1776 · Marienburg · Low German Mennonite
What happened
Prussia counted every Mennonite household: 2,637 households, 12,190 people, 533 surnames (counted from Penner’s spreadsheet) — including Abraham Busenitz at Warnau and a Jacob Wieb at Altenau.
Ancestors alive at the time
Peter Kaufmann (d. 1803), John Hostetler (d. 1807), Peter Neuenschwander (d. before 1791), Anna Dorothea Mueller (c.1700–1789), Johann Fieguth (1707–1780), Jacob Hochstetler (1712–1776), Christian Daniel Miller (c.1734–1777), John Hochstetler (c.1735–1805), Veronica Mishler (c.1736–1785), Jacob Mast (1738–1808), Abraham Busenitz (1739–1787), Magdalena Holly (c.1740–1820), Anna Busenitz (1744–1797), Anna Penner (fl. 1744), Joseph Hochstetler (c.1746–1812), Isaac Ramseyer (c.1747–after 1817), Michael Holly (arr. 1750), Hans Blank (arr. 1751), Jacob Conrad Sr. (1757–1829), Barbara Mast (1765–1849), Bendicht Neuenschwander (fl. 1766), Elisabeth Leeman (fl. 1766), Abraham Miller (1766–c.1821), John Melchior Plank (m. 1767), Margaret Plank (m. 1767), Jacob Plank (1768–1851), Fanny Miller (b. 1769), Barbara Elisabeth Schmucker (1770–1825), Anna Blank (fl. 1770), Anton Fieguth (1772–1844), Johannes Neuenschwander (1776–1838)
Sources
Record compiled 31 October 2026.
About this research
Supporting documentation is linked throughout. This project is an exercise in AI-assisted research and development, and I haven’t manually verified every link or conclusion. All transcriptions and translations of Swiss parish records were made with AI, and their accuracy should be treated accordingly.