Kommentar: | My grandmother and her family are from Straczno [Stranz, Germany] Poland. They came to America in 1906 and settled in Browns Valley, MN. The ship's manifest indicated their last place of residence was Stranz, Germany and my grandmother's obituary indicated she was born in Deutsch Krone [Walcz, Poland].
Great Grandparents Gustav HOLTZ [b. 1866] married Wilhelmina ACHTERBERG [b. 1867] Emma HOLTZ [b. 1890] Frederick HOLTZ [b. 1893] Herman HOLTZ [b. 1896] Carl HOLTZ [b. 1899] Wilhelm HOLTZ [b. 1902] Bruno HOLTZ [b. 1906]
Wilhelmina's sister's family also immigrated Gustav KLEMM [b. 1863] married Augusta ACHTERBERG [b. abt. 1864] Herman [b. 1889], August [b. 1890] & Annie [b. 1893] born in Australia Elsie [b. 1895] & Theresia [b. 1898] born in Wisconsin Emil [b. 1900] in MN
Another of Wilhelmina's sisters, Martha Achterberg, immigrated in 1898 to Eagle River, WI eventually settling in the Browns Valley/Beardsley area of MN.
Parents of Wilhelmina, Augusta and Martha were Fritz ACHTERBERG and Amelia ZUNKAR/ZUNCKER/ZUNKER.
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