THAT is an incredible story!!! Editorial, please.
So far we’ve found that my great grandfather and his sister set sail from Antwerp on the SS Mount Temple under the name Grabski with Buchovina listed as their point of origin. They were traveling with a man claiming to be their father at some points in the journey and claiming to be an uncle at other points.
They spent a few years in St Catherines Ontario under the name Grabstein. When they arrived at the port of Detroit the name had changed to Hartmann. The man claiming to be the father signed custody over to a family from Wisconsin who had a French name (which I can’t recall right now) but my grandfather called them “The Swedes”. The man acting as their father appears to have returned to Europe.
My Great Granddad and his sister lived with the swedes till my granddad was a young adult when he returned to Detroit during prohibition. In Detroit he met my great grandmother who was there hiding with he mother and sister because their father was on some kind of family killing spree (He died in a mental hospital)
They got married in Detroit then returned to Wisconsin where my grandfather learned tool and die making and My grandfather and his sister were both born in Beloit Wisconsin. The family moved to Jackson Michigan in about 1940 where my great grandfather worked as a tool and die maker till retirement.