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The
Petznick Family Coat of Arms |
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| Karl 'Charles'
Petznick, Sr. -
b: Abt. 1817 (Prussia) - d: prob. Creston, Union County, Iowa |
Left is the immigration record for my 2nd great-grandfather, Karl
(Charles, Sr.) Petznick and his two sons,
Gottfried (Fred) and
Karl (Charles, Jr.). They came to America in 1872
from Germany. |
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 Right
is the 1880 Twp. 3, Creston, Union County census record for Charles
(Karl), Sr. & Jr. At the time Charles, Sr. was listed as being
67 and Charles, Jr. as being 18. |
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 Cromwell,
Union County,
Iowa City Directory in 1876. Left
is a page in the directory listing Charles (probably Karl, Senior) as a
laborer. |
 
Here are listings in the Creston, Iowa City directory in 1893 (left) and
1899 (right), where they have misspelled our last name as Petzneck. |
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Villages named Petznick in
Germany and Poland |
| In both Germany and Poland, there are
two small villages named Petznick. Before
World War II, some parts of Poland belonged to
the "Deutsches Reich". The village
in Poland has changed it's name into
"Piecnik". It is in near Bromberg
where my great-grandmother Anna Waltersdorf Petznick
came from. The name of Bromberg has been
changed to "Bydgoszcz" as
well. It is probable that our Petznick
ancestry comes from one of these two areas. |
  Left
is a map of Germany. Petznick is easily located in
the center of the map. Right is another
German map. Petznick is located NW of
Duetsch-Krone in small print. |
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  Left
is a map of Poland. the village of Piecnik has
a box drawn around it. It can be found on the
right-hand side of the map. Right is a map of
Poland. Bromberg is located in the lower
left-center of the map. |
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  Left
is a map of Poland. Bromberg is in the lower
right-hand corner. Right is a map of
Pomerania, a portion of Poland. |
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