Otto Wilhelm Ohlhausen

1914 - 2008  (94 years)

• Name	Otto Wilhelm Ohlhausen
  Birth	06 Jan 1914	Leutsdorf, West Prussia, Germany   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada   [2]
  took over the family farm ||in 1943 and milked cows until 1971 and then raised cattle until 1991. As of 1998 the remaining 30 acres of farmland was rented.
  Reference Number	311
  Reference Number	M1
  Retired	1978	Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada   [2]
  Death	10 May 2008	Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada   [3]
  Burial	12 Jun 2008	Chilliwack Cemetery, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada   [4]
  Person ID	I311	Ohlhausen
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Michael II Ohlhausen,   b. 03 May 1882, Unter-Albota, Bessarabia, Russia d. 13 Apr 1956, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Elizabetha Reister,   b. 27 Dec 1884, Eigenfeld, Bessarabia, Russia d. 27 Feb 1968, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	08 Mar 1906	Schönfließ, Briesen, Prussia, Germany   [5, 6]
  	Schönfließ was a very small town just west of Briesen and not far from thier farm in Pfeilsdorf.
  Photos » Slide Show		Ohlhausen, Michael II and Family Otto Ohlhausen said this was the family farm in Leutsdorf and the people in the photo were Michael, wife and first two children. Otto was born here in 1914.
  		Ohlhausen, Michael II and Family This map shows mostly E Prussia, but in the bottom left corner you can see the town of Pfeilsdorf which is in W Prussia, where their first farm was in 1904. This map also shows the town of Manchengut in E Prussia, where the family lived in 1922 before coming to Canada in 1924. Otto told me that the children went to school in this town and 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.
  		Ohlhausen, Michael II and Family This map shows the area of West Prussia where the family lived from about 1904 until about 1922 In 1904 he was on a farm in Pfeilsdorf In 1906 they were married in Schönfließ In 1906 they moved to a farm in Leutsdorf and did most of their shopping in Rheinsberg. Briesen was the big town in the area. The picture of the farm was taken in Leutsdorf as they lived here from 1906 until 1922 when they moved to Manchengut in East Prussia and then to Canada in 1924
  		Ohlhausen, Michael II and Family The picture of the farm in Leutsdorf was on a Postcard and this is the back of that postcard. The family lived here from 1906 until 1922. You can see that it was mailed in Rheinsberg, West Prussia, perhaps in 1914, as at that time they lived nearby in Leutsdorf.
  Documents		Ohlhausen, Michael II family passenger list to Canada Ship Name: Carmania Departure Liverpool, Aug 7, 1924 to Quebec Ohlhausen, Michael, age 42, Country Germany, to England at Harwich Ohlhausen, Elizabeth, age 40,-same Ohlhausen, Sophie, age 19, -same Ohlhausen, Elizabeth, age 16, -same Ohlhausen, Otto, age 9, -same
  Family ID	F205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wilhelmina 'Minnie' Beierle,   b. 04 Feb 1915, Leipzig, Bessarabia, Russia d. 04 Jul 2007, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	02 Oct 1936	Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada   [7]
  Children	+ 1. G.W. Ohlhausen
  Family ID	F206	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - - Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Marriage - 02 Oct 1936 - Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Retired - 1978 - Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Death - 10 May 2008 - Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Burial - 12 Jun 2008 - Chilliwack Cemetery, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S62] Birth Certificate, Ohlhausen Otto, (6 January 1914), M1, page 18-3, M1, page 3. [S54] Otto Ohlhausen, Interview, Ohlhausen Otto - 1998, (4 May 1998), M1, page 18-3, M1, page 18. [S389] Obituary of Otto Ohlhausen, (16 May 2008), M1, page 49, M1, page 49. [S400] Chilliwack Cemeteries, Cemetery record, Chilliwack, BC., (Chilliwack Cemeteries, 10100 Hillcrest Drive, Chilliwack, BC, Canada, June 2009), Cremated and buried with his mother in Row "M" Grave 220; M1, page 3D, M1, page 2a, 3c, 3d. [S51] Sophie Jakob, Interview, Jakob Sophie, (1997), Gave the marriage date as April 1904; M1, page 15, M1, page 14, 15. [S434] Book, Church Book Entries, Germany Lutheran Bapt, Marriages and Burials 1567-1945 - ancestry.com Schönfließ [Prussia] March 8, 1906 Today the following appeared before the registry (and his signature below) for the purpose of Marriage: 1. the worker Michael Ohlhausen, known, Protestand, morn May 3. 1882 in Unteralbota in Russia, living in Rosenthal. Son of the worker Michael Ohlhausen deceased in Romania, and his wife Maria Elizabeth nee Hiller living in Pfeilsdorf, district of Briesen. 2. the single worker Elisabeth Reister, known, Protestant, born Jan 6, 1885 in Neu Schampoly in Russia, living in Rosental. Daughter of worker Johannes Reister and his wife Magdalena nee Nehr, both deceased in Romania. Source: Ancestry.com, Eastern Prussian Provinces, Germany Civil Records 1874-1945 Citation: Landesarchiv Berlin, Personenstandsregister 1876-1945 Laufendenummer 58735; M1, page 4b/4c, F2, Section 4, pages 0-26. [S54] Otto Ohlhausen, Interview, Ohlhausen Otto - 1998, (4 May 1998), M1, page 18-1, M1, page 18.