Helena Andreas Eck was the daughter of Andreas Jacob Eck and Maria Wedel. She arrived in Philidelphia, PA on 26 December 1874 with her parents from the Provence of Volhynia. She married Henry Adam Ratzlaff on 28 November 1877.
She was born in Volhynia, a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among conquering neighbours. For centuries it was, by conquest, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After Russian annexation all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border.
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She was born in Volhynia, a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among conquering neighbours. For centuries it was, by conquest, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After Russian annexation all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border.
Contributor: CMF (49787971)
Helena Andreas Eck was the daughter of Andreas Jacob Eck and Maria Wedel. She arrived in Philidelphia, PA on 26 December 1874 with her parents from the Provence of Volhynia. She married Henry Adam Ratzlaff on 28 November 1877.
She was born in Volhynia, a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among conquering neighbours. For centuries it was, by conquest, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After Russian annexation all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border.
Contributor: CMF (49787971)
She was born in Volhynia, a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among conquering neighbours. For centuries it was, by conquest, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After Russian annexation all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border.
Contributor: CMF (49787971)
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first wife of Henry A Ratzlaff
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