Fast - Teichroeb Ancestry

128. Michael Teichroeb ²⁰¹ was born before 1720 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Karin Teichroeb Fast has completed research that concluded Michael Teichroeb (abt 1741), Johann Teichroeb (abt 1744), Peter Michael Teichroeb (abt 1751) and Abraham Teichroeb (bef 1740) were brothers. This is based on archival records in Berlin, Poland and Ukraine. The Molotschna Census for 1835 provides the name of Peter's father, Michael.

Geographic data:

Michael (abt 1741) appears in the 1776 census in Kalthof. His son Peter (1761) appears in the Heubuden baptism records in 1781, living in Krebsfeld. Note that there are records in the Berlin Archives saying Michael was born in 1746 (based on a 1796 document saying he was 50 years old). This seems improbable given the age of son Peter. That same document gives Anagetha Dyck's age as 38, implying a birth year of 1758.

Peter (abt 1751) was from Kalthof according to Unruh. His son Heinrich (1777) appears in the Heubuden baptism records in 1795, living in Kalthof. The Heubuden baptism records also list a Peter from Schoenau being baptized in 1774 - this could be Peter (1751). There are no Teichroebs listed in Schoenau in the 1772 and 1776 census records.

Johann (abt 1744) appears in the 1772 and 1776 census records in Krebsfeld.

Abraham (bef 1740) appears in the 1772 and 1776 census records in Krebsfeld.

Is it possible that the family was originally from Schoenau and the brothers moved to Krebsfeld and Kalthof?

i. Abraham Teichroeb ³⁵⁴ was born before 1740 in Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

64 ii. Michael Teichroeb ¹⁰⁰ (born before 1741 in Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died before 1803 in Prussia). Michael married NN. Michael next married Helena Dyck.²⁰⁶ Michael next married Aganetha Dyck ¹⁰¹

iv. Peter Teichroeb ³⁵⁸ was born about 1751 in Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

132. Jacob Wolf,²¹⁴ son of Gottfried Wolf, was born in 1753 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized on 18 Jul 1773 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and died in 1790 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Jacob was a Flemish Mennonite from Heubuden and was a member of the Heubuden Gemeinde. He was baptized in 1773 and married to Justina Harder in 1776. He appears in the 1776 census in Willenbruchs Huben with his wife. His financial situation is given as 'schlecht', meaning not very well off, but with sufficient earnings to make ends meet. His first two children, Johann and Justina, were born in Heubuden and registered in the Heubuden Church Book. His third son, David, isn't in the Heubuden Church Book. His fourth son, Peter, is registered and the family was living in Gross Lesewitz or vicinity at that time.

Glenn H. Penner's research has concluded that Jacob emigrated to Ukraine in the 1789 wave of migration. He had a homestead in Schoenhorst and his elder son Johann was the head of the household there from 1795, or earlier. Jacob died between the period around the birth of his son, Jacob, in 1789 and 1791 (the birth of his wife's first son with David Isbrecht is on 11 November 1792).

There is an entry in the Grandma Database to the effect that Jacob's father was probably a Gottfried Wolf from Elbing. This is possible, although Gottfried appears in the Elbing Region in the 1772 (Krebsfelde) census while Jacob appears in the Marienburg Region (Heubuden), being baptized in 1773. Heubuden is 18 km southwest of Krebsfelde.

In the 1772 Census Gottfried Wolf is listed as a Mennonite in Krebsfelde with a wife, one son over the age of 10 and one daughter under the age of 10. The daughter corresponds to Maria, whose mother was Gottfried's second wife, Margaretha Penner (they were married in 1763 according to the Grandma Database). There is no way to know if the son in the record relates to Jacob, although Jacob would likely be living at the family home in 1772. The anomaly is that Jacob was baptized in Heubuden the year after the census. In the 1776 Census Gottfried is still living in Krebsfelde. One possible explanation is that Jacob moved to Heubuden in 1773 where he was baptized and married. His future wife, Justina Harder, was baptized in Heubuden the following year.

Bruce Fast claims that Jacob's father was a Johann Wolf. If Johann is a correct ancestor he possibly originates in Heubuden where his son's baptism is recorded. Further research is needed to substantiate his origin and the accuracy of his ancestral relationship. Bruces's family tree is no longer available online but he discusses the history of the Wolf family and I quote him here: Johann is "...possibly a descendant of the De Wolff family, a Mennonite family of Amsterdam, found there around 1595 - 1840. They were members of the Flemish congregation and from 1664 sided with the Lamists. Some de Wolffs were deacons of this church. The de Wolffs originally were Mennonites from Antwerp, Belgium, who in the 1580's fled to Cologne, Germany, and soon after moved to Amsterdam. Maeyken de Wolf (1586-1635) was married to the Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel; her brother Hans de Wolf (d. before 1625) was married to Joost's sister Clementia van den Vondel. In Amsterdam the de Wolffs were businessmen, particularly silk merchants. Among them were Hans de Wolff (1614 - about 1670), who was married first to Cornelia Block and in 1643 to Agnes Block (he left a considerable legacy to the Lamist congregation for the founding of an orphanage), and Pieter de Wolff (1646-1691), who was married to Clementia van der Vecht, a very wealthy silk merchant with great interest in the church. A side branch of this family lived at Haarlem in the 17th and 18th centuries. This branch was more conservative than the Amsterdam de Wolffs. Oliviere Wolff, from 1653 a trustee of the Haarlem Flemish Mennonite orphanage as well as a deacon, represented the Haarlem Flemish congregation at the conservative conference (the Leidsche Synode) held at Leiden in 1660.".

Although this is interesting Netherlandic history for the Wolf name, there are no people named Wolf in existing early records of Mennonites in Danzig, whether early census records or the Danzig Church Book. Further, there are no people named Wolf in the 1727 Census or the 1789 Census. The 1776 Census, a specifically Mennonite census, contains only Jacob and Gottfried. The 1772 Census contains many people named Wolf but inevitably most are not Mennonites. Gottfried is listed in that census, in Krebsfelde.

66 i. Johann Wolf ¹⁰⁴ (born on 6 Jun 1778 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Prussia - died on 11 Apr 1848 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine). Johann married Anna Peters.¹⁰⁵ Johann next married Helena Niebuhr ²¹⁹

ii. Justina Wolf ³⁶⁰ was born on 8 Sep 1780 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

iv. Peter Wolf ³⁶¹ was born on 10 Jan 1787 in Gross Lesewitz, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

133. Justina Harder,²¹⁵ daughter of Johann Harder, was born on 11 Nov 1758 in Neuteich, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized on 8 Jul 1774 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died in 1840 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

She was a Flemish Mennonite. The names Justina and Kristina are synonymous and I have seen both names used in reference to this woman. She was baptized in 1774 in the Heubuden Gemeinde. Her birth date and location are taken from the Grandma Database.

Her second husband was a David Giesbrecht of Heubuden, as described more fully in the comments about Jacob Wolf. There have been suggestions made by some researchers that he could be a son of Wilhelm and a brother to Gerhard, Jacob and Wilhelm. However, Y-DNA samples analyzed in the Mennonite DNA Project demonstrate this is not the case.

i. Abraham Giesbrecht ²¹⁷ was born on 11 Nov 1792 and died on 31 May 1852.

134. Johann Peters ²²⁰ was born on 24 Apr 1754 in Ladekopp, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 9 Jan 1826 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

He was a Flemish Mennonite. He lived in Schoenhorst between 1795 and 1803 and is listed in the 1801 census in Schoenhorst. He appears with his wife and family in the 1795 Revision List of 1789 settlers. Prior to his immigration to Ukraine he married Maria Bergen in 1776 in the Ladekopp Church. H. Schapansky says he was listed in Leske in the Heubuden Gemeinde. Both the 1776 Census and the 1789 Census list a Johann Peters in Leske. It appears he was originally from the Ladekopp Gemeinde. The Grandma Database says he was a tailor. The date details are taken from the Grandma Database.

There is a Johann Peters listed in Leske in the 1772 Census. Johann seems to be too young to be a householder in 1772. Possibly this entry refers to his father.

Death date information for his daughters Agatha and Elisabeth is from sources contributed to the Grandma Database.

Both Ladekopp and Heubuden were Flemish Gemeinde.

Ladekopp was originally part of the Grosses Werder Gemeinde. The Grosses Werder Gemeinde was divided into four sections in 1735 of which Ladekopp was one.

Peters is a surname typically originating in Friesland, the northern part of the Netherlands.

i. Jacob Peters ²⁷⁶ was born on 23 Nov 1776 in Leske, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jacob married Maria Bueckert ¹³²

ii. Katarina Peters ³⁶⁶ was born on 28 Nov 1778 in Leske, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died about 1810.

67 iv. Anna Peters ¹⁰⁵ (born on 28 Jul 1783 in Leske, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died after 1822 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine). Anna married Johann Wolf ¹⁰⁴

v. Sara Peters ³⁶⁶ was born on 2 Feb 1786 in Leske, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

vi. Susanna Peters ³⁶⁶ was born in 1789 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

i. Elisabeth Peters ³⁶⁸ was born on 4 Nov 1805 and died on 11 Apr 1893.

iii. Helena Peters ³⁶⁹ was born on 16 Jun 1810 and died on 21 Aug 1871.

135. Maria Bergen,²²¹ daughter of Heinrich Bergen, was born on 3 Feb 1753 in Leske, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died about 1804 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

She was a Flemish Mennonite. H. Schapansky says she was probably from Leske in the Heubuden Gemeinde and related to Heinrich Bergen, also of Leske. He was born in 1745, and I think he probably was a brother. According to H. Schapansky Heinrich's father was another Heinrich. Further, Heinrich had a brother named Jacob. There may be another brother Hans or Johann; I ran across him but haven't been able to track down the source.

Maria's daughter Maria was the wife of Jacob De Fehr. They were ancestors of my grandmother Maggie Schapansky. Her daughter Anna was the wife of Johann Wolf. They were ancestors of my grandfather Dan Teichroeb, who married Maggie in Saskatchewan.

136. Abraham Abrams ²²² was born about 1740 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died before 1792 in Prussia.

His son is listed as Abraham Abraham, implying that he is the son of Abraham, as I have recorded here. There is an Abraham in the Tragheimerweide Church Book with daughters born around the same time as son Abraham. In the Grandma database there are entries for Abraham Abrams #204253, and #311095. I believe these are the same person. We see his three daughters in the baptism records in Reehof. Son Abraham was born earlier and would have likely been baptised before the earliest records for the Tragheimerweide Church Book. I have also seen a Sara Abrams (1756-1798) who is often associated with Abraham. If this is correct it pushes back Abraham's year of birth back to around 1735, in line with the year his wife was born.

The 1776 Prussian Census lists him with a wife and five daughters but no son. This gap may mean his son Abraham was working elsewhere, it could be the result of an error or it could mean the two Abrahams are not connected.

In the Tragheimerweide Church Book I found a widow Abrams who died at Zieglershuben in 1816 at the age of 78. She died of Spotted Fever. She would have been born in 1737. This would put her in the right age range for a widow of Abraham, and a mother of children born in the 1760s. This church register starts recording deaths in late 1791; there is no record of Abraham's death, implying that Abraham had died before 1791 or 1792.

I noted that daughter Margaretha's name in her baptism record is Gretchen.

Names such as this, where the surname is based on a given name, tend to originate in Friesland, the northern half of the Netherlands, extending east to the west side of Germany.

ii. Maria Abrams ³⁷¹ was born about 1766 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1781 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

iii. Anna Abrams ³⁷¹ was born about 1766 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1781 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

iv. Margaretha Abrams ³⁷² was born about 1768 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized on 22 Jun 1783 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

140. Johann Krahn ²²⁹ was born before 1736 in Neustadterwald, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died before 1784 in Neustadterwald, Elbing Region, Prussia.

Possibly he is the person listed in the 1789 Prussian Land Census as living in Lackendorf, Elbing although other information indicates he died before then (see comments below). This entry in the 1789 Census probably is his son.

