Wojciech BRAMBERT

17 APR 1853 - 4 MAY 1920

• BIRTH: 17 APR 1853, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• BURIAL: St Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, In
• EMIGRATION: JUN 1883, Bremen to Baltimore, SS Gera
• DEATH: 4 MAY 1920, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1880, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

1.  Josephine BRAMBERT
2. +Laura Valeria BRAMBERT
3. +Walter BRAMBERT
4.  Eleanor BRAMBERT
5. +Mary BRAMBERT
6.  Anna BRAMBERT
7.  Ignacy BRAMBERT
8.  Julia BRAMBERT
9.  Frances BRAMBERT

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[N1765] CORRECTION: Source, Candi Tyler
Wojciech was not married twice as reported in Lucky Ladewski's pages. His only wife was Josephine. They came to the USA together about 1882 and he died 5/4/1920. In his obituary it states that his spouse was Josephine. She died May 2 1932 in this city. Other records confirm the marriage about 1882 along with the birth of their first child.
In addition on Wojciechs family page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~instjose/LadewskiPapers/Luckys%20B%2 02/142_brambertwojciech2.jpg , there is a funeral card for Alice Brambert, Alice Jasinski was married to Ignatius Brambert and was born in Otis, IN 11/24/1884 - died 9/13/1942 in South Bend. Wojciech did not have a daughter named Alice.

Wojciech worked as a day laborer before comming tothis country. They were traveling to meet his brother in law here in South Bend. They came from Bochum in the Province of Westphalia on the SS Gera arriving in Baltimore. Wojciech's daughter Frances was also born in Bochum.

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Bochum dates from the 9th century, when Charlemagne set up a royal court at the junction of two important trade routes. It was first officially mentioned in 1041 as Cofbuokheim in a document of the archbishops of Cologne. Originally, it may have meant "Brookhome" or "Bacheim" and later seems to have gained the notorious reputation of "Bookhorn" or "Horn Book". In 1321, Count Engelbert II von der Marck granted Bochum a town charter, but the town remained insignificant until the 19th century, when the coal mining and steel industries emerged in the Ruhr area, leading to the growth of the entire region. The population of Bochum increased from about 4,500 in 1850 to 100,000 in 1904. Bochum acquired city status, incorporating neighbouring towns and villages. Additional population gains came from immigration, primarily from Poland. After the war, the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established, consisting of the Rhineland and Westphalia. Bochum is located in that state. In the postwar period, Bochum began developing as a cultural centre of the Ruhr area. In 1965, the Ruhr University was opened, the first university in the Ruhr area and the first to be founded in Germany since World War II. Since the seventies, Bochum's industry has moved from heavy industry to the service sector. Between 1960 and 1980, the coal mines all closed. Other industries, such as automotive, compensated for the loss of jobs. The Opel Astra is assembled at the Opel Bochum plant; however, by 2009, the factory was in serious financial difficulties[2] and in December 2012, Opel announced that Opel will stop vehicle production Bochum plant in 2016.[3] In the course of a comprehensive community reform in 1975, Wattenscheid, a formerly independent city, was integrated into the city of Bochum. A local referendum against the integration failed. In 2007, the new synagogue of the Jewish community of Bochum, Herne und Hattingen was opened. In 2008, Nokia closed down its production plant, causing the loss of thousands of jobs, both at the plant and at local suppliers. 20,000 people showed up to protest against the closing.[4][5] Within months, the Canadian high-tech company, Research in Motion, announced plans to open a research facility, its first outside Canada, adding several hundred jobs.[

Birth: Apr. 17, 1857, Poland
Death: May 4, 1920

Burial:
Saint Joseph Cemetery
South Bend
St. Joseph County
Indiana, USA