Johann Abraham (abt. 1770 - bef. 1820)

Born about 1770 in Pomerania, Prussia, Germany [uncertain]

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Biography

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Johann could have been born in Pommern and relocated in Jozefach (Josefki). He may potentially be the Johann Abraham, with his wife, Katharine - the parents of Jacob Abraham, born in Jozefach (Josefki), Poland in 1790, and Katharine, born in Jozefach (Josefki), Poland, in 1792.

He did, however, settled for a time in Kąty, Wloclawk, Bydgoszcz, Poland where a daughter was born in 1803. Kąty was also known as Konty Holendry. It was originally a Dutch settlement in Poland.^[1]

Research Notes

The problem is that the very early Chodecz Lutheran records appear to be not available, probably due to the intermittent operation of the church. Thus, the birth record of the Abraham family may very well be in those missing Lutheran records. However, Kąty is also a long way from Chodecz and if they were the typical German farmers that kept moving around in Poland to Lutheran settlements, the Abrahams may have registered at a closer churches.

DNA

Luckily, some Abraham dna matches at Ancestry DNA and GEDmatch has been furthering research on specific branches of the Abraham family's origins back to Pomerania. In fact, recent records research in Chodecz states that Johann Abraham married twice and had a son named Stefan Abraham.

Sources

• sggee databases .SGGEE Pedigree Database.
• FHL .1. Al Muth, transcriber -many of central Poland parisheSsG, GEE001r8.
• FHL2. Kosciol ewangelicki (Evangelical Church)Parafja Chodecz (Wloclawek) (Salt Lake City: Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, (1969),0813110/1820/#23.
• 3.FHL Kosciol ewangelicki (Evangelical Church)Parafja Chodecz (Wloclawek) (Salt Lake City: Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, (1969),0813111/1831/#60.
• 4.FHL Kosciol ewangelicki (Evangelical Church)Parafja Gostynin (Gostynin) (Salt Lake City: Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah,( 1969,1981, 1990), 0729306/1839/#74.
• 5.FHL ewangelicki (Evangelical Church), Parafja Plock (Plock), Salt Lake City: Microfilmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969,1981, 1990, 0729454/1841/#.

1. ↑ The problem with finding records on Germans around Chodecz is that the Chodecz Lutheran (Evangelical) church did not operate continuously from its founding in 1801, probably due to lack of a pastor at times. In years when the Lutheran church was not operating, the number of events for Germans registered in the Catholic Church was high, otherwise it was low. For example, in 1817 there were 39 German baptisms in the Catholic church, in 1818, it was 3. It is not certain if records for this Abraham group will be located in the 1790 - 1810 range.