Origin Story: The Schmidt Family of Goldbeck, Pomerania

 Map of Kreis Saatzig in Pomerania (source)

Today's origin story will deal with the hometown of  my Schmidt family. As far back as records for the area were recorded, my Schmidt family can be found in Goldbeck, Kries Saatzig, Pomerania, Prussia, now known as Sulino, Stargardzki, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland . This post will detail the history of Goldbeck. While it was difficult to find much about the area, I did manage to find enough to paint a general picture of some of the critical points in its history. The descriptions of Goldbeck will stop after 1945, as that is when it became part of Poland.

Biography: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt (3gg)

This is the biography of my immigrant ancestor, my 3rd great grandpa Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt.

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt (who more commonly went by 'Wilhelm' or 'William') was born on the 18th of February, 1857 in Goldbeck, Pommern, Germany to his father, a farmer also named Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt, and his mother Dorothea Louisa Zabel. He was baptized into the Lutheran church there on the 28th of February, 1857. He was the 2nd child of his parents, who would have 3 more children before his father's death on the 27th of February, 1864 at the young age of  39. His mother remarried to Michael Heidemann and had a total of 6 more children by him.