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Gerhard Niessen


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Birth:

Born:

About 1789

1,2,3,4

Death:

Died:

Bef 1852


 Last update of Individual data:

16 August 2021

Parents:


Family #110361

Father:

Von Niessen, Johann

About 1757, Prussia


Mother:

_?_, Anna

About 1759, Prussia

#115383

Spouse:

Driedger, Elisabeth

About 1789


Married:

1810 1811, Chortitza Colony, South Russia

5,6

Children:


   1 —

  

Niessen, Franz

1811, Burwalde, Chortitza, South Russia


   2 —

+

Niessen, Franz

12 January 1813, Chortitza Colony, South Russia


   3 —

  

Niessen, Anna

About 1815, Schoenhorst, Chortitza, South Russia


   4 —

  

Niessen, Elisabeth

About 1816, Chortitza Colony, South Russia


   5 —

+

Niessen, Katharina

16 August 1824

Notes:

  • Note: In the October 1816 Chortitza Colony Census he is listed in Burwalde among the landless.

Citations:

1 

[62]

1801 Chortitza Colony list of Landless ( (, Odessa Archives. [89]

2 

[357]

1816 Chortitza Colony Census (October 1816) (, State Archives of Dnipro Region (DADO) Fond 134, Opis 1, Delo 498, State Archives of Dnipro Region (DADO).

3 

[212]

Unruh, Benjamin Heinrich, Die niederlandisch-niederdeutschen Hintergrunde der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Heinrich Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1955 [239, 274]

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4 

[9570]

Glenn H Penner, 1795 Chortitza Colony Revision List (, State Archives of the Dnipro Region.

5 

[9213]

1810 Chortitza Colony Census (October 1810) (, State Archives of Dnipro Region (DADO).

6 

[5637]

1811 Chortitza Colony Census (May 1811) (, State Archives of Dnipro Region (DADO).
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