| Hello and welcome to my KRUSE Family from Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany FTM page. My KRUSEs were from the small towns of Selow, Steinhagen, Klein Belitz, Reinstorf, Juergenshagen, and Viezen, with the parishes of Kirch Mulsow and Neukirchen, of the old Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. These towns are in far northeastern Germany between Schwerin and Rostock, or about 100 miles northwest of Berlin, in the current German State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Church records, from the Neukirchen parish built in 1233, date back to 1660. My earliest known KRUSE ancestor, Marcus Kruse , my 6th great grandfather, was born about 1635 in Selow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. The first known KRUSE immigrants were four children of Johann Joachim Kruse, my great grand uncle; Johann, Friedrich, Wilhelmine, and Sophia. Johann's family sailed from Hamburg to Quebec in 1853, Fred's family and Wilhelmine Kruse Buller on the clipper ship John Bertram in 1857, and Sophia on the John Bertram in 1858. They settled around Wolcottsville, near Buffalo, in Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York. From New York, Johann's and Fred's families moved to Belle Plaine, Shawano County, Wisconsin in 1866. More Kruse relatives came over from Germany and settled in West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois, Des Plaines, Cook Co., Illinois, and Macomb, St. Clair, and Lapeer Co., Michigan. My main KRUSE ancestral line immigrated to New York from Hamburg In 1869, on the steam ship Allemannia. They were Maria Jenning Kruse, my 2nd great grandmother, with her son Johann Kruse, my great grandfather. On the ship with them were relatives, Johann Joachim Kruse and family, along with a Schroeder and Thode families, and a Lehmann. Maria Kruse's family settled in Chicago, Illinois, and Johann's family in Belle Plaine, Wisconsin. Then in 1884 my 2nd great granduncle's, Joachim Kruse's, family came on the ship Lessing and settled in Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois. My great grandfather, Johann Ferdinand Christian "John" Kruse was born on 27 January 1852 at Viezen. He was a Carpenter and Contractor and helped build one of the Chicago Churches, possibly St. Peter's Lutheran Church. He married Marie Sommer in 1884 and they had 12 children. Many other non related KRUSE families immigrated from Germany and KRUSE is a common German surname. If you need any help trying to find your KRUSE or other families in the old Mecklenburg region, or in Germany, I can take a look for you, and I enjoy helping others discover their roots. You can contact me through my main website "Kruse Family from Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany" under the "Related Links" below. NEW - To see if you share a common ancestor with another KRUSE family or mine, and find your deep ancestral origin, please post your male only ancestral pedigree to the Kruse Family DNA Project and get Y-DNA tested. See link below. |
KRUSE Family from Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Updated January 19, 2008 |
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