Church: Thorp--St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic Church (1891)

Transcriber:  Stan

Surnames: Choinska, Dobkiewicz, Dabkiewicz, Dombkiewicz, Dombeck

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 24 Sep 1891

Church: Thorp--St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic Church
Contact: Jerry Choinska
 

Can you tell me if any Dobkiewicz, Dabkiewicz, Dombkiewicz, Dombeck families belonged to this Thorp(e) church. I see a Helene & Aniela, age 14 & 25 came to father, J ?? Dobkiewicz from Slupza / Slupca, Poland arrived NYC 4/25/05. Was J. Jozef or Jan and who else was here in 1905? Wife?? Any other children or Dobkiewicz's in Thorp? Please help if you can! Dzienkuje bardzo!!!Jerry Choinska

Church: Thorp--St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic Church

Contact: Stan

Jerry, I only picked up these articles going through the old Thorp Couriers. A group of folks is trying to record as much history of Clark County, Wis. on the internet as we can in our spare time, and one of my projects is to collect obits and marriage notices from the Thorp Courier. In looking through the Thorp Courier for obits and marriages, I came across the articles about St. Hedwig's and St. Bernard's and thought they might be interesting to some folks. I personally have no knowledge of either church. However, the last time we visited Clark County, we went to Thorp and visited the Thorp Area Museum at St. Hedwig's. We borrowed a Diamond Anniversary Book from the Church, but I could not find the names that you were interested in mentioned in that book. These were both pretty large churches, even in the early 1900's, so they did not list parishioners by name in the anniversary book.

My wife sent your query to some folks that do have some knowledge of Thorp area history, so maybe one of them can make a connection.  Stan Schwarze