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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY

KUBAN SETTLEMENT , CAUCASUS

[Maria Voth (mother of Maria Mietz Kornelsen ), born November 28, 1877, Alexandrodar, Kuban, Northern Caucasus RUSSIA]

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/C45776.html

Kuban was a Mennonite settlement in the Kuban district of the Northern Caucasus, Russia, on the Kuban River, which flows from the east into the Black Sea. This region had previously been inhabited by Nogais, who had emigrated to Turkey. In connection with the organization of the Mennonite Brethren in the parent settlements, the Mennonites in the Molotschna and Chortitza colonies requested an additional grant of 17,500 acres from the government, through Johann Claassen of Liebenau, for a new settlement on the Kuban. On this tract the villages of Wohldemfürst (later [1890] Velikoknyazheskoye) and Alexanderfeld (later [1890] Alexandrodar) were founded in 1862 and 1866. In 1866 the settlement, which throughout its brief history consisted predominantly of Mennonite Brethren, had its Mennonite privileges confirmed ....

[Source: http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/K825.html ]

Heinrich Voth

Henry Voth

Maria? Voth

... the Caucasien region called Kuban, where all the settlers in two villages belonged to the Mennonite Brethren Church. It was close to the Kuban river. Six miles from the village Nevinomysk where some had already settled several years ago. The two villages are: Wohldemfurst and Aleksanderfeld, they belong to the Batalgoshin district.

... neighbors were Russians called Chochol, a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian. Kosaks and Roman Catholic Germans (a village by the name Roshdosvinke) about 20 miles further lived Tartars, Nogayer, Tcherkess, and other Muslim believers. They were a real Plague for us Germans, and also the Russians ...

I  [Jacob Kroeker] also attended the same school for two years, and in the fall of September of 1873, took the leadership of the school in Aleksanderfeld in our new settlement, and served 9 years until March, 1882.

... In this place I would like to name some of the names of my former school children as I remember them, and add also the names of their parents ...Heinrich Voth [Father] - his brother Henry, Maria (?) ...

Then in 1893 we decided to immigrate to America. April 12 (24), 1893 we started on our trip from Aleksanderfeld (Aleksandrodar) with the train from the station in Nevinomesk. Two days stay, April 16, and 17, in Warsau, because of baggage. Arrived in Berlin, Germany May 1 at 5:30 AM. The same day, 11:00 PM, in Breman where we had to wait ten days ...

May 10, there was an ocean liner ready for us. We left from Strassburg, Germany and arrived in New York ...

[Source: http://millennium.fortunecity.com/lassie/453/j._kroeker_history__short_.doc?nocache=930011573 ]

Hermann H. Voth

Katharina [Voth who married David A Friesen] (3 July 1914, Russkoje, Terek, South Russia – 14 July 1985, Clearbrook, British Columbia, Canada) was the daughter of Hermann H. Voth (27 March 1882, Alexanderfeld, Kuban, South Russia – 16 December 1954, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada) and Maria (Retzlaff) Voth (25 July 1886, Konteniusfeld, Molotschna, South Russia – 7 January 1933, Morden, Manitoba, Canada).

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Name: Hermann H Voth / Birth: 27 Mar 1882 - Kuban, Bryansk, Russia / Death: 16 Dec 1954 - Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada  [Today: Brjansk, Bryanskaya Oblast, Russia - Bryansk Oblast (Бря́нская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk]

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Herman H. VOTH / Given Name: Herman H. / Surname: Voth / Sex: M / Birth: 1881 / Death: 1954 in Chilliwack, BC, Canada

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=menno_obituaries&id=I25099 - Canadian Mennonite, der Bote, Altona/Red River Echo, Mennonite Brethren Herald and Mennonitische Rundschau Obituaries

Mennonite Villages in Kuban, Caucasus

http://www.mennonitehistory.org/projects/geography/5_original_villages_russia_dai.html

• Alexanderfeld (1866) - later Alexandrodar

• Wohldemfuerst (1862) - later Velikoknyazheskoye

Kuban Red Cross

• The Russian Red Cross has been working in the Kuban region since 1877, providing humanitarian aid and social support to the poor of southern Russia. - http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/russwest/rusrdcrs.htm

Links

• Kuban 1864

• Alexandrodar