The following table contains the census of Mennonites in the former
In the second revision (version 3) I have added new information from West Prussian church records to a significant number of entries. I have also identified several hundred household heads in the Grandma database by including their Grandma numbers in the comments column. Changes since version 2 are highlighted.
If anyone has comments, corrections, or additional bits of information, please contact me. I plan on updating the census in about a year's time.
The Complete 1776 Census of Mennonites in West Prussia (with changes since version 2 highlighted).
The Complete 1776 Census of Mennonites in West Prussia (no highlights).
The June 2003 revision (version 2) of the Complete 1776 Census of Mennonites in West Prussia.
I have broken up the census into 14 columns. Here are brief descriptions of each column:
· #: the identification number used in the GRANDMA database to identify family names
· Last Name: the last name of the head of the family
· First: the first name of the head of the family
· Location: the village of residence of the family
· Occupation: the occupation of the head of the family
· H: counts the husband of the family
· W: counts the wife
· S: counts the number of sons
· D: counts the number of daughters
· M: counts the male servants in the household
· F: counts the female servants in the household
· Land: indicates the landowning status of the family
· Class: denotes how the Prussian officials classified each family economically
· Comments.
Here are more detailed explanations of some of the column headings:
#
For more information see the GRANDMA 6 users manual at http://calmenno.org/grandma/index.htm
Location
For more information on which Mennonite churches to which the people in each village belonged see: http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/prussia/1820danz.htm and http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/prussia/1820mar.htm . Also see http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/prussia/West_Prussian_Mennonite_Villages_Alph.htm for more information.
Comments
Comments found in the census are “in quotes”. My comments usually contain additional information obtained from existing West Prussian church records. I have not included the details of the information found in the church records. This you will have to find yourselves.
The Mennonite congregations are as follows:
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Danz |
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Thag |
Thiegenhagen |
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Lad |
Ladekopp |
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Ros |
Rosenort |
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Bar |
Bärwalde/Fürstenwerder |
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Heub |
Heubuden |
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Sch |
Schönsee |
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Trag |
Tragheimerweide |
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Elb |
Elbing/Ellerwald |
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Thdf |
Thiensdorf |
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Prz |
Königsberg |
I also indicate Lutheran or Catholic church registers where I have found references to people in the census (usually deaths). For example "(Luth/Zeyer)" means that the person is also found in the Lutheran church records of Zeyer. Grandma database numbers are now included for many of the household heads. These were obtained from the Grandma 6 database.
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