A young woman migrated together with her family, around 1870, from Bergensin in Pomerania to Logan area in Queensland, Australia. In Australia she married another young man from the same region in Pomerania. They got 9 children, and the great grandmother was a well respected and much liked midwife.

On our recent trip to Europe we wanted also to see were this great grandmother was born.
Bergensin is now called Bargedzino, and the country has changed into Poland. It is a very tiny place, a few houses and a typical former East-block style 3 storey building. In earlier days there was also a manor (Rittergut) and still some ruins can be seen of it.
Through the system of manors the Junkers (Knights) ruled over the peasant population, who mostly paid their stay on the ground of the manor with labor.
It was a very good reason to migrate from the cool climate at the Baltic Sea, to sticky and humid Queensland and be a free citizen.