![]() Who Were They? Why Did They Emigrate? by Rob Bowe
From these post-reformation beginnings the Lutheran and Reformed (Calvin churches became the largest churches in Northeast Prussia with province Pommern being predominately Lutheran. The two churches, Lutheran and Reformed, handled many civil responsibilities including the registrations of marriages, births, deaths as well as the final care for the dead and other civil matters. During the early 1800's as Prussia emerged from feudalism, the majority of the populace were peasant farmers and associated tradesmen who eked out a meager living. They often lived in small villages surrounded by farmland with the house and land owned by a large landowner. These peasant farmers paid a large percentage of their crop to this landowner.
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