Preservings 11 (1997) - Plett Foundation

ter her second marriage), later moved to
Neustädterwald, then Einlage (Rosenort
Gemeinde).
The children of Kornelius Friesen include:
4.1. Gerhard (b. 1765). He moved to Russia
in 1788-89 and settled at Schönhorst,
Wirtschaft No 10: BHU, 241, later moving
to Nieder-Chortitza in 1803;
4.2. Abraham (1768-1817);
4.3. Kornelius (1773-1815). He came to Russia
in 1793 as a single man and received one
of the homesteads of Johann Janzen of
Schönwiese. Wirtschaft 9: BHU, 244;
4.4. Johann (b. 1774). He came to Russia in
1796-98 with his widowed mother and 2
younger sisters (see below). He married
Katherina Mandtler of Marienburg and received
the Einlage homestead of Gerhard
Janzen. He moved to Nieder-Chortitza where
this village was founded in 1803;
4.5. Margaretha (1779-1812);
4.6. Helena (b.1781) married Wilhelm
Redekop of Neuendorf. Her mother was living
with them in 1802.
4.2. Abraham Friesen (1768-1817).
Abraham moved to Russia in 1788-89
with his brother Gerhard. In 1791 he married
Anna Dirksen and established a homestead
in Neuendorf, Wirtschaft 25 (1795:
BHU, 241), Wirtschaft 12 (1802; BHU, 254).
Later he moved to Nieder-Chortitza,
Wirtschaft 30: BHU, 282, possibly inheriting
a homestead of his brother.
Abraham Friesen’s children include:
4.2.I. Maria (1792-1804);
4.2.2. Anna (1793-97);
4.2.3. Abraham (b.1794);
4.2.4. Kornelius (1797-1885);
4.2.5. Anna (b.1797);
4.2.6. Jacob (1801-86);
4.2.7. Peter (b.1806);
4.2.8. Helena (b.1814) married Jacob
Dirksen.
4.2.4. Kornelius Friesen (1797-1885).
Kornelius Friesen married Anna Kähler
and later came to Canada where he was living
with Jacob Zacharias in Schönwiese,
West Reserve, Manitoba 1881 census. He was
not a Bergthaler. His children include:
4.2.4.1. Kornelius (1824-1912) married 1)
Sara Harms, 2) Aganetha Peters. Neuenberg,
West Reserve, Manitoba 1881 census;
4.2.4.2. Sara (b. 1828) married Peter Fröse;
4.2.4.3. Abraham (1830-1910) married
Justina Ens, Schönwiese, West Reserve,
Manitoba 1881 census;
4.2.4.4. Helena (1822-1904) married
Abraham Döll;
4.2.4.5. Gerhard (b. 1835) married Susanna
Ens. Schönwiese, West Reserve, Manitoba,
1881 census;
4.2.4.6. Peter (1845-1905) married Aganetha
Theichrob. Schönwiese, West Reserve, Manitoba
1881 census.
4.2.6. Jacob Friesen (1801-86).
Jakob Friesen (1801-86) married Helena
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Dyck and later moved to Bergthal, BGB A36.
[Helena Dueck was a sister to Agatha Dueck,
mother of Aeltester Gerhard Wiebe (1827-
1900), Chortitz, Manitoba (E.R.)]. Jakob
Friesen came to Canada as a widower and
was living with Johann Kähler in 1881.
Hochfeld, East Reserve, Manitoba 1881 census.
Jacob Friesen’s children include:
4.2.6.1. Helena (b.1829) married Peter Buhr:
see Nettie Neufeld, Descendants of Peter
1905. Peter Friesen Buhr (1862-1914). His Daughter
Katharina Buhr married Bernhard Friesen and
they were the parents of Nettie Neufeld, author of the
“Peter Buhr” family book, and Lenora, Mrs. Abram
J. Thiessen, founder of “Thiessen Bus Lines”, formerly
of Rosenfeld, Manitoba. Photo courtesy of Nettie
Neufeld, Descendants of Peter Buhr 1816-1887 (Steinbach,
1984), page 68.
Buhr 1816-1887 (Steinbach, 1984), 135
pages, for a listing of this family. Son Peter
F. Buhr married Aganetha Abrams and they
were the grandparents of Nettie Neufeld, a
frequent contributor to Preservings.
4.2.6.2. Jacob (1834-1910) married Helena
Penner. BGB B186. Moved to Butterfield,
Minnesota;
4.2.6.3. Kornelius (1837-39);
4.2.6.4. Abraham (1840-1916) married Anna
Friesen, BGB B187. Moved to Butterfield,
Minnesota;
4.2.6.5. Heinrich (1842-1926) married
Agatha Hiebert, BGB B232. Hochfeld, East
Reserve, Manitoba 1881 census. A number
of Heinrich’s journals are still extant and
have been translated and published by Irene
Kroeker in Historical Sketches,
pages 465-596.
4.2.6.6. Aganetha (1845-1936) married Peter
Dyck;
4.2.6.7. Maria (1848-1917) married (1)
Erdmann Buhr, (2) Aron Buhr.
Note: Some of the above information, and
further additional information is from the excellent
family history, “The von Riesen-
Friesen story 1769-1987” by Adeline (C. J.)
Friesen of Mountain Lake, MN.
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Heinrich Friesen (1842-1921), Hochfeld, Manitoba.
Heinrich Friesen served the ministry for 40 years—4
years as deacon and 36 as minister. He preached 998
times and conducted 71 funerals and 21 weddings.
Photo courtesy of Irene Enns Kroeker, “Rev. Heinrich
Friesen,” in Preservings, No. 5, January, 1995, page
13.
4.2.7. Peter Friesen (b. 1806).
We know very little regarding this Peter
Friesen, if he was married, and if he had children.
He appears to have come to Canada in
the 1870s and was living at Reinland, West
Reserve, at the time of the 1881 census.
5. Jacob Friesen of Einlage.
Jacob Friesen was probably born circa
1750, son of the Abraham Friesen, mentioned
as a Landowner at Einlage, West Prussia, in
1772. He probably inherited Abraham’s farm
and in 1776 is listed of middle-class economic
status with two sons. Because he was
a member of the Rosenort Gemeinde, and
most of the church records for Rosenort have
been lost, we know very little regarding this
Jacob Friesen.
In later years his sons moved to villages
in the south and west, presumably because
some of the lands were less developed and
therefore less expensive. These villages include
Czatkau on the west bank of the
Vistula, Oberfeld and Kurzebrach in the
Marienwerder to the south, all of which belonged
to the Heubuden Gemeinde. Many of
his children later moved to Russia in 1818-
19.
His children include:
5.1. Abraham (b. circa 1773, d. 1826);
5.2. Johann (b. circa 1775);
5.3. Jacob (b.1776) married (his second wife)
Susanna Klassen, lived at Czatkau, moved
to Margenau, Molotschna in 1818 (1835 census);
5.4. Peter (b.1789) married (1) Helena Dyck,
(2) Anna Klassen, moved to Lichtnau,
Molotschna in 1818 (1835 census);