Album: Family of Pat Gillis and Elmer Wiens
Friends 1 | Friends 2 | Friends 3 | Friends 4 | Friends 5
Holidays 1 | Holidays 2 | Holidays 3 | Holidays 4
Family 1 | Family 2 | Family 3
| Family 4 | Family 5 | Family 6 | Family 7 | Family 8 | Family 9
Yarrow Days | Yarrow Scenes | Yarrow Pioneers: Vedder River Flats & Majuba Hill
| Vancouver Views | Victoria Times
Yarrow Elementary Junior High | Yarrow Junior High 1953-57 | Junior High Student Council
| Yarrow Friends
1994 School Reunion 1 | 1994 School Reunion 2
| 1994 School Reunion 3 | 1994 School Reunion 4
Vedder River | Vedder Mountain
UBC Reunion | Critical Paths | Mug Shots
Family - Time slips away
Wiens - Derksen Family
Derksen Genealogy | Martens Genealogy | Wiens Genealogy | Peters Genealogy
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Yarrow Cemetery - Mom's Funeral - Katharina (Tienche) Derksen Elmer Wiens, Pat Gillis, Alvin Siemens, Betty Rempel, Alfred Wiens, Hilda Van Bergen, George Siemens, Victor Siemens |
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| Raymond Wiens | Elmer Wiens |
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| Luetta Wiens | Alfred Wiens |
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"1012 Yarrow Central Road Biker Gang" Luetta Wiens, Raymond Wiens, Alfred Wiens, Elmer Wiens |
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"Derksen Sisters (New Years 1980)" Sally Siemens, Elise (Boyle) Derksen, Kay Simpson (Mother) |
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| Julius Derksen - Uncle Julius | |
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Christmas - 1959 Katie Wiens, Julius and Elise Derksen, Grandmother, Grandfather, George and Sally Siemens |
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| Children: Eddy Siemens, Elmer and Luetta Wiens Also Present: Phillip and Wendy Derksen; Betty, Alvin, Hilda, Victor, and Dennis Siemens; Raymond and Alfred Wiens |
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George Siemens - Uncle George Elmer, Uncle George, Gerhard (Dad) |
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Wiens and Siemens Children Raymond and Elmer Wiens, Betty, Hilda, and Alvin Siemens |
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| Wiens and Derksen Children - Cultus Lake 1958 |
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| Wendy Derksen, Luetta Wiens, Phillip Derksen, Elmer Wiens, Alfred Wiens, Raymond Wiens |
| Wendy and Elmer, May 28, 2005 |
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| Ed Siemens, Elmer Wiens, Dennis Siemens (Winnipeg, June 10, 2007) |
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Grandfather Julius Derksen's Funeral, 1961 Katie, Katharina, Julius, Sara |
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Grandmother Katharina Derksen's Funeral, 1965 Katie, Julius, Sara |
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| Katharina and Julius Derksen (Grandmother and Grandfather) |
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| Aunt Sally's Funeral - Eddy Siemens, Betty Rempel, Betty Wiens, Alfred Wiens |
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| New Years Party 1979/80 - Phillip Derksen and Alvin Siemens |
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| Elise and Julius Derksen | Wendy and Phillip Derksen |
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| Sarita Vogels - February, 2006 |
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Sarita and Wendy Vogels - March, 2005 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
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Going to Church in the Winter by Horse Team and Sleigh Blumenhof, Saskatchewan |
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Going to Church in the Spring by Horse Team and Buggy Blumenhof, Saskatchewan |
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Grandfather Derksen's Church Choir Blumenort, Saskatchewan |
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| Grandfather Derksen Cutting Wheat (1931) |
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| Pig Butchering Time - Blumenhof, Saskatchewan |