There is a reference in the 1776 Prussian census to a Johann Krahn (the census shows no first name but the notes give a first name; how accurate this is remains unknown). However, H. Schapansky says he was in Neustadterwald in 1776 with two sons, and was part of the Tiegenhagen Gemeinde. Tiegenhagen was a Flemish Gemeinde, originally part of the Grosses Werder Gemeinde and later one of the four sections into which it was divided in 1735.

His year of birth is based on the birth of his oldest son Nicholas and Schapansky gives us his approximate year of death.

Some online records confuse Johann and his son (also Johann) and their children as well as Anna Andres. Anna is the wife of the younger Johann and her name appears in the Mennonite Colony census material.

He may have had a wife named Helena, born in 1738 and died 20 April 1818. I have also seen information indicating his wife was named Maria. That same source says he had a daughter named Katrina. There is no source reference.

I have seen information on the myheritage.com site saying that his father was Georg. I don't know the source of this data. There is a Georg Krahn in Neustadterwald in the 1772 census and also in the 1776 census. The latter is a man around the same age as Johan who was in the same village in the 1776 census. I suspect they are brothers.

Dennis Krahn lists his father on ancestry.ca as Jacob and Jacob's parents as Jacob and Gergen. I don't know the source of this data.

According to the Grandma Database his son Johann was a farmer. Son Johann and wife Anna immigrated from Waldorf, Elbing, Prussia in 1789 to Rosenthal, Chortitza. Johann is listed in Stumpp as a farmer but in the 1801 Chortitza census he is listed as a bricklayer and as the mayor of Rosenthal. He was in Rosenthal in 1807 but only his widow is listed in 1811. They may have had daughters Maria (1772) and Katarina (1773) based on information in the Grandma Database. I have found no other evidence of this.

Johann had a son, Nicholas, who was the Oberschulze of the Chortitza Colony between 1805 and 1809. There is information in the Grandma Database indicating another son of Johann named Nicholas and born in 1782. This couldn't be accurate although it could be an adopted son or grandson.

ii. Johann Krahn ³⁰¹ was born in 1763 in Walldorf, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 29 Nov 1809 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine. Johann married Anna Andres ³⁰²

70 iii. Bernard Krahn ¹⁰⁹ (born in 1770 in Klein Mausdorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died in 1813 in Burwalde, Chortitza, Ukraine). Bernard married Katharina Andres.²³⁰ Bernard next married Maria ¹⁰²

144. Johann Dyck ²³⁵ was born before 1746 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

72 i. Johann Dyck ¹¹⁰ (born in 1766 in Tiegenhagen, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died in 1831 in Lichtenau, Molotschna, Ukraine). Johann married Agatha Schulz ¹¹¹

146. Hermann Schulz ²³⁶ was born in 1730 and died in 1781 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

Herman was from Altendorf according to the marriage record of his daughter Agata. The Church records for the childrens' baptisms say they were his surviving sons and daughters as early as 1784. The 1776 Prussian Census says he lived at Attendorf in the year of the census, he was a member of the Tiegenahagen congregation, he owned his land, and his fiancial category was "low". The head count in the household was Herman and his wife along with four sons and two daughters. In the 1772 census his household includes three sons over 12 year of age and one under plus one daughter over 12 and two under. The comments in the annotated census indicate he lived from 1730 to 1781.

i. Thomas Schulz ³⁷⁴ was born about 1764 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1784 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

73 ii. Agatha Schulz ¹¹¹ (born in 1771 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died in Lichtenau, Molotschna, Ukraine). Agatha married Johann Dyck ¹¹⁰

iii. Benjamin Schulz ³⁷⁵ was born about 1774 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia and was baptized in 1794 in Altendorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

152. Cornelius Hiebert,²⁴² son of Hiebert, was born about 1750 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1791 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Cornelius was the first husband of Agatha Thimm. They moved to Neuendorf in 1789. By the time of the next census Agatha had remarried to Abraham Dyck and they had a four year old child. Therefore Corelius must have died around 1791. According to Rempel, Abraham Dyck had the Hiebert farm in 1806. It seems he took over the farm after marrying Agatha.

Unruh reports that he moved from Zeyersvorderkampen. The Deutsches Auslands-Institut records also indicate he owned land there in 1787. It is interesting that Agatha Thimm's second husband also came from Zeyersvorderkampen. Further there is information in the Grandma database saying that Cornelius had a brother named Jacob, also from Zeyersvorderkampen, around 1787. The source document appears to be related to the brothers' emigration to Ukraine, dated 1787.

153. Agatha Thimm ²⁴³ was born in 1751 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1803 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Her age is given as 38 in the 1795 Chortitza Census suggesting that she was born around 1757. However, her age is given as 50 in both the 1801 and the 1802 Chortitza Censuses suggesting that she was more likely born around 1751. This corresponds well with other records published by Unruh.

Agatha emigrated from the Elbing-Ellerwald Gemeinde with her husband Cornelius Hiebert. They would have belonged to the Flemish congregation.

She appears in the 1788 Census with husband Cornelius Hiebert and in the 1789 Census with husband Abram Dyck. Rempel tells us that Agatha and Abram took over the Cornelius Hiebert farm after his death. Cornelius Hiebert and Agatha moved from Zeyersvorderkampe according to Unruh. There are two daughters of David Timm from Zeyersvorderkamp mentioned in the baptism records for the Rosenort Gemeinde. These entries were for 1789 and 1794. They could be related to Agatha. Furthermore, David Thimm and Franz Thimm both lived in Zeyersvorderkampen, David appearing there in the 1811 Elbing Territorial Census. Franz appears there in Lutheran Church records according to the Grandma Database. I believe that David and Franz were brothers of Agatha.

H. Schapansky states that she was born in 1757 and died before 1808. It looks like she might have died before 1805 given that her husband remarried and the new wife has children in 1805.

In Unruh's records her surname is spelled Thimm. Other records spells it Thun. The Danzig Church Book has records for Thun but not Thimm. Nevertheless, I will retain Thimm.

154. Erdman Nickel ²⁵⁰ was born in 1744 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Erdman's year of birth is estimated based on his age in the 1816 census for Kronsweide, Chortitza settlement. He moved to the Chortitza settlement in 1801. He was in Kronsweide by 1806.

Henry Schapansky points out that he was a member of the Tragheimerweide Gemeinde, a Frisian church congregation.

He lived in Montauerweide until at least 1776. Daughters Anna and Helena are recorded in the Tragheimerweider church book as being born in Rehhof in 1788 and 1790 respectively and there fore the family moved at some point in between these dates. The 1776 Census confirms he lived in Kl. Montauerweide at the time. In that census his household consists of himself and a wife and one son.

According to Henry Schapansky, Erdman had a second wife Helena born in 1759.

i. Cornelius Nickel was born in 1773 in Montauerweide, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

ii. Elisabeth Nickel was born in 1778 in Montauerweide, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

iii. Erdman Nickel was born in 1784 in Montauerweide, Stuhm Lowlands, Prussia.

v. Helena Nickel was born in 1790 in Rehhof, Stuhm Lowlands, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

i. Magdalena Penner ²⁵² was born on 19 Oct 1749 in Hochzeit, Danzig Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1755.

ii. Magdalena Penner ²⁵² was born on 17 Sep 1755 in Hochzeit, Danzig Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized on 25 Jun 1775.

78 iii. Gerhard Penner ¹¹⁹ (born in 1758 in Klein Wickerau, Elbing, Prussia - died in 1813 in Chortitza, Chortitza, Ukraine). Gerhard married Anna Preuss.²⁵³ Gerhard next married Helena Driedger.²⁵⁴ Gerhard next married Anna ¹²⁰

157. Magdalena Wiebe ²⁵² was born in Jan 1720 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 5 May 1801 in Prussia.

I have seen familysearch references to her parents being Paul Wiebe and Maria Woelke, but there is no substantiation. The Danzig Church Books list four children of Paul and Maria in the baptism records, and these are also listed in Grandma. None of them is Magdalena.

160. David Schapansky,²⁵⁶ son of Gottfried Schapansky, was born before 1731 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died before 1781 in Thiensdorf, Elbing Region, Prussia.

Henry Schapansky identifies David Schapansky as the father of David who migrated to Chortitza Colony in 1795. They were Lithuanian Mennonites, and their ancestors had settled in Polish Lithuania in the early 1700s. The son, David, was born around 1751, and from this we can assume the father, David was born at least 20 years earlier, or before 1731. The Thiensdorf Baptism Record lists one of the elder David's sons, Cornelius, who was baptized in 1781. He is listed as a surviving son of David, so we know David had died prior to 1781. The family lived in the village of Hohenwald at the time. It is difficult to find a source for his daughter Anna. The Thiensdorf Nachfahrenliste provides the information for sons Herman and Cornelius.

The Grandma database mentions an oral history of the Schapansky family, with which I was previously unfamiliar. According to this history, David's father was a Catholic farm labourer working for a Mennonite farmer in Lithuania. He was baptized a Mennonite and married a Mennonite woman. When the Mennonite family moved to Thiensdorf in 1730 he was with them and acquired a farm there. The challenge in validating such stories is to provide historical facts to support this general outline. We know that, whatever the circumstances, the family did live in Thiensdorf, as indicated above in reference to baptism records. Fortunately come concrete historical information has been discovered and it is somewhat aligned with this story, although only in the most general way.

Glenn Penner has identified the earliest known Mennonite Schapansky ancestors. There was a Matthies Schapansky living in Elbing in the mid-seventeenth century. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. In 1670 he had a son whom he named Matthies. In 1696 the son married a Mennonite woman named Catharina Jantzen in a Lutheran church ceremony. Catharina was the daughter of a Mennonite, Claas Jantzen of Wengeln in the Marienburg Klein Werder. Matthies and Catharina had six children, all christened Lutheran.

Around 1714 Matthies and Catharina moved to Lithuania. At this time settlement in the Memel Lowlands was being actively encouraged in a program to restore the region following a devastating plague that struck the Baltic Coast in 1709. The population and the economy had been decimated. Generous terms were offered to attract settlers. In response, a major Mennonite settlement was established there. Whether Matthies and Catharina were part of the Mennonite group at the outset is unknown.

By 1722 all six children had become Mennonites and members of the Frisian congregation. Matthies subsequently appealed for permission to convert from Lutheranism to the Mennonite Church. In those days, the conversion of Lutherans was strictly controlled. An investigation was conducted by the authorities, and approval was granted.

The oldest child, Gottfried, born in 1696 was farming independently by 1722.

In 1723 five Mennonite men were seized by a Prussian press gang and held for military service. The Mennonite community protested, and the men were freed. That might have been the end of the matter, but the Mennonite group was not yet satisfied. They threatened to cancel their settlement contracts with the crown unless they were given a guarantee to respect their exemption from military service. The king, Friedrich Wilhelm I, objecting to this brinksmanship, responded in 1724 with a formal expulsion order. The result was that in 1724 some 115-120 Mennonite families were forced to leave Lithuania, including the families of Matthies Schapansky and Gottfried Schapansky. According to surviving records, Matthias headed west to the Marienburg Klein Werder region and Gottfried headed to Thiensdorf, near Elbing.

A son, David, was born there sometime around 1731. All the available evidence indicates that he must have been a son of Gottfried.

David married Anna Pauls. One of their sons, David (ca 1751), emigrated to Ukraine, arriving in the Chortitza settlement in 1795. H. Schapansky has written about him and I believe he appears in the Plauschwarren Marriage List. He was a Lithuanian Mennonite and he lived in Schonweide, Chortitza in 1795. He was an uncle to Hermann (1785).

One of their grandsons, Herman (1785), a son of Herman Schapansky (1754-1824), emigrated to Ukraine in 1819 and settled in the village of Burwalde in the Chortitza Settlement. People living in North America today who can trace their ancestry to a Mennonite Schapansky from Ukraine are likely to be descendants of David Schapansky and Anna Pauls.

Horst Penner elaborates on the origin of the family name in great detail in his research. I relate his work here because it is interesting. However, it is doubtful that the relationship he suggests between the Polish nobility and the Mennonites is true.

