Mary 'Ella' Olhausen

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• Name: Ella Kusler
• Reference Number: 99
• Reference Number: M1
• Residence: Walsh, Alberta, Canada
• Education: Between 1926 and 1938, south of Irvine, Alberta, Canada; the Newburg school. ||During that time she went to the Nueburg Church of God.
• Residence: 1942, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

Name:
Ella grew up being called (and thinking that her name was) 'Mary Ella' and was not happy when she saw Ella Maria on her birth certificate and, Dave said it cost $60 to make legal a legal change to Mary Ella

Residence:
lived and worked on Dave's parent's farm

Residence:
where Dave worked for the bus company and Ella worked as a waitress. Dave eventually started his own bus company.

Mary married Dave Lawrence Kusler on 20 Dec 1941 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Dave (son of Emil Kusler and Dorothy Flemmer) was born on 21 Aug 1918 in Walsh, Alberta, Canada; died on 13 Feb 2010 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. M.S. Kusler
2. C.J. Kusler
3. D. Kusler

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• Name: Henry Olhausen
• Reference Number: 322
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Immigration: Abt 1912, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 1915, Irvine, Alberta, Canada
• Naturalization: 03 Jul 1928, Irvine, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 1944, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

moved with his parents ||where he spent his earlier life

Birth:
and was baptized on the 5th of February.

Name:
Reuben confirmed that his father legally changed his last name to "Olhausen", because he lived very close to his cousin Henry H. Ohlhausen and their mail was continually being mixed up. Wayne Fuller's grandfather Henry H Ohlhausen told him that he added an "H" between his first and second names because there was another Henry Ohlhausen living very close and their mail was always mixed up. This explains why this branch of the family has the spelling 'Olhausen'.

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Immigration:
likely because he had 2 uncles farming south east of Medicine Hat at Irvine, AB.

Occupation:
bought the Daniel Gill homestead south of Irvine || and this farm was about 1 mile south of the Wilhelm Ohlhausen homestead, which was taken over by his son Henry H. Ohlhausen in 1917.

Naturalization:
It was interesting to find that he used the spelling 'Ohlhausen' on his naturalization papers dated

Occupation:
they sold the farm south of Irvine and bought a dairy farmer near || and then in 1947 he bought a 400 acre ranch in Nevis, AB and ran 100 head of cattle.

Heinrich married Mathilda 'Matilda' Mayer on 28 Feb 1913 in Newburg, Alberta, Canada. Mathilda (daughter of Ludwig Mayer and Maria Bischel) was born on 03 May 1895 in Bessarabia, Russia; died on 15 Jul 1981 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 18 Jul 1981 in Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mathilda Ohlhausen
• Reference Number: 323
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: Apr 1899, Irvine, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

Immigration:
landing first in New York and traveling through S. Dakota.

Notes:

Married:
and we know that in 1914 he worked for the Ogilvie Flour Mill in Medicne Hat for $2.25 per day.

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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: 535
• Reference Number: M1

Ludwig married Maria Bischel. Maria was born on 06 Apr 1875; died on 17 Apr 1926; was buried on 18 Apr 1926 in Church of God Cemetery, Newburg, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Maria Mayer
• Reference Number: 536
• Reference Number: M1

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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: 537
• Reference Number: M1

Samual married Eva Holz on 31 Oct 1872 in Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia. Eva was born on 27 Jul 1854 in Bayern, Germany; died on 16 Apr 1935 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 18 Apr 1935 in Church of God Cemetery, Newburg, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 538
• Reference Number: M1