Ignatius Wilma family, Winona, Wisconsin, ca. 1905. Frank Wilma standing at right.
2. IGNATZ2 WILMA (Wojciech, #4)
14,15,16 was born on 1 Apr 1859 at Niesiotowitz (Niesiotowice), Stendsitz (Stezyca), Karthaus (Kartuzy), West Prussia (Gdansk), Germany (Poland).
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20 He married Anna Agatha Potratz (see #3), daughter of Johann Thomas Potratz and Johanna Koeflchut, on 14 Feb 1881 at West Prussia, Germany (Poland).
21 He died on 15 Jan 1951 at Winona, MN, at age 91.
22 He was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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Kartuzy is in Kashubia where the people speak a language that is almost incomprehensible to other Poles. This ethnic minority is the remnant of a people conquered over the centuries by Germans, Russians, Swedes and Latvians. Germans in West Prussia dispossesed Poles of their land so many Kashubs moved to the Winona, MN area.
24 Ignatius and Anna Agatha Potratz immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, on 11 Jun 1881 aboard the vessel Hannover Family tradition holds that he only had the fare for one person so he smuggled Agatha aboard the ship in a steamer trunk. Kashubs came to Winona in response to advertisements from the lumber mills which needed workers and the Hamburg-America Shipping Line which offered a rebate of half the fare to the lumber companies. The index card shows he is accompanied by "Bertha" Wilma, age 28.
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27 He was a lumber mill worker and later a crossing guard for the Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
Ignatius is the progenitor of the Wilmas in America.
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Children of Ignatz2 Wilma and Anna Agatha Potratz (see #3) all born at Winona, MN, were as follows:
- i. ANTON1
31 was born on 17 Jan 1882.
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33 He married Anastasia Maykowski on 28 Nov 1910 at Winona, MN.
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He was also known as ANTHONY WILMA.
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- ii. BARBARA
37 was born on 4 Dec 1887.
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40 She died in 1961 at Illinois.
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- 1. iii. FRANK ROMUALD.
- iv. CLARENCE
42 was born on 23 Nov 1892.
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44 He married Stella Blaskowski.
45 He died on 7 May 1984 at Linton, ND, at age 91.
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He was also known as KLEMONS WILLMA. He was a railroad worker.
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- v. PELAGIA was born on 25 Dec 1895.
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Her married name was ROCZNIAK.
- vi. FLORIAN was born on 2 May 1897.
53 He married Lillian Seymour in 1923.
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In about 1945 he went missing from his family.
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- vii. JOSEPH was born on 29 Mar 1899.
58 He died in Sep 1984 at Inswood, Indiana, at age 85.
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- viii. LEOCADIA
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63 was born on 28 Jun 1885.
64 She died on 29 Nov 1885 at Winona, MN.
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- ix. ROSALIA
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68 was born on 28 Nov 1886.
69 She died on 24 Dec 1886 at Winona, MN.
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3. ANNA AGATHA2 POTRATZ (Johann, #6)
71,72,73 was born on 15 Aug 1856 at Parchau (Parchowo), Bytow, West Prussia (Gdansk), Germany (Poland).
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77 She married Ignatz Wilma (see #2), son of Wojciech Wilma and Rosalia Wisotowska, on 14 Feb 1881 at West Prussia, Germany (Poland).
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She and Ignatz Wilma immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, on 11 Jun 1881 aboard the vessel Hannover from West Prussia where Poles were being dispossessed by Germans. Family tradition holds that he only had the fare for one person so he smuggled Agatha aboard the ship in a steamer trunk. Poles came to Winona in response to advertisements from the lumber mills which needed workers and the Hamburg-America Shipping Line which offered a rebate of half the fare to the lumber companies. The index card shows he is accompanied by "Bertha" Wilma, age 28.
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