Nicholas Ridley, the Oxford martyr, is a part of my household story – Ideas Theological

My spouse, Gail, is an avid genealogist, and she or he not too long ago made a wonderful discovery. Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, who was burned on the stake in Oxford, on October 16, 1555, within the reign of “Bloody Mary,” is a part of my household story as a result of he’s my 12^th great-uncle.  My direct household line runs from Nicholas’s older brother by two years, Hugh, who’s my 11^th great-grandfather.

In the midst of our lives, we lived in Oxford for about 16 months, so we’ve got very regularly walked by the Martyr’s Memorial which is positioned on the intersection of St Giles’, Magdalen Road, and Beaumont Road, to the west of Balliol School. Now, I want that I had recognized of its significance within the historical past of my family, as a result of I’d have seen it with fairly totally different eyes.

The inscription on the bottom of the Martyrs’ Memorial reads:

“To the Glory of God, and in grateful commemoration of His servants, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, Prelates of the Church of England, who close to this spot yielded their our bodies to be burned, bearing witness to the sacred truths which they’d affirmed and maintained towards the errors of the Church of Rome, and rejoicing that to them it was given not solely to consider in Christ, but in addition to undergo for His sake; this monument was erected by public subscription within the yr of our Lord God, MDCCCXLI [1841].”

On this publish, I’ll remind you of the inspiring story of Bishop Nicholas Ridley, after which I’ll lay out the genealogical particulars of my ancestral connection.

The lifetime of Nicholas Ridley, my 12^th Nice-Uncle

For brevity, I’ll merely discuss with Nicholas Ridley as “Ridley,” as a result of you recognize whose story I’m recounting.  I contemplated performing some analysis to assemble my very own account, however my goal within the first a part of this publish is just to allow you to grasp why I’m so delighted to be associated to Bishop Ridley. Consequently, I’m going to provide the late R. E. Nixon, previously Principal of St. John’s School, Nottingham, England, the dignity of contributing to my publish his article on Ridley, in The New Worldwide Dictionary of the Christian Church for which J. D. Douglas served as normal editor.

RIDLEY, NICHOLAS (c. 1500-1555). Reformer and bishop of London. Born close to Haltwhistle in Northumberland, he went to Pembroke School, Cambridge, in 1518. In 1524 he grew to become a fellow of Pembroke and in 1527 went to the Sorbonne and Louvain, the place he could have witnessed a few of the Reformation controversies. He got here again to Pembroke and in 1527 went to the Sorbonne and Louvain, the place he could have witnessed a few of the Reformation controversies. He got here again to Pembroke in 1530 the place he spent a lot of his time studying the Scriptures and studying them by coronary heart. In 1537 he was appointed chaplain to Cranmer and the next yr vicar of Herne, Kent, in Cranmer’s diocese. In 1540 he grew to become a chaplain to the king, and grasp of Pembroke. In 1547 he was consecrated bishop of Rochester and in 1550 was translated to London.

Ridley’s lengthy involvement in tutorial life was to face him in good stead for the transient interval of his episcopate. He appears to have been gained spherical towards reformed views of the Eucharist by the examine of De Corpore at Sanguini Domini, the work of a ninth-century monk, Ratramnus, or Bertram, who was refuting transubstantiation. He had beforehand thought transubstantiation to be primitive doctrine. From 1545 Ridley was satisfied of the error of transubstantiation, and the next yr he persuaded Cranmer, who in his flip persuaded Latimer. His affect was acknowledged by Brooks, who stated at his trial, “Latimer leaneth to Cranmer, Cranmer to Ridley, and Ridley to the singularity of his personal wit.” Ridley helped compile the E book of Widespread Prayer of 1549 and its revision in 1552, through which his eucharistic theology was given clearer liturgical expression. He was outstanding in carrying by reforms in each his dioceses and when in London took the lead within the elimination of stone altars and the substitution of picket Communion tables. He was lively in preaching on social questions and promoted the inspiration of faculties and hospitals.

