General Notes

Pictures  from next generation up were from Charlottenbrunn. They may have been from there or died there. A relative has told us the family was Jewish and converted  after they moved to the USA. Wedon't know if all of this generation were Jewish or just one. A DNA of a relative indicates that only one of the four in this generation was Jewish.

Arrived August 9, 1869, New York. was a weaver, on ship Columbia from Germans to America book, Data file, 1850-1897, identified As Grossputch

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Naturalization oct. 30,1876, first papers filed 2-9-1873
In the US, no later than 1871 by Citizenship Papers, probably 1869 when Amelia ia shown as coming to the US

Paterson City Directory listings:

1874 Francis Grosspietsch lived at  223 Water Street, Paterson, New Jersey
1876 Frank Grosspietsch lived at 6th n Temple, Paterson, New Jersey
1880 lived at 24 Haris Street, Paterson, New Jersey
1890 Widow lived at  464 main st. Patterson, NJ,
1891 widow lived 38 Canal St. Patterson, New Jersey
1913 widow lived 25 Totowa Av with daughter


Prussia, now Poland, Gluszyca, now located in Southwest Poland, near Waldenburg (Walbrzych) near the Czech border in the province of Silesia (Schlesien)

An old letter read by one of the relatives described relatives as being "Prussian peasants".

Silesia (Polish: Slask; German: Schlesien; Czech: Slezsko) is a region in central Europe. It spreads either side of the upper Oder River. Today, the vast majority of Silesia is within Poland. For several centuries prior to World War II, most of Silesia was German (Prussian or Austrian).

Silesia was settled by Slavs in the 6th century. In the tenth century, the central Polish tribes were united under Miesko I (960-92), whose son, Boleslaw Chobry (992-1025) expanded the area to include Silesia and other areas. These rulers encouraged Germans to settle in Silesia.

Breslau became the capital of the Duchy of Silesia in the 12th Century. By the 13th century, many Germans had settled in the area west of the Oder and in Silesia itself. In 1335, the Duchy of Silesia became subsidiary to the Kingdom of Bohemia. Silesia was then acquired by the Austrian Habsburg Charles V when he acquired the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1526. For a short while prior to this, Silesia was part of the Empire of Mathias Corvinus from 1485 to 1490.

Under Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Grosse), Prussia conquered Upper and Lower Silesia in the First Silesian War. This territory was formally annexed by Prussia in the Treaty of Breslau in 1742. Austria attempted reconquest in 1745 (Battle of Hohenfriedberg), but Prussia retained control after the Second Silesian War. These wars were part of the much wider War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Silesia then remained a province of Prussia.

During the Seven Years War, Prussia occupied Bohemia as far as Prague, but was then ejected from Bohemia. Austria then attempted unsuccessfully to recover Silesia, losing the Battle of Leuthen (1757) (near Breslau).

Prussia subsequently acquired more territory to the east with the successive partitions of Poland between Russia, Austria and Prussia.

Silesia again became a focus of the Austrian-Prussian rivalry in 1866, culminating in the Austrian defeat at the Battle of Koniggratz in Bohemia. Austrian subsequently was forced "to renounce all part in the hegemony of Germany". (von Moltke)

Silesia, as a province of Prussia, became part of the German Empire in 1871.

After Germany's defeat in World War I, a small portion of Upper Silesia was ceded to Poland. At the same time, with the breakup of the Habsburg Empire, Austrian Silesia was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia.

After World War II, all of German Silesia was transferred to Poland, with the exception of Lusatia, which became part of East Germany. About 3.5 million Germans left the region, which was then repopulated with Poles. Nevertheless, a large ethnic German minority (between 600,000 and remained under Polish rule.

Boyd's Paterson Directory 1886-87800,000 in 1990), Frank Grossbeck, weaver, h 464 main st. Patterson, NJ, 1890-1893, Amelia, widow, 38 Canal St. Patterson, New Jersey
Paterson, New Jersey, City Directory, 1874, Francis Grosspietsch lived at 223 Water Street

Told by a relative, she was told, both Wiesner's and Grosspietsch's were Jewish and converted to being Prostestant when they came to this country.