He says that in 1293 land and title was conferred on a fellow named Dietrich in a town near Roggenhausen, by Meinhard Von Overfurt. The town became known as Dietrichsdorf. Dietrichsdorf is long gone and Roggenhausen is now the city of Rogozno, located about 145 km southwest of Graudenz.

In 1510 a nobleman named Jacob of Dietrichsdorf-Szchepanke was listed as a landowner in Prussia.

Years later, in Graudenz on 25 August 1593, King Sigismund III confirmed entitlement to the land and title possessed by a man named Dietrichsdorf "also know as Sczepanski". Penner mentions a grave marker in a Catholic graveyard in Graudenz with the name of Jacob Szcepanski inscribed on it. In fact the family has left behind elaborate statues, family epitaphs and heraldic crests along with the tombstones of many family members in the All Saints Chapel of the Carthusian Monastery in Kartuzy.

The story continues, partially as outlined by Penner and supplemented with abundant public information available on the Internet. Jacob Sczepanski (presumably the same man) held the position of Governor of Graudenz from 1616 until his death in 1630. Jacob was born around 1556 and was the son of Jan. He was a high ranking noble and well respected Knight. After his death his wife, Susanna Genger, of Austrian nobility, took over his responsibilities, a role that she later passed on to her grandson Gabriel Ferdinand. She first came into contact with the Mennonites in 1632, shortly after her husband's death. During her tenure she renewed a 40 year contract with the Mennonites, represented by Caspar Janzen, Abraham Meinerth and Heinrich Conradts. She died about 1650 in Graudenz.

Gabriel Ferdinand Sczepanski took over his grandmother's responsibilities as Starost of Graudenz in 1645. He was the son of Zygmund Ferdinand Sczepanski. Zygmund had broad administrative responsibilities throughout the kingdom but he never governed Graudenz. Zygmund died around 1659. Years passed before the Schapansky name turned up again in historical events.

In the intervening years Penner says that the two Swedish wars (1655-1660 and 1700-1721) left the population impoverished, including the Schapanskys that had overseen the town of Graudenz for decades. These Schapanskys moved to the suburbs of Elbing, where a substantial Mennonite community was already established. From there, Penner says, they joined the Mennonite settlement movement which had begun as early as 1711, and headed for the Memel Lowlands in Prussian Lithuania. The implication in Penner's account is that these Schapanskys were the descendents of Gabriel Ferdinand, who died in 1690. This is a tempting relationship to accept but there is not much concrete evidence to support it.

The available genealogical information available, some of which is quite detailed and appears to be valid, describes a long aristocratic lineage. From this it appears that Jacob had only one son, Zygmund. Zygmund also had only one son, Gabriel, one daughter, Regina, and six children who died as infants. Gabriel's parents, paternal grandparents and paternal great grandparents are all buried in the All Saints Chapel. The location of Gabriel's grave is unknown.

Gabriel was a colorful figure. On his genealogy website Peter Kuty says that Gabriel was a Florentine Knight of the Order of St. Stefan and in 1645 assumed the duties of Sheriff of Graudenz. Gabriel was married twice but neither marriage produced children. His first marriage was in 1649 to Teresa Elzbieta of Konopat, daughter of Jakub Octawian, Governor of Elbing. This marriage ended in 1652 when it was discovered that Gabriel was in a polygamous marriage to Anna Barbara Scharpffenberg. The records are silent on the duration of the marriage to Anna. However, he also had a relationship with a woman named Katarzyna, of whom little is known except that she had a son with Gabriel sometime after 1650. This son was Gabriel Dominik Szczepanski (ca 1650).

There is nothing further known about this line of the Szczepanski family. If the information outlined above is accurate then there certainly does not appear to be a genealogical linkage between this family and the Mennonite Schapanskys.

There is a small village named Szczepanki just outside Graudenz. Often people adopted the name of their locale as a surname. Therefore the Sczepanski name found among Mennonites could easily originate with a peasant farmer.

Graudenz is now the city of Grudziadz. The town was established in 1291. Prior to this it had already been established as a base from which the Catholic Church carried out its papal mandate to Christianize Prussia, first under a Bishop Christian, as early as 1218, and later under the command of the Teutonic Knights, an offshoot of the Templars. Until 1466 the town was under the control of the Teutonic Knights. In 1466 the region came under the direct control of the Polish crown and became the seat of the Prussian Parliament. Graudenz was a political and economic center for many years. During the Swedish wars in the 17th century the city was occupied first by German defensive troops, as early as 1629, and then overrun by Swedish troops who occupied the city until 1659. It was then liberated by the Polish army. However, during the years of military activity most of the city was destroyed, with only the castle, cathedral and a few houses surviving. Toward the end of the 18th century the lingering wars abated and Graudenz was able to rebuild.

80 iii. Hermann Schapansky ¹²¹ (born in 1754 in Kerbshorst, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - died on 8 Dec 1824 in Schwansdorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia). Hermann married Maria Klassen.¹²² Hermann next married Anna Heinrichs ²⁶⁰

iv. Cornelius Schapansky ³⁸⁰ was born on 14 Jul 1765 and was baptized in 1781 in Thiensdorf, Elbing Region, Prussia.

161. Anna Pauls ²⁵⁷ was born about 1731 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Many-Roads gives her a birth year of about 1736 but this source doesn't mention son David born about 1751.

164. Gerhard Dyck ²⁷¹ was born before 1743 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Grandma Database says there is a source suggesting he was from Altendorf. It is not possible to verify this with either the 1772 Census or the 1776 Census.

165. Anna Berg ²⁷² was born before 1743 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

176. Heinrich Loewen ²⁷³ was born before 1751 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died before 1793 in Einlage, Chortitza, Ukraine.

In the 1776 Prussian Census Heinrich is listed in Neustaedterwald with 3 sons. He was a member of the Tiegenhagen Gemeinde. He migrated from Prussia to Chortitza in 1789 according to information from Peter Rempel. However, he is not listed in the group of 228 orignal settlers. He is not listed in the 1793 Chortitza Colony Heads of Household List or in later documents; he must have died by then. He had been living in Neuenburg because the 1802 Homestead List published by Unruh tells us his widow died before 1802 and her property went to her daughter's husband Cornelius Willms.

Heinrich had a first wife whose identity is unknown. She was the mother of Michael Loewen as well as brothers Abraham and Jacob.

Based on information presented by H. Schapansky and the Grandma Database it seems that Heinrich had a second wife, Anna, who was the mother of Dirk Loewen. Dirk was born thirteen years after his brother Michael. Apparently Anna first married Dirk Rempel and then Aron Peters before she married Heinrich Loewen. It has been suggested that Anna may have had three children with Dirk Rempel: Nicholas (1774-1806), Anna (1766), and Helena (1769). However, this is speculative because there are other children of Dirk Rempel who were born as early as 1748. Based on the obvious age gap between the first of Dirk's children (born in 1748) and the second, (born in 1763), it seems likely that these three children along with Catharina (1763) and Gerhard (1768) belonged to Anna. Anna immigrated to Chortitza in 1789.

It appears that Heinrich died before the family arrived in Chortitza, because he is not listed among the first settlers. His second wife, Anna, had been married to a Rempel previously, and her daughter Helena moved to the village of Einlage in 1789 with her husband Cornelius Willms. They had no children at this time but their household in the First Setters list shows four adults and two children. This household would have included Helena and Cornelius, Helena's mother Anna, her brother Claas Rempel (b. 1773), Anna's son with Heinrich Loewen, Dirk (b. 1784), and Heinrich's son from his first marriage, Michael (b. 1771). Heinrich's elder sons Jacob and Abraham emigrated separately with their families. Michael would have been listed among the adults while Dirk and Claas were listed as the two children. The Loan list for 1789-1793 confirms this analysis, giving counts of three adults and three children, where Michael is counted as a child. In 1795 the census shows that Claas is still living with his sister Helena. The 1802 homestead list indicates that title of the property passed from Anna to Cornelius, meaning that, even though he is listed as the head of the household, the homestead belonged to Anna (and Heinrich).

Stumpp lists Dirk (Dietrich) as a child born in 1784 from Neustadterwald who emigrated in 1789 and lived at Einlage. This is the best evidence we have that the family actually emigrated as part of the earliest group of settlers.

178. Daniel Bueckert ²⁷⁵ was born before 1755 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died about 1790 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Daniel came to Ukraine in 1789 and is listed among the original 228 households to settle in Chortitza. He was destined for Neuendorf. He came with a household of two adults and four children. It is unclear who these individuals were but in the 1795 Census we see his children Jacob, Maria and Anna at Neuendorf #36.

There is some information, on the internet and on the Grandma Database, saying that the settler was Jacob Bueckert. The available evidence does not support this view. According to Glenn Penner's work on the original migration to Ukraine in 1788-1789 Jacob is one of the people frequently mentioned as an original settler but for whom there is no record that he came to Ukraine. The general supposition is that he died before 1795 because the children are alone in the 1795 census at Neuendorf #36. It is more likely that the individual was Daniel Bueckert.

Unruh shows a record for 1802 in which it says Jacob Bueckert died and the farm was given to Michael Loewen. Michael in turn died and the farm was left to his widow and her new husband, Jacob Peters. I think it is more likely that after Daniel died the farm was in the hands of the elder son, Jacob Bueckert, who married Barbara Conrad in 1802 and is not found in the census. Michael Loewen had married Maria Bueckert by 1797. Therefore the Daniel Bueckert farm stayed in the hands of the family. I think the reason the farm passed to Michael Loewen instead of remaining with Jacob Bueckert is because Jacob was still unmarried and living with Loewen and wife Maria in 1797. The headcount in the 1797 supports this. There are two males and one female in the household but Michael and Maria had no children at this time. It follows that the other male is Maria's brother Jacob.

Barbara Conrad had married Johann Hiebert in 1797 and received the homestead of her father Abraham Conrad. This homestead was in Einlage, where earlier, in 1795, Barbara and her siblings were living without parents at Einlage #6. We next find Barbara with her second husband, Jacob Bueckert, in Nieder Chortitza in the 1806 Census, having taken over the homestead of Johann Wiebe. By 1807 Jacob Bueckert has married Helena Froese and they are found in the 1807 Census at Nieder Chortitza #3.

Supporting the conclusion that the original settler is Daniel Bueckert and not Jacob is the document listing funds loaned to settlers. There we see Daniel Bueckert as an original settler, loaned money as early as 1788. This entry shows that the money is now loaned to his children, one man and two women. These would be the three children that we find in the 1795 Census. It follows that Daniel died after arriving in Chortitza but it is unclear exactly when. The 1802 homestead list indicates that the homestead had passed twice, once to daughter Maria's husband Michael Loewen, and then to her husband Jacob Peters. In addition in 1806 we see that Daniel's homestead in Nieder Chortitza had passed to Jacob Peters. More research is needed to properly understand the events that occurred here and why Daniel is associated with homesteads in two villages.

Marie Bueckert and Jacob Peters are living at Nieder Chortitza #25 in the 1807 and 1808 censuses.

Identification of Daniel's specific children was done by matching the ages reported in Benjamin Unruh's book with birth records for the Heubuden Church. This is probably a reasonable estimate but it seems there are at least two Bueckert families being recorded in these church records. I noted an Anna Bueckert born 18 December 1778, six or seven months after Maria was born. Then another Anna was born in 1780.

The Grandma Database indicates a wife named Elisabeth associated with Jacob. There are no records to substantiate this. There is another Jacob Bueckert who married an Elisabeth Neufeld and the confusion between Jacob and Daniel may have been compounded by connecting Elisabeth to both Jacobs.

The Grandma Database has a reference to a Daniel Buckert who had a daughter named Catarina. She was baptised in Tiegenhagen in 1789. This record implies Daniel is deceased at the time but I am not convinced this is accurate. The record says he lived in Poppau and belonged to the Tiegenhagen Gemeinde. This is possible if he moved closer to Danzig in order to qualify for emigration, something that many rural Mennonites did at the time. See Grandma #748233.

The record of original settlers shows Daniel Bueckert had a household with two adults and four children. Daniel and the identified three children fall short of this number. Possibly Catarina was with the group and was married before the 1795 census. Further, there may have been a wife of Daniel who died in the same time frame.