He was to have returned to his native see of Durham, however on the loss of life of Edward VI he supported the try to put Girl Jane Gray on the throne, and when that failed he was disadvantaged and imprisoned. In 1554 he was taken with Cranmer and Latimer to Oxford, the place they needed to have interaction in varied disputations. He stood agency by his views and, after burning of the Reformers had begun in 1555, Ridley and Latimer had been sentenced to die on the stake. Because the fires had been lit Latimer cried out, “Be of excellent consolation, Grasp Ridley, and play the person. We will today gentle such a candle by God’s grace in England as I belief shall by no means be put out!”

In Oxford, on Broad Road, adjoining to Balliol School, there’s a granite cross in the midst of the road, to mark the place the place Latimer and Ridley had been burned, adopted some months later by Cranmer – as a everlasting witness to that horrible occasion.

On a wall close by, a plaque describes what occurred there.

I thank God for his work of grace within the lifetime of my 12^th Nice-Uncle Nicholas, and I pray that his instance will serve to encourage and encourage many others that suffer equally for his or her faithfulness to the truths which they consider to have come from God. Till the Lord returns, there’ll at all times be a necessity on this planet for “candles” like Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer.

My genealogical connection to Nicholas Ridley

These particulars will most likely be of curiosity primarily (or solely) to different members of the Tiessen clan, however there could also be an occasional genealogist who may have cause to look at it as effectively.

We will hint my father’s line again into the 15^th century, to my15th great-grandfather. That is the road I’m going to hint, though it identifies hyperlinks to a mess of different strains, by the great-grandmothers which might be vital figures in my ancestry. The additional again we go, the higher the variety of our ancestors.

Era 1

My 15^th great-grandfather was Nicholas Ridley (b. 1400)

Nicholas Ridley was born in Willmontswick, Northumberland in 1400. He married Alice Skelton in about 1420, in Willmontswick.

Era 2

My 14^th great-grandfather was Sir Nicholas Ridley (b. 1424)

This Nicholas Ridley was additionally born in Willmontswick, Northumberland, in 1424, and he died in 1467. There he married Anne Eaglesfield in 1450. She had been born in 1432, and she or he died in 1500.

Era 3

My 13^th great-grandfather was Sir Nicholas Ridley of Wythsmode

Sir Nicholas Ridley of Wythsmode, Knight was born in about 1450 in Northumberland, and he married Mary Elizabeth Curwen, thedaughter of Sir Christopher Curwen and Anne Pennington, in 1470, in Workington Corridor, Cumberland, England. She had been born in Workington Corridor in 1452, and she or he died in 1506, in Willmontswick, Northumberland.

Era 4 

My 12^th great-grandfather was Christopher Ridley

Christopher was the son of Nicholas Ridley of Wythsmode [b. 1450] and of Mary Elizabeth Curwen of Workington Corridor, Cumberland [1452-1506]), and he was born in about 1475 in Uthank Corridor, Willmontswick, Northumberland. He died in 1540, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He married Anne Blenkinsop, who was born in 1475, additionally in Willmontswick.

In 2014, Gail and I walked throughout England (from Newcastle west to Bowness on Solway), by Hadrian’s Wall Path, in ten superb days, with out a drop of rain. On the evening that our stroll stopped in As soon as Brewed, we headed south to Hunter Criminal Lodge, close to Bardon Mills, and it’s enjoyable to understand now that we had been pretty near the manor home through which Nicholas and Hugh Ridley are generally deemed to have been born.

“Willimoteswick (or Willmontswick) is a fortified manor home located on the south aspect of the South Tyne close to Bardon Mill and is clearly seen as you journey east [via the highway]. The Willmontswick household occupied the Manor within the twelfth century till it handed to the Ridley household in 1279. It’s usually accepted as having been the birthplace of Bishop Ridley, who was burned on the stake in October 1555 for his teachings and help of Girl Jane Gray. Willimoteswick is now a household farm.” (Coronary heart of Hadrian’s Wall)

Era 5

Christopher and Ann (Blenkinsop) Ridley are reported to have had six kids:

• Jane Ridley was born in 1497 in Willmontswick, and she or he died in 1562 and was buried in St. Saviour, London.

