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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: BettyLouLou on Wednesday 27 August 25 11:16 BST (UK)
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I'm researching Wilhelm Emil Oskar Rosenblatt who I believe was born at a place called Pitschen, Silesia, Prussia on 23 Apr 1850.
I have two sources, with both being different (see attached):
• A marriage record which looks to say Wilhelm was born Pitschen. There are three Pitschen, with two being in Silesia: https://www.meyersgaz.org/search?search=Pitschen
If it is Pitschen, how do I know which of the two it might be?
• A death certificate which looks to say 'Pitzcaen' which I can't find, so could it be that it was not recorded correctly?
Any thoughts? I've been puzzling over this for a while.
Any assistance would be appreciated thanks.
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Here's the death certificate.
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Pitschen looks pretty clear to me. I wouldn't put much weight on a German place-name on a British death cert ! especially soon after WW1 ?
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Yes, it is Pitschen in Schlesien
Which one??
The only lead i can see, is that on his marriage cert. his father is stated as being a deceased Ziegelmeister = master brickmaker
So Pitschen would be close to a place with a brickmaking industry
Dave
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There was a brick factory (Ziegelfabrik) in Kreis Striegau according to the business directory of Silesia 1856.
However, German settlers brought the art of brick making to Silesia in the 13th century and particularly settled in Lower Silesia, so there was probably a brick industry near Kreuzburg too.
https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/applet/Content/8101?handler=djvu_html5&file=%2FContent%2F8101%2Fimg_362.djvu
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Page VIII history of Pitschen in Kr.Kreuzburg mentions a Zieglerei
https://bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/Content/133377/PDF/0462505-1938.pdf
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Good work you are right it is
Pitschen 3) Ober Schlesien
Pitschen, Kreuzburg, Oppeln, Schlesien, Preussen
found his birth cert
https://photos.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/870bef83d53caec3f24024a16858794aaabcc19a830b1e8da469397b90f72ee6_max
No 19 on the right
Father: Wilhelm Rosenblatt, Ziegelstreicher (smoother)
Mother: Johanna Brink
born: 23 May at 4 am
baptized: 28 April
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I think it reads " hujus" meaning " of this", so he would be born April, and not after he was baptized :D
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How right you are
My mistake
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed! This is so much more than I expected!
It's good to finally have some clarity about the location being Pitschen, Kreuzburg, Oppeln, Schlesien, Preussen
Fiddlerclass: Thanks for the link to the history of Pitschen. I'll have to try translate it, but that's a great find. Especially interesting mentioning the Ziegeleri too. Like his father Wilhelm, the son Wilhelm Emil Oskar Rosenblatt also became a Ziegelmeister.
davecapps: I've never been able to find the birth record, so this is a bonus! Thank you! I'm now learning to navigate the https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/strona_glowna website in the hope I might discover other family members too. I will try to find a death records, as I believe both his parents were deceased before he married in 1873. There was a brother born abt. 1854. I don't know if he has any other siblings.
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This could be the brother
https://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1002882024
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Not sure? I'm going through the Pitschen records now, so I'll look out for a Adolph Rudolph Rosenblatt.