Manfred 'Fred' Erick Jakob

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 390
• Reference Number: M1
• Occupation: 1975, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; a computer operator

Manfred married J. Smith [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 319
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 24 Aug 1924, Trochu, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 1929, Trochu, Alberta, Canada; a farmer || he purchased the John Randomske farm in Trochu
• Naturalization: 18 May 1949, Sardis, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1959, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1972, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1973, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

Immigration:
as he came with his brother Franz Jakob at the same time as the Ohlhausens.

Residence:
sold the farm in Sardis and moved to || where Eric started a logging business.

Erick married Sophia 'Sophie' Ohlhausen on 02 Dec 1926 in Trochu, Alberta, Canada. Sophia (daughter of Michael II Ohlhausen and Elizabetha Reister) was born on 30 Oct 1905 in Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany; died on 27 Feb 1998 in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Peachland, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Sophie Jakob
• Reference Number: 317
• Reference Number: M1
• Baptism: 01 Apr 1906, Rheinsberg, West Prussia, Germany
• Residence: 01 Apr 1912, Leutsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Confirmation: 21 Sep 1919, Rheinsberg, West Prussia, Germany
• Immigration: 24 Aug 1924, Trochu, Alberta, Canada
• Residence: Mar 1933
• Naturalization: 04 Jan 1951, Sardis, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1959, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1972, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1973, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
we find her name on a school record in ||where she attend School until 30 Sept, 1919, which was the mandatory age of 14.

Immigration:
The family had been sponsored by her mother's sister, Barbara Scheunert.

Residence:
they moved from Trochu and rented a farm on Rose Island near Chilliwack BC, but shortly after bought a dairy farm on Tyson Road in Sardis near Chilliwach, BC.

Naturalization:
and became a Canadian Citizen

Residence:
sold the farm in Sardis and moved to || where Eric started a logging business.

Notes:

Married:
where they farmed for several years.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 530
• Reference Number: W1

Friedrich married Anna Wolter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 531
• Reference Number: M1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 310
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Occupation: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany; After moving to Prussia with his mother and siblings, we next find him farming
• Residence: 1906, Leutsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Milit-Beg: Between 1914 and 1919
• Event-Misc: 1922
• Living: 1922, Manchengut, East Prussia, Germany
• Emigration: Aug 1924, Manchengut, East Prussia, Germany
• Immigration: 24 Aug 1924, Trochu, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: Between 25 Aug 1924 and 1935, Trochu, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 01 May 1935, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
• Residence: 1943, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

moved with his parents and lived

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Residence:
moved the family to a farm. || where the children went to school, but their postal address was Rheinsberg and they did their shopping in Briesen. Otto remembered a nice lake in Briesen.

Milit-Beg:
in the German military service. During the war, his sister (likely Paulina) came to Leutsdorf and stayed to help with the farming.

Event-Misc:
the map of Europe was redrawn and the province of West Prussia was given to Poland. Many people were forced to leave their homes and land.

Living:
where the children went to school and the Ohlhausen family and the Franz Jakob family bought an old farm to together. They did their shopping in Osterode and the bigger town in the area was Allenstein. After a couple of years they found that they could not make a living on this farm, so they decided to go to Canada.

Emigration:
with their family, along with the Franz Jakob family, first they took the train from Bissellen near Osterode to Hamburg and then through Netherlands to Calais in France and then from Hamburg. Here they boarded a ship named the 'SS Carmania' which sailed 7 Aug 1924 and arrived Quebec City, Aug 18 stopping at Liverpool England on the way.They took the train (6 days) to Trochu Alberta.

Immigration:
The family had been sponsored by Elisabeth Reister's sister, Barbara Scheunert, who paid there way to Canada and who lived in the Trochu, Alberta area. Mr Scheunert had also sponsored the Jakob family and one of their boys eventually married Sophie.

Occupation:
Otto said, "Aunt Barbara had arranged jobs for Mom, Dad and Sophia on farms in the area and Elizabeth & I lived with Aunt Barbara. Then Dad rented some land and a farmhouse from my uncle where we lived and farmed there until 1935."

Occupation:
received $3500 from the German government for being in the war and he used this money to buy a dairy farm

Residence:
and Otto took over the farm.

Michael married Elizabetha Reister on 08 Mar 1906 in Schönfließ, Briesen, Prussia, Germany. Elizabetha (daughter of Johannes Reister and Magdalena Nehr) was born on 27 Dec 1884 in Eigenfeld, Bessarabia, Russia; died on 27 Feb 1968 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; was buried on 29 Feb 1968 in Chilliwack Cemetery, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elisabeth Ohlhausen
• Reference Number: 343
• Reference Number: M1
• Residence: 1891, Gross Holee, Dobrudscha, Romania

Notes:

Birth:
Her marriage certificate says Jan 6, 1885

Occupation:
a homemaker and farmer's wife throughout her life and traveled from Romania to West Prussian, East Germany, and Canada with her husband. After arriving in Canada she did domestic work to earn money, as the family lived in separate farms until they were established. They moved from Trochu to Chilliwack where they had a dairy farm until retirement.

Residence:
moved with her family

Notes:

Married:
Schönfließ was a very small town just west of Briesen and not far from thier farm in Pfeilsdorf.

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• Reference Number: 2
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: Abt 1891, Cobadin, Dobrudscha, Romania
• Religion: 1897, Cobadin, Dobrudscha, Romania

Notes:

Religion:
the Ohlhausen family was one of 52 German families listed in a German publication of the area as 'Evangelical'

Michael married Maria Elizabetha Hiller on 17 Nov 1878. Maria (daughter of Gottlieb Hiller and Christina Leitz) was born on 28 Dec 1860 in Fere Champenoise, Bessarabia, Russia; died on 31 May 1920 in Briesen, West Prussia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Maria Eichelberg
• Name: Maria Ohlhausen
• Reference Number: 250
• Reference Number: M1
• Baptism: 01 Jan 1861, Fere Champenoise, Bessarabia, Russia
• Immigration: Abt 1891, Cobadin, Dobrudscha, Romania
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany

Notes:

After Michael died, Maria took her 3 sons and 2 daughters to Pfeilsdorf, W. Prussian where the family grew up and the girls married. When Maria married Johan Eichelberg, she moved into the 'big' house or inspectors house on the estate along with her younger children. Michael II and his wife traveled with the family and farmed in the area at Leutsdorf.

Birth:
Fere Champenoise is a different name for the same town as Neu-Elft in Bessarabia.|| (see note Book M1 - page 23); per Elvira Necker

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• Reference Number: 527
• Reference Number: M1

Johannes married Magdalena Nehr on 04 Jan 1862 in Grossliebental, Bessarabia, Russia. Magdalena was born on 13 Sep 1843 in Freudental, Bessarabia, Russia; died about 1890 in Kogealia, Dobrudscha, Romania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Magnalena Reister
• Reference Number: 528
• Reference Number: M1

Notes:

Name:
Alternative spelling: Neher