• Hugh Ridley of Unthankhall (b. 1498) – see beneath.

• Richard Ridley was born in about 1500 in Willmontswick.

• Anne Ridley was born in about 1500 in Walltown, Northumberland.

• The Nicholas Ridley who figures prominently on this household historical past was born about 1500. He’s the one whose biography I detailed within the earlier part of this publish. He was Bishop of London and he died as a martyr, in Oxford, on Oct 16, 1555.

• Alice Ridley was born in 1502 in Willmontswick.

My 11^th great-grandfather was Hugh Ridley

Hugh Ridley of Unthankwas theoldest son of Christopher and Anne, born about 1498 in Willmontswick, Northumberland, and he died in 1555. He married Isabel Heron in about 1511, in Willimontswick. She had been born about 1490 in Chipcase, Northumberland.

My 12^th great-uncle was Nicholas Ridley

Hugh’s youthful brother, Nicholas Ridley, was born about 1500 (or 1503), in Tyndale, Northumberland, and he died on October 16, 1555 in Oxford. I’ve informed his story above.

One other 11^th great-grandfather is understood solely as “Tiessen,” however he’s a major determine on the level the place my English line merges into the Dutch one.

On this technology, a person recognized solely as “Tiessen” exhibits up for the primary time in our data, and all we all know is that he was born about 1520 in both Belgium or the Netherlands. The necessary factor is that he was the daddy of Francis (Thijssen) Tiessen.

Era 6

Hugh and Isabel (Heron) Ridley had two kids that we all know of:

• Thomas Ridley was born about 1514 in Willmontswick, he married Elizabeth and he died a while after 1573.
• Baldwin Ridley.

My 10^th great-grandfather was Baldwin Ridley

Baldwin was born about 1545, in Willmontswick, Northumberland.

In some unspecified time in the future in his life, he moved to Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. There he served as Bishop of the diocese of the English church which ministered to a big English group in that space, together with the neighboring cities of Middleburg and Veere.

[“Vlissingen was historically called ‘Flushing’ in English. In the 17th century Vlissingen was important enough to be a town that English speakers referred to and that had acquired its own English name. For example, Samuel Pepys referred to the town as ‘Flushing’ in his diaries. In 1673 Sir William Temple referred to Vlissingen as ‘Flushing’ once and ‘Flussingue’ twice in his book about the Netherlands. Some English writers in the Netherlands also used the Dutch name.”  (Wikipedia)]

Till we found our English roots, by the Ridleys, I had at all times considered my heritage as Dutch on my father’s aspect and Irish on my mom’s. I now notice, nevertheless, that my heritage was extra assorted, and {that a} prolonged English interval occurred previous to the Dutch line, on my father’s aspect. Given the lengthy line of English ancestors prior up to now, credit score for our Dutch historical past goes to Baldwin Ridley, whose church work had taken him to Vlissingen.

One other of my 10^th great-grandfathers was Francis (Thijssen) Tiessen

Francis Tiessen was born in 1545, in Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Era 7

My 9^th great-grandmother was Apollonia Ridley

Appolonia Ridley was the daughter of Baldwin. She was born in Vlissingen, Zeeland, the Netherlands, about 1570, and she or he died in 1640.

My 9^th great-grandfather was Daniel Francis Tiessen

Apollonia Ridley married Daniel Francis (Thijssen/Tysson) Tiessen in Vlissingen, Zeeland, about 1590. He had been born in 1565, in Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, because the son of Francis Thijssen, who had additionally been born in Ghent, in 1545. Francis and his household had fled from there to Vlissingen, in 1579, through the counter-revolution beneath Duke Alba, as a result of he was a Protestant. Daniel died in 1647, in Vlissingen, Zeeland.  

Era 8

Daniel Francis and Apollonia (Ridley) Tiessen had 4 kids:

• Daniel R. Tiessen was born about 1590 in Vlissingen, Zeeland, and he died in 1647 in Goeteborg, Vasta Gotaland, Sweden.