The Heubuden Church records indicate his son Jacob was born on 8 May 1776. Daughter Anna's year of birth is 1780, as evidenced by an entry in the Heubuden Church records. I have retained the references to the Heubuden records although I am not entirely convinced they apply to these children. In all cases I have used estimated birth years based on Chortitza census data.

i. Catarina Bueckert ³⁸² was born about 1770 in Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1789 in Poppau, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

ii. Jacob Bueckert ³⁸³ was born in 1775 in Marienburg Region, Prussia. Jacob married Barbara Conrad.³⁸⁴ Jacob next married Helena Froese ³⁸⁵

184. Jacob Dyck,²⁸² son of Jacob Dyck, was born about 1763 in Neustadterwald, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized on 19 Jun 1785 in Rosenort, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and died on 7 May 1838 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

Jacob was among the first settlers who homesteaded in Chortitza, and is listed as moving to the village of Chortitza in 1789 in Glenn Penners list of the original 228 settlers.

He is listed in the Rosenort Gemeinde Baptism records. He was living at Neustadterwald at this time. The baptism date of 1785 puts his birth year at about 1765, roughly consistent with the later Chortitza Census information that puts his birth year around 1763.

In the 1814 Census he is listed as a cooper.

Some of the details about his second wife, Anganetha Hamm, are from the Schellenberg Genealogy in the Mennonite Archives. I have not seen these records. Jacob and Anganetha had no children. Stepson Johann appears in the 1815 census with Jacob and Anganetha.

185. Anna Dyck,²⁸³ daughter of Jacob Dyck, was born about 1760 in Stobbendorf, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 15 Sep 1813 in Chortitza, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Anna's death was listed in the Grandma Database and the 1813 Vital Statistics records are cited. I have not found this record. However, she appears in the May 1813 Census but not in the May 1814 Census. She must have been born around 1760 based on the age usually recorded for her at death in the Vital Statistics records mentioned above. The Tiegenhagen church record for her marriage indicates she was from Stobbendorf.

186. Isaac Klassen ²⁸⁴ was born in 1749 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1812 in Kronsgarten, Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

Isaac's birth year is based on Rempel's book and his death year is based on Stumpp. Rempel says he was from the Marienburg Region. Henry Schapansky says he lived in Neuteicherfeld for some time.

I am using Rempel for the birth years of the children. Schapansky indicated that daughter Katharina died young but she appears in Rempel and the census records for 1806. There also seems to be something amiss with Anna. Schapansky indicates she was born in 1787 and died in 1796. However, Rempel and the 1806 census list her as being born in 1795. I think that there was a daughter named Anna who died as a child and then a new daughter was given the same name in 1795.

His family appears in the Kronsgarten Census for 1816, four years after his death (the specific date of death is uncertain although there is a reference to him on Geni saying he died on 12 October. There is no source reference for this). According to that census, the family arrived in 1804 from abroad. In 1814 the family moved to Kronsgarten from the city of Jakaterinoslav and took over an existing farm and received a tax exemption until 1816. Note that this differs from an entry in Rempel (page 20) mentioning an Isaac Klassen that took over a farm in Kronsgarten in 1806. The 1806 Kronsgarten census matches Rempel. I think there is something wrong with the notation because it seems odd that the family would move back and forth from Kronsgarten to Jakaterinoslav in this way.

Rempel also mentions that in 1805 when the family moved to the Chortitza area they had with them Michael Peters (born 1722). This must be Katherina's father, who was referenced by Henry Schapansky.

187. Katharina Peters,²⁸⁵ daughter of Michael Peters, was born in 1755 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

He was a Flemish Mennonite, as were all the DeVeers. He immigrated to Ukraine with his parents, in 1789. In 1802 he is recorded as have the homestead of Johann Driedger and Driedger's widow in Neuendorf. The 1802 census lists a son Peter who was 11 at the time. This would have been the youngest son of Driedger and his first wife Katharina. The 1808 Chortitza census states he came from Krebsfelde in the Elbing District of Prussia. By 1808 his parents are living with him, having moved from Nieder-Chortitza. In the 1814 census he is listed in Neu-Osterwick, still accompanied by his parents. Neu-Osterwick was established in 1812 and he must have moved there shortly after or perhaps been one of the founding settlers.

i. Maria DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 21 Jun 1802 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

ii. Anna DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 24 Feb 1804 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in 1864.

iii. Catharina DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 25 Jun 1806 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

iv. Jacob DeVeer ³⁹⁸ was born on 19 Jan 1808 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 20 Nov 1811 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

94 v. Isaak DeVeer ¹⁴¹ (born on 17 Mar 1810 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine - died on 1 Dec 1889 in Reinland, Manitoba). Isaak married Margaretha Falk.¹⁴² Isaak next married Elizabeth Banman

vi. Sara DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 6 Nov 1812 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 18 Dec 1812 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

vii. Helena DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 6 Nov 1812 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in 1816 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

viii. Jacob DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 23 Sep 1813 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

ix. Benjamin DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 7 Dec 1815 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 24 Feb 1895 in Manitoba.

x. Cornelius DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 4 Apr 1818 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 20 Apr 1900 in North America.

xi. Helena DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 20 Aug 1820 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 22 Jun 1898 in Manitoba.

xii. Elisabeth DeVeer ³⁹⁷ was born on 4 Apr 1823 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 29 Nov 1908 in Manitoba.

Maria was a Flemish Mennonite born in Prussia and she lived in Schoenhorst in 1795 with her parents. Rempel says the family were among the earliest settlers, arriving in Schoenhorst in 1789. I have seen references to her with a middle name of Kristina; this usually refers to her mother but in this case that isn't true.

Maria's first husband was Johann Driedger, who was at least 40 years older. The Grandma Database tells us that he died in June 1801 at the age of about 60. There was a son Johann who was born in April 1801 and died as an infant. The Grandma Database speculates he could be a grandson of Johann Driedger and Katharina Bergen but it is also possible, perhaps probable, that he was a son of Maria. Maria married Jacob DeVeer in August 1801 and Jacob took over the Driedger homestead as reported in the 1802 Homestead list published in Unruh.

Maria is the sister of Anna Peters born in 1783, a Teichroeb ancestor.

i. Johann Driedger was born in Apr 1801 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in Jun 1801 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine.

190. David Falk,²⁸⁹ son of David Falk, was born in 1759 in Plauschwarren, Lithuania, was baptized on 15 Jun 1777 in Plauschwarren, Lithuania, and died in 1818 in Schoenwiese, Chortitza, Ukraine.

There is a David Falck listed in the Plauschwarren Church as having been baptized in 1777. This is in the Lithuanian Settlement in East Prussia. The father's name in the baptism record was David Falcke. The baptized individual could be David Falk b. 1759. H. Schapansky confirms this. He migrated to Ukraine in 1793 and lived in Schoenwiese in 1795 and 1801 through 1816. The date of his marriage to Maria Bartsch is estimated based on the census data and the ages of children; the location is based on the census data.

David's first wife, Sara Martens, was baptized on 27 May 1776 at Plauschwarren, according to the Grandma Database. The Grandma Database indicates she had a child born around 1800 who died in infancy. I find no sources to substantiate this.

Based on the ages of David's children with his second wife, his first wife, Maria Bartsch, must have died around 1806. Based on the marriage date of his second wife to her second husband, David must have died before 1827.

Glenn Penner says that in the 1770s there were two Falk families in the Lithuanian congregation. One was David's family and the other was that of Johann Falk who apparently had no known children. Penner believes that David is the ancestor of all Mennonite Falks.

His son David Falk was in Schonwiese in 1814. The 1858 Schonwiese Census states that Abraham Falk (born about 1817) was the son of David Falk (born about 1780) by his first wife. This would suggest that David married a second time after his first wife died. I don't find any information to support two marriages. David wife was Jetchen Martens. This is the Dutch form of the name. Other sources have her name as Ettin (B. Unruh), Henrietta (H. Schapansky) or Goettchen (K. Peters). I have read that she was born in Kronsweide but this probably is incorrect because her father did not settle in Chortitza until 1790-1793, after her birth. Further, I have found no reference to her father being in Kronsweide. The Grandma Database says she was married in Kronsweide (in 1802 which makes no sense given her age). Her death date is from the Grandma Database. She was in Schonwiese in 1795. David's daughter Maria is listed in the Reinlaender Gemeinde Buch. Her death date is taken from H. Schapansky. The Reinlaender Gemeinde Book gives a different death date in the same year. The information about her parents is taken from Stan Harder's research and verified through separate research as outlined in Maria Fehr's notes. According to Stan Harder her sister Anne was born in Kronsweide; probably Maria was born there as well. She died before the waves of migration to Canada began.

i. David Falk ⁴⁰¹ was born in 1780 in Prussia and died in 1852 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine. David married Jetchen Martens ⁴⁰²

iii. Katharina Falk ⁴⁰⁵ was born in 1815 in Schoenwiese, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Maria appears in census records from 1807 through 1816 in Schoenweise. Her children with David Falk are based on a marriage before the 1807 census. The Grandma Database also says she married a Heinrich Funk #54737 on 28 June 1827. I can't find any sources to validate this. There is a Geni record indicating she died on 13 April 1840 but no source is cited.

He came to Ukraine in 1821 (Peter Rempel identifies the family) and settled in Tiegenhagen, Molotschna. The 1835 Molotschna Census confirms that he died at Tiegenhagen #17 in 1825, leaving his wife, Maria, and son Cornelius. The census says that he was briefly in Tiegerweide, arriving in 1821 and leaving for Tiegenhagen in 1824. Peter Rempel lists him emigrating from Wernersdorf in 1821 with wife, Maria (1765), son Cornelius and daughters Gertrude (1795) and Agnetha (1802).The census gives his father's name as Cornelius.

His son Cornelius was 41 in the 1835 Molotschna Census, thus providing an approximate year of birth. I also found this son in the Heubuden Church Book. I am uncertain of the full list of children appearing in the Grandma Database. I can verify a few of them but not all of them. There was a Friedrich Fast living in Wernersorf at the same time as Cornelius and the Grandma Database has this comment about Friedrich: "His Schroop property records give his heirs (in order of birth) as: a) adults from 1st marriage: 1) Johann, 2) Peter, 3) Harm, b) minors from 1st marriage: 4) Maria and 5) Friedrich; c) minors from 2nd marriage: 6) Heinrich, 7) Franz and 8) Agnetha." I have seen a number of these children in the Heubuden Church records.

I have found these children in the Heubuden Church birth records: Cornelius (1795), Catarina (1799), Aganetha (1802). Peter Rempel lists Gertrude (1795), Aganetha (1802), and Cornelius.

His daughter Aganetha married Bernhard Rempel, the son of Peter Rempel and Margaretha Teichroeb. Peter and Maragaretha were related ancestors on the Epp side of the Fast-Epp family.

i. Gertrude Fast ⁴¹⁰ was born in 1795 in Wernersdorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

ii. Cornelius Fast ⁴¹¹ was born on 25 Apr 1795 in Wernersdorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

iii. Catarina Fast was born on 29 Sep 1799 in Wernersdorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

v. Aganetha Fast ⁴¹² was born on 24 Apr 1802 in Wernersdorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia. Aganetha married Bernhard Rempel ⁴¹³

Maria appears to still be living in Tiegenhagen at the time of the 1835 Molotschna Census.

H. Schapansky says Jacob Toews was one of the wealthier immigrants in 1804. P. Rempel says he emigrated from Sandhof. With him were his wife Agneta, son Jacob (1799) and daughter Agnetha (1802). With him was Johann Neufeld (1786), the son of his sister Elizabeth, and Kornelius Toews (1780), whose relationship is not apparent. According to the Martin Toews ancestry material Jacob was born in Koczelitzke in the Marienberg Region. Note that the birth years of the children do not match the Russian archive data cited below

The family does not appear in census records for Chortitza or Molotschna. This is explained by Henry Schapansky, who believes they lived in Ekaterinoslav. This, in turn would explain how their daughter Aganetha met Johann Fast, who is presumed to have moved to Ekaterinoslav and was a miller there. In 1858 their son Heinrich was still in the city and still owned and operated a mill. The Russian archival data cited below also demonstrates that Jacob and Aganetha lived in Ekaterinoslav.

