Mary Dirks
[1905-], Agatha Krause [1899-], Katja [Katarina ] Dirks (peeking out)
[1906-], Heinz Dirks [1904-], Justina -- Mary's cousin, Willie Ratzlaff,
1912, Gnadenfeld, Ukraine
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mja11/blogs/family/dirks.html
1923
Maria (Mary) [1905-],
17; Heinrich Sr.[September 8, 1879-1938], 44; Heinrich Jr. (Heinz)
[1904-],
18; Katharina (Katja) 1906-],
16; Agatha, 57, Dirks [March
16, 1861-October 10, 1937],
1923, Cherbourg, France, one week before boarding ship for America
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mja11/blogs/family/dirks.html
PRE-1937
Agatha
Dirks [March
16, 1861-October 10, 1937]
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mja11/blogs/family/dirks.html
Dear
Eric,
My
cousin sent me the link to your web page and I have been looking though
it with considerable interest. She and I are both grandchidren of
Cornelius K. Krause and Margarethe Rempel who lived in Kitchener after
their arrival in 1925 from Molotschna where they lived in the village of
Gnadenfeld. I am a retired librarian and genealogist from Ottawa. I have
been collecting information on my Mennonite roots and we share a number
of common ancestral names, particularly Krause, Dueck and Mathies.
I do not
find a connection between our Krause families, although my grandfather
was born in Rosenhof in the Schönfeld Colony. I must confess, however,
that my branch of the Krause family has had considerable difficulty in
tracing its Krause roots. My grandfather's mother was Agatha Dueck. She
was married twice and had seven surviving children. About 20 of their
descendants continue to participate in a "Rundbrief" which circulates
around North America 3 or 4 times a year. As I understand it, the
Rundbrief was started in the 1920s by my grandparents' generation so
that they could keep in touch with their scattered families. Agatha
Dueck was a daughter of Susanna Mathies and there I have found the
connection with your family--Susanna was a sister of your ancestor,
David Mathies and that makes us fourth cousins through the Mathies line.
I
thought I would make this initial contact and perhaps we can share
additional information. I would be particularly interested in any
information that you have regarding the Mathies family. My information
is very sketchy, having come from a book published by a cousin in 1976
which documented my Dueck ancestry in some detail but failed to give
information on the extended families.
Best
wishes from Ottawa,
Ralph W. Manning
ralphmanning@rogers.com
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