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Re: scattered children of Menno (was: Re: new guy-& princess bride)
i emailed my cousin who is fascinated w/ mennonite history...even tho' he's
already a mennonite. : ) this is what he said about the names peter is
familiar with.....
my guess is that these are real honest-to-goodness "dutch" mennonites,
meaning that they are most likely (1) of the Netherland variety, (2) of the
Netherland variety that moved to Russia, and/or (3) the names of german
immigrants who joined the dutch mennonites in Russia. My guess is also
that
these names are most common in the Canadian mennonnite immigratation as
well. to summarize, my guess is that these names are common among the
canadian mennonites who immigrated from russia with roots in the
netherlands
and germany.
so peter, apparently our ancestors are indeed from different areas of
europe. apparently my ancestors are mainly german and swiss. and to think
i didn't know this stuff....my father would be mortified! : )
~o
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(_) / (_) ..................twila
"Peter T. Chattaway"
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07/10/2002 02:02 PM
Please respond to
"Peter T. Chattaway"
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Shank Zehr wrote:
> Twila, I also grew up in Conservative Conference, and my brother Marcus
> attended RBI, around '97, I think. I'm from a little Mennonite enclave
> in upstate New York, where Zehr is the most common name in the phone
> book, just ahead of the Widricks and Sterias and Youseys and Moshiers
> and Jantzis and Yanceys and Nafzigers and Roggies, most of whom never
> left Lewis County. I think it's precisely the rootedness of home
> communities like these that make it possible (and rewarding) for those
> of us who have left, to some degree, to find each other.
Huh, I don't recognize *any* of those names, except of course for Yancey,
as it is the surname of popular author Philip Yancey.
As I said in a private e-mail to Twila, the Mennonites in my neck of the
woods all have names like Sawatzky (my mother's maiden name), Derksen (her
mother's maiden name), Doerksen (as in the local Vineyard composer Brian),
Heppner (as in the Canadian opera star Ben), Thiessen (as in that _90210_
star Tiffani), Enns, Ens, Wiebe, Balzer, Janzen, Klassen, Toews, Dyck,
Schellenberg, Heinrichs, Koop, Peters, Willems, Braun, Epp, Friesen,
Unruh, Bergen, Neufeld, Traub, Dueck, Geddert, Penner, etc. Every name
calls one or more faces to memory, people I have known and grown up with
and worshipped with and gone to Bible school with. But virtually every
name you American Mennonites have mentioned draws a blank, for me.
Oh, just remembered another name: Hildebrand. I remember getting a kick
out of the scene in _Jurassic Park III_ where we learn that Tea Leoni's
boyfriend had that name. It's another common Menno name here; sometimes
it's spelled with a "t", a la "Hildebrandt", but in the film it isn't.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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