Even better he is also studying his family history and is the brother of Ruth Geleick, we should both be able to fill in some gaps in each others trees and confirm or deny some of the myths. Don forget genealogy without proof is only mythology!
He has also done research into the source of the name, it seems the name comes from the Polish name Galajk, I am looking forward to seeing the documents for that. I had thought that King Ferdinand had relocated some of our ancestors to East Prussia after a plague had killed most of his people there and he wanted to be sure that Lutheran Germans were protecting his lands from the Catholic Poles and the Russians. Initially I was confused by the fact that Wilhelmus Werbertus was Catholic, but I just found out he became Catholic after the war, understandable that he should turn to religion really as he lived in Arnhem when the Nazi occupation took place, he was sent to Orienburg camp north of Berlin until he had proved his German descent after which he was returned to Arnhem.
The identity card of Wilhelmus Werbertus Geleick from 1941.
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Well it serves me right, I made the cardinal error of assuming somehthing and I got it wrong!
Wilhelmus Werburtus Geleick was not catholic when he met Maria Josephina Frehe who was catholic. They married in 1951 with a civil ceremony and Wilhelmus wanted to marry Maria in chuch, to do this he had to accept the catholic faith, which he did, and they married in church in 1955.
His conversion was not out of the horror of war, or perhaps a deep conviction, more the love of a woman.
Many thanks to Mariejozee Geleick for this corection.
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