General Notes

(Information from Arlene Brackensick:)

The earliest information I have is from the church book in Krockow, West Prussia.  On 8 November, 1803 Johann Karnuth, former Hussar in the von Bluecher Regiment, son of the deceased Jacob Karnuth, married Christiana Elisabeth Brusberg, youngest daughter of the second marriage of the deceased Johann Brusberg, royal under-forester near Sobiensitz.

The name of the mother is a question.  In later records she was called Louisa, but I don't know if that was a nickname for Elisabeth or if Johann married a second time, maybe a sister of his first wife.

Unfortunately, the Krockow church book showing births from 1763 to 1824 is missing from the films at the LDS library, but I think the following children were born there:

Caroline Philippine, born about 1805, Married Johann Zielske in Bellgard in 1824

Christian, born about 1806, married Luise Bock, date unknown, married Albertine Bock in Krockow in 1846.

Unknown daughter

Louisa, listed as the third daughter, born about 1807, married Johann Gronau in Bresin in 1831

Then there is a gap in birth dates.  I don't know for sure when Henrietta was born, but the next children are:

Henrietta, married Johann Schitketer (that was the spelling in the church book) in Bresin between 1835 and 1837  (another gap in the church records)  They had a son Johann Theodor, born in Miggow April 10, 1837.  The father was a Jaeger in Miggow.

Wilhelmina, born about 1815, married Daniel Wachlin in Garzigar, Kreis Lauenburg, Pomerania in 1837

Juliane Dorothea, born about 1817, married Michael Johann Gutzkow in Bresin in 1837

Johann Friedrich, born in 1818 in Prinkowo, West Prussia (Bohlschau Parish), married Henriette Panzen

I have also come across the names Johann, Wilhelm, Albertine and Florentine Karnuth, but I don't know how they are related.

So in 1803 the family lived in Krockow, West Prussia.  In 1818 they lived in Prinkowo, West Prussia in the Bohlschau parish.  In 1824, when Caroline married Friedrick Zielske, the family lived in Heide, Pomerania in the Charbrow parish,.  From 1825 to 1844 they lived in Miggow, Pomerania, in the Bresin parish.  Then they disappeared and I have not been able to fined any trace of them.  If you know where they lived after that, I would really like to know.  I keep thinking if I find where some of these people died, it may say when and where they were born.

My great-grandparents, Wilhelmina Karnuth and Daniel Wachlin, had five daughter in Garzigar.  Your Henrietta was the sponsor for Ottilie Wachlin, born in 1847 in Garzigar.  The Garzigar church book listed her residence as a place that looks like Prczovo, but I have been unable to find any town that looks like that.

In 1854 the Wachlin family came to the US and settled in Quincy, IL, my hometown.  My grandfather Charles Wachlin was born there.