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Klaas Family

SURNAMES & THEIR ORIGINS

BUTZE possibly BUCA (Pol) Buczec. Meaning: to hum, drone, buzz, or < buk a beech tree.

GURZINSKI/GURZYNSKI (Pol) Gora. Meaning: mountain/hill or a name for someone who lived on a hillside or in a mountain district.

KLAAS (Dut) or KLAS (Ger) Niklaus, Klaus.

ROGACKI (Pol) rog. Meaning: horn, corner. A topographic name for someone who lived on a 'horn' of land, i.e. outlying projecting edge of a settlement or administrative division.

Johann Klass (1816-1899) married Apolonica Butze (1820-1889). They are first recorded as residing in the village of Postelau (Postolowo), in the Parish of Trampken (Trabki Wielkie), West Prussia, ethnically the region of Kociewie in the district of Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Here they gave birth to their first child, Anna (1845-1923).

The family then moved east to the village of Sobbowitz (Sobowidz), also in the Parish of Trabki Wielkie, where they gave birth to Julianna Albertina (1848-1849) & Paulina (1850). The family move southward to the village of Klein Turse (Maly Turze), in the Parish of Gardschau (Godziszewo). Here the remaining family were born being: Johann (1854-1857), Barbara (1857-1857) & Rosalia (1858-1947).

Johann & Apolonica Klass decided to migrate to New Zealand, as their daughters, Anna & Paulina had already migrated there, and that it was better for Rosalia to be with her sisters in case something happened to them. The remaining family left the village of Mestin for Hamburg, via Danzig, where they set aboard the ship "Fritz Reuter" on the 16th of December 1874, arriving in Napier, New Zealand on the 18th of March 1875. The family aboard ship were Johann 57, Paulina 53, & Rosalia 16. They travelled south to the settlement of Greytown (Allanton) where they resided until their remaining years.

Rosalia Klass married John Black (Postmaster & Storekeeper in Allanton) on the 18th of July 1876 at East Taieri.

Apolonica (Paulina) Klass died on the 27th of December 1889 in Greytown (Allanton) & Johann Klass died on the 22nd of April 1899 in the Dunedin Hospital. Both are buried at the Allanton Cemetery. Grave

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