Re: Gehring's of North Dakota
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Re: Gehring's of North Dakota
2/25/02
Friedrich Gehring (b. 15 May 1855 in Alt Elft, Russia) and Maria Reich (b. 29 May 1852) were farmers in Bessarabia. Children included Elisabethe (b. 4 June 1881), Jakob (b. 25 Mar 1883, d. 27 Feb 1901), Alexander (b. 24 Oct. 1885), Maria (b. 20 July 1887, d. 1888), Bernhard (b. 14 Sept 1889), Emil (b. 7 Feb 1892), Maria (b. 30 Mar. 1893, d. 12 Sept 1894).Birth records for the Parish of Alt Elft are published by Odessa Digital Library (http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html).The family emigrated 14 April 1903 from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the SS Lake Champlain. Destination was listed as Winnipeg but they ended up in Melville, Sask.Bernard and Katharina Anweiller Gehring possibly had 8 children, including your Fred Christian.In checking further, I do have the names for his children that you mention.My husband's grandfather was Rev. Alexander Gehring. If you want more info, e-mail me direct:[email protected].
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Re: Gehring's of North Dakota
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