The birth date of Jacob's son Jacob is from the Martin Toews Genealogy.

The following information was obtained from Tim Janzen.

#1 From Werner Toews:

Harry Toews b 1929 Father
Margarete Suderman Toews b 1932 Mother
Married July 5 1952
[Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization records. 6346; First Mennonite Church (Winnipeg) records]

Eugene Toews b 04 July 1905 d 30 May 1984 G.father
Alexandra Maruschtschenko b 10 Oct 1905 d 15 Feb 2000
Married April 30 1928
[First Mennonite Church (Winnipeg) records; Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization records]

Heinrich Johann Toews b 16 April 1865 d 09 Jan 1934 Great G.Father
Agathe Lehn b 09 Sept 1869 d 06 Aug 1965
Married 31 Aug 1896
[Chortitza Family Registers for Heinrich only Volume 1 Page 264; Der Bote Oct 1965; EWZ A3342 EWZ50 IO55 + IO56]

Johann Heinrich Toews b 24 Dec 1841 d 12 Aug 1915 GG G.Father
Susanna Neufeld b 20 Jan 1845 d 07 Oct 1912
Married 23 July 1863
[Chortitza Family Registers Volume 1 Page 264 (for both); EWZ A3342 EWZ50 IO55 + IO56]

Heinrich Toews b 1817 d 1867 GGG G.Father
Margaretha Loewen b 15 Oct 1819 d 1892
Married 02 Dec 1837
[Chortitza Colony Marriages by David Epp in Chortitza; Essay by David H.Epp Mennonite Industry in South Russia]
[I don't know how I will make the connection between Heinrich 1817-67 and Jacob 1768-? I will have to wait for more records somewhere. Has Paul Toews found anything yet for the period 1817 and up?]

Jacob Johann Toews b 28 Mar 1768 GGGG G.Father
Anganetha Epp b 1782
[Martin Toews Geneaolgy by Katie Peters; Heubuden Church Records; for Aganetha specifically: Guardianship for Foreign Settlers Fond 134]

Johann Martin Toews b 28 Nov 1743 d 09 Dec 1841 GGGGG G.Father
m1 Anna Stoesz b 22 Jun 1730 d 12 Feb 1783
m2 Anna Wiebe
[Heubuden Church Records; Ulrich Dueck Card Files; Martin Toews Genealogy]

Martin Toews b 1724 d 02 Jan 1775 GGGGGG G.Father
Sara Warkentin
[Martin Toews Genealogy by Katie Peters; Heubuden Church records; Ulrich Dueck Card Files ]

#2 From State Archives Dniepropetrivsk Region (December 18, 2003)

Among the documents of archival fund 134 "The Office of Guardianship for Foreign Settlers in New Russia" (fond 134), the following records regarding Mennonite Jacob Töws (Toews) from the city of Ekaterinoslav were found:

Abstracts of records for 1804:

-Record # 191 from November 17, 1804 about a report of district board, founded in the colony of Chortitza, on delivery of money left in Grodno by Mennonites, including Jacob Toews.

Abstracts of records for 1805:

-In 1805 Mennonite Jacob Toews buys a house with a garden and buildings from a mechanic Ivan Schmidt. The same year the Office of Guardianship for Foreign Settlers examines a petition forwarded by Jacob Toews about a theft in his house and a garden. In the petition Jacob also complains of city police demands regarding levy of city duties.

-In the register of incoming documents to the Office of Guardianship from colonies there is a record #111 from June 8, 1805 about giving 25 Rubles to an owner Jacob Toews, Mennonite, for acquisition of agricultural tools.

Abstracts of records for 1806:

-Jacob Toews' complaint about soldiers of garrison battalion who stole some of his property; his request about lending him money in the amount of 560 Rubles for 10 years to improve the economy and records about loaning him money in the amount mentioned above.

-Directions of Minister of the Interior Kochubey to a governor von Berg as to infringement cases on Mennonite Jacob Toews.

Abstracts of records for 1807:

-Jacob Toews requests to investigate the case about an attempt to set on fire his Dutch mill; three days after an unsuccessful attempt Jacob's mill burned down.

Abstracts of records for 1808:

-Directions of Minister of the Interior to grant an aid to a fire victim Mennonite Jacob Toews.

-Directions of Minister of the Interior as to an investigation of the arson case and other cases of infringement on Mennonite Jacob Toews' property and taking all possible measures for capture of all guilty of arson and their punishment.

Abstracts of records for 1813:
- "Register of Hired Workers by Settlers and Mennonites"

Mennonite of Ekaterinoslav Jacob Toews hired Caroline, daughter of settler of Yozefstal Granson, for a year (from November 27, 1812 to November 27, 1813).

Abstracts of records for 1814:

-Conclusion of contract by Jacob Toews as to leasing a house in the city of Ekaterinoslav to a craftsman Firstenau.

Abstracts of records for 1815:

-A soldier Timofey Dyumin's wife, Praskovya Dyumina complains of Jacob Toews who did not return cereals after processing of two bags of barley. Jacob Toews assures that he returned cereals. The Office of Guardianship for Foreign Settlers forwards the case to the police in the city of Ekaterinoslav since affairs of Mennonites living in the city were handed over to the city department.

Abstracts of records for 1816:

-"The Register of affairs examined by the Office of Guardianship for Foreign Settlers in New Russia"' records that "Jacob Toews of 48 years, his wife \endash Agnette of 35 years, their sons: Jacob of 15 years and Johann of 11 years, and their daughters: Agnette of 13 years and Helena of 4 years" want to be reckoned among Mennonites of Molochansk of the settlement Roseport. They received an answer that they could not be numbered with the Mennonites of Molochansk until the present census was over.

-In alphabetical index to poll-tax census ("revizskie skazki") of Mennonites living in the city of Ekaterinoslav, it is recorded that Jacob Toews, the number of people of male sex \endash 3, the number of people of female sex \endash 3, were transferred to the colony in Chortitza in 1817.

-In archival fund 159 "Reporting Comission for elections to the State Duma in the city of Ekaterinoslav" (fond 159) in "the lists of electors entitled to vote in the second Municipal Electoral Assembly, appointed on September 30, 1907 in the city college (former "2 Real'noe"), Tyuremnay Square", names of Toews are found: # 634 - Toews Johann, son of Johann and # 635 - Toews Johann, son of Heinrich.

-Calendar-year book "Pridneprovye", 1911 and reference book "Ves Ekaterinoslav" ("City of Ekaterinoslav"), 1913 state: commercial councilor Heinrich Toews, son of Johann (Heinrich Ivanovich Toews) (Prospect, private house), a member of council (church council) of Mennonite parish in the city of Ekaterinoslav.

-In reference book "Ves Ekaterinoslav" ("City of Ekaterinoslav"), 1913, in house-owners' list following names of Toews are found: (as in book)

1. Toews I. (Ivan) (presumably Johann), Krestovaya 2;

2. Toews I. (Ivan) (presumably Johann), Pushkinsky 61;

3. Toews I. (Ivan) (presumably Johann), Prospect 124;

4. Toews I. (Ivan) (Johann), Shirokaia 1;

5. Toews J. (Jacob), Elis., 7;

6. Toews H. (Heinrich), Pushkinsky 59-b;

In section "Mills": "Toews I. H. (Ivan (Johann), son of Heinrich), Krestovaya, 2"

Fond (fund) 134, opis (inventory) 1, delo (file) 119, list (folio) 17 (reverse), delo (file) 124, list (folio) 126, 144, 144 (reverse), delo (file) 125, list (folio) 4, 4 (reverse), 5, 5 (reverse), 218 (reverse), delo (file) 148, list (folio) 10, delo (file) 151, list (folio) 334, delo (file) 168, list (folio) 399 (reverse), delo (file) 218, list (folio) 2 (reverse), delo (file) 381, list (folio) 14-16, delo (file) 440, list (folio) 177 (reverse)-178, delo (file) 491, list (folio) 24, delo (file) 503, list (folio) 121, 148, delo (file) 504, list (folio) 515; fond (fund) 159, opis (inventory) 1, delo (file) 3, list (folio) 234.

"Ves' Ekaterinoslav" ("City of Ekaterinoslav"). Reference book. \endash Ekaterinoslav: 1913. \endash Pages 267, 276, 326;

Calendar-year book "Pridneprovye"- Ekaterinoslav: 1911. \endash Page 275

Director of archive: Valentina Yurkova; Researcher: Ludmila Novikova

i. Jacob Toews ⁴¹⁶ was born on 1 Mar 1801 in Sandhof, Marienburg Region, Prussia and died in Ukraine.

97 ii. Aganetha Toews ¹⁴⁴ (born on 8 Apr 1803 in Sandhof, Marienburg Region, Prussia - died on 9 Apr 1862 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine). Aganetha married Johann Fast.¹⁴³ Aganetha next married Johann Stoesz ²⁹³

v. Heinrich Toews ⁴¹⁸ was born in 1818 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine and died in Ukraine.

Aganetha was the second wife of Jacob Toews according to Henry Schapansky. The marriage date of Jacob Toews and Aganetha Epp is unknown and therefore it is difficult to know if this is true, but the Martin Toews family book only indicates one marriage, Jacob to Aganetha. In 1804 only two children, Jacob and Aganetha, were with the family. Therefore their third child, Heinrich, must have been born in Ukraine. The birth dates of the first two children come from the Martin Toews family book.

Refering to the information in the notes for her husband, it appears her year of birth originated with data from the Russian archives. Also, Heinrich seems to have been born in 1817.

Aganetha's surname comes from the Martin Toews family book. Unfortunately this information does not have anything to say about her parents or other ancestors.

I speculated that she could be the daughter of Johann Epp (1750-1789) #265911 and Anna Janzen (1760-1787) #265912. This Aganetha was baptized in the Tiegenhagen Church in 1801. The Aganetha who married Toews was already a mother by this time.

Peter Rempel says the family emigrated from Sandhof. Sandhof is part of present day Marienburg. Aganetha's parents lived in Marienburg at the time of the 1776 census.

The first two children were born in Barlewitz according to the Martin Toews genealogy. This is 18km south of Marienburg.

The Grandma Database says that Aganetha was the daughter of Heinrich Epp and Margaretha Dyck, apparently based on information provided by Werner Toews. The baptisms of siblings before Aganetha are in the Gross Werder Church records (Ladekop) but Aganetha and her younger siblings are not among these records. Peter Rempel's book contains the names of all siblings except Aganetha; apparently they all moved to Ukraine with their parents. Aganetha was married to Jacob Toews by this time.

I corresponded with Werner about the information he supplied to Grandma. His information was years old and unsourced. I am using this information for now although the family document "Memoirs and the Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Heinrich David Epp" written by Jacob Epp and John Reimer in 2000 does not contain any references to Aganetha. I think it is work retaining the data because there is a genealogical record gap and Aganetha could have been caught in the gap. The eldest four children were baptised in the Ladekop church. Seven children emigrated with their parents. This represents the entire genealogical record for the family. We do not know if there were other children. Perhaps Aganetha is one and the Grandma source is accurate. If Aganetha was the first child to be married and move away from the family home, she would not appear in the family immigration records.

Werner sent me this reference (https://www.mharchives.ca/holdings/organizations/OdessaArchiveF6/F6-1.htm) File 888.

File concerning an incident in which the Mennonite Jacob Toews of Ekaterinoslav petitioned to the Guardianship Office for protection from Major Fuerstenau who rented his house. Major Fuerstenau had beaten Aganetha Toews, the wife of Jacob Toews.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 Dec 1814 to 11 Feb 1815. 16 pages. 30 frames.

Petition written by Mennonite Jacob Toews to the Guardianship Office.

Letter from the Guardianship Office to Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration containing a request for them to examine Aganetha Toews.

Certificate that was given to Aganetha Toews about her physical injuries.

Letter from the Guardianship Office to the commander of the Ekaterinoslav garrison battalion, Colonel Tarasevich, regarding the need to investigate the incident.

