a little time has passed since my last updated blog post.  I have since acquired some more information to add to our Selck family.  Let me recap the family line.

Timothy Selck  emmigrated from Germany (Rendsburg area) in 1866.  He came to Winona, Mn and worked as farm hand in Hart township for  Claus Ehlers(also a German emmigrant). He later married Claus and Margaretha Ehlers daughter Anje (Anna) Ehlers in 1869.  Timothy worked as a tailor for a short time in Winona and moved up river with his wife to Trempealeau where he set up a tailor shop. His brother Johann and wife Matilda also lived in Trempealau for a while.   Tim and Anna moved up to Arcadia, Wi  where he opened a tailor shop. I have located one of the first  ads he placed in the paper for advertising and from there he ran his ad weekly until his early death in 1895 from malaria fever.  Tim was well respected in his community. He was involved with the board of trade and documents can be found where he approached the board about renting the upstairs of his tailor shop for Arcadia's first reading room (library). That is not the path they chose but still mentitonable. Tim also ran for mayor and won a single term in 1890. His name can be found stamped in "mayors walk" in  Soldiers Walk, Veterans Memorial Park in Arcadia.

Enough about Tim's path. Lets discuss the "Selcks" from Germany. It has been extremely difficult to find any information on this line.  From talking with another researcher  (and there are very very few that have info that her and I  do not already have ) I learned that  not only did Tim emmigrate from German  but so did his siblings.  Tim came in 1866. Four years later, his siblings Catharine (kate) , Claus(charles) and Johann(john) also came aboard the Holsatia in April 1870.  Another brother , Peter Selck also came  after his siblings. The only mention of their parents names ive found are on Johns marriage license  found in Trempealeau county marriage records. It lists parents as Peter and Anna Selck.  What we do know is that they left behind 1 sibling, a sister-Anna. Anna was married to Hans Rabe/Raabe. The couple had 4 children, all boys. One of the boys - Otto Raabe  married  katharina Kirchberg. They had 2 daughters, Anna Raabe Stock and Kate Raabe Suhr. Each of the girls had just 1 child.   Anna had a son name Jochen Stock born in the early 1940's. Kate had a daughter named Frauke Suhr also born  early 1940's.

 After many years having nothing to go on other than little tidbits of information that prove to be accurate , i was able to locate a gravestone with Otto, Katharina, Kate and Anna along with their birth and death dates. Anna most recently passed in 2006.

 Whats next? I hope to find information on the Parents of the Selck kids and learn more about where they come from . To the best of my knowledge, they lived in  the northern part of Germany known as Schleswig-Holstein.  Kate lived in Husum and Anna in Meldorf in 1947. Tim Selck left from Rendsburg. Katherine Selck White left from Neumunster.   My biggest brick wall is to find these last two know kids of otto's daughters. If i could find them, id like to share some pretty neat letters shared with me by Pat Gleason.

who are the selcks??

my husbands gr gr grandfather is Timothy Selck. He at different times or different sources has gone by any of the following combinations: Timmon, Timm, Tim , Timothy and Selck, or Selk. He was married as Selk and his first two children were given the name Selk. He had 4 in all. They were lydia, Helena(lana), cora and william. Changes in the name often were common as they were not any laws governing names and documentation in the mid 1800's. Timothy was one of the children of Peter and Anna Selck (presumably- unverified) according to one of his brothers marriage certificate. The children of Peter and Anna were Timothy, Anna(hans raabe), catharine/kate(joseph white) charles/claus, Johan/hans/john(matilda bornitz) and Peter(katherine fischer/fritz). Of the siblings timothy is believed to have come over first in 1866. Next is believe to be peter. Peter married in 1870s and had one son and died shortly after. His wife katherine remarried albert fritz. charles, kate, and john emmigrated in april of 1870. all of them settled in winona minnesota. Peter and Anna are believed to have stayed behind in germany as well as Anna their daughter. Timothys obituary states he was born in stellau , Germany which is right outside of hamburg. its population in 1845,(the year after his birth) was 145. The US documentation on the others states they are from Nuemunster. None the less we know they are all from the Holstein area, the northern part of the german empire(then).

timothy selck ... and his decendants or any lineage

This blog was created for the decendants of timothy selck. i began researching timmon selk in august of 2007. He has been an inspiration since and his integrity, dignity, pride and dedication is one we can all be proud of and use for our own example.