1869 · Am Trakt · Low German Mennonite
What happened
Am Trakt, on the Volga, was settled from 1853 by West Prussian Mennonites seeking exemption from military service. Gerhard Fieguth’s family came in 1869; Aron and Maria Wiebe about 1872–73.
Ancestors alive at the time
Maria Wiens (1788–1872), Jacob Reich (c.1795–1873), Louise Eckinger (c.1797–1873), Nathan Smiley (1797–1872), Abraham Sprunger (1797–1889), Daniel Jacob Conrad (1798–1882), Elizabeth Yoder (1799–1890), Christian Gerig (fl. 1800), Elizabeth Goldschmidt (fl. 1800), Christian Mast (fl. 1800), Susanna Kurtz (fl. 1800), Joseph Kurtz (fl. 1800), Catherine M. Zook (1801–1875), Christian Hostetler (1801–1875), Abraham Mast (1802–1877), Christian Nisly (emigrated 1804), Katharina Utz (1808–1889), Johann Claassen (1810–1874), Peter Claassen (fl. 1810), Margarete Wiebe (fl. 1810), Veronica Fanny Kurtz (1811–1889), Catherine Weaver (1811–1893), Christian P. Neuenschwander (1812–1884), David Reusser (1813–1896), Jacob Wiebe (c.1815), Susanna Nisly (1816–1885), Abraham Warkentin (fl. 1816), Anna Enss (fl. 1816), Anthony G. Gonser (1817–1887), Jacob Toews (1819–1877), Peter Toews (fl. 1819), Katharina Siemens (fl. 1819), John Zook (fl. 1820), Anna Entz (c.1820), Elizabeth Warnes (1821–1897), Peter Ramseyer (1822–1880), John Smiley (1822–1879), Anna Stutzman (fl. 1822), Verena Habegger (1822–1894), Christian Stauffer (1802–1892), Gerhard Fieguth (1823–1896), Mary Conrad (1825–1912), Anna Maria Lehman (1825–1886), Peter R. Sprunger (1825–1898), Barbara Reich (1826–1894), Catharine Epp (1826–1886), Moses Schrock (1828–1909), Sara Reimer (1828–c.1883), Marianna Moser (1829–1894), Christina Gerig (1832–1909), Christina Yoder (fl. 1832), Katherine Sprunger (1833–1904), Joseph Plank (1834–1914), Eli D. Miller (1835–1913), Mary Mast (1837–1908), William C. Hummel (1837–1912), Martha Gonser (1839–1908), Jakob Reusser (1840–1916), Johann Claassen (1840–1886), Joseph Gerig (fl. 1841), Samuel Kuhns (1843–1918), Aron J. Wiebe (1845–1922), Magdalena Slabaugh (1847–1925), Maria Fieguth (1847–1890), Jacob C. Neuenschwander (1848–1921), Gertrude Toews (1850–1943), Elizabeth Stauffer (1855–1919), Daniel Ramseyer (1856–1942), Rebecca Smiley (1856–1932), Fanny H. Plank (1857–1942), David Schrock (1858–1903), Christian C. Sprunger (1860–1940), Noah E. Miller (1860–1910), Sophronia Elizabeth Hummel (1861–1935), Rosina Reusser (1862–1950)
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.