• Martin Daniel Tiessen was born in 1598, in Vlissingen, Zeeland, he married Louwysa, and he died in Goeteborg, Sweden, in 1657.

Martin is remembered significantly for his excellent naval service. He was the Dutch vice-admiral on the Battle of Albrolhos (1631) and, when the fleet returned to the Netherlands in 1634, he grew to become master-attendant and munitions-master on the Admiralty of Zeeland in Vlissingen. After the outbreak of the conflict between Sweden and Denmark, the Dutch-Swedish industrialist Louis De Geer outfitted at his personal expense a Dutch squadron beneath Martin Thijssen (Tiessen), to be able to strengthen the Swedish navy. Tiessen then carried out outstandingly within the joint Dutch and Swedish operation on the Battle of Fehmarn (1644), the place the Dutch squadron took 4 Danish ships at an early stage within the battle. The Danish had been soundly defeated. Tiessen then took the Dutch squadron again to Vlissingen, however he returned to Sweden in 1645, changing into Admiral of the naval command at Gothenburg, which he efficiently held in face of a siege by Danish naval and floor forces. When the peace with Denmark was concluded, he commanded the naval pressure that escorted a Swedish buying and selling expedition to Portugal, on the return voyage efficiently heading off a Royal Navy squadron that demanded salute within the Channel. Tiessen remained in command at Gothenburg till his loss of life on Might 21, 1657, earlier than which he had been raised to the Swedish the Aristocracy by Swedish Queen Christine in 1644. At the moment he was named Baron Martin Ankerhelm (or Marten Anckarhielm). [Much of this information comes from Wikipedia]

• Clawes Tiessen was born in 1603, in Vlissingen, Zeeland, and he died in Sweden.

My 8^th great-grandfather was Francis Tiessen (b. ca. 1624)

• Francis Tiessen was born about 1624, in Vlissingen, Zeeland, however he went again to England, maybe due to connections relationship again to the departure from England of his grandfather, Baldwin. He married Dorothy Callant, the daughter of Garrett Gerard Collent and Alice Coxe, on September 25, 1649, in Austin Friars Church in London. Dorothy had been born about 1630. Francis died in about 1699, in Hackney, London, and Dorothy died on August 11, 1703, in St. John’s, Hackney.

In 1666, Francis was made an elder in Austin Friars Church. In his will (made in 1690), he made bequests to the Church, and to its poor, and likewise to a church and a few kin in Vlissingen. “His fortune is unexplained however could have had American origins, in that he superior cash for French Protestant emigrants to Carolina, in 1698, and was later described as an agent for the Carolina proprietors. He left land in Antigua to his surviving son (who left the Bridge Plantation in Antigua  to a youthful son Samuel) along with property in London, the place his home was in Philpot Lane, and in Middlesex and different counties.” [cited from The Tyssens: Lords of Hackney, by Tim Baker]

It’s worthwhile to pause right here for some touch upon the Austin Friars Church in London, the place Francis and Dorothy had been married, as a result of the church strikes me as an attention-grabbing assembly level between the English and Dutch strains in my household story. The Dutch Church, Austin Friars (Dutch: Nederlandse Kerk Londen), is a Reformed church within the Broad Road Ward, in London. Relationship again to 1550, it’s the oldest Dutch-language Protestant church on this planet and, as such, it’s recognized in The Netherlands because the mom church of all Dutch reformed church buildings.

It’s positioned on the positioning of the Thirteenth-century Augustinian friary, and the unique constructing was granted to Protestant refugees for his or her church providers in 1550, however it was destroyed through the London Blitz. The current church {seen within the image inserted right here, which is by John Salmon] was constructed between 1950 and 1954 and is a well-recognized landmark within the Broad Road Ward.

