Linke Family History
The Linke name has been spelled a number of different ways
at times including Lenke, Leuke (the " n " in old german script looks like a " u "),
Linkie, Linki and Lincki.
The earliest record we have to date on the Linke family is from a church in Gross Duebsow
where August Linke was baptized in 1854. The records show him born
to Johann Linke and Charlotte Hupe. His birth place is listed as
Charlottenhoff (now Krzynia Poland)and research shows it to be a very small town in West Prussia. Just north of
what is now Slupsk Poland.
Church records from St. John's Lutheran Church in Vanbrugh (Sebastapol township)
show August Linke was born in Charlottenhof, Pommern. They also
show Henry Linke was
born in Parchau East Prussia whitch was near the border with
West Prussia just south east of
Charlottenhoff. His confirmation certificate however shows
him born in Gross Pomiskie just west of Parchau and on the other side of the West Prussian border.
The first Canadian records we have are from St. John's Lutheran church in
Sebastapol township in 1893 when his first wife, Ottelie Kolletschke, passed away.
He remarried later that year to Ottelie Soike.
Those records show them both as living in Barry's Bay.
The first census records we have are from 1901 when they lived in Jones township
Henry Linke married Amanda Soike
in 1901 and around 1907 both Henry and August moved to the Maynooth area
with Henry buying the Evans farm along the Cross Lake Road.
Amanda past away in 1913 and Henry married Augusta Felske.
They moved closer to Maynooth in the 1950s and then to
Centenial Manor in Bancroft in the late 1960s. Henry passed away in 1971.