We really need some help with this one... Mr. Woddow lives in Germany and is looking for relatives of the Beitke family. The name Henry Beitke is listed in our list of farmers from 1892 as being in Bryant township. Mr. Woddow does not speak English well and had someone help him send this info to us. Except for a few very minor changes, I have put his emails here as he sent them to me as I did not want to inadvertently make a significant error. I have put my notes and/or comments in italics. If you have any info on this family, I hope you will share it with me or Mr. Woddow. Thank you ----
Hello Nettie,
I work with a compiler since I do not master the English language. I expect it
arrives correctly everything.
We only know little over Henry BEITKE, according to family history, he was
farmer in the USA. the contact according to German land still existed in the 30's.
There was also once a picture which represented Henry as a farmer which was,
unfortunately, not found yet. There has been the name Beitke since about 1840,
the family before then was called BEUTKE and the root comes from the
Gubener (Brandenburg/Prussia). There it is unfortunately more no church books
for Fuerstenberg/Oder gives are only it vague references from court acts.
(Fuerstenberg/Oder is mentioned many times in this outline. I
believe it is a place in Germany but I have also been told by a researcher that
many of her family came to the US on a ship named the "Oder" from
Germany....)
Its name was borne probably for Johann Carl Heinrich Beitke around 1855 in
Fuerstenberg/Oder or Diehlo. The father August Wilhelm Beitke *1812 Lauschütz
or Wilhelm Carl Beitke around 1815 Fürstenberg/Oder.
Mattheus Beutke
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Martin Beutke
*1685 Guben +1755 Guben
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Johann Georg Beutke md Anna Maria Kleindienst
*1718 Guben +1789 Guben
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Johann Michael Beutke
*1747 Guben +1809 Guben
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Johann David Beutke md Anna Magarethe Zscharn
*1779 Bärenklau +1837 Fürstenberg/Oder
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Wilhelm August Beitke (3x verheiratet oder Wilhelm Carl Beitke
*1812 Lauschütz +1901 Fürstenberg/Oder )
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1.Johann Hermann Eduard Beitke md Johanna Maria Bertha Böhme 2. (Johann Carl
Heinrich) Henry Beitke ???
*1861 Fürstenberg/Oder +1929 Fürstenberg/Oder *um 1850 - 1860 Fürstenberg
oder
Diehlo +???
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Alfred Hermann Beitke md Hedwig Habermann ?????????
*1899 Fürstenberg/Oder +1974 Eisenhüttenstadt
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Reinhardt Beitke md Christa Grottke
*1928 Fürstenberg/Oder
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Karola Beitke md Peter Woddow
*1959 Eisenhüttenstadt
Greetings from Germany
Peter Woddow
Eisenbahnstr.40
15890 Eisenhüttenstadt
p.woddow@t-online.de
This is a second email from Mr. Woddow:
Hello
Nettie,
It might be pleased me to hear again of them. Will write something for the
family history down its wish come and.
Expect this outline that geschichte suffice. I might also own old
photographs of
that families. Do they also put soetwas into its net pages?
It is only known that a member of the family Beitke should have been farmer
in
the states around 1900. Contacts to Germany still for instance existed to
1930's.
The family Beitke settled itself in 1813 in Fuerstenberg/Oder. They came
from
Guben and are there are the 16.Jahrhundert provable.
The initial name was BEUTKE, the name Beitke then for the first time emerges
in
Fuerstenberg/Oder from 1840. The first one who sat down into Fürstenberg it
was
Johann interactive file and archive administration Beutke (1779-1832). He
was
was viticulturist, precisely as her son Wilhelm August Beitke (Beutke)
(1812-1901).
Wilhelm
August was three times married. It is not known how many children he had
since the church books burned in the second world war. He had another at
least a brother Wilhelm Carl that was forge in Diehlo at Fürstenberg.
Wilhel
August delivered Johann Her man Eduard Beitke(1861-1929). Its son in
economy 1885 including vineyards Since nothing more was to be made with
viticulture, Johann Her man readjusted the economy on fruit building and
incidentally still operated agriculture.
Into
1928, the son incorporated Her man Beitke(1899-1974 for Alfred) the
economy, he opened a tourist cafe that existed to 1962 in 1935 Most estates
became transferred stables to state, the house also went in 1975, and barn
as
soon as the rest country into the possession of state.
Greetings from Germany
Peter Woddow