52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 28 Prompt - Multiple

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Week 28

Prompt – Multiple

Isbrand J Peters. Unknown Year

This is my great-great-uncle.  It goes something like this.  Me > my father – Jacob Peters > his mother – Elisabeth Dueck / Dyck > her mother – Helena Dueck / Dyck > her brother – Isbrand Jacob Peters.  Or to put it another way my great grandmother's brother.  Isbrand Peters had multiple marriages. 

 

His FIRST MARRIAGE was to Anna Quiring.  She was born January 14, 1840.  They got married January 23, 1862 in Burwalde, Chortitza Colony, South Russia.

They had 10 children:

1. Jacob Peters: b: Dec 16, 1862 d: Aug 2, 1940. Born in South Russia and died in Mexico.
2. David Peters: b: Nov 26, 1864 d: Sep 25, 1865. Born and died in South Russia.   Lived less than one year.
3. David Peters: b: Jan 26, 1866 d: Feb 6, 1866.  Born and died in south Russia.  Was 11 days old when he died.
4. Elisabeth Peters: b: Jun 13, 1867 d: Oct 9, 1944.  Born in South Russia and died in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
5. Wilhelm Peters: b: Jun 16, 1869 d: Jun 21, 1948.  Born in South Russia and died in Mexico
6. Anna Peters: b: Sep 24, 1871 d: Oct 11, 1871.  Born and died in South Russia.   Lived only 17 days.
7. Katharina Peters: b: Mar 25, 1873 d: Apr 26, 1875.  Born and died in South Russia.  She died about 4 months before the family immigrated to Canada.
8. Johann Peters: b: Dec 13, 1875 d: Dec 13, 1875. Born and died in Manitoba. Isbrand and Anna's first Canadian born child.
9. David Peters: b: Mar 7, 1877 d: May 8, 1964.  Probably born in Manitoba. Unsure where he died.
10. Kornelius Peters: B: Mar 8, 1879 d: Mar 8, 1879.
    
    
    Sadly Anna, the mother of these children died March 14, 1879.  Since it was only 6 days post-partum, one could assume her death was due to some kind of childbirth complication.   Isbrand is now a single father of 4 children.  It should be no surprise that he remarries later that same year.

His SECOND MARRIAGE was to Helena B Fehr on Dec 11, 1879.  Helena was born Nov 29, 1855 in South Russia.  They married Dec 11, 1879 in Manitoba.

They had 8 children:

1. Peter Peters: b: Dec 8, 1880 d: Jul 23, 1951.
2. Isbrand Peters: b: Oct 14 1881 d: Unknown.   He did marry Susanna Regier and had 8 children with her, last born 1922.  So he died after 1922.
3. Cornelius Peters: b: Apr 5, 1883 d: Unknown. He married Helena Unrau and they had 11 children.  Again the last child was born in 1922 so he died sometime after that.
4. Johan Peters: b: Jul 24, 1884 d: Unknown.  Does not appear to have married so perhaps he died young
5. Franz J. Peters: b: Dec 2, 1885 d: Dec 20, 1943.  He was born in Rural Municipality of Rhineland, Manitoba and died in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  He married Helena Redekopp and they had 15 children together.
6. Abram Peters: b: Nov 16, 1888 d: Apr 18, 1889.   Likely born and died in Manitoba.  Died at the age of five months.
7. Abram Peters: b: Aug 4, 1890 d: May 10, 1892.  Likely born and died in Manitoba just a few months short of his second birthday.
8. Helena Peters: b: Aug 29, 1893 d: Jun 1, 1945.  Helena married David Redekopp and had 10 children.  I believe that Franz and Helena Peters married a brother and sister of the same Redekopp family.
   
   
   Isbrand's second wife died in May 5, 1895,when her youngest child would have been about 20 months old.  Isbrand now has an additional 5 children.

Isbrand's THIRD MARRIAGE was to Katharina Martens who was born Jun 26, 1832.   They married Apr 9, 1896 in Rural Municipality of Rhineland, Manitoba.  Katharina Martens had been married before she married Isbrand and had 5 children in that marriage.   However her children were adults between the ages of 30 and 44 years when she married Isbrand.  Katharina and Isbrand had no children of their own.  Unfortunately Katharina died Apr 5, 1903 in Manitoba after only being married to Isbrand for 7 years. 

Isbrand's FOURTH MARRIAGE was to Anna Heide.   Anna was born in South Russia on Jul 15, 1873.  When Anna was 20 years old she married Jacob Redekopp.   Jacob and Anna had 10 children of which 6 children survived beyond childhood.  Jacob died in 1898 leaving Anna with 6 children; the youngest was 5 years of age.

Isbrand and Anna married on Apr 1, 1905. That was two years after Isbrand's 3rd wife died and 7 years after Anna's husband died.   Isbrand and Anna had no children together.   However the combined households with children must of made for a very full house.  Anna died Sep 4, 1910.   At that time Anna's youngest child by her 1^st marriage, Helena, had been married for a little over a year. Yes this is the Anna who married Isbrand's 5^th child, Franz Peters, of his second marriage.  It's complicated.

Isbrand's FIFTH MARRIAGE was to Aganetha Bolt sometime in 1910, obviously after his previous wife's death on September 4, 1910.  Aganetha was born Feb 23, 1840.   Aganetha was married before her marriage to Isbrand.  Aganetha married Peter Penner and they had two children of which only one survived childhood. Peter Penner died in 1909.  Aganetha's only child from her first marriage was an adult and married by the time Aganetha and Isbrand got married. I do not know when Isbrand's 5^th wife, Aganetha died but Isbrand Peters died December 2, 1919.

Descendants of Isbrand Peters.

Isbrand Peters had multiple marriages to women who also had multiple marriages (to be clear; not at the same time).  This is one great-great-uncle of mine.   I have so much trouble trying to sort out the relationships in my Mennonite families.   Isbrand had 4 brothers and 1 sister who have similar situations.   His sister, Helena Peters (my great-great-grandmother) is my direct line.   What complicates this even further is the fact that they name their children after themselves and siblings.  Thus names such as Isbrand and Helena are used multiple times in each generation as well as being handed down through the generations. Thus when I search for Helena Peters in my Ancestry Tree, I have over 20 identically named women. Remember no middle names to differentiate.

Multiple marriages, large families, multiple reuse of the same names is what Mennonite genealogy is all about.

Wendy