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| Derksen Farm - Blumenhof, Saskatchewan |
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| Yarrow Pioneers - Four Derksen Brothers, 1929 |
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Julius and Katharina Derksen Family (1935) Julius, Grandmother, Grandfather, Katie, George Siemens, Sara, Jacob |
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Julius and Katharina (Martens) Derksen Family (1925) Arrival in Gnadentahl, Manitoba Johann Derksen's Farm Sara, Katie, Katharina, Julius, Julius Jr., Jacob |
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| The Derksen (Dirksen) family became landed immigrants in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on November 25, 1925, having sailed on the Empress of France (passage paid by themselves) from Southampton, England on October 31, 1925. Of Russian Nationality, they were classified as German speaking people of the German Race, from Sarabash, Crimea. They left Russia traveling on the train from Moscow, crossed the border into Latvia through the Red Gate, and sailed to England from Rigal after they were processed by Canadian Immigration Officials. Grandfather (Julius) was 40, Grandmother (Katharina) 37, Jacob 13, Sarah 12, Katharina 9, and Julius 3. They proceeded to Canada under the auspices of the Mennonite Board, Rosthorn, Saskatchewan with the intention of farming in Canada, traveling with Russian Passports (43298 and 43288) issued in Pjatizarsk, Russia. They listed Grandfather's brother, Martin Dirksen, of Rekeman, Tauriou as next of kin in Russia. Immigration records indicate Grandfather had $500 dollars when he landed in Quebec. |
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Gerhard and Katarina (Goossen) Derksen Family (1929) Agnes (cousin), Jake, Annie Mr. and Mrs. Derksen Gerhard is Grandfather's brother |
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| Susan Derksen, Aunt Lena, Caroline Derksen, Luetta Wiens |
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| Susie Derksen and Family (Yarrow, September 17, 2005) |
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| Caroline Derksen and Elmer Wiens (Yarrow, September 17, 2005) |
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| Grandfather Julius Derksen's Military Service | |
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Three Derksen Brothers (1907) Johann, Heinrich, Julius (Grandfather) | Derksen Brothers (1915) Gerhard, Julius, Cornëlius Boschman |
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Grandfather Julius Derksen's Military Choir (1909) |
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After Catherine the Great acquired the Crimea and lands contiguous to the Black Sea, she invited foreign nationalists to settle in regions that now are part of the Ukraine. On January 19, 1788, the Prussian Mennonites in the Dantzig area "received directly from the most benevolent Russian Monarch herself the assurance of the highest imperial protection and grace" along with "65 dessiatins of the finest lands for each family" (Hildebrand 16). They also received "such gracious rights and privileges" as the freedom to worship as Mennonites, including exemption from military service. Mennonite families founded the Choritza Colony (the "old" colony) in July 1788, numbering 228 families by 1789. After Tsar Paul (in 1800) extended similar privileges, 342 Prussian Mennonite families established the Molotschna Colony (the "new" colony) in 1804. By 1840, 6,000 persons had settled in South Russia (Lohrenz 1). Seventy years after Tsar Paul's Charter of Privleges, Russian authorities challenged the Mennonites' pacifism, by legislating universal military service for all Russians (1874). When about one-third of the Mennonite population of 60,000 emigrated to Canada and the U.S.A. (by 1880), young Mennonite men were offered the alternative of state service in forestry camps. During the war with Japan in 1904-05 and during W.W.1., many young Mennonite men and women found service in the medical corps, often on the front lines, more meaningful (Klippenstein and Dick 3-36).