“By 1570, the Dutch group was the most important group of expatriates in London, numbering 5,000 out of the 100,000 complete inhabitants of the time. About half of the Dutch in London had been Protestants who fled the Flemish Low Nations on account of spiritual persecution. Others had been expert craftsmen, together with brewers, tile makers, weavers, artists, printers and engravers, who got here to England for financial alternatives. Engraver Martin Droeshout, well-known for his 1623 portrait of William Shakespeare, was among the many Flemish Protestant emigrants who arrived in London.

“A century later, the arrival of William of Orange introduced a second wave of Dutch emigrants to London. This second group included noblemen, bankers, courtiers, retailers, architects and artists.” [Wikipedia]

“The church stays lively right this moment, with weekly Dutch-language church providers, affirmation courses, and conferences for varied teams. The church additionally does outreach to the Dutch group in London, together with ministering to the aged. The church is house to 2 different UK registered charities: The Netherlands Benevolent Society (NBS) and The Dutch Centre. On 24 April 2015, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands was honorary visitor within the Dutch Church for a jubilee celebration to mark 150 years because the founding of the NBS. On the identical day the Dutch Centre was formally opened by Laetitia van den Assum, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UK, Liesbeth Knook, Chairman of the Church Council and Paul Beiboer, Common Supervisor of London department of Rabobank.” [Wikipedia]

Era 9

Francis Tiessen (b. 1624) and Dorothy Callant Tiessen had 4 kids:

• John Tiessen was born on Might 25, 1651 at Austin Friars, London. He died on Sep 11, 1681, in Hubbard, London.

• Francis Tiessen was born in 1653 in Austin Friars, London, and he died Dec 6, 1710, in St. John, Hackney, England. He married Susannah Mathews on Sep 21, 1678 in St. George’s Chapel, Hanover Sq., London. She had been born about 1659 in St. Swithins, London. Sadly, she died later within the yr that they had been married (1678).

Eight years after Susannah’s loss of life, Francis then married Mary Western on Dec 30, 1686, in Shacklewell Chapel, Hackney, London. She had been born on Sep 28, 1661, in St. Dunstan East, London, and she or he died on Apr 22, 1731.

Throughout the first 13 years of their 24 years of marriage, they’d 10 kids.

• Peter Callant Tiessen (see beneath).

• Samuel Tiessen was born in 1657 and registered in Austin Friars Church. He died on Dec 6, 1710 and was buried at St. John’s Anglican Church, in Hackney. London.

My 7^th great-grandfather was Peter Callant Tiessen

Peter Callant Tiessen (the son of Francis Tiessen and Dorothy Callant) was born on Dec 10, 1655 in Austin Friars, London. He died on Apr 15, 1715 and was buried in St. John at Hackney, London. He married Esther Peters about 1675. She had been born in 1655, and she or he died on Nov 17, 1718, in Prussia.

This seems to be the technology through which my Tiessen ancestors, whereas residing in England, grew to become Mennonites, since their kids, Peter and Martin, had been each born in Prussia, only a few years after Peter Callant and Esther had been married, and Prussia was the place many Dutch Mennonites fled to be able to keep away from army conscription. I discover it attention-grabbing that Peter died in England, however Esther died in Prussia, nearly three years later.  

Era 10

My 6^th great-grandfather was Peter A. Tiessen

Peter A. Tiessen was born in 1680 in Steegenwerder, Neugenerwerder, Prussia, and he died in Prussia. In 1711, he married my 6^th great-grand grandmother Elizabeth Elske Wiebe, who was born in Prussia in 1687.

Era 11

Peter A. Tiessen and Elizabeth Elske Wiebe had the next 5 kids:

• Martin Tiessen was born in 1715, in Tiegenhagen, Prussia

• Peter Wiebe Tiessen (b. 1717) – see beneath

• Willhelm Tiessen was born in 1718 in Tiegenhagen, Prussia, and he died on Might 20, 1787, in Tiegenhagen.

• Franz Tiessen was born in 1718 in Tiegenhagen, Prussia.

• Dirk Tiessen was born in 1727 in Tiegenhagen, Prussia.

