Johann & Maria (Loewen) Eitzen 1865 – 1933

Fotos gesucht von Dorf Zentral im Raum Bielefeld: Dave Loewen schreibt: Ich bin mit der Autorin von "Das Dorf Zentral", Susanne Isaak, über ihre Tochter Helena in Kontakt getreten. Sie versorgte mich mit einigen weiteren Informationen über Johann Eitzen, die ich nicht kannte. Was die "schönen Fotos" der Eitzen Wirtschaft betrifft, die sie gesehen hat und in ihrem Buch erwähnt, so hat sie in dem Brief, den ich heute erhalten habe, angegeben, dass sie an die Spenderin zurückgegeben wurden, eine junge Frau (1996), die die Fotos geerbt hat und an deren Namen sie sich nicht erinnert, aber glaubt, dass sie in Bielefeld lebt. Wenn jemand von dieser Frau hört oder weiß, wer sie sein könnte, wäre ich sehr dankbar auf einen Hinweis.

Education in Pretoria

Public school was begun in 1904, shortly after the village of Pretoria was formed; the Abraham J. Loewen family had arrived two years earlier. The language of instruction was German, with Russian as the second language, and the children started school at age 7 or 8. Jacob Loewen began school in the fall of 1910. In his memoirs, he describes his early education experiences at some length, and for the most part, this account is based on his memoirs.

Life in Pretoria Before The Turmoil

Pretoria, Village #14 in the Orenburg settlement, was founded in 1903. Owing to the Mennonites’ sympathies with the Afrikaans-speaking Boers, as opposed to ‘the English’, of South Africa, Pretoria was named after the principal city of the Boers. It consisted of a wide dirt road separating two rows of houses, with approximately 15—17 homes on either side of the street. A public school stood on the north side of the street, in the middle of the village, and a high school stood (die Zentralschule) at the end of the street, on the south side.

Petersdorf

Both the Prussian census of 1772 and the diary of Aeltester Gerhard Wiebe refer to Baumgart, Prussia, as the residence for Elias Peters. Son, Daniel Peters, and Elisabeth Brandt had only one child, according to records – Daniel Daniel Peters (1794 – 1879). He came to Russia in 1806 with his maternal grand-parents, Jakob J. and Susanna Brandt, although this fact is contradicted in some documents.
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