2025
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Week 10
Prompt - Siblings
Elizabeth Wendel (nee Fesser) is Bill's maternal great-aunt. That is Bill - Clara Jahnke (mother) - Ida Bachmann (grandmother) - Wilhelmina Fesser (great-grandmother). Wilhelmina's sister was Elizabeth Fesser. Elizabeth Fesser married Peter Wendel , Elizabeth and Peter immigrated to Canada about 1888 from Galacia, Austria. They married in Winnipeg circa 1892. The 1891 Canada Census has Peter Wendel as a single gentleman living in Winnipeg. The 1901 census has Peter and Elizabeth Wendel living on a farm in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan.
I found this photograph in Clara's batch of saved photos and it was named "Wendel Siblings; ca 1915". It took me a little while to figure out who they were in The Hoffart Family Tree. There was something about the photograph that I liked.
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| Wendel Siblings ca. 1915. |
The descending heights was amazing. They obviously had their children very close together. I also thought what a lucky man Peter Wendel was to have so many male children to help on the farm. Their oldest child was a female named Wilhelmina and she was born in 1894 meaning she would be 20ish and probably married at the time of this photograph. They also had another daughter named Carolina born in 1898 making her about 17 at the time of this photograph. She was not married until 1919. This makes me think that photographing his sons was the main purpose of the photograph.
Below is a list of their children. I think from the list that you could match up the names to these children. I haven't done it.
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| Peter Wendel |
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| Elizabeth (Lizzie) Wendel |
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