Krause at Port Crewe

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KRAUSE GENEALOGY

KRAUSE AT PORT CREWE

Alexander Crewe and Hired Men

William Alexander Kennedy

Wartime Collections - W. A. Kennedy - (R.C.A.F. F/L Kennedy, William Alexander, C1236E) in Elizabeth J Marshall, Crewe Family of Ontario, p. 359
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/crewe/index.htm

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1926

My parents, John [born November 24, 1893 in Schönbrun, South Russia] and Marie Dick, along with my brother Henry and I [John H. Dick, born December 26, 1921 in Alexanderkrone, South Russia] docked in Quebec in August of 1924. ... During the winter of 1926, our family, along with the Mathies, Thiessen and Berg families, rented a house near Tavistock ... In the meantime, Reverend Jacob W. and Mrs. Lohrenz had come to Essex County to act as liason for immigrant families coming to the Essex-Kent area. In spring of 1926, my Father came to take a look around. First he went to see Cornelius Neufeld who was already working in the fishery at Port Crewe ... [In 1926 Margaretha Dick, widow of Abram (b. July 6, 1889-October 28, 1919) and her children "joined the Cornelius Neufeld family, renting two tobacco farms near Wheatley ..."

http://ekmha.ca/john_h%20Dyck%20story.htm ; Ernest J. Dick, Courage, Courage, The Lord Will Help, The Family History of Johann P. Dück and Descendants from Schönfeld, Southern Russia (Leamington, John H. Dick, 1990), pp.49-52, 57-60

1928 - 1938

In 1928, at the urging of Jake Kornelsen (brother of Maria Mietz Kornelsen), Frederick Wilhelm Krause, Marie Mietz, Krause and Heinrich Wilhelm Krause, moved from Germany to the seventh concession, Wheatley, Ontario. They shortly moved to Port Crewe, about thirty kilometres east of Wheatley, on Highway 3, the Talbot Trail, where F. W. Krause worked on a fishing boat for Crewe Bros. Fishery.

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Article, May 14, [1938]

Where The Krause Family Stayed in Port Crewe

Elizabeth J Marshall, Crewe Family of Ontario, p. 846
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/crewe/index.htm

His father worked at Crewes, in Port Crewe, at $1.00 per day. He worked only three days a week in the winter [Source: Karl Krause]
The last building was passed on the to the daughter [Source: Karl Krause]
Helena Kornelsen (b. June 17, 1901) [Tante Leintje; Tante Lensch], sister of Maria Mietz, and her husband Cornelius Neufeld (August 5, 1898-June 2, 1972), who were married May 31, 1924, lived in Port Crewe where their three children were born:
CHILDREN:
- Helena Neufeld (April 18, 1925, Port Crewe -) married Gerhard Founk
- Agnes Neufeld (April 23, 1926, Port Crewe -) married David Cornies
- Helga Neufeld (February 5, 1930, Port Crewe -) married Abram Driedger
- Genealogy of Heinrich Kornelsen, 1807-1975, compiled for Ernest J. Klassen by K. Peters, Winnipeg (Winnipeg, December 1, 1975), p. 21; Genealogy of Aron Martens, 1754-1977, compiled for Ernest J. Klassen by K. Peters, Winnipeg (Winnipeg, July 1, 1977), p. 225
Here, at Port Crewe, F. W. Krause worked on a fishing boat.
Here, at Port Crewe, Karl Rudolph Krause was born, on September 3, 1931
In 1938, the family moved to Point Pelee where he and Maria purchased their own fishery.

c. 1931

H. William (Bill) Krause - "Willy"

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H. William (Bill) Krause - "Willy"

1931

H. William (Bill) Krause - "Willy"

c. 1932

F. William Krause

Karl R. Krause - "Rudy" - Maria M. (Kornelsen) Krause

1932

May 1932

May 1932
Graded Lesson Course - Junior
The United Church Of Canada
Board of Religious Education
Bible Study Certificate

[August]

Karl R. Krause - "Rudy"

August, 1932

Karl R. Krause - "Rudy" - 11 Months Old [b. September 3, 1931

[August, 1932]

F. William Krause Family - Karl R. Krause - "Rudy"

Note the same building, central, in the rear

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/crewe/index.htm

1933

February, 1933

F. William Krause (January 18, 36 years), Maria M. (Kornelsen) Krause (May 5, 33 years)

Karl R. Krause - "Rudy"

2 Years Old

c. 1934

Mr. Story and Karl R. Krause - "Rudy" - where Maria M. (Kornelsen) Krause worked.

1934

MAY 3, 1934 / SEPTEMBER 11, 1934

Karl R. Krause - "Rudy"

c. 1935

H. William (Bill) Krause - "Willy" (rear), Karl R. Krause - "Rudy" (front)

1935

July 6, 1935

July 6, 1935
High School Entrance Certificate

H. William (Bill) Krause

1936

SEPTEMBER

Maria Mietz (Kornelsen) Krause, H. William (Bill) Krause (rear), Karl R. Krause - "Rudy" (centre) and F. William Krause

c. 1937-1938

Rudy Krause - c. 1928 at School
Union S.S.#2 E., Tilbury East and Raleigh,
Miss Fern Gleeson Teacher (Later Crewe)

[Note: Karl Rudy Krause, then living (1928 - 1938) at Port Crewe, and identified as going to this school,
was born September 3, 1931, and in Grade 1 - Thus the 1928 date is incorrect]

Elizabeth J Marshall, Crewe Family of Ontario, p.841
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/crewe/index.htm -

The School was located across from the Crewe property [Karl Krause]

Alta Fern Gleeson Crewe (31 October 1905 – 17 February 2008)
... her early days ... a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse

http://www.electricscotland.net/100.htm

As A Kid Eric R. Krause Visited the Site of the Fishery and Where His Grandmother Worked the Fields

THEN

Elizabeth J Marshall, Crewe Family of Ontario, p. 981
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/crewe/index.htm

NOW

Thanks to: http://www.electricscotland.net/canada_29.htm

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