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.

The Orchestra

Johann Cornies of Germany provided this image of an orchestra and help is needed in identifying some of these people.  This image was taken circa 1929 in Ohrloff.  This would be the Paul Friesen Orchestra with members Johann Cornies (this particular Johann Cornies has not been identified in the genealogy documents), Andreas Suderman, Paul Friesen, Ira Janzen, Paul Janzen, Helga Suderman, Kolja Janzen.  Not everyone in the image has been identified but someone may have the same photo and could provide some assistance.  Please leave a comment.

Johann Cornies (1868-1936)

The last male descendant of the noteworthy Johann Cornies  (1789-1848)  was this Johann Cornies (no. 80 in Nachkommen von Martin Cornies version 20130523) who immigrated to Canada and settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region of Ontario.  He had one adult son who was killed in Ukraine at the age of 21 prior to the family's immigration into Canada.

Thanks to Patrick Murphy, the photograph of the headstone at the grave of Johann Cornies in Waterloo is shown below.

Nachkommen von Martin Cornies version 20130523.pdf

Thanks to Johann Cornies and family located in Germany, an updated family tree document has been created and placed in the Documents Folder. Click on the red "Documents Folder" title on the right side of the page. That will take you to the folder where this document can be downloaded.

Vielen Dank Johann!

Dank Johann Cornies und Familie in Deutschland, hat eine aktualisierte Stammbaum Dokument erstellt und in den Ordner Dokumente. Klicken Sie auf das rote "Documents Folder" Titel auf der rechten Seite.  Das wird Sie zu dem Ordner, in denen dieses Dokument heruntergeladen werden kann.

Memrik Colony

A little farther north from the Molotschna colony in Ukraine was another Mennonite colony known as Memrik. Johann Cornies of Germany provided some old photographs from this colony.  Jakob Cornies (no. 346 in the document Nachkommen von Martin Cornies version 20120925) and Gerhard Cornies (no. 345) are included in these photographs.  There is also an Ekatharina Kornis listed in the names.  She is the adopted daughter of Heinrich Cornies (no. 153 in the document Nachkommen von Martin Cornies version 20130523).  The "Cornies" surname is spelled "Kornis" in the names below the photographs.  An old map of this colony shows the general area of the Memrik colony and the town of Orlov (also Orloff and Bahndorf) in that colony.


 

 A contemporary image of the same area was taken from Google maps and shows the following...

 

 Perhaps some of our readers are familiar with the people in the following images...


 

 

Low German Mennonite Genealogy Forum

For anyone interested, a new forum about Low German (Plattdeutsch) Mennonite Genealogy has started and we would like to invite you to visit and have a look at the following link...

mennonitegenealogyforum.com/forum


Thanks to Steve Fast for bringing this to our attention and administering this site.

1835 Census

Further information provided by Steve Fast is the census data from 1835 which shows a number of people living at #25 Ohrloff at the home of Johann Cornies (1789-1848).  It is assumed that these people living with Johann Cornies would have been people under his employ or perhaps individuals that he assisted in acquiring their own farms.  That census information follows...