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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828 by Peter Rempel

On Page 78 ¹ , it reads....

"Johann Cornies 62 (b. ca. 1742) with his wife Maria 43 (b. ca. 1761), sons Johann 15 (b. ca. 1789), Peter 13 (b. ca. 1791), David 11 (b. ca. 1793), daughter Katharina 5 (b. ca. 1799). From Marienburg.  In Grodno they  received 47 rubles 73 kopeks in silver for food (from July 1,1804 until the departure date July 4,1804 plus an additional 40 days) and 50 rubles in banknotes for animal feed for the trip." ²


¹ Printed by permission Manitoba Historical Society.
² Peter Rempel, Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828, Alfred H. Redekop and Richard D. Thiessen, eds. (Winnipeg: Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, 2007)78.