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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Contribution of the Mennonites to the development of Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An essay in the special centennial issue about the role of Mennonites in settling Waterloo County and their subsequent contributions as farmers, entrepreneurs, educators, lawyers, clergy and ...Keywords: MennonitesAgricultureOccupationsWomenIndustriesSettlersPennsylvania GermansAmishWaterloo CountyBeasley's TractYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:Descendants of John Hess Brubacher D-14, 1782-1862 of Juniata County and his nephew "Cooper" John Sherk Brubacher D-63, 1807-1887 of Ontario, Canada
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy including many Waterloo descendants. One of the earliest Brubachers to settle in the Waterloo region was John W. Brubacher who came to Woolwich Township from Pennsylvania in about 1825 ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesIndigenous peoplesBiographiesSaw mill industryTextile IndustrySettlers PennsylvaniaBrubacher familyBrubacher John W.Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1825-1977Export options:Family records of the descendants of pioneer Joseph Bauman, also some records of David and Henry Bauman
Type: BookAbstract: A revised edition of Angus S. Bauman's {Family records} (1940). The genealogical charts and the name index are updated to 1967, but the family history at the front of the book, the essay "Glimpses of ...Keywords: MennonitesGenealogyBauman JosephBauman HenryBauman DavidBauman familyTransportationRoadsSettlers PennsylvaniaWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:History and genealogy of the Witmer family
Type: BookAbstract: A book by the president of Spae-Naur Inc. of Kitchener. The Witmer family came from Pennsylvania to Waterloo Township in 1804 and is connected by marriage with the Groh, Gingerich and Reichert ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesTunkersSettlersPennsylvaniaFarmersMennonitesWaterloo TownshipRosebank19th centuryYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1804-1977Export options:History of the descendants of Daniel M. Weber, 1836-1888
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy including biographical notes on many family members.Keywords: GenealogySettlersPennsylvaniaWeber familyMennonitesBiographiesWeber Daniel M.Lancaster County Pennsylvania19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:Kinzie family history: study research material, incomplete
Type: BookAbstract: Working papers including a bibliography, biographies of the American Kinzies, and a genealogy beginning in 1716. Dilman Kinzie and his wife Barbara came to Doon from Pennsylvania in 1800. Dilman died ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers PennsylvaniaWomenBiographiesMennonitesKinzie familyKinzie DilmanKinzie James A.Kinzie JohnKinzie WilliamYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1800-1977Export options:Pannabecker - Panabaker: a family history by the late Cornelius Arthur Panabaker about 1960
Type: BookAbstract: Short biographies of members of the Panabaker family, including the author, descendants of pioneer settlers in the Hespeler area in 1810. Many of the family were farmers and some were later ...Keywords: Settlers PennsylvaniaTemperance movementChurches MethodistFarmersWomenTextile IndustryWar 1812World War IPanabaker FamilyPannebecker Nancy Detweiler (m. Cornelius)Year of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1810-1966Export options:Samuel Betzner
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An obituary for Samuel Betzner (1771- 1856), reprinted from the "Berlin Chronicle" of August 27, 1856.Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansObituariesBiographiesSettlersWaterloo TownshipUpper CanadaBetzner SamuelMennonitesYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1798-1856Export options:The Henry Baer family history
Type: ReportAbstract: A genealogy of the descendants of Henry Baer (1842-1927) and Leah Bowman (1847- 1937), Mennonite farmers of Wilmot Township. There is a biographical introduction for each of the fourteen children ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesFarmersBiographiesSettlers PennsylvaniaBaer HenryBaer Leah Bowman (m. Henry)Baer FamilyEby DanielEby Angeline Baer (m. David)Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1842-1977Export options:Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A partly fictionalized account of how the early Pennsylvania Mennonite and Tunker settlers came to Waterloo Township and paid Richard Beasley forty thousand dollars for sixty thousand acres. The ...Keywords: FictionTunkersLand ownershipAgricultureCustoms and traditionsPennsylvania GermansSettlersUpper CanadaWaterloo TownshipGerman languageYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1804Export options: