ANCESTRAL GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Johann Klassen and Anna Penner

• David Matthies (December 24, 1826 Pordenau, Molotschna d. July 26, 1907) who married on October 24, 1850, Altonau, Molotschna, Russia, Elisabeth Klassen (June 20, 1829 d. August 27, 1901) moved immediately to Ohrloff,  Molotschna, where, for two years (fall 1850- spring 1853)  they lived with Johann Klassen and Anna Penner, the parents of his wife. [Memoirs of David Matthies(Translated)]

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Johann Klassen

1847 Voters List

1847 Molotschna Colony Voters List Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 2, File 10510 Extracted by Tim Janzen - http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/russia/1847_Molotschna.htm

• The total [Molotschna ] settlement had an administration under the leadership of an Oberschulze located at Halbstadt. ...The men who served as Oberschulze at Halbstadt, Molotschna, were....  Johann Klassen (Ohrloff) 1824 - 1826 ...

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/M6521.html

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• 1838 ... September 22 ... Yesterday elder  Jacob Warkentin from Altonau and deacon Johann Klassen of Ohrloff arrived at the residence of elder Jacob Dyck. Why? They plan to leave today ...
• 1841 ... May 8 ... Note: On April 6 Jacob Warkentin from Altonau and the deacon Johann Klassen of Ohrloff arrived at elder Jacob Dyck's home in Rosenthal. Johann Klassen was my guest for two hours on April 7. ...

David Epp, The Diaries of David Epp: 1837-1843 , John B. Toews, translator, (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2000), pp. 69, 147 - See also for the German: http://chortitza.heim.at/Eich/EppOr3.htm

Anna Penner

• This is not the Anna L Penner (born c. 1819), daughter of Peter Peter PENNER, born 1793, Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia - http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/a/n/Ruby-M-Janzen-WA/PDFCOL5.pdf  and who would marry Dietrich Isaac (about 1814) and died in Jansen, Nebraska -

http://www.ournetwork.net/FamilyConnections/individual.php?pid=I86663&ged=ancestors.ged - http://www.ournetwork.net/FamilyConnections/individual.php?pid=I86661&ged=ancestors.ged  - http://www.ournetwork.net/FamilyConnections/individual.php?pid=I86662&ged=ancestors.ged

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• This is unlikely Anna Penner [Anna G P PENNER ] (b: ABT 1789 ), daughter of Gerhard PENNER (b: 15 OCT 1758 in Prussia), married  2nd wife, 25 NOV 1787, to Anna PRIES (b: 31 JAN 1768). However, perhaps noteworthy, Gerhard PENNER (b: 15 OCT 1758 in Prussia), married  3rd wife, 23 FEB 1792 in Klein, Wickerau, Prussia, to Helena DRIEDGER (b: 3 JAN 1768 in Einlage, Prussia), and one of their sons, Peter PENNER [Peter Gerhard D PENNER] (b: 31 OCT 1792 in Prussia), married in the Ukraine in 1818 to Maria DOERKSEN (Birth: 21 APR 1799 in Chortitza Colony, Chortitza, South Russia) and who would die 20 AUG 1849 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia. They had a daughter Anna P D PENNER (b: 1 Apr 1827 in Bergthal, Chortitza, Russia, Death: 3 Mar 1901 in Butterfield, Minnesota) who married, 1 Aug 1845 in Bergthal, Chortitza, Russia, to  Peter Wilhelm W REMPEL (b: 12 Nov 1817 in Bergthal, Chortitza, Russia) and who had numerous children.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heide99&id=I00746 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heide99&id=I00743 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heide99&id=I00741 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heide99&id=I02113 ; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bobstrong&id=I31001; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bobstrong&id=I30997; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bobstrong&id=I78991