52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 46 Prompt - Progenitor

2024

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Week 47

Prompt – Progenitor

“Ancestors refer to those who came before you in your family tree. Progenitor refers to the originator or initial founder of something or the direct ancestor of a person.”

I consider my family tree progenitor Aron Peters (1746-1802). This is as far back as I can go in the Peters line.

Aron Peters was born in 1746 in Pietzckendorf, Pomerania, Prussia. He died January 1, 1802 in a founding Mennonite Colony in Southern Russia known as Schoenhorst, Chortitza Colony. The name of his first wife is unknown but did have two children with her; Elizabeth (1768) and Helena (1774) and both born in Prussia. Aron Peters married his second wife, Helena Krahn on September 1, 1780. They had 7 children.

Aron Peters and his family were among the first 6 families that left Prussia for Southern Russia. They settled in Schoenhorst, Chortitza in 1789. By 1797 about 500 more families moved from Prussia to Southern Russia.

Then between 1874 – 1880 tens of thousand Mennonites immigrated to Canada and in particular to Manitoba. Over the next 20 years many left Manitoba colonies for Hague, Saskatchewan or Swift Current, Saskatchewan. In the 1920's their was a further immigration to Mexico. Swift Current Colonists went to Cueuhetomoc, Chihuahua, Mexico and the Hague Colonies went to Nuevo Ideal, Durango, Mexico.

My father was from the Hague area colony but his family was one of many that did not go to Mexico and stayed in Hague, Saskatchewan. 

 

Wendy