Ancestry Chapter 12
1891 - Last Christmas Together in Dirschau
Dirschau as seen from the Vistula River.
Photograph from the 1800's.
The Tybus and Norek Families -- Last Christmas together, 1891, Dirschau, West Prussia
Michael and Helena (Tybus) Norek, with their children Lucy 3 and Cecilia 1.
Michael and Augusta (Ponczek) Tybus, with their children Alfons 5 and Antonia 3.
Christmas 1891 in Dirschau. This will be the last Christmas the Michael Norek family and the Michael Tybus family will ever share together. Michael and Helena's emigration to the U.S. is most likely being planned.
Baby Cecilia is in crib or crawling around. Lucy and Antonia are full fledged toddlers, toddling about. Alfons is older, and therefore either watching over the littler ones, or running around with his Tybus and/or Ponczek cousins.
There is of course a Christmas tree. Christmas trees are a German tradition, and became fashionable in England when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, a German.
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