The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia
Compiled November 2002 by Tim Janzen & Tatyana
Makarenko
Odessa Archives
Fund (Fond) 6, Inventory 1: 1829
File 2402. File concerning the inheritances of the colonists
and Mennonites in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the
Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about inheritances of Ekaterinoslav
Settlement colonists. Mennonites who received an inheritance in West
Prussia were the following:
Jacob Esau (Altonau); infant children Johann and Margaretha Woelk
(Molotschna Mennonite District), their tutors Hermann Wiens and Dirk
Warkentin; Margaretha Klassen, nee Epp, and her husband Bernhard Klassen
(Pordenau); Peter, Maria, Margaretha, and Elizabeth Fast (Muntau);
Maria Katherine Kubler nee Leist (Neusatz); Margaretha Braun nee Suckau
and her husband Gerhard Braun (Chortitza); Christian Janzen (Fuerstenwerder);
Agnate Toews nee Siemens and her husband Julius Toews (Rosenthal);
Peter Siemens (Rosenthal); infant children Wilhelm, Helena, Johanna,
Margaretha, and Katherine Siemens, their tutors Isaak Toews and Peter
Siemens (Rosenthal); Helena Harder nee Penner and her husband Gerhard
Harder (Halbstadt); Peter Reimer (Tiegerweide); Aron Peters and tutors
of his daughter Helena, Jacob De Fehr and Jacob Bergen (Neuendorf,
Chortitza District); Jacob Schenke (Tiegerweide); heirs of Klassen
(Petershagen); Helena Koop and her husband Jacob Kempfer (Muntau);
Johann and Kornelius Koop, Katherine Koop and her husband Jacob Berg
(Muntau); Abraham, Gerhard, Heinrich, Dietrich, and Andreas Koop;
Heinrich Koop, Jr. (Muntau); Gerhard, Klaus, Kornelius, and Gerhard
Fast, Katherine Fast with husband Isaak Fast, tutors of maid Agnate
Fast and Johann Fast (Molotschna Mennonite District); Maria Klassen
nee Epp and her husband Jacob Klassen (Kronsgarten); Wilhelm and Johann
Klassen (Kronsgarten); Isaak Wall (Tiegenhagen); Abraham Wall (Pordenau);
Abraham Funk (Schardau); tutors of the infant children Heinrich and
Jacob Quiring (Schardau); Helena Voth nee Dirks and her husband Kornelius
Voth; Franz Wiens and his wife (Halbstadt); Regina Regier nee Kuntz
and her husband Johann Regier (Schoensee); Helena Thiessen nee Rempel
and her husband Abraham Thiessen (Ladekopp); Elizabeth Engbrecht nee
Reissue and her husband Dietrich Engbrecht (Gnadenheim); Martin Thiessen
(Pordenau); Johann Plett (Blumstein); Johann Nickel (Neukirch); Katherine
Penner nee Goertz and her husband Johann Penner (Pastwa); Anna Kroeker
and her husband Franz Kroeker (Muensterberg); Peter Wieler (Nieder
Chortitza); Franz Lammert (Elisabetthal); Maria Harder nee Martens
and her husband Jacob Harder (Neukirch); Heinrich Martens (Litchfelde);
Johann Quapp and his wife (Schoenhorst).
- Information about the Mennonites from the village of Ohrloff, namely
Johann and Peter Cornies with their wives, Dirk Boldt, tutors of the
infant children Katherine, Margaretha, and Jacob Klassen, who had
been summoned for decision about their inheritance.
- Information about the Mennonite Jacob Fast from Fuerstenwerder.
- Information about sending the death certificate of the infant Anna
Klassen to tutors in West Prussia.
These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Jan 1829 to 6 Feb 1831. 187 pages.
File 2407. Statistical information regarding the welfare of
the colonies dependent on the Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav*, Odessa Guardianship
Offices, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers for 1828.
- Statistical lists containing information about the number of births,
deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers in the colonies of the
Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, and Odessa Settlements and in the colonies
of the Prut, Kagul, Ismail, and Budjak Districts.
- Statistical lists containing information about the harvest and sowing
of grain in the same colonies.
- Statistical list containing information about the number of fruit,
mulberry trees, and vines in the colonies.
- Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies,
and about the number of the colonists, implements, and artisans.
- Statistical list containing information about the acquisition of
household effects in the colonies.
- Statistical lists containing information about the number of cattle
and the number cattle deaths in the colonies.
- Statistical lists containing information about the state of village
reserve stores in the colonies.
- Statistical lists containing information about estates that were
transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another person during
1828.
- Review of the state of the colonies dependent upon the Ekaterinoslav
Guardianship Office for 1828 and for 1829.
- Statistical lists containing information about the Sarata Colony
and the Schabo Colony for 1828 and for 1828.
*- Colonies dependent on the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office are
the following: 16 Chortitza Mennonite villages, Jamburg (Ekaterinoslav
Province); Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten (Novomoskovsk District);
the Mennonite village of Schoenwiese, 17 Prussian villages, 2 Baden
villages (Alexandrovsk District); 4 Swedish and 8 Jewish villages (Kherson
Province); Danzig, Izrailevka (Elisabethgrad District); 40 Molotschna
Mennonite villages, 23 Prischib Colony villages, 3 Württemberg
villages (Melitopol District of the Taurida Province); Neusatz, Friedenthal,
Rosenthal, Kronenthal, Baltachokrak (Simferopol District of the Taurida
Province); Herzenberg, Zürichtal, Heilbrunn, Kishlav, and Old Crimea
(Feodosia District of the Taurida Province); 2 Radichev Mennonite villages
(Chernigov Provinces)
These documents are written in Russian, German, and French.
