Notizen zu dieser Person
Birth:
He was born at 9 a.m. on the 9th of May 1862 in Mikstat, which is near Ostrzeszow in the province Kalisz in Poland. His parents were Karol and Lucja Joks. (D1)
At that time that area belonged to Prussia.
Childhood:
He grew up in Mikstat. His father was a farmer. (D1)
Work:
According to a registry record from Mikstat, he was a farmer (German: Ackerbauer) and in 1890 lived together with his brother Piotr and his mother (a widow) in a house in “Grabower Strasse” 69a. The house was later (I don’t know when) renumbered to 75. (D7)
Danusia Matysiak from Grabow in Poland wrote to me that he owned and worked a small farm. He had a horse, two cows, pigs and some fowl.
Teresa Mierzchala told me that his farmhouse is at No. 17 Grabowska Street (ul. Grabowska 17) in Mikstat. I saw the house in September 1997 and photographed it. At that time it was uninhabited.
In 1900, according to a court record in Ostrzeszow, Anton Joks and his family had their property taken from them by the German Administration. See notes under Lucja Siankiewicz.
In local church records he was described once as obywatel, once as col. and five times as agricola. (D1)
Marriage:
He married the single Marianna Zimorska, who was also from Mikstat, on the 8th of July 1885 in the Catholic church in Mikstat. (D1)
They raised a family in Mikstat. (D1)
Death:
He died in Mikstat on the 19th of April 1933. He was 70 years old. He was buried in the cemetery in Mikstat three days later. He left behind twelve grown up children. (D1)
Other Information:
According to the records of the local church, the dates on his tomb stone are inaccurate.
Elzbieta Switon from Olesnica in Poland wrote to me that Antoni Joks owned a small wooden single-storeyed house in the Grabowska Street in Mikstat. She did not say what number the house had. During the communist era the street was called Swieresewsiego Street. She wrote that Franciszka Dombek inherited the house. Elzbieta Switon wrote that Franciszka Dombek did not move into the house, but sold it. Elzbieta Switon wrote that a Mikstat man bought the house, pulled it down between 1950 and 1955 and built a new beautiful house on the land. She wrote that they have no photos of the old house.
Guenter
Koerner
