Friedrich Stache, Johanna Karoline Bergander, and their children

Friedrich Stache and Johanna (Bergander) Stache were my great-great-great-grandparents. Their son Carl Stacke was my great-great-grandfather, his daughter Lydia (Stacke) Revie was my great-grandmother, and her biological daughter Mary (Gotsche) Thielen was my grandmother.

Friedrich Stache

born 1822

died ????

Johanna Karoline (Bergander) Stache

born December 20, 1837 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Friedrich Stache's first wife was Johanna Brüche. Johanna was born on February 9, 1827, and she had five children with Friedrich before her death on March 17, 1867, in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland). Friedrich married Johanna Bergander two months later, on May 12, 1867, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz, Prussia (modern-day Gądkowice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland). Johanna was the daughter of Heinrich and Helene (Lebede) Bergander, and she was baptized on Christmas Day, 1837, at the Lutheran church in Krotoschin. Friedrich and his second wife had two children. The national borders in Silesia, the region where they lived, changed over the years. A part of the Kingdom of Prussia until the formation of the German Empire in 1871, Silesia became a part of Poland after World War II.

The five children of Friedrich and Johanna (Brüche) Stache:

1. unnamed infant daughter (1852-1852)
2. Karoline Stache (1854-????)
3. Wilhelm Stache (1857-????)
4. Christiane Johanna Stache (1858-????)
5. Rosina Stache (1862-????)

The two children of Friedrich and Johanna (Bergander) Stache:

1. Carl Frederick Stacke (1868-1930)
2. Auguste Stache (1870-????)

1. unnamed infant daughter

born October 17, 1852 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died October 17, 1852 in Brelawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

This child was either stillborn or died on the day of her birth.

2. Karoline Stache

born April 29, 1854 in Gontkowitz, Prussia (modern-day Gądkowice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Karoline was baptized on May 5, 1854, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz.

3. Wilhelm Stache

born November 1, 1857 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Wilhelm was baptized on November 8, 1857, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz.

4. Christiane Johanna Stache

born December 21, 1858 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Christiane was baptized on January 2, 1859, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz.

5. Rosina Stache

born September 5, 1862 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Rosina was baptized on September 14, 1862, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz.

1. Carl Frederick Stacke

born August 16, 1868 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died December 13, 1930 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin

Carl was baptized at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz, Prussia (modern-day Gądkowice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland) on August 23, 1868. Carl and his future father-in-law Emil Dombrowe immigrated to the United States together, arriving in New York City, New York County, New York, on September 30, 1891. On January 10, 1897, Carl married Augusta Martha Dombrowe, who was also born in his hometown, at First Saint John's Lutheran Church in Neillsville, Clark County, Wisconsin. They lived and farmed in Pine Valley, Clark County, Wisconsin, until about 1909, when they moved to rural Colby, Clark County, Wisconsin, where they had a dairy farm and raised their eleven children: Martha, Lydia, Herman, Emma, Adolph, Louise, William, Frieda, Walter, Adeline, and Ethel. During this time, the spelling of the family name was Americanized from Stache to Stacke.

Carl developed stomach cancer in 1930, and died at a hospital in Marshfield. In 1940, Augusta was living with her son Adolph and his family in Colby. She later moved to Curtiss, Clark County, Wisconsin, and Abbotsford, Clark County, Wisconsin, before moving to the Memorial Nursing Home in Neillsville on April 6, 1966, living there until her death on April 30, 1976. Carl and Augusta are buried in the Colby Memorial Cemetery in Colby.

2. Auguste Stache

born August 23, 1870 in Breslawitz, Prussia (modern-day Wrocławice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Auguste was baptized on September 4, 1870, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz.