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REUNION 2014
The reunion was held on August 2nd & 3rd 2014 at the Pembina
Thresherman’s Museum near Morden, Manitoba,
Canada. Click here
for the original invitation brochure that was sent out for
this event.
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PHOTOS
History & Sermon Presentations
Honored Family Patriarchs & Matriarchs
Family Group Photos
Helena Branch [Pink]
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Cornelius Branch [Red]
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Elizabeth Branch
[Purple]
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Maria Branch [Green]
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Peter Branch [Yellow]
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John Branch [Orange]
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Diedrich Branch [Teal]
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Abram Branch [Blue]
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Musical & Comedy Entertainment
Great Food & Weather
Hard Working Volunteers
Family Branch Displays
Chortitz Village and Cemetary Tour
VIDEOS
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[Special Music by Wiebe Family and
Anne Guenther]
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[Thiessen History Presentation by Abe
Janzen and Darren Enns]
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THIESSEN HISTORY
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THIESSEN FAMILY OLD PHOTOS &
DOCUMENTS
For a look at a great collection of old photographs of the
Thiessen family line, see this
Google site.
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THIESSEN FAMILY TREE
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THIESSEN FAMILY TREE POSTER
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THIESSEN NAME ORIGIN
- North German and Danish: reduced form of the
personal name Matthias or Mathies(s) (see Matthew) [Dictionary
of American Family Names, Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4]
- The German surname of THIESEN was a baptismal name
'the son of Mathew'. The name was found in medieval
registers throughout Europe and means 'gracious gift
of Jehovah'. It was an exceedingly popular font name
during the 11th and 12th Centuries. This given name
was of biblical origin, ultimately from the Hebrew
male font name MATITYAHU, recorded in the Greek New
Testament in the form MATTHIAS. The name has numerous
variant spellings which include THIESS, THIES, DEUSS,
THEWES, DIESING, MATHEW, MATHEY, MATHIE, MATHYS,
MATEO, MATAS, MATTASER and MATESSIAN, to name but a
few. Surnames which were derived from ancient Germanic
personal names have the same meaning in many
languages...[Thiesen
Coat of Arms / Thiesen Family Crest]
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THIESSEN FAMILY IN RUSSIA
[Mennonite colonies of southern Russia (©
Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba)]
THIESSEN FAMILY OCEAN
VOYAGE
[Map of the journey from the Fuerstenland
daughter colony of the Chortitiza
colony in the Ukraine to the homestead area near
Winkler Manitoba Canada in 1875]
The CANADIAN owned by the Allan
Line was a 2,911 gross ton ship built by T.Royden
& Sons, Liverpool in 1872. Her details were - length
349.9ft x beam 35.6ft, one funnel, three masts, iron
construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There
was passenger accommodation for 25-1st and 850-2nd class.
Launched in August 1872, she sailed from Liverpool on her
maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal on 23/8/1873. On
2/12/1873 she commenced her first Liverpool - St John's NF
- Halifax - Baltimore voyage and on 14/5/1874 started her
first Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal crossing. She
inaugurated a Glasgow - Montevideo - Buenos Aires service
for the Allan Line when she sailed from Glasgow on
11/11/1876 and in 1882 was chartered as a troopship for
the Egyptian Expedition. Her first Glasgow - Boston
sailing started on 21/5/1884 and her first Glasgow -
Philadelphia sailing on 25/6/1884. She left Glasgow on her
last North Atlantic voyage on 1/10/1891 and her last
Glasgow - S.America voyage on 22/9/1902. She was scrapped
the following year. [North Atlantic Seaway by
N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.314] [The
Ship List]
This ad comes for the Allan Line from a very
interesting traveler's book from 1875 called A Graphic Description of
the Dominion of Canada and its Provinces:
THIESSEN FAMILY IN CANADA
[Canadian Land Grant of 160 acres to Diedrich Thiessen,
located at 17-2-4SW]
[Map of Manitoba West Reserve with
markers for original villages (© Ernest Unrau
at Kronsfeld
Cemetary Memorial Project)]
[Location photo of original property & memorial
plaques for Village/Cemetary of Chortitz]
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DEDICATION
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This web page created in memory of
Anne Guenther (Thiessen) [1917-2015], daughter of
Diedrich Thiessen [1890-1975], grand-daughter of
Diedrich Thiessen [1844-1921].
She was very happy to be able to attend the
reunion, and we were all blessed to have her
there.
She passed away the next year on January 26,
2015. Till we meet again!
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