11 Jan 1829 to 6 Aug 1829. 180 pages.
File 2410. File concerning the resettlement of the colonists
of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement from one colony to another.
- Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with
the Guardianship Committee concerning the resettlement of the colonists
from one colony to another;
- Gerhard Wide resettled from Neuhoffnung to Weinau.
- Mennonite Katherine Goertzen (widow) with her sons Jacob and David
resettled from Kronstal to Sparrau.
- Mennonite Cornelius Reimer resettled from Schoenhorst to Halbstadt.
These documents are written in Russian.
28 Jan 1829 to 12 Nov 1829. 13 pages.
File 2415. File concerning the Mennonites, namely Johann Braun,
Katharina and Johann Braun, Jacob Dyck, who arrived from Prussia to
the Molotschna Colonies as visitors in 1817, and who wished to stay
in Russia as residents.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, Russian
Consul General in Danzig Ludwig von Tegoborsky, the Ekaterinoslav
Guardianship Office about the Mennonites who arrived from Prussia
in 1817, and who wished to stay in Russia.
- Information about documents for these Mennonites from the Prussia
Government.
These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Feb 1829 to 13 Dec 1829. 22 pages.
File 2421. File concerning an official letter from the Ekaterinoslav
State Chamber about the necessity to impose taxes on the colonists,
Mr. Kalfus and Mr. Reimer. There is information about artisans who lived
in the cities, and who were enrolled to the department of their cities.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav
State Chamber, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the
enrollment of Christian Kalfus to Ekaterinoslav and Peter Reimer to
Alexandrovsk. Taxes were imposed upon them as well as Anton Brainier
of Josephstal.
These documents are written in Russian.
6 Mar 1829 to 12 Nov 1829. 10 pages.
File 2438. The Department of State Economy and Public Building
demanded information to be sent concerning the amount of public incomes
and the use public incomes from the sale of wine.
- An official letter from the Department of State Economy to the
New Russia Guardianship Committee containing a demand to have information
sent about the amount of public incomes from the sale of wine.
Orders from the New Russia Guardianship Committee to the Ekaterinoslav,
Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices on the same subject.
A register of incomes and expenses of the public monies that were
obtained from the sale of wine in the colonies of the Bessarabia Settlement
from 1817 to 1 Jan 1829.
A report from the Odessa Guardianship Office about incomes and expenses
of the public monies and the use public incomes from the sale of wine
from 1816 to 1827.
A register of incomes and expenses of the public monies that were
obtained from the sale of wine in the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav
Settlement until 1829. Information about and the use public incomes
from the sale of wine.
These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
5 Jul 1829 to 18 Feb 1830. 118 pages.
File 2451. The Department of State Economy and Public Building
demanded that information be sent concerning the inherited funds for
colonists that were sent to the New Russia Guardianship Committee during
1828.
- Correspondence from the Department of State Economy with the New
Russia Guardianship Committee containing the inherited funds for the
following colonists: Johann Gene (Bessarabia), Johann Kwelman (Bessarabia),
Barbara Eslinger (Bessarabia), the infant children of the Mennonite
Mr. Klassen, Maria Schefer (Bessarabia), and Schohn (Teplitz).
These documents are written in Russian.
13 Aug 1829 to 30 Aug 1829. 7 pages.
File 2464. The Mennonite Johann Cornies of Ohrloff rented of
39,039 dessiatines of empty land belonging to the Molotschna Colonies.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the
Ekaterinoslav Administration, the Chief of Odessa, and the Ekaterinoslav
Guardianship Office about the delivery in rent of 39,039 dessiatines
and 4000 dessiatines of empty land to the Mennonite Johann Cornies
of Ohrloff.
- Information about auction.
- Conditions of this rent.
These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
30 Nov 1829 to 18 Apr 1830. 22 pages.
File 2470. File concerning accidents that were happened in
all the colonies for 1828.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the
Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices, the Department
of State Economy, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers, Mr.
Merder, concerning accidents (fires, destruction, murders, suicides,
and drowned people…), which happened in all the colonies in 1828.
These documents are written in both Russian and German.
22 Dec 1828 to 1 Aug 1829. 167 pages.
File 2472. The Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office asked the
permission for the Mennonite Johann Wiebe to take away his goods that
were detained on the frontier post in Mlawa, Poland.
- Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the
New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Ministry of the Internal
Affairs about permission for the Mennonite Johann Wiebe to take away
his goods that were detained on the frontier post in Mlawa, Poland.
Johann Wiebe arrived from Prussia to the Molotschna Mennonite District
in 1828. His goods were sent as transit to Russia in 1830.
These documents are written in Russian.
21 Dec 1828 to 6 Jun 1834. 13 pages.
File 2485. File concerning the dispatch of a member of the
Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the Radichev Hutterite Colony for
an investigation of their economic condition.
- Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office and the
New Russia Guardianship Committee about the Radichev Hutterite Colony,
about the dispatch of a member of the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office,
Mr. Babievsky, for an investigation of their economic condition and
for getting things put in order. It was necessary because the Radichev
Hutterite Brotherhood had been divided into estates of private property.
An authorization for this trip.
These documents are written in Russian.
17 Jul 1829 to 25 April 1830. 7 pages.
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