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Looking for ancestors or current relatives.
My grandfather Peter Grigolo, son
of Josef Grigolo of Mehala, Temeswar, married Sophie/Sophia Götz, daughter of
Peter Götz, of Kleinbetschkerek.
Both of my grandfather's parents were from
Banat. The maternal side was Peter Götz. His daughter Sophie
(listed as Sophia on manifest) immigrated to the US and married Josef Grigolo's son, Peter. They met in NY.
The Götz family is listed as living in
Betschkerek.
The other family I have a connection to in Temesvar
were the Weigl(s). Peter Weigl (brother of Georg Weigl) was married to
Peter Grigolo's sister, Anna.
Immigration
wife Magdalena who is at 548 Mehala -
Josef was joining his son "Peter Grigolo in NY.
This means the other manifest for Magdalena, was Peter's mother and his
sister.
Re: Csatad: AKA: Lenauheim:
http://www.dvhh.org/lenauheim
Grigolor, Magdalena (Grigolo) age 50 -
June 10, 1912 -
born Mihaly from Temesvar,
Hungary
traveling with daughter
Grigolor, Katarina
age 20. Both born in Mehala. Son in law Janos (J/T???)
back home in Ferenczváros. Joining husband Josef in Brooklyn NY.
Re:
Ferenczváros
: AKA:
Mehala:
Note: maiden name was "Ludwig"
Weigl(s) of
Bruckenau
Immigration
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Wegel,Elisabeth |
Bruckenar, Roumania |
1923 |
31 |
Record |
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Wegel,Elisabeth |
Bruckenar, Roumania |
1923 |
9 |
Record |
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Wegel,Gyorgy |
Bruckenan, Hungary |
1907 |
17 |
Record |
|
Wegel,Mathias |
Bruckenar, Roumania |
1923 |
12 |
Record |
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Wegel,Steurik |
Bruckenau, Hungary |
1907 |
25 |
Record |
Peter Götz
Family
German: Kleinbetschkerek | Official: Becicherecul-Mic
| Hungarian: Kisbecskerek | variant: Betschkerek
Radix Finds in Temes
Country, Hungary
The only
info about Josef Grigolo I was able to get from my
Grandfather before he died (1993) was he raised Lippizaner
horses and "Hitler took away the farm and he died in the
gutter." I don't know what my chances are of finding he and
Magda at the Mehala cemetery, but you gotta start somewhere.
I've seen
Grigolor, Gricola, and Grigolo through my research. But it
was Grigolo, at least as far back as great-grandfather.
Once in the US, it was changed to Krigolo, which made
research here pretty easy since they were the ONLY Krigolos
in the US! There's only (1) left...my Great-Uncle Peter
Krigolo (Grandfather's brother) in Pennsylvania (where I'm
originally from).
A Toth Jainos or Tainos
(son-in-law of Josef and Magdalena Grigolo). I don't
know anything about him, just mentioning in case it
rings a bell.
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My Trip to Mehala
May - 2005
by
Kyle S. Goodmann
Mehala Catholic Church May
-2005
Mehala Cemetery
2005
I went to the Zefir Pensiune [bed &
breakfast] upon arrival and they couldn't
find my reservation and NO ONE spoke English
or German! As luck would have it, an
employee from the Zefir went across the
street and arranged a room for me at the
residence of "Cornelius Dragan."
Cornelius is a Canadian citizen from Ontario!
He is of
Romanian descent, left Romania at age
15 and returned part time about 5 years
ago. He's a building contractor and is
jumping on the development boom by building
Canadian/U.S. style houses in Romania. He's
built close to 600 already! Cornelius
speaks perfect English and Romanian and
knows the
area's history very well and is himself a
very interesting fellow. He's also
in the process of turning his LARGE house
[which he just built himself] into a
pension, which has I believe 6 units. At
the time I was there only one room was
finished and that's the one I stayed, in
which was very nice. His wife, Juliana, was
a professional cook and she prepared
breakfast and dinner for me every night.
Thanks to Cornelius and Juliana's incredible generosity
and hospitality and driving me around, I was
able to visit every village I wanted to go
to. Once in the villages we were able
to enlisted the help of locals to ask about
my relatives. Everywhere we went he was
able to make some calls and/or talk with
locals to put me in touch with the local
Germans. Cornelius was indispensable! Also
with his job he has many influential
contacts in Timisoara. He introduced me to
one of the higher ups at the Romanian
phonebook company, from whom I obtained a
Timis county phonebook, not easy to come by
as I understand.
I was there for only 4 days, he agreed to
continue to search some leads for me and is
going to city hall to investigate further.
Cornelius, an incredible guy!
We went to
Kleinbetschkerek [German]
Becicherecul-Mic (Official], where the
Catholic Cemetery was in BAD shape,
completely overgrown. Many of the
names were difficult to read due to
erosion and again found no familiar
names, but a great experience.
Visit to Lenauheim - May 2005
by Kyle Goodmann
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