My 5^th great-grandfather was Peter Wiebe Tiessen

Peter Wiebe Tiessen was born in 1717 in Tiegenhage, Prussia. He died on Jun 28, 1779, in West Preussen, Deutschland. He married my 5^th great-grandmother, Anna Woelke on Feb 12, 1742 in Orloff, Prussia. She had been born about 1721 in Freienhuben [Siebenhuben, Grosswerden] Prussia, and she or he died on Apr 25, 1764 in Orloff, Prussia. Peter Wiebe Tiessen then married Barbara Braun.

Era 12

In 1787, a gaggle of about 228 Mennonite households left Prussia and immigrated to S. Russia.  A second group of about 342 households, generally known as the “Molotschnaers,” which included our Tiessen ancestors, immigrated from 1800-811 and settled within the village of Pordenau, which was within the Molotschna colony.

Peter Wiebe Tiessen and Anna Woelke had 5 kids:

• Johann Hans Tiessen was born in 1745, in Orloff, Prussia, and he died on Sep 26, 1784 in Altmunsterberg, Russia. He married Agneta Wiens, who died on Sep 29, 1783, in Altmunsterberg, Russia.

• Peter Woelke Tiessen (b. 1749) – see beneath.

•  Katharina P. Tiessen was born in Sep, 1751 in Orloff, Prussia, and she or he died on Apr 16, 1804 in Pordenau, Russia. She married Klaas More durable in Oct 15, 1776 in Ladekopp, Prussia.

• Anna P. Tiessen was born in 1759 in Orloff, Prussia. She died on Jan 30, 1791, in Pietzkendorf, Russia. She married Peter Enns, who had been born in 1759, in Prussia.

• Aganetha P. Tiessen was born in 1761 in Orloff, Prussia, and she or he died there on Jan 12, 1781.

My 4^th great-grandfather was Peter Woelke Tiessen

Peter Woelke Tiessen was born on Nov 25, 1749, in Orloff, Prussia, and he died on Feb 19, 1824 in Pordenau, Russia. He married my 4^th great-grandmother, Anna Esau (daughter of Arend Esau [1729-1797] and Anna Dick [1738-1799]), on Mar 1, 1784, in Mennoniten, Ladekopp, Westpreussen, Prussia. She had been born on Feb 12, 1761 in Ladekop, Stade, Niedersachsen, Germany, and she or he died on Dec 22, 1818 in Pordenau, Russia.

Peter Woelke had been too poor to associate with an earlier group emigrating to Russia, so he stayed in Prussia for 3 extra years, throughout which era he labored onerous in a wagon manufacturing unit till he had sufficient cash to purchase two horses and a few meals and clothes. He made a wagon of his personal, at house, and he married Anna Esau earlier than they went with a gaggle to Russia.

Era 13

Peter Woelke Tiessen and Anna Esau had 12 kids:

• Derk Tiessen was born on Nov 27, 1784, in Prussia, and he died there on Jan 31, 1785.

• Aaron Peter Tiessen was born on Nov 25, 1785, in Prussia, and he died on Dec 17, 1831, in Kl Montau, Prussia. He married Katharina Loepp on Feb 8, 1820, in Altmuensterberg, Prussia. She had been born on Jan 27, 1797, in Tiegenhagen Prussia.

• Derk Peter Tiessen was born on Oct 24, 1787, in Prussia, and he died in Parshau, Prussia, on Sep 1, 1788.

• Peter Esau Tiessen was born on Aug 3, 1789 in Pordenau, Prussia, and he died in Pordenau, S. Russia, in 1873. He married Elizabeth Driedger on Feb 23, 1819, in Gross Lichtenau, Prussia. She had been born on Jun 16, 1796, in Prangenaderfeld, Prussia, and she or he died within the USA.

• Johann Peter Esau Tiessen was born on July 1, 1791, in Prussia. He married Sara Wall on Feb 23, 1819, in Mennoniten, Ladekopp, Westpreussen, Prussia. She had been born on Mar 10, 1792, in Laase, Prussia, and she or he died on Mar 11, 1850.