196. Dietrich Rempel,²⁹⁶ son of Isbrand Rempel ⁴²¹ and Anna,⁴²² was born in 1763 in Konigsberg, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1784 in Stobbendorf, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died in Jul 1845 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

Dietrich Rempel was one of the original settlers in the group of 228 householders who came to Ukraine in 1789. He settled in Einlage. He probably married his second wife, Helena Wiebe, in Einlage (they were married in 1790). Unruh, in his 1808 Revision List material for Rosenthal, says that Dietrich and his brother Wilhelm were born in Koenigsberg. Unruh also indicates Dietrich emigrated from Altendorf. Wilhelm emigrated from Stobbendorf.

According to information in the Grandma Database, his first wife, Judith Loewen, had a son with Dietrich in 1786. The child was named Gerhard. I dobut this is correct because this son does not appear in the 1795 census for Chortitza.

iv. Wilhelm Rempel ⁴²⁶ was born in May 1797 and died on 10 May 1848 in Bergthal Colony, Ukraine.

v. Katherina Rempel ⁴²⁴ was born on 6 Mar 1798 in Ukraine and died on 29 Nov 1836 in Ukraine.

vi. Isbrand Rempel ⁴²⁵ was born on 16 Jun 1799 in Ukraine and died on 2 Jun 1890.

vii. Anna Rempel ⁴²⁷ was born on 28 Oct 1802 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

viii. Gerhard Rempel ⁴²⁵ was born in 1806 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

ix. Peter Rempel ⁴²⁴ was born in 1808 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 24 Jun 1897.

x. Judith Rempel ⁴²⁸ was born in 1811 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

xi. Margaretha Rempel ⁴²⁵ was born in 1813 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

There is information saying she died in Rosenthal but I have seen no evidence of this.

198. Johann Nickel,²⁹⁹ son of Peter Nickel, was born in 1746 in Treul, Schwetz, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1761 in Treul, Schwetz, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and died before 1806 in Kronsgarten, Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

He appears in Treul in the 1776 Census. Whether he lived there when he was born is unknown. The Grandma Database says he was baptised in Treul.

199. Anna Nickel,³⁰⁰ daughter of Jacob Nickel, was born in 1749 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1764 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Anna's surname was Nickel. H. Schapansky says she could be the daughter of Jacob Nickel of Fleutenau in the Montau Gemeinde. I can not locate this village. Johann Nickel died before the 1806 census and Anna married a Johann Kauenhowen. They appear in the 1816 census published by Karl Stumpp.

200. Johann Krahn,³⁰¹ son of Johann Krahn, was born in 1763 in Walldorf, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 29 Nov 1809 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

100 v. Cornelius Krahn ¹⁵² (born in 1797 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine). Cornelius married an unknown person. Cornelius next married Anna Rempel

201. Anna Andres,³⁰² daughter of Jakob Andres ⁴³⁴ and Anna Klassen,⁴³⁵ was born in 1764 in Walldorf, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized on 27 Jun 1784 in Tiegenhagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died on 6 Mar 1831 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

204. Wilhelm Redekop,³⁰³ son of David Redekop ⁴³⁶ and Anna Berg,⁴³⁷ was born in 1754 in Lakendorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 4 Feb 1818 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

He is mentioned in Stumpp, who says he came from Lackendorf, Prussia and lived in Rosenthal, Chortitza from 1795 until at least 1808. I assume he died there. Stumpp gives a birth year of 1754 and also mentions that he came with his son David who was born in 1789. Stumpp says Wilhelm was a "bauer", meaning a labourer. The 1806 Chortitza Census indicates he settled in Rosenthal in 1795 with his wife, two sons and a daughter. In the 1811 Chortitza Census his occupation is listed as weaver. By 1811 his daughter, 20 years old, is married and her husband, Julius Martens, is living with Wilhelm's family. In 1814 his daughter and son in law have moved out. Son David has married Katharina and has two children, David (it appears his real name was Wilhelm and the census contained an error) and Anna.

Wilhelm had two foster children living with him. In the October 1811 Census it says that one was Benjamin (born 1798) who was the son of David Redekop and wife Magdalena. David is a brother of Wilhelm. The other foster child is Maria (born 1798) who was a daughter of Gerhard Braun and Aganetha Driedger.

One record says his daughter Maria was born on 3 June 1794. The 1801 Choritza census gives her age as 10, indicating she was born in 1791. I understand that the National Archives microfilm #T81 610, p. 5401183 states she died on 11 December 1825. In 1811, at the age of 20, she appears in the Chortitza Census with her new husband, Julius Martens, still living with her parents.

His son lived in Kronsgarten, Chortitza in 1814. One record says he died on 8 May 1819.

I have seen his name listed with the middle initial D which I believe represents his father's first name.

He is listed in Glenn Penner's work on the original settlers to Chortitza among the group that settled in 1795.

iii. Maria Redekop ⁴³⁹ was born on 29 Jan 1794 and died on 11 Jul 1825. Maria married Julius Martens ⁴⁴⁰

205. Maria Rempel ³⁰⁴ was born in 1758 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

I wonder if she could be the daughter of Peter Rempel (b. 1735), mentioned in Grandma Database #198954, who possibly moved to Ukraine with two daughters and a number of sons. The daughters are not listed in the Grandma Database but they may have already been married and listed with their own families. Certainly the ages fit. Nikolai Rempel's genealogical research in "Das Rempelfamilienbuch" contradicts this hypothesis.

He is also referred to in the Grandma Database and in H. Schapansky as Claas. According to the Benjamin Unruh, he and Anna emigrated from Rehwalde, Danzig to Rosenthal, Chortitza in 1789 and were still there in 1808. Stumpp confirms their origin, and says he was a farmer in Rehwalde, a village a few kilometers north of Tiegenhof. He lived in Rosenthal until at least 1808. Rempel list him in Rosenthal in 1797 with a house, eight horses and twenty head of cattle. He was an original settler in Rosenthal according to Rempel. There is a Niclas Wieler mentioned in Schoenhorst in the 12 August 1809 Chortitza smallpox vaccination list with a one year old son. This is probably the same individual, since H. Schapansky lists a son (or possibly a grandson) born in 1809.

In Rosenthal the family had two adopted individuals living with them in 1808. Heinrich Wiehler, born 1790 was a son of Heinrich Wiehler and Katharina Sawatzky, and a grandson of Bernhard Wiehler. My suspicion is that Bernhard and Nicholas' father Heinrich were brothers. This would help to explain why they took in the younger Heinrich. Abraham Janzen, born 1799, was a son of Kornelius Janzen, Anna's brother.

Nicholas' son Heinrich may have been born in 1789 - I have seen this date in some genealogical work.

ii. Heinrich Wieler ⁴⁴³ was born on 4 Jul 1787 and died on 29 Mar 1798.

iii. Anna Wieler ⁴⁴³ was born on 2 Sep 1791 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 9 Apr 1798.

207. Anna Janzen,³⁰⁹ daughter of Cornelius Janzen, was born in 1761 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 15 Nov 1822 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Henry Schapansky says she was the daughter of Kornelius Janzen of Rosenort. She was living in Holstein, Prussia at the time of her marriage to Nicholas Wieler in 1781. In the 1814 Chortitza Colony Census she is listed at Rosenthal in the household of her daughter Maria and her son in law Peter Dyck. The Grandma Database says she died in Rosenthal, Chortitza. The Chortitza record lists her death in Rosenthal on 15 November 1822 at age 62 and refers to her as the widow Wieler.

The marriage date is from the Grandma Database. There are other sources giving a marriage date in 1794 but this does not correlate to the births of children so there must be a mistake in these sources.

208. Peter Epp,³¹⁰ son of Heinrich Epp ⁴⁴⁶ and Anna Penner,⁴⁴⁷ was born on 6 Feb 1777 in Hochzeit, Danzig Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized on 16 Jun 1793 in Danzig, and died on 23 Oct 1844 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

There are two important Epp genealogy publications that form the basis for tracing the Epp lineage back to the seventeenth century. Corelius Epp and Orval Ens published "Jacob Epp and Elizabeth (Ens) Epp Genealogy 1845-1987" and Orval Ens, as Chair of a committee, published "Heinrich and Margaretha Epp Genealogy 1855-1984". Jacob Epp (1845) and Heinrich Epp (1855) were cousins. Their fathers, Jacob Epp (1823) and Heinrich Epp (1826) were brothers, sons of Peter Epp (1798). When I obtained copies of these genealogy publications, I sought and received confirmation of these relationships from Amy Ens, sister of Orval Ens.

The Jacob Epp and Elizabeth Ens Genealogy book an English translation of a Citizenship Certificate issued by the Chortitza Municipal Administration (Jekaterinoslaw) on 3 June 1916. This document tells us that Peter's (1798) father was Peter Epp (1777) who was registered in the village of Chortitza in 1816. The specific facts contained in the certificate are these:

(1) David Epp, born 1858, was the son of Jacob Epp and in 1916 he lived in Schoenhorst (Wodjanoj) [Ed. Jacob Epp was born in 1823].
(2) Jacob Epp lived in Schoeneberg (Smoljanoj) in 1858 and transferred to Schoenhorst in 1869.
(3) David was the grandson of Peter Epp who lived in the village of Chortitza in 1835 and transferred out to Schoeneberg in 1853 [Ed. Peter Epp was born in 1798].
(4) David was the great grandson of Peter Epp who moved to Imperial Russia in 1789 and was living in the village of Chortitza in 1816 [Ed. Peter Epp was born in 1777].

In summary:

David Epp (1858) in Schoenhorst 1916
Jacob Epp (1823) in Schoeneberg 1852 and Schoenhorst 1869
Peter Epp (1798) in Chortitza 1835 and Schoeneberg 1853
Peter Epp (1777) in Chortitza 1816

Tracing Peter Epp (1777) through the census records we see that he was at Rosenthal #16 in 1797, Neuendorf #17 in 1807, Neuendorf #13 in 1808, Chortitza #17 (landless) in May 1814, Chortitza #16 (landless) in October 1814, Chortitza #56 in 1815, Chortitza #21 (landless) in May 1816 and finally at Schoenweise #1 (landless) in October 1816.

Stumpp and Unruh document a Peter Epp (1777) in Neuendorf in 1808. In fact, he was at Neuendorf #17 in 1807 and at #13 (landless) in 1808 holding a job as a schoolteacher. He was the son of Heinrich Epp (1757). Peter Epp (1777) had a son named Peter (1798) who remained in Neuendorf as a servant of Peter Isaac when the family moved to Chortitza after 1811.

We find his son Peter (1798) working for Peter Isaac through 1816. Later the Schoenhorst Church Register tells us that Peter Epp married Helena Goertzen and were the parents of Jacob Epp (1823). This corresponds to the Epp-Ens Genealogy.

I have estimated the wedding date for Peter (1777) and Catharina from the available census material. In Glenn Penner's list of original settlers to Chortitza, Martin Ens has a group of six people in his household in 1795. The 1797 Chortitza Census shows that he now has a household of five people. His daughter Catharina would represent the reduction if she became married between 1795 and 1797. Later when Martin died, around 1802, his farm in Rosenthal passed to his daughter and her husband, Peter Epp.

Peter's father, Heinrich, is on Glenn Penner's list of families who came to Ukraine in 1795. Peter would likely have been in the household.

There is a Peter Epp in Schoeneberg in the 1859 Chortitza Colony census. Further the 1863 Grain List has Peter Epp listed as a local resident (as distinct from a farmer) in Schoeneberg. This Peter Epp is the grandfather of David, mentioned above and the data corresponds to the Citizenship Certificate.

The Schoenhorst Church Book lists Jacob Epp and his wife Helena Klassen. It also says that Jacob's parents were Peter Epp and Helena Goerzen. This puts Jacob in Schoenhorst, and this data matches the certificate. The details in the Schoenhorst Church Book for Jacob and Helena, including the details of their children, match the Epp-Ens genealogy material, providing assurance that we have the correct couple. It is interesting that the name given for Jacob's mother is Goerzen rather than Gossen as provided in the Epp-Ens genealogy. Glenn Penner has pointed out that Goerzen and Gossen are not interchangeable versions of the same name. I asked Orval Ens about this discrepancy, and he told me the name was uncertain because they had no source documents and relied on faint recollection. He felt that Goerzen was probably correct.

