| Lisa's great-great-great-grandparents |
| married 10/9/1840 |
| Children: William (1841-1906), Johann (1843), Johanna Maria (1845-1924) |
| Carolina's second husband: August Ernst |
| Children: Augusta, Sarah, Julius (1853-1873), John, Herman (1858-1873), Louis, Edward, Elizabeth |
| Carl Friedrich Wilk | Johanna Carolina Maria Schenzel |
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| 9/15/1816-1847 | 2/2/1823-4/22/1894 |
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Carl was a small farmer born in Tonnebuhr, Pomerania, Germany near the Baltic Sea. Carolina was born in nearby Schwessow. These places are now in the northwestern corner of Poland
They immigrated in 1839 with a group of several hundred other Lutherans. They traveled by steamboat from Hamburg to England. Carolina crossed the ocean on board the Alfred, Charles Cheever master, departing from Liverpool and arriving at New York on 4 September.
Carolina traveled with W. Schenzel, recorded on the ship's manifest as a male aged 21, but she really had a sister named Wilhelmina who was the same age. Wilhelmina Schenzel married Karl Klug on 20 September 1840 and had five children.
The manifest also listed C. Wilke, aged 22, who might have been Carl. If so, he probably was related to the ten other Wilkes on the ship. Some of those Wilkes were old enough to have been his parents.
Carl and Carolina took a steamboat from New York to Albany and traveled by boat on the Erie Canal and across the Great Lakes to Freistadt, WI. They married the following year.
After Carl's death, Carolina married August Ernst on 7 February 1848.
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Prussia in 1839
The red arrow indicates the location of the map below.
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Birthplaces of Carl and Carolina Wilk
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