ERIC KRAUSE

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MATHIES GENEALOGY

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SUZANNA MATTHIES (May 16, 1836; d. January 03, 1922)

Jakob was a carpenter-contractor by trade. He also became a miller after moving from Kleefeld to Brasol in the Schoenfeld colony around 1880. In Brasol, he acquired a few acres (Russian "desjatin") of land in 1881, built a house, planted fruit trees, and erected a Dutch windmill 5 stories high. Later a tree nursery was added.

Susanna had to do a lot of wool spinning. According to some sources, she was a lively young lady when Jakob courted her.

They had 7 children: Agatha (1861-1937), Maria (1863-1946), Susanna (1865-1953), Katharina (1867-1957), Peter (1873-1952), Eliesabeth (1880-1944), and Justina (1882-1957).

For All The Details See:

http://users.adelphia.net/~mja37/Dirks.html#JakobSusanna  (doesn't want to open)
[Note: this information was transferred to http://www.personal.psu.edu/mja11/blogs/family/dirks.html

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Children of Susanna Mathies and Jacob Martin Dueck are:

3 i. Agatha Dueck was born 16 MAR 1861 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 10 OCT 1937 in Milford, Connecticut.
4 ii. Maria Dick was born 5 FEB 1863 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 5 JAN 1946 in Beamsville, Ontario.
5 iii. Susanna Dueck was born 6 MAR 1865 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 27 DEC 1953 in Leamington, Ontario.
6 iv. Katharina Dick was born 23 JAN 1867, and died 23 FEB 1867.
7 v. Katharina Dueck was born 21 NOV 1868 in Kleefeld, Manitoba, and died 1 FEB 1957 in Steinbach, Manitoba.
8 vi. Jacob Dick was born 22 DEC 1870, and died 30 DEC 1877.
+ 9 vii. Peter Jacob Dueck was born 19 MAR 1873 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 16 MAR 1952 in Waterloo, Ontario.
10 viii. Abram Dick was born 30 JAN 1876, and died 30 DEC 1876.
11 ix. Jacob Dick was born 6 JAN 1878 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 4 JAN 1901 in Brazol, Schonfelder Wolost, Ukraine.
12 x. Elisabeth Dueck was born 8 MAR 1880 in Kleefeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and died 20 NOV 1944 in Ruthven, Ontario.
13 xi. Justina Dueck was born 17 OCT 1882 in Brazol, Schonfelder Wolost, Ukraine, and died 17 JUN 1957 in Jordan Station, Ontario.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=updike&id=I09656

 

1912

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

KRAUSE (No Connection)

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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Kornelius was born Jan 18, 1856.
Married Agatha Dueck February 17, 1883
Died in Rosenhof, Schoenfeld Colony Sep 7, 1901

Kornelius had bought two large farms in Gnadenfeld, Molotschna Colony had the wagon(s) loaded with the household goods ready to move there from Rosenhof, Schoenfeld Colony, when he died of either a stroke or heart attack. Wife Agatha then moved to Gnadenfeld with daughter Agatha, sons Cornelius and Jacob, and daughter Susanna (my Grandmother Susanna Krause Rempel). Widow Agatha Krause thought she was going to be unable to run the farms, so she ended up marrying the hired farm hand Heinrich Dirks, who was much younger than she. Agatha Krause Dirks then had three more children by Heinrich: Marie (Mary Janzen) and Heinz. (Mary has written My Memories and The Batum Story.)

Susanna Krause Rempel emigrated to the US Sept 1923 with her husband Aron Rempel from Gandednfeld, along with their children Marie, Aron, Agatha (my mother), Susanna, and Willy was born in Turkey. Herman, Aunie, and Dietrich were born in the US.

Agatha Dueck Krause Dirks emigrated to the US with husband Heinrich and 3 children. They settled in Connecticut, I think.

Agatha Krause married Carl Rempel, and they emmigrated to USD. I think they also settled in Connecticut.

Cornelius and Jacob Krause married Rempel sisters and emmigrated to Canada.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/krause/messages/826.html [SEE ALSO FOR SUSANNA KRAUSE REMPEL: http://www.calmenno.org/bulletin/fall11.pdf ]

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Your site has helped me with my Great, great Grandmother Susanna Matthies, and adding her siblings. I had extended her line back to her great grandfather from a relative whose family got caught behind the iron curtain, and they still live in Russia, a Retzlaf Harder.

I am a Great granddaughter of Kornelus Krause, who married Agatha Dueck, one of Susanna Matthies's daughters. I know you said you are not related to this Krause. Krause isn't name that shows up much in early village census records, and the Schoenfeld Colony was pretty much destroyed by Macna and the Reds. I am wondering, if there still might not be a connection going back far enough in time. How many generations back do you have of your ancestors, to what years?

Karen Jensen

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I am so happy to have found Mary Janzen's blog!

I am working on the family tree at My Heritage.

Karen Jensen

Pam Sittler replied to comment from Karen S Jensen | August 9, 2011 10:23 AM | Reply
Hi Karen: I believe you are the one who wrote to me about 10 years ago asking for general family information-- I was overwhelmed at the time & didn't know where to start. You only gave your address & no phone number or email address which I would have preferred. Really glad you are in The Rundbrief now!!!! -Pam Sittler in Ontario

Karen S Jensen | November 19, 2011 10:33 PM | Reply
Looking forward to receivining the rundbrief. My biggest hole is information and pictures of Cornelius Krause, and his family. I have some of his brother Jacob, from Joan Braun. I don't have very good ones of Carl and Agatha Rempel either, but I do have a couple. Karen

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mja11/blogs/family/2011/12/where-do-you-fit-in-the-family.html

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