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Marianna Gartner and Hansyorg Schiebelbein Family |
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Vomler - Kopenka |
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Constantine and Caroline Schiebelbein
**Some of the lineage listed here is from an email that I received from a Lola Stattleman and the 70th Anniversary Book from 1984.
Parents are Marianna Gartner and Hansyorg Schiebelbein Children: Constantine Schiebelbein born August 15th, 1892 Cunigunde Schiebelbein Petralina Schiebelbein. (Constantine did have half siblings after his mom remarried, one half-sister married to a Oberst who lived in Akron, Ohio) (Hansyorg died when Constantine was very young, Marianna remarried to a Schamber first name possibly John as told by my mom Helen (Schiebelbein) Rolheiser who is 89 years old at the time of this writing)
Parents of Hansyorg Schiebelbein are Franz Schiebelbein and Apalona Altmeir.
Parents of Franz Schiebelbein are Peter Schiebelbein ( born 1769 ) and Katharina Altmeier ( born 1772 )
Caroline Zeiger Born May 15, 1895 – Parents are John Peter Zeiger and Elizabet Schamber – Siblings are Molly and John Zeiger (her family never came to Canada)
***Here is a brief history of how my Grandparents Constantine and Caroline came to Canada…..
The Germans who came to Russia had a tradition of anti-militarism. Those who settled in the Volga region had left Germany just after the war of Frederick the Great. The promise of freedom from military service for themselves and their descendants ‘for all time’ was for them one of the most attractive features of the manifesto of Catherin 11; a German princess married to Nicholas 11, the last of the Czars. The fate of serving in the army was considered worse than a term in the penitentiary. Constantine would have to serve a long time, under cruel conditions, away from home and family and for a cause, he did not believe in. Many never returned home from the service.
Life in the village of Schuck became more uncertain and revolution and war seemed imminent. There was a shortage of land for their sons and the future looked bleak. Many had already left for America and Canada, a new ‘free’ land. Constantine worked with his half brother in a carpentry business until 1913, before he decided to leave. He was unable to leave the country legally, so on June 29, 1913 he quietly left home by wagon. He traveled to town where he boarded a train for the Austria Border. When he reached the border, he had to wait until night, then cross the river to Austria, where he took a train to Rotterdam Holland; a ship to New York and then a train for Akron, Ohio. He landed a job with the Goodrich Tire Co., which at the time all but the tire and rim were made of wood.
In 1914 Constantine sent for his fiancé Caroline Zeiger who worked on her parents farm weaving cotton during the winter and working in the fields in the summer. On May 26 1914, Caroline left Russia legally by train to a seaport Libau. There she boarded one of the last boats to leave Russia before the outbreak of World War 1. She went directly to Halifax and from there took a ship to New York and a train to Akron. She stayed with Constantine’s stepsister and husband Mr and Mrs.Oberst until they were married on September 5, 1914 in Akron. They eventually arrived in Macklin Saskatchewan December 29, 1914 where Constantine worked for Mike Sieben and Philip Ollenberger. In 1917, they settled on their own homestead in the St. Donatus area, 25 miles south of Macklin, Sask. They went on to have 15 children.
(This information taken from Constantine & Caroline 70th Anniversary 1914 to 1984 book) |