me that the identifying factors here would be: Did Leopold's father bring him to the US in the early 1850's along with a little brother?
Did Leopold's mother die in Bohemia or possibly in Germany before they left? It seems that Henry's mother did die when he was an infant, but whether that occurred in their homeland or in the US is not known. Do you know the names of Leopold's parents?
Since Germany and Silesia or Bohemia are so close to each other, I think people traveled between these countries and formed close relationships and friendships and I think it is so very possible that we are really related. Wouldn't that be exciting! Please post an answer on this message board or send me e-mail. I would be so delighted to hear from you.
Hopefully, your cousin, Hope hopewood67@hotmail.com

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Hope Schrammeck Wood (View posts)
Posted: 21 Jan 2003 4:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ralph Schrammeck, again.
I see in reading over your query again that you do have the names of Leopold's parents. We do not have Henry's parent's names. If Johan Schrammeck and Katharina Rohonsky do turn out to be his parents we would be overjoyed! I think it is interesting that Henry named two of his sons Walter and Leo. This could mean that he was naming them after some one in his family, his brother Leopold and someone else that your grandfather, Erich Walther was perhaps named after. Please let me hear from you. hopewood67@hotmail.com
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