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	Mennonite names

maryjanzen

8-3-2008 6:36 PM

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5-1-2009 6:30 PM

krahnmary

Where is the name Rempel?

5-1-2009 11:52 PM

maryjanzen

krahnmary: I don't know, but since this clipping refers to 1912, perhaps all the Rempels had emigrated from Prussia (now Poland) to the Mennonite colonies in the Ukraine in the 19th c. More than one of my grandmother's sisters married Rempels there (in the Molotschna Colony) before escaping to North America circa 1923.

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Penner - 527, Wiens, Wiehns - 499,  Dueck, Dieck, Dyck - 492, Classen, Klaasen - 409, Wiebe - 434,  Janzen, Jantzen - 292,  Ehnz, Entz - 275,  Janz - 254,  Freese - 254, Regehr, Regier - 253, Harder - 184, Ewert - 166, Paul - 163, Neufeld - 161, Fast - 157, Franz - 141, Friesen - 140, Reimer - 140, Epp - 131, Feiguth - 120, Albrecht - 120, Nickel - 118, Peters - 107. 
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