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Sara and Jacob Martens Great Grandparents Grandmother Derksen's Parents |
Katharina (Dekker) and Wilhelm Martens Great, Great Grandparents Grandmother Derksen's Grandparents |
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Whilhelm Martens, son of Whilhelm and Maria (Nikkel) Martens, was born on January 5, 1819 in the village of Tiegenhagen of Marienburg, Prussia, about six miles from Dantzig. At the age of sixteen, he apprenticed as a tailor with Kornelius Loepp. In 1837 he emigrated (walked) to Halbstadt, Russia where he met and, in 1844, married Katharina Dekker, daughter of the Hutterite couple, Benjamin and Susanne Dekker. While living in the Hutterite Colony of Huttertal with Katharina's parents, Whilhelm and Katharina had ten children. In 1872, the family moved to Zagradovka in the province of Kherson, a new Mennonite settlement purchased by the mother colony of Molotschna. Katharina died at the age of 89 years. When Whilhelm died in 1919 at the age of one hundred years, the extended family numbered 211 persons (Lohrenz 8-13). Lohrenz, Gerhard. Zagradovka. Trans. Victor G. Doerksen. Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 2000. | |
| Family of Sara (Krôker) and Jacob Martens | |
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Back Row: Sarah Martens, Julius Derksen, Abraham Friesen, Franz Martens, Wilhelm Martens, Jacob Martens, Elizabeth Martens Front Row: Katharina (Martens) Derksen, Maria (Martens) Friesen, Sarah (Kröker) Martens, Jacob Martens, Anna (Ott) Martens, Katharina (Wiens) Martens | |
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Great Grandmother Anna (Janzen) Derksen and Great Grandfather Jacob Derksen (1886) Grandfather Julius Derksen is two years old |
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Back Row: Katharina (Reimer) and Peter Front Row: Anna (Janzen) Derksen, Jacob Derksen, Julius Derksen |
| Derksen Family (1910) |
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Anna, Maria, Julius, Johann, Matilda, child Gerhard, ___ Goossen, Adolf Reimer, Martin, child, child, child Annchen,Tina, child, |
| M.B. Gemeindechor von Tiege, Sagradowka, 1911 |
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Derksen Genealogy - Compiled by Grandfather Julius Derksen
Click for Complete Derksen Genealogy going back to 1605!
The Derksen name was spelled many ways: Dürksen, Doerksen, Duerksen, Deurksen, Dirksen, Dirkson, Dircksen. Dürksen or Doerksen was the usual spelling in Prussia and Russia, while Derksen is the most common spelling in Canada.
Russian birth and death dates use the Julian Calendar.
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A. Great, Great, Great Grandfather Julius Gerhard Dircksen, (b. May 5, 1746, son of Gerhard Dirksen and Sara Claassen; d. 1828) | |||||||||
Great, Great, Great Grandmother Margaretha Claassen, (b. 1774, daughter of Abraham Claassen) | |||||||||
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B. Great, Great, Great Grandfather Martin Regehr (Regier), (b. 1778, son of Johann Regier; d. May 27, 1854) | |||||||||
Great, Great, Great Grandmother Maria _____ (b. 1784) | |||||||||
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Great, Great Grandfather Jacob Julius K. Derksen, (b. March 9, 1803; d. March 10, 1858) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great, Great Grandmother Maria M. (Regehr) Derksen, (b. July 7, 1807; ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Great, Great Grandfather's Brother Johann Julius Derksen, (b. May 1, 1800; d. ) | ||||||
Great, Great Grandfather's Sister-in-Law Margaretha Hamm, (b. 1804; d. ) | ||||||
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Great Grandfather Jacob Derksen, (b. February 11, 1832; d. January 23, 1910) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Grandmother Anna (Janzen) Derksen, (b. September 23, 1840; d. 1909) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Great, Grandfather's Cousin Jacob Derksen, (b. June 9, 1832; d. January 1921) | ||||||
Great, Grandfather's Cousin-in-Law Helene Delesky, (b. October 5, 1835; d. February 16, 1918 ) | ||||||
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Grandfather Julius Derksen, (b. January 27, 1884; d. March 10, 1961, buried Yarrow Cemetery, B.C.) | |||||||||||||||
Grandmother Katharina (Martens) Derksen, (b. December 30, 1886; d. May 31, 1965, buried Yarrow Cemetery, B.C.) | |||||||||||||||
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Grandfather's Brother Gerhard Derksen, (b. March 7, 1879; d. December 20, 1965) | |||||||||
