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Anna Gosse (1907 - 1991)

Anna Gosse
Born in Kruševlje, Former Yugoslaviamap
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Died at age 84 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United Statesmap
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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Death

Death:
Cause: ssn: 277-16-7008
Date: 16 June 1991
Place: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Immigration

Immigration: from Yugoslavia by boat
Place: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Immigration: Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Rochester, New York, 1902-1954 M1480 , 140
Date: 31 Jul 1937
Place: Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, USA

Note

Note: The new page in the history of Kru?evlje came with the German colonization of southern Hungary administered by the Habsburg Monarchy. It was well planned and organized by the state officials in Vienna court. The newly conquered lands had to be populated, this time by German colonists. During the rule of Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg there was a great colonization in this great Danube area between 1762 and 1768 and again during the rule of her son the Emperor Joseph II between 1784 and 1787. More than 20 settlements were populated only in this area. Kru?evlje was settled with German colonists mostly during the first colonization, although some families came later as well.
Anton von Cothmann, the Director of the Imperial Estates in this area and the Chief-Commissioner for colonization visited this land in 1763 and ordered Puszta Krusivle to be settled as soon as possible, as well as the neighbouring Puszta Gakova. The villages of Gakovo and Kru?evlje were settled in 1767, though Gakovo was built greater, settling down about 230 families and Kru?evlje only about 70. Even later, many families from Gakovo were initiated to settle down in Kru?evlje, because there was more free site. German colonists used the name Kruschiwel for the village, which was modified version of original Serbian name.
The majority of those colonist families came on floats called Ulmer Schachtel by the river Danube travelling about two or three weeks from the German Imperial town of Ulm, where they were called to gather mostly from the Imperial estates in Lorraine, Alsace, Rhineland, and the Palatinate (German: Pfalz). There were also some families who came from other parts of Southwest Germany, mostly from County of Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria, Swabia, Bohemia and Moravia, as well as from some decades earlier established colonist villages in Hungary administered by the Habsburg Monarchy, like in the Counties of Tolna, Pest, Buda and Baranya. They all were given some food, cattle, tools and instruments for living and lately some lands, all this for free, as it was a state-organized colonization.
In later years (especially in the 1780s and in the early 19th century) more German families moved to Kru?evlje from the neighbouring villages of Gakovo, Kolut, Csátalja, Gara, Katymár, etc, but it remained a mostly conservative society. The greatest group came in 1780 from the French-speaking part of Lorraine, and were soon Germanized in Kru?evlje. These are the French families like Depre, Settele, Schira, Lewang, Gosse, Frantzem, Lattele (all their family names are here spelled in German). There were later also some Hungarian family names like Wirag, Kerescher, Lombocs and Ujwari and Bunjevac like Kusanitsch who all were Germanized as well. It is recorded[by whom?] in 1936, some 156 years after their arrival, that the family of Gosse still kept their Bible written in French, although they didn't speak French for generations.
Some families from Kru?evlje resettled later into Stani?i?, Gakovo, Baja or Sombor. There were more than 140 family names in Kru?evlje. The first Jewish family was recorded in 1779 and they were, as usual, shopkeepers and merchants.
During the 1760s and the 1770s the Kru?evlje people built their new village in their own German style: long, wide main street, called in German: Die Kirchengasse or die Hauptgasse, three short Kreuzgassen, and long, but narrow family houses, always whitewashed, including two rooms, a kitchen, a stable (stall) and a shed. All the houses were thumped with mud and roofed with cane. About 120â€???130 years later all houses were remodelled, enlarged and made of bricks with fine facades and ornaments. Behind the houses were the family gardens, and every home had its own well or pump later. As they all were very religious people, they built a small Catholic church in the middle of their main street as early as in 1770. Their priest and their religion acted one of the most important roles in village life. Every Sunday almost the complete population was gathered in or round the church for the morning mass. Since 1785 Kru?evlje had its own Catholic parish. The village school was also soon built, and in 1789, it is recorded, the schoolteacher was János Szikra. After him, as the Kru?evlje teachers served Jakob Kirstner, Simon Scheidler, Ferdinand Klemm, and from 1888 Franz Schamberger. There was always only one teacher, even if there were more than 150 pupils in the end of the 19th century.
Kru?evlje was developing very fast during the end of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century. More German families were settled down, new houses were built, the streets were lengthened and planted with mulberry-trees. In 1818 a new, larger church was built, and later a small cemetery chapel. In 1822, in Kru?evlje lived 803 Germans and 6 Jews in more than 150 houses. The main preoccupations of Kru?evlje villagers were agriculture (mostly wheat and maize, called Kukrutz in German), cattle-breeding (mainly live stock - cows, pigs, oxen, bulls and some poultry), silk-worm raising, later also hemp cultivating and manufacture. Of course, many men were craftsmen (mainly bricklayers, blacksmiths, rope-makers, joiners, etc). The village was rich and wealthy. Every family also kept horses, carriages, carts and later tractors and threshing machines. Some families had also a house in its fields, called Sallasch. There they kept more live stock and some serving-men. Many families from Kru?evlje possessed their fields and vineyards to the north, towards Ri?ica, because all the other land parts were pasture-grounds, grassland, fens, or saltfields unsuitable for cultivation and tillage. Saltpetre excavating was also one of Kru?evlje's main jobs. It was used instead of oily soda for soap-making. Along all the village and field streets thousands of mulberry-trees were planted and the silk-worm breeding was a very profitable job for the entire region as well as the hemp cultivating and selling to the hemp factories in Stani?i? or Prigrevica.
The railroad was built in 1895 connecting Sombor and Baja and it passed Kru?evlje for about two miles from the south. In the beginning, the inhabitants of Kru?evlje had to go to Stani?iÄ?? or Gakovo railroad stations, both in distance about 3 miles. But, in 1912 a small station was built south of the village, so that the inhabitants had their own station, which was later in 1924 connected with the village by narrow railroad-track. It was originally built for cargo-wagons, but it was used also for civil traffic. The wagons were pulled by horses and later by a locomotive to the main railroad where the travellers had to wait the train. The narrow railroad was removed in 1948, and the main railroad was used for passengers until 1979 and for cargo-transport until 1991, but was never removed. Kru?evlje was electrified in 1925 from Stani?i?, had a steam-mill, a library, a four-class primary school, a nursery-garden, a silk-manufactory and was a fairly prosperous community.
The population number was increasing very fast, and by 1878 Kru?evlje had 968 inhabitants, by 1890 1,092 inhabitants, by 1910 976 inhabitants, by 1921 935 inhabitants. There would have been even more, but there were certain demographic changes. In the 1830s and in the 1870s there were outbursts of cholera, dysentery and fever and many people died within a few days. By the year of 1831 there was even a plague in Kru?evlje which returned again in 1868 killing some families as well.
In the 1890s and especially between the years of 1900 and 1914 dozens of families emigrated to the USA. In 1940 in Kru?evlje was 907 inhabitants and in 1941 about 940, about 150 people less than 50 years before. There were 172 houses in 1890, about 200 in 1921 and 225 houses in 1940. During World War I more than 250 men from Kru?evlje participated as soldiers in Austro-Hungarian army, and more than 150 were killed or wounded, mostly in Galicia on the Eastern front.

Sources

  • WikiTree profile Gosse-46 created through the import of Ibos Family Tree.ged on Nov 5, 2011 by Katherine Ibos. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Katherine and others.







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