Wilhelm Siemens (1857 - 1935)

Born 10 Nov 1857 in Russian Empire

Descendants

Died 29 Nov 1935 at age 78 in Gruenfeld, Durango, Mexico

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Wilhelm Siemens was a Black Sea German.

Biography

Wilhelm was the son of Wilhelm Siemens & Katharina Martens.

He immigrated to Canada aboard the S S Peruvian, arriving at Quebec City on July 13, 1875.^[1]

WIlhelm married Anna Doerksen on December 9, 1880 and had 12 children in Manitoba, and 2 sons in Saskatchewan, before her death at Warman, Saskatchewan in 1911.

He remarried to Agatha K Vogt and had 3 daughters. Wilhelm died at Gruenfeld, Durango, Mexico on November 29, 1935.

Sources

1. ↑ Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
   Place: Quebec, Canada; Year: 1875; Page Number: 295
   Ancestry ca Record 7486 #3679462 (accessed 31 October 2022)
   Name: Wilhelm Siemens; Age: 17; Birth Year: abt 1858; Arrival Year: 1875; Arrival Place: Quebec, Canada; Primary Immigrant: Siemens, Wilhelm; Source Publication Code: 317.30; Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Extracted from Quebec passenger lists which are available on microfilm at the Public Archives of Manitoba, the Winnipeg Public Library, and the Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives in Winnipeg. The source, itself, is among the holdings of the Family History Library, Salt Lake City.; Source Bibliography: BARKMAN, CATHY FRIESEN. Quebec Passenger Lists with Names Compared to the Hamburg Passenger Lists and Families Cross Referenced to Church Registers. In Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, edited by John Dyck and published by Hanover Steinbach Historical Society, Box 1960, Steinbach, MB, 1993, pp. 253-333.;
   Household Members (Name):
   Wilhelm Siemens.

• "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6M-VXW : 2 March 2021), Wilhelm Siemens, Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing Wilhelm Siemens, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

• "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHR2-9HV : 23 February 2021), William Siemens, Saskatchewan, The Territories, Canada; citing p. 17, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

• "Canada, Northwest Provinces Census, 1906", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHV4-MDB : 17 March 2022), Wilhelm Siemens, 1906.

• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBQ-FK1W : 15 August 2022), William Siemens, 1911; citing Census, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm .

See Also:

• GRanDMA database. (The Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry) https://grandmaonline.org/guest?IND=182259 Accessed 23 Oct 2022.