Skroch Family Tree

"The first four men, who left for America came from Poppelau. They started the trip end of 1867 , and on Feb 16th, 1868 16 men, 11 women and 32 children followed track.They were familymembers of: Sobatta, Woiczyk, Stroch, Giemsa, Kammler, Kautza, Passon, Sylla, Kokott; Halama, Schiwek and Macieg all well known names, which are well known today in the city and in rural count of Oppeln. Shortly afterwards two follwed from Brinnitz, two from Poppelau, the farmers son Jakob Kulik from Alt-Schockwitz, permanent farm help (Haeusler) Kowalczyk from Jellowa, 4 men from Alt-Schalkowitz, named: Glowania Pampuch, Kilian and Kulig, as well as the Angenhaeusler (?) Florian Krezig together with three children and two female and two male persons 14 and over.

Already in March of the same year 33 Men, 27 women and 87 children from Poppelau, Brinnitz (45), Schalkowitz (25), Friedrichsthal (7), Lugnian (8), Murow (1), Schulenburg (7), Grabczok (1) and Oppeln proper (1) headed for the new continent. The following names are mentioned: Sobotta, Koroll, Sczygola, Kulig, Gamroth, Stiller, Niwe, Kowalczyk, Prodlo, Sczepurek, Bautz, Kuba, Klimek, Marsollek, Sonsolla, Rudolph, Pohl, Trat, Fautsch, Salonek, Knopp, Gritzner, Pampuch, Drab, Twardi, Tyris, Woiczich, Krell, Wiersgalla, Kutscher, Schweda, Lukaszik und Pieterek who are starting the major journey into an unknown country.

It was the time, when novelties in the area (mainly pubs) were called "The New World" to remember those who emigrated to it. (happened e.g. in Proskau, Gleiwitz etc)" -- provided by Jean Day

The Skroch Family Tree
The purpose of these pages is to hold as complete and detailed a family tree for the Skroch family as possible as a service and resource to that group and other surnames that intersect the Skroch surname.

SKROCH TREE There are five or more disjoint trees at this point, the ones for Valentin and Simon are most complete. My line is with Valentin. Both trees are incomplete given the information I have in the "download other's research files" section to the right and other data I've collected. View Outline of Skroch Surname Help identify these Skroch relation pictures! "The first four men, who left for America came from Poppelau. They started the trip end of 1867 , and on Feb 16th, 1868 16 men, 11 women and 32 children followed track.They were familymembers of: Sobatta, Woiczyk, Stroch, Giemsa, Kammler, Kautza, Passon, Sylla, Kokott; Halama, Schiwek and Macieg all well known names, which are well known today in the city and in rural count of Oppeln. Shortly afterwards two follwed from Brinnitz, two from Poppelau, the farmers son Jakob Kulik from Alt-Schockwitz, permanent farm help (Haeusler) Kowalczyk from Jellowa, 4 men from Alt-Schalkowitz, named: Glowania Pampuch, Kilian and Kulig, as well as the Angenhaeusler (?) Florian Krezig together with three children and two female and two male persons 14 and over. Already in March of the same year 33 Men, 27 women and 87 children from Poppelau, Brinnitz (45), Schalkowitz (25), Friedrichsthal (7), Lugnian (8), Murow (1), Schulenburg (7), Grabczok (1) and Oppeln proper (1) headed for the new continent. The following names are mentioned: Sobotta, Koroll, Sczygola, Kulig, Gamroth, Stiller, Niwe, Kowalczyk, Prodlo, Sczepurek, Bautz, Kuba, Klimek, Marsollek, Sonsolla, Rudolph, Pohl, Trat, Fautsch, Salonek, Knopp, Gritzner, Pampuch, Drab, Twardi, Tyris, Woiczich, Krell, Wiersgalla, Kutscher, Schweda, Lukaszik und Pieterek who are starting the major journey into an unknown country. It was the time, when novelties in the area (mainly pubs) were called "The New World" to remember those who emigrated to it. (happened e.g. in Proskau, Gleiwitz etc)" -- provided by Jean Day	OTHER SKROCH STUFF Other resource are listed below. Those with links exist, the others I plan to add to this site: Download other's research files Skroch History Links to other related family trees Reunion announcements Contact information Discussion list Discussion bulletin board
HELP ME! You are welcome to help this site grow by submitting information for the tree or even the site design. At this point I have more information that has not been entered; however, I would like to see more personal recollections of people in the tree (living or deceased) and imagery of people and places (send me the files or I can scan and return your pictures). You can contact me at michael@skroch.org. By the way, my Skroch lineage is Valentin, Jacob, John, Andrew, Alphonse, Donald.	WHAT'S NEW TBD

Other links: Trempealeau Co. WIGenWeb site which among other things has information on St Peter & Paul Catholic Church .