The 1920 Census of Chortitza lists Jacob's youngest daughter Anna (born 1865) in Schoenhorst. Her married name is Enns but there is no husband listed. She had four children living with her at this time. The precise date of death used for Anna was provided by a contributor to the Grandma Database.

The Epp-Ens publication tells us that Grandfather Peter Epp was born prior to 1789. This would appear to be incorrect. Rather it is great grandfather Peter Epp who was born before 1789.

I found some interesting information on the web in a pdf document assembled by Herman Thiessen based on Erma Schemenauer's work. This lists all the children of Jacob (born 1823) and has dates of death for most. It also speculates that Jacob's daughters Katherina and Helena were murdered on 5 December 1919.

i. Anna Epp ⁴⁴⁸ was born on 7 Apr 1797 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 7 Oct 1826 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

iii. Susanna Epp ⁴⁴⁹ was born on 15 Oct 1802 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

The various census records show her name as Catharina or Christina. There doesn't seem to be a pattern that would indicate two different women. I note that the Grandma Database has a baptism year of 1788 but no specific source is quoted.

I have seen information indicating she was born in Neumuenster, Schleswig-Holstein. I do not see how this can be true when her grandfather Ens lived in the Marienburg area. Neumuenster was much farther west and belonged to Denmark at the time of her birth.

210. George Goertzen ³¹³ was born in 1725 in Tiegenhagen, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 21 Nov 1808 in Platenhof, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

Given the age difference between George Goertzen and his wife Maria Neubauer it seems logical that she was his second wife. This is what the Tiegenhagen Church Book implies where it lists the death of his first, unnamed, wife on 21 June 1784. This record and the record of his marriage to Maria tell us he was from the Tiegenhagen Gemeinde. I have assumed this is where he was born. George died at the age of 83 according to the Tiegenhagen Church Book. This leads to his calculated year of birth.

There is some speculation that there are two individuals named George Goertzen, a father and a son, and Maria married the son. This helps to explain the significant age difference between George and Maria. However, the evidence in the Tiegenhagen Church Book, interpreted in the most simple way, appears to contradict this hypothesis of two men. It appears to me that the elder George lost his wife in June 1784 and quickly remarried in September of that year. At the time he had at least two children still at home (they were unbaptized), although they were not infants. The Grandma Database lists three children from George's first marriage but I can find only two, Abraham and Cornelius, in the baptism records, along with a daughter Anna who is not listed in the Grandma Database. I also believe that if there was a son named George he would appear in the baptism records in the years before 1784 when the marriage of Maria Neubauer took place.

I am puzzled by the data in the 1772 and 1776 census records. In 1772 George has 1 son over age 12 and 2 sons under age 12, and no daughters. In 1776 he has no children at all. Abraham and Cornelius would have been born around 1766 and 1764 respectively, accounting for the 2 younger sons. Anna would have been born around 1762, although possibly earlier. Possibly the 1772 census is in error and the elder child should have been recorded as a daughter.

The Grandma Database says George's first wife was named Anna. There is no source reference for this. I wonder if the name was picked up from the Tiegenhagen bapatism records and the name of George's daughter was mistakenly used as the name of the wife.

Contrary to the information in the Grandma Database she was 56 years old when she died on 21 June 1784. She lived in Petershagen at the time of her death.

i. Anna Goertzen ⁴⁵³ was baptized in 1783 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

ii. Cornelius Goertzen ⁴⁵⁴ was baptized in 1785 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

iii. Abraham Goertzen ⁴⁵⁵ was baptized in 1787 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

i. Maria Goertzen ⁴⁵⁶ was born on 16 Jul 1787 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

ii. Jacob Goertzen ⁴⁵⁷ was born on 16 Jul 1790 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

iv. Isaac Goertzen ⁴⁵⁹ was born in 1797 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia and died before 1819.

v. NN Goertzen was born in 1799 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia and died on 7 Apr 1799 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

vi. Johann Goertzen ⁴⁶⁰ was born on 13 Jan 1800 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia.

211. Maria Neubauer ³¹⁴ was born before 1764 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1819.

Maria must have died in 1819 or earlier because the Fund for Orphans in Choritza lists three of her children and the inheritance she left them (Maria, Helena and Johann). The Grandma Database indicates that she have been a widow at the time of her marriage to George Goertzen. However, I do not see this information in the original church record.

Son Isaac was not listed as a beneficiary in the Widows and Orphans Fund report for 1820, implying that he had died before his mother died. However, this conclusion does not agree with information in the Grandma Database. The Grandma Database also includes other children of George Goertzen and Maria Neubauer for whom I am unable to find references.

Peter Dyck was probably born in Schoenau, part of the Heubuden Gemeinde, in 1775. He married Margaretha Klassen in 1803 in her village of Mielensz. After the marriage they headed to Ukraine, immigrating in 1804. Unruh lists them moving to Molotschna. They did not stay there long. in 1806 they took over the farm of Jacob Klassen in the village of Chortitza. By 1807 they had moved to a farm at Schoenhorst. In the 1808 census Margaretha is listed alone with her children because Peter had died since the last census. She remained on their farm. By 1810 she had married Heinrich Funk and he had taken over the farm. The 1813 census shows they had moved to Neu-Osterwick after 1811. In 1814 Margaretha died and Heinrich remarried. After Margaretha's death the youngest daughter, Barbara, was adopted by Peter Isaac and his wife, Katharina, located at Neuendorf.

ii. Margaretha Dyck ⁴⁶³ was born on 29 Jul 1807 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

iii. Barbara Dyck ⁴⁶⁴ was born in 1808 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine.

213. Margaretha Klassen,³¹⁶ daughter of Isaac Klassen ⁴⁶⁵ and Margaretha Conrad,⁴⁶⁶ was born on 18 Aug 1779 in Mielentz, Marienburg Region, Prussia, was baptized in 1798 in Mielentz, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died in 1814 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Peter Regehr is one of the original settlers who came to Ukraine in 1789. He is listed with a wife and a child. However, in the 1795 the only child listed is Peter who was born around 1793. There must have been an earlier child who died before 1793.

His first wife was Susanna. I am using the approximate year of birth based on Unruh and his 1795 Revision List. She immigrated to Chortitza in 1789.

The facts about Peter are quite clear. He lived with his parents in Schoensee in 1772. His age there is recorded as 27, making his year of birth 1745. This is unlikely because future census records indicate he was born around 1750. That said, we can be fairly certain we have the correct man identified here because Unruh confirms he came to the Chortitza settlement from Schoensee and he is the only person in the 1772 census with that name. He must have been still living in Schoensee in 1776 and thereafter until he left for the new settlement. The First Settler list records his household as containing two adults and one child. Therefore we know that he had been married before 1789 and had one child at that point. Unruh traces him from 1795 to 1808. In 1795 he lived at Neuendorf with his wife, Susanna (1767), and son, Peter (1793). The child's age implies that the first child had died before the census. In 1802 he still lives in Neuendorf but Susanna has died and his son, Peter, is now given a birth year of 1799, implying the earlier son died before 1799. In 1808 he remains in Neuendorf and now is listed with a wife named Maria (1775), the same son Peter, a daughter named Maria (1806), and a son named Johann (1807).

Note that Henry Schapansky has suggested that Peter was the son of Michael Regehr of Schoensee. However this is doubtful because he is not listed with Michael's family in the census of 1772.

The Chortitza Vital Statistics report her age at death as 40, meaning she must have been born around 1762.

i. Peter Regehr ⁴⁷¹ was born in 1793 in Prussia and died before 1799 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

ii. Peter Regehr ⁴⁷¹ was born on 2 Feb 1799 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 8 Dec 1840 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

ii. Johann Regehr ⁴⁷² was born on 11 May 1807 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

215. Maria ³²³ was born in 1775 in Prussia and died in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Maria appears in the 1802 census as the wife of Peter Regehr. Peter's first wife, Susanna, had died earlier in 1802 and this is noted in the vital records for that year. The marriage to Maria is not mentioned in the vital records.

He was a Flemish Mennonite from Petershagen, Tiegenhagen Gemeinde. H. Schapansky says his father was Berhend Rempel from Petershagen and this is possible - there is a Berhend in the 1776 census. However, Nikolai Rempel in "Das Rempelfamilienbuch" says his father is Peter and this is the source I have used. This is also how the Grandma Database records his ancestry. Apparently Judii Rempel and others believe this to be accurate. The source I used writes his name as Peter Peter D Rempel which further points to a father named Peter and a mother whose surname begins with "D", consistent with his mother's name - Dyck or von Dyck.

The marriage location is based on the location of the birth of his first child with Margaretha Teichroeb. Peter was in Schoenhorst in 1793 and 1795, in Chortitza between 1802 and 1806 and in Osterwick in 1814. He appears in the 1801 census in Chortitza Village. The Grandma Database indicates he died in Schoenhorst but there is no evidence of this. The last village he lived in that is documented was Neu-Osterwick in 1816. The date of death is based on calculations from the David Epp diary.

There is some question about the number of wives he had; many sources say his first wife was the widow Loewen, his second wife was Kornelia and Margaretha was his third wife. The 1801 census is specific that his first wife was Kornelia and Margaretha was his second wife. Nikolai Rempel records three wives and his data doesn't match the facts recorded in the 1801 census. I have relied on the census data.

Kornelia's family name could be Loewen based on information in the Geni World Family Tree database. However she could also be the widow Loewen. There is no certainty as to her surname.

Peter is listed in Glenn Penner's work on the original Chortitza settlers among the first 228 households.

iii. Peter Rempel ⁴¹³ was born in 1793 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 6 Sep 1835.

iv. Kristina Rempel ⁴¹³ was born on 20 Jun 1794 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 30 May 1857.

i. Magaretha Rempel ⁴¹³ was born in 1796 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

108 ii. Heinrich Rempel ¹⁶⁹ (born in 1799 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine - died on 14 Aug 1870 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine). Heinrich married an unknown person.

v. Bernhard Rempel ⁴¹³ was born on 6 Sep 1805 and died in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine. Bernhard married Aganetha Fast ⁴¹²

vi. Wilhelm Rempel ⁴¹³ was born on 18 Feb 1808 in Neu-Osterwick, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 29 Jun 1859.

viii. Johann Rempel ⁴⁷⁶ was born on 15 Oct 1815 and died on 11 Mar 1892.

She was a Flemish Mennonite. She appears in the 1776 census in Krebsfeld, Rosenort Gemeinde with her father. I have seen a family tree on MyHeritage that states she died on 16 July. There is no source given. The marriage date is mentioned in the Grandma Database without a source citation.

226. Gerhard Wiens,³³⁰ son of Gerhard Wiens, was born about 1769 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1789 in Ellerwald, Elbing Region, Prussia, and died before 1806 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine.

He was residing in Ellerwald, Prussia at the time of his baptism in 1789. He migrated from Prussia to Ukraine in 1795, initially settling on a homestead in Chortitza, Chortitza Colony. He traded that homestead for one belonging to Cornelius Driedger in Neuenburg. In the 1801 Census he is listed at Neuenburg and in the 1802 Census at Neuenburg. Then he moved to Burwalde in 1802 and took up a homestead there. He was still there in 1803 but he died by the time of the 1806 Census.

227. Aganetha Dyck,³³¹ daughter of Phillip Dyck, was born about 1761 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1786 in Dorichthof, Elbing Region, Prussia, and died on 9 Apr 1810 in Burwalde, Chortitza, Ukraine.

In the 1806 Chortitza Colony Census she is listed as a widow in Burwalde. Her first name is incorrectly given as Maria in that census. In 1807 her name is correctly listed with her new husband. Her baptism in 1786 is recorded in the Elbing baptism records along with her brother Michael, both shown as surviving children of Phillip and living with stepfather Loewen.

