Gottlieb Hiller

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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: 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

Maria married Michael I Ohlhausen on 17 Nov 1878. Michael (son of Ferdinand Ohlhausen and Karoline 'Wilhelmine' Nelitz) was born on 08 May 1855 in Jakobsonstal, Dobrudscha, Romania; died on 08 Sep 1899 in Konstanza, Dobrudscha, Romania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Johan Eichelberg in 1904 in Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 483
• Reference Number: M1
• Baptism: 17 Mar 1881, Bortscheag, Bessarabia, Russia

Notes:

moved with her parents and lived

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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• Reference Number: 346
• Reference Number: M1
• Baptism: 19 Oct 1883, Unter-Albota, Bessarabia, Russia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 347
• Reference Number: M1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 348
• Reference Number: M1
• Baptism: 12 Oct 1887, Unter-Albota, Bessarabia, Russia

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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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• Reference Number: 320
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Immigration: 1924, Carstairs, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

served a total of seven years for the German army, was wounded three times and won the Iron Cross during the Great War. He served among the "Totenkopfhusaren" and achieved the rank of "Unteroffizier".

Birth:
date and place taken from a news paper article. He most likely was born in Dobrudscha part of Romania.

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Immigration:
to Canada and this time ended up in Henry H Ohlhausen's farming community||After he arrived Henry likly found him a job as a farm hand on the neighboring Fischer farm.

Died:
by his own hand

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• Reference Number: 486
• Reference Number: M1

Notes:

Birth:
She was not in the Unter-Albota Church Book so we assume she was born in Dobrudscha. Her name is mentioned as a living child in the Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha-Deutschen.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Lydia Gitzel
• Reference Number: 351
• Reference Number: M1

Family/Spouse: Gitzel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 487
• Reference Number: M1

Notes:

Birth:
and because he was not in the Albota Church book, we assume he was born after the family moved to Dobrudscha. Sophie said that he died in his teens.

Died:
died in his teens

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• Name: Paulina Roesner
• Reference Number: 350
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Residence: 1921, Freystadt, Germany

Notes:

Name:
and at some time they divorced

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Paulina married Jakob Roesner on 20 Jan 1919 in Pfeilsforf, West Prussia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Emilie Wittig
• Reference Number: 349
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Residence: Abt 1950, Zeulenroda, Germany

Notes:

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Emilie married Heinrich Sr. Wittig about 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 493
• Reference Number: M1

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• Reference Number: 494
• Reference Number: M1

Notes:

Birth:
died as a baby