Katarina Goossen, (b. October 21, 1876, Alexandertal, Russia; d. May 2, 1945, Chilliwack, B.C., buried in Yarrow cemetery) | |||||||||
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Grandfather's Brother Johann Derksen, (b. September 19, 1880; d. April 26, 1955) | |||||||||||||||
Louise Fletcher | |||||||||||||||
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Grandfather's Second Cousin Peter Doerksen, (b. July 25, 1877; d. May 21, 1922) | ||||||
Grandfather's Second Cousin-in-Law Katharina Reimer, (b. September 23, 1877; d. November 3, 1959, Gnadenheim, Paraguay) | ||||||
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George Siemens, (b. October 24, 1907, Saskatchewan; d. February 8, 2005) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Mother's Sister Sara Siemens, (b. April 10, 1912, Russia; d. November 21, 1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Father Gerhard Peter Wiens, (b. November 26, 1913, Saskatchewan) (remarried Erica Neumann (b. August 15, 1924)) | |||||||||||||||
Mother Katie (Tina) Wiens (Derksen) , (b. March 28, 1915, Russia; d. January 3, 2004, Langley, B.C.) (remarried Dixon Cameron Simpson) | |||||||||||||||
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Mother's Brother Julius Derksen, (b. March 23, 1921, Russia; d. March 3, 1978, Abbotsford, B.C.) | |||||||||
Elise Boyle, (b. October 23, 1924, Vancouver, B.C.; d. July 24, 1994, Abbotsford, B.C.) | |||||||||
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Mother's Cousin Jacob Derksen, (b. Oct. 20, 1911, Alexandertal, South Russia; d. July 15, 1994, Chilliwack, buried in Yarrow cemetery | |||||||||||||||
Susie Giesbrecht, (b. December 6, 1916 Wohldenfuerst, Kuban, Russia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Giesbrecht) | |||||||||||||||
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Mother's Cousin David Derksen | |||||||||||||||||||||
Margaret Thiessen | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mother's Third Cousin Peter Doerksen, (b. March 14, 1905; d. ) | ||||||
Mother's Third Cousin-in-Law Susanna Kliewer, (b. December 18, 1916; d. ) | ||||||
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Martens Genealogy - Compiled by Franz W. Martens
Courtesy of the Centre for Mennonite Brethern Studies
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A. Great, Great, Great Grandfather Wilhelm Martens, (b. April, 1792; d. March 12, 1848) | ||||||||||||||||||
Great, Great, Great Grandmother Maria Nikkel, (b. June, 1797; d. February 26, 1835) | ||||||||||||||||||
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B. Great, Great, Great Grandfather Benjamin Dekker, (b. November 23, 1797, son of Benjamin and Katharina (Kleinsassser) Dekker; d. December 6, 1868) | ||||||||||||||||||
Great, Great, Great Grandmother Sussanna Wijap, (b. March 6, 1798; d. July 30, 1868) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Great, Great Grandfather Wilhelm Martens, (b. January 5, 1819; d. May 4, 1919) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great, Great Grandmother Katharina (Dekker) Martens, (b. July 13, 1826; d. January 30, 1916) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Great Grandfather Jacob Martens, (b. November 8, 1853; d. February 8, 1930) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Grandmother Sara (Krôker) Martens, (b. August 3, 1854, daughter of Johann J. and Maria (Sudermann) Krôker; d. February 15, 1922); Married October 7, 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grandfather Julius Derksen, (b. January 27, 1884; d. March 10, 1961, buried Yarrow Cemetery, B.C.) | |||||||||||||||
Grandmother Katharina (Martens) Derksen, (b. December 30, 1886; d. May 31, 1965, buried Yarrow Cemetery, B.C.) | |||||||||||||||
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George Siemens, (b. October 24, 1907, Saskatchewan; d. February 8, 2005) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Mother's Sister Sara Siemens, (b. April 10, 1912, Russia; d. November 21, 1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Father Gerhard Peter Wiens, (b. November 26, 1913, Saskatchewan) (remarried Erica Neumann (b. August 15, 1924)) | |||||||||||||||
Mother Katie (Tina) Wiens (Derksen) , (b. March 28, 1915, Russia; d. January 3, 2004, Langley, B.C.) (remarried Dixon Cameron Simpson) | |||||||||||||||
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Mother's Brother Julius Derksen, (b. March 23, 1921, Russia; d. March 3, 1978, Abbotsford, B.C.) | |||||||||
Elise Boyle, (b. October 23, 1924, Vancouver, B.C.; d. July 24, 1994, Abbotsford, B.C.) | |||||||||
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