Very very pregnant X 2

Occasionally, it pays to go back over documents just to see if there's anything new to be gleaned from them--stuff we didn't notice or appreciate with the limited knowledge we had then.

THIS is one of those documents.  Larry asked if I knew for sure when Joseph and Franziska Janson arrived in Buckman?  I thought Spring, 1883.  So, we looked for documentation in our files.

My ships lists showed Johannes and Joseph and their families arrived in Philadelphia from Antwerp in March 1883 on the Zeeland, and grandpa's book only said it was "early spring" when they arrived in Buckman from Little Falls.

Neither Larry or I realized before tonight that Josephs wife Franziska AND John's wife Maria were pregnant on the boat trip, and that both were due very soon.
Anton's sister Anna was born April 16, and Maria gave birth to little Francisca on April 22 that spring.  Both couples came here with 5 kids each, and now there were two more babies, in a tiny log cabin in a "garden size clearing in the woods".

St Michael's Church book, Births, 1883.  Stored in Pierz.