Michael II Ohlhausen

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• 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]

Notes:

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

1. Sophia 'Sophie' Ohlhausen 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.
2. Elizabeth Ohlhausen was born on 30 Oct 1908 in Leutsdorf, Breisen, Prussia, Germany; died on 10 Jan 2005 in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
3. Otto Wilhelm Ohlhausen was born on 06 Jan 1914 in Leutsdorf, West Prussia, Germany; died on 10 May 2008 in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; was buried on 12 Jun 2008 in Chilliwack Cemetery, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

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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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• Nationality: This information came from Karl Stumpp and we assume that it is correct because several family documents show him as 'a subject of Prussia'.
• Reference Number: 1
• Reference Number: F1
• Occupation: Between 1855 and 1862, Jakobsonstal, Dobrudscha, Romania; a teacher || and as a teacher at that time he also performed certain church duties.
• Religion: 09 Jun 1858, Jakobsonstal, Dobrudscha, Romania
• Occupation: 1862, Catalui, Dobrudscha, Turkey/Romania; Wilhelm's birth record || indicates that Ferdinand was a teacher
• Occupation: Between 1864 and 1880, Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia
• Confirmation: 18 May 1873, Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia
• Residence: 1881, Unter-Albota, Bessarabia, Russia

Notes:

baptized his son Jakob I

Bortscheag was a large estate owned and managed by people from France that employed German workers and was situated 6km northeast of the German settlement of Albota. Some research into the history of the Bortscheag Germans finds that many were so-called Separatists and followed Ignaz Lindl's religious teaching. Copies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Books begin in 1864 and most of the entries for the next nearly twenty years were made by the teacher Ferdidand Ohlhausen.

Religion:
It is possibly that Ferdniand was a so-called Separatist in 1858 because the church record for Jakob's baptism shows that he was a teacher but the “Ev. L” (protestant Lutheran) under Ferdinand’s name, had been crossed out. According to an expert in this area, this may indicate that he was not a Lutheran at that time. Wilhelm's birth record in 1862 shows both Ferdinand and his wife Wilhelmine, as Protestant denomination.

Occupation:
a teacher|| and as such performed church functions in this settlement. The records indicate that he performed marriages and nearly 200 baptisms during this time. These were always authenticated later by the pastor who came periodically from Galatz, Romania.

Confirmation:
Role: Witness

Residence:
moved to Unter-Albota Bessarabia, and from the Lutheran Church books we know that he continued church work because his signature is on many birth, marriage and death records. He also worked as a vineyard keeper, in the summers and falls.

Died:
and it was noted on his death record that he was a Prussian Subject.

Ferdinand married Karoline 'Wilhelmine' Nelitz between 1850 and 1853 in Jakobsonstal, Dobrudscha, Romania. Karoline (daughter of Johann Nelitz and Louise Jastrow) was born on 29 Oct 1831 in Leipzig, Bessarabia, Russia; died on 30 Apr 1908 in Sarata, Bessarabia, Russia; was buried on 02 May 1908 in Sarata, Bessarabia, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Wilhelmine Ohlhausen
• Reference Number: 247
• Reference Number: F1

Notes:

After her father died in April 1835 her mother Luise Jastrow, married Philipp Schorr. We can follow Schorr family's movements by their children's birth place: 1838-1840, Leipzig, Bess; 1847-1852 Jakobsonstal, Romania; 1854 Gnadental, Bess. || would have been 16-21 years old during the time the family was in Jakobsonstal.

Notes:

Married:
The date was estimated from Wilhelmine’s family movements.

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• Reference Number: 489
• Reference Number: M1 - page 17

Gottlieb married Christina Leitz on 28 Dec 1850 in Fere Champenoise, Bessarabia, Russia. Christina (daughter of Gottlieb Leitz and Ursela Koenig) was born on 19 Jan 1833 in Fere Champenoise, Bessarabia, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Christina Hiller
• Reference Number: 488
• Reference Number: M1 - Page 17

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• Reference Number: 512
• Reference Number: F1

Johann married Louise Jastrow on 22 Jan 1829 in Tarutino, Bessarabia, Russia. Louise (daughter of Johann Dan. Jastrow) was born in 1813 in Bittau, West Prussia, Germany; died on 08 Nov 1874 in Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia; was buried on 10 Nov 1874 in Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Louise Nelitz
• Name: Louise Schorr
• Reference Number: 513
• Reference Number: F1

Notes:

Name:
The Odessa record for the birth of her daughter`Louisa Dorthea` indicates that her name was `Dorthea Louisa`(F1, page 33)

Died:
died of respiratory problems

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 490
• Reference Number: M1 Page 17

Gottlieb married Ursela Koenig in 1826. Ursela was born in 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 491
• Reference Number: M1 - Page 17