1789 · Danzig · Low German Mennonite
What happened
West Prussian Mennonites began moving to New Russia (Chortitza, 1789; Molotschna, 1804), facing land restrictions at home. By 1835 about 1,600 families lived in 72 colonies; by 1914 about 100,000 Mennonites.
Ancestors alive at the time
Peter Kaufmann (d. 1803), Mary Yoder Plank (d. 1850), John Hostetler (d. 1807), Peter Neuenschwander (d. before 1791), Sarah Miller (d. 1857), Anna Dorothea Mueller (c.1700–1789), John Hochstetler (c.1735–1805), Jacob Mast (1738–1808), 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), Barbara Kaufmann (1779–1844), Barbara Klopfenstein (fl. 1779), Johannes Ramseyer (1780–1853), Anna Augsbourg (fl. 1780), Michael Schrock (1782–1860), Peter Lehman (1782–1861), Ulrich Leeman (fl. 1782), Maria Thüler (fl. 1782), Catharina Fuhrimann (1782–1853), Anna Fuhrimann (b. 1788), Maria Wiens (1788–1872)
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.