Work In Progress
https://www.geni.com/people/Michael-Rettke/6000000175753001966
https://www.genealoger.com/german/pommern/pommern__church_records.htm
http://mypomerania.com/church-books/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ebie%C5%84_(Nowa_Wie%C5%9B_L%C4%99borska)
The parish seat was Labehn, from where in 1940 3200 church members were to be provided. It was located in the church district Lauenburg in the eastern part of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania, the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Numerous church books saved by World War II are now stored in the Gdańsk State Archive (Archiwum Państwowe Gdańskie)..
http://en.pommerndatenbank.de/
Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the present state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vorpommern and Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Szczecin 1784, p. 1050, No. 10.
Franz Schultz : History of the Lauenburg district in Pomerania. Lauenburg i. Pom. 1912, pp. 381-383.
Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2, Szczecin 1913
Hans Glaeser: The Protestant Pomerania. Part 2, Szczecin 1940
Leba no church books, civil after 1874
Zezenow no church books, civil after 1874
G. Jannewitz http://hinterpommern.de/Wegweiser/node61.html
see also archive in stolp
Labbehn no church books, civil after 1874
Schwartow http://hinterpommern.de/Wegweiser/node27.html
Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Schwartow (Kr. Lauenburg). Kirchenbuch, 1677-1813. Salt Lake City
Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Schwartow (Kr. Lauenburg). Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1866-1874
see also archive in stolp, berlin
archive in Stettin and looked into the emigration records of Kreis Lauenburg from 1868-1871. A lot of documents, around 4000 pages (IMG7054). look for relevant year
Thankfully, an inventory exists for Stettin to help take out some of the work involved. The collections for Köslin are not as easy to parse through, and as to what is held in the Landesarchiv Greifswald–good luck finding out.
Images of these church records from archive are in the folder below...
Find these records at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KXp6PovXnb5lDmFvYdY09zywwBzEHw2s
1881 Johann Rettke death certificate, critical document on the DNA collateral line, shared with cousins
Number 25
In Charbrow on 1 August, 1881
Appearing before the civil registrar, it was stated today, by the widow Wilhelmine Rettke, nee Gnadt, who lives in Charbrow, and declared that the herdsman, Johann Rettke, 54 years and 4 months old, of Evangelical religion, who lived in Charbrow and was born in Charbrow and was married, has died. It is announced that he was son of herdsman George Rettke and his wife Constantasia Rettke, nee Bock, of Charbrow and died on the 31st of July, 1881 at 11:00 a.m.
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marriage register 1931
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