Mennonite Genealogy with Michael Penner

Peter W. Loewen (1825-1887)

Profiles of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde 1874, Delbert Plett, p. 250.

Susanna Enns (1824-1857) was the first wife of Peter Loewen (1825-1887) the son of Kleine Gemeinde deacon Isaac Loewen of Lindenau. At the time of the emigration Peter Loewen was an auctioneer for the many disposal sales which took place. He settled in Hochstadt neer Kleefeld on the East Reserve in Manitoba.

 

Storm and Triumph, Delbert Plett, p. 197

Peter Loewen lived in Zagradowka settlement.

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Leaders of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Russia, 1812 to 1874, Delbert Plett, p. 520.

Peter W. Loewen (1825-1887) married Susanna Enns (1829-1857) who was a sister to KG Aeltester Heinrich Enns (1807-1881). The family lived in Hierschau. by the 1870s they had moved to Savitzki, an estate located north of the Borosenko village of Steinbach. In 1875 they settled in Hochstadt near Kleefeld, Manitoba. Peter Loewen married four times, his second wife was Aganetha Bartel. His last two wives were from the Chortitza Colony. Peter W. Loewen married for the fourth time to a widow Esau who had seven children but they were all grown up except Justina, who was the first wife of Jakob Regier, and Jakob, who married Elisabeth Giesbrecht.

 

History and Events, Delbert Plett, p. 104

My stepmother's parents Peter Loewens, lived on a leasehold property on the estate of a Russian nobleman, behind the village of Steinbach near a river by the name of Baseluk.

 

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