Her husband Gerhard died before 1806 and vanishes from the census records. Aganetha appears in 1806 in Burwalde having taken on ownership of the farm owned previously by Jacob Harder. She has one son and three daughters with her. Based on Unruh it appears that her husband Gerhard first got Harder's farm prior to 1802 when Harder died and his widow married Simon Loewen. In 1807 she is in Burwalde with her new husband Cornelius Funk. Her son Gerhard and daughters Maria and Agnetha are with her. She died before the 1811 Census and her children are no longer in the census. Her husband Cornelius has a new wife named Helena.

An interesting relationship emerges here. Jacob Harder, whose farm Gerhard took over, was married to Agatha Penner who is a great grandmother of Johann Striemer (1859). Gerhard is a great grandfather of Johann Striemer.

Aganetha's son Jacob Warkentin migrated from Elbing, Prussia to eastern Ukraine between 1801 and 1808 according to the Grandma Database. In the 1808 and 1816 Chortitza Colony Census records he is listed at Burwalde. In the 1847 Chortitza Colony Heads of Households list he is listed in Rosengart.

I noted that the Grandma Database says Aganetha had a son Peter Warkentin #197487 born in 1785. This information has no source and Henry Schapansky doesn't list this person. I also noted that Schapansky lists a son Johann Funk born in 1813. I suppose this is possible but she would have been over 50 at the time. I have not seen this person in the Chortitza Census.

Aganetha's third husband, Cornelius Funk, emigrated from Wengelen, Kleinwerder, Prussia to Ukraine in 1804 with his parents. In the 1808 and 1814 Chortitza Colony censuses he is listed at Burwalde. In the 1808 census his age is given as 26, suggesting that he was born around 1782 and in the 1814 census his age is given as 35, suggesting that he was born around 1781.

iii. Anna Warkentin ⁴⁷⁸ was born in 1786 in Prussia and died on 27 Apr 1787 in Prussia.

In the 1806 Chortitza Colony Census he is listed in Chortitza at which point there were 5 males and 3 females in his household. In the October 1814 Chortitza Colony Census he is listed at Chortitza. The 1815 census entry says he entered Ukraine in 1804. I think he is the Johann that is seen in Rempel's book accompanying his brother Peter in transit to Russia in 1803. Peter went to Molotschna and by 1808 his brother was no longer with him. I think this is because Johann stayed in Chortitza from the outset, getting married and homesteading there. Johann and Peter came from Reimerswald and were members of the Tiegenhagen Gemeinde according to the record in Unruh related to Peter.

ii. NN Dyck ⁴⁸³ was born on 15 Apr 1806 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine and died on 15 Apr 1806 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

231. Agatha Penner,³³⁸ daughter of Peter Penner ⁴⁸⁴ and Elscke Woelke,⁴⁸⁵ was born about 1764 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1783 in Klein Mausdorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Grandma Database says that her father was the Peter Penner to which I have her linked here. I think her mother was Elscke Woelke based on accumulated information in the Danzig Church Book. Agatha was baptized in the Marienburg area. This corresponds with what we know about her father. He was baptized in 1762 and married Elscke in 1762; she died in 1764; he died in the "rural" area in 1786. This corresponds with the idea that he moved out to the Marienburg area after Elscke died.

I believe Agatha came to Ukraine with her first husband, Jacob Harder, in 1789. She appears in the 1795 Mennonite Colony Revision List for settlers of 1789 with husband Jacob Harder.

232. Wilhelm Giesbrecht,³³⁹ son of Wilhelm Giesbrecht, was born about 1767 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1788 in Heubuden, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died after 1818 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine.

He was a Flemish Mennonite. He is listed in the 1789 land census as a landowner in Klein Mausdorf, Elbing.

According to Peter Rempel and Benjamin Unruh he came to Ukraine in 1789. However, Glenn Penner's research does not find a record of him in the 1789 immigration data, although there are records of his brothers David and Jacob. I wonder if Wilhelm was with one of his brothers at the time of the immigration (probably Jacob). The list of 228 original families shows Jacob as a household head, with a family of 3 adults. This could be a family consisting of Jacob, his wife, and his brother Wilhelm; Jacob did not have children at the time. In the 1795 Census his brother Jacob, and his family, are living with Wilhelm's family. This corresponds to a record in Unruh saying that Jacob had given his property to Wilhelm. Wilhelm appears in Schoenhorst in 1795, 1801 and 1802, Nieder-Chortitza in 1803 and 1814 and The Bergthal Gemeinde Buch. The 1801 Chortitza census lists him as a tailor and Unruh lists him as a tailor in 1814. According to the 1801 census he and his wife were the same age and born around 1767. In Unruh his name sometimes appears as Isbrecht. He was baptized while in Heubuden.

If Wilhelm did arrive with his brother, then he married Maria Klassen in the new settlement. This would exlain the family count for her father Franz in the list of 228 settlers: four adults and two children representing Franz and wife Susanna plus the two elder daughters and the two surviving children.

He was living in Nieder Chortitza as recorded in successive census documents through 1816.

Henry Schapansky feels that Wilhelm's father was a Wilhelm but it is difficult to know which one. Schapansky links Wilhelm, Jacob and David as brothers. It seems clear that Wilhelm and Jacob are brothers based on the Schoenhorst comment to the effect they actually were siblings. Whether David is a brother is open to question because there is quite a substantial age gap, David being born around 1750 whereas Jacob was born around 1764 and Wilhelm two or three years later. The DNA evidence says that Wilhelm was in a different haplogroup from David. That probably is definitive in disproving their relationship as siblings.

Linking Wilhelm to the senior Wilhelm is a speculative exercise. In the 1776 census there is a Wilhelm living in Klein Mausdorf. The common geographic data is potentially significant.

Wilhelm's second wife was Katharina Braun. Her only child was born in 1818 and this demonstrates she was not his first wife.

v. Wilhelm Giesbrecht ⁴⁹¹ was born on 28 Jan 1799 in Schoenhorst, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in Bergthal Colony, Ukraine.

vi. Abraham Giesbrecht ⁴⁹¹ was born on 26 Apr 1803 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine and died on 18 Aug 1858 in Bergthal Colony, Ukraine.

viii. Jacob Giesbrecht ⁴⁹¹ was born on 8 Feb 1810 in Chortitza Colony, Ukraine and died on 8 May 1867 in Bergthal Colony, Ukraine.

233. Maria Klassen,³⁴⁰ daughter of Franz Klassen ⁴⁹² and Susanna Klassen,⁴⁹³ was born about 1767 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1785 in Petershagen, Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died about 1817 in Nieder Chortitza, Chortitza, Ukraine.

236. Jacob Doerksen,³⁴⁸ son of David Doerksen ⁴⁹⁵ and Maria Janzen,⁴⁹⁶ was born on 21 Dec 1767 in Ellerwald 3 Trift, Elbing Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died on 20 Feb 1806 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Probably he was a Flemish Mennonite. The name is spelled Dorchssen as well. Ruth Friesen says he was born on 21 December 1767 in Montau. Her source is unknown to me, but this corresponds to the birth place of his spouse. Unruh lists him living with his inlaws in Neuendorf in 1795. His wife, Susanna Klassen, would have moved to Ukraine in 1789 with her parents, and they would have been married in Ukraine. Since their first child appears in 1792 it must mean that Jacob arrived in Ukraine among the settlers of 1789, probably with his parents, thus explaining his absence from the list of original settlers of 1789. He appears in the 1801 census in Neuendorf. He was in Neuendorf in 1802 and 1803. The 1802 census lists him as a tailor.

i. Franz Doerksen ⁴⁹⁷ was born in 1792 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine.

iii. Jacob Doerksen ⁴⁹⁷ was born in 1794 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine and died before 1802 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.

v. Maria Doerksen ⁴⁹⁷ was born in 1798 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in 1857.

viii. Abraham Doerksen ⁴⁹⁷ was born on 10 Oct 1805 and died on 4 Oct 1871. Abraham married Helena Schmidt.⁴⁹⁷

The birth location is taken from the Grandma Database.

Her son with Johann Neudorf, Peter, along with his wife Maria and some of his children landed in Quebec with the S. S. Sarmatian on July 6, 1875. Judging by the fact that his wife remarried to Abram Suderman on March 3, 1885, he must have died prior to 1885.

i. Johan Neudorf was born on 31 Dec 1807 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 15 Apr 1809.

ii. Peter Neudorf ⁴⁹⁹ was born on 16 Apr 1809 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine and died in Schanzenfeld, Manitoba.

iii. Isaak Neudorf was born on 15 Mar 1811 in Neuenburg, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 15 Mar 1811.

He came to Ukraine from Danzig in 1789 according to B. H. Unruh. In Unruh's book he is listed as being in Rosenthal in the Chortitza Colony in 1793, 1795, 1801-3 and 1808. Stumpp has him listed with a birth year of 1770, coming to Ukraine from Danzig in 1789. He had a son Peter who does not appear in Unruh. The son was born in 1791, before Cornelius was married to Margaretha. He appears with his parents Hans Sawatzky and Susanna Enz in one census listed by Unruh.

i. Margaretha Sawatzky ⁵⁰³ was born on 15 Mar 1795 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 14 Nov 1871.

ii. Katharina Sawatzky ⁵⁰³ was born on 1 Jan 1800 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 16 Jun 1835.

iii. Susanna Sawatzky ⁵⁰³ was born on 19 Sep 1802 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 1 Apr 1849.

v. NN Sawatzky ⁵⁰⁴ was born on 2 Mar 1806 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine and died on 5 Mar 1806 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

239. Margaretha Klassen,³⁵² daughter of Martin Klassen ⁵⁰⁶ and Helena Wieler,⁵⁰⁷ was born in 1769 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was baptized in 1787 in Marienburg Region, Prussia, and died in 1808 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

Schapansky says she was baptized in 1787. The Chortitza Church Book indicates that her mother was Helena, the widow of Isaac. Isaac would have been Helena's first husband.

i. Peter P. Willms ⁵⁰⁹ was born in 1791 in Rosenthal, Chortitza, Ukraine.

240. Abraham Dyck,³⁵³ son of Heinrich Dyck ⁵¹⁰ and Judith Preuss,⁵¹¹ was born about 1769 in Lakendorf, Marienburg Region, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was baptized in 1788 in Krebsfeld, Elbing Region, Prussia.

Peter Rempel indicates that he migrated to Neuendorf in Ukraine in 1789. Unruh lists him in 1789 married to Agatha Thimm. This conflicts with the information Glenn Penner has published about the first settlers in Ukraine where Abraham is not present. It is possible he immigrated with another family. He migrated from Krebsfelde, Prussia to Ukraine sometime between 1789 and 1795. He is listed at Neuendorf in 1795, 1801, 1802, 1808 and 1814. His first wife was Agatha Thimm, who originally was married to Cornelius Hiebert. Cornelius died not long after reaching Ukraine and Agatha remarried to Abraham. They took over the Hiebert farm. After Agatha died Abraham married once more to a Sara Suckau sometime around 1803 and had a few more children. My dating of the marriage to Sara is based on the children's ages. After Agatha's son Abraham was born in 1791 there is a gap of 12 years before the next child appears in 1803. I surmise that this was the first child of the marriage to Sara. The Grandma Database seems to agree.

There is an unsubstantiated online record indicating he died in 1811. This seems incorrect because the information about him demonstrates that he had children as recently as 1821.

Regarding the date of immigration, Abraham and Agatha had a child in 1791-2. Since the first wave of immigration was in 1789 and the second did not occur until 1793, Abraham must have arrived in the first wave with another family.

There is a baptism record for Abraham, surviving son of Heinrich Dyck in 1788 in the Rosenort Gemeinde Baptism Records.

They remained in Neuendorf although Unruh indicates they were in Neuenburg in 1803. The 1807 census is quite clear that Abraham was in Neuendorf with Sara and his children, as well as his mother Judith Preuss.

Generally the people in the Lackendorf area would have been members of the Flemish Rosenort congregation.

241. Agatha Thimm ²⁴³ was born in 1751 in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in 1803 in Neuendorf, Chortitza, Ukraine.
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