• Dietrich Peter Esau Tiessen was born on Might 31, 1793, in Podenau, Prussia. He died on Apr 25, 1854, in Klein Lichtenau, Prussia. He married Katharina More durable, in Leske, Prussia, on Mar 4, 1827. She had been born on July 11, 1805, in Marienburg, Hildesheim, Niedersachsen, Germany, and she or he died on Oct 30, 1866, in Lichtenau, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany.

• Agneta Regier Tiessen was born in 1795, in Prussia, and she or he was adopted by Peter Woelke and Anna Esau. She married Jacob Loewe on Mar 16, 1820. He had been born in 1796.

• Anna Tiessen was born on Nov 17, 1795, in Prussia, and she or he died on Might 4, 1796, in Parshau, Prussia.

• Jacob Peter Esau Tiessen was born on Mar 13, 1797, in Pordenau, W. Prussia.

• Abraham Peter Tiessen was born on Aug 10, 1798 in Prussia, and he died there in the identical yr.

• Abraham Esau Tiessen (b. 1798) – see beneath

• Anna P. Tiessen was born on Mar 6, 1803 in Gross Lichtenau, Prussia, and she or he died in 1825.

My 3^rd great-grandfather was Abraham Esau Tiessen

Abraham Esau Tiessen was born on Sep 18, 1800 in Mennoniten, Gross Lichtenau, Westpreussen, Prussia, and he died on Jun 4, 1851 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia. He married Judith A. I. “Edith” Lepp (Loepp), my 3^rd great-grandmother, on Nov 7, 1824 in Gross Lichtenau [Altmuensterberg], Grosswerder, Prussia. She had been born on Jul 11, 1802 in Altmuensterberg, Grosswerder, Prussia, and she or he died on Oct 27, 1874 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia.

Era 14

Abraham Esau Tiessen and Judith A. I. “Edith” Lepp had ten kids:

• Aaron Lepp Tiessen was born on Aug 21, 1825 in Pordenau, Prussia. He died on Mar 19, 1901 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA. He married Maria Wiebe on Jun 22, 1848, in Russia. She had been born on Mar 27, 1820 in Pordenau, Russia and she or he died on Apr 16, 1907 in Mountain Lake Minnesota USA.

Aaron was a constitution member of First Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and he had come to the US on the SS Kenilworth on July 17, 1876 at New York, which had sailed from Antwerp.

• Anna LeppTiessen was born on Jul 19, 1827, in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia and she or he died in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA. She had married Friedrick Kunkel in Sparrau, South Russia, and he had been born in 1825 in Molotschna Colony, South Russia. They immigrated to the US on Jun 29, 1877 on the SS Vaderland.

•   Peter Abraham Lepp Tiessen was born on Aug 16, 1828 in Danzig, West Prussia (Poland). He died on Sep 27, 1910 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He married Maria Dueck on Nov 19, 1850 in Pordenau, Russia. She had been born on Jan 17, 1827 in Sparrau, Russia, and she or he died on Dec 10, 1911 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA.

They traveled to the US from Antwerp on the SS Vaderland, they usually arrived in Philadelphia on June 29, 1877

Peter Abraham was a constitution member of First Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, MN.

• Abraham Lepp Tiessen (b. 1831) – see beneath.

• Sara Tiessen was born Sep 2, 1832 in Danzig, West Prussia (Poland), and she or he died on Might 10, 1910 in Marion, South Dakota, USA. She married Heinrich J. Berg on Jun 9, 1853, in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia. He had been born on Nov 17, 1831 in Marienthal, Molotschna, South Russia, and he died on Dec 16, 1915.

They traveled to the US from Hamburg and Havre, on the SS Cimbria, arriving in New York on Aug 27, 1874.

• Johann Lepp Tiessen was born on Feb 11, 1835 in Sparrau, Russia. He died on Apr 5, 1914, and he was buried in Kelstern Elim Mennonite Brethren Cemetery, Saskatchewan. He married Susanna Quick on Nov 7, 1857, in Sparrau, S Russia. She had been born on Jan 23, 1836 in Molotschna, South Russia, and she or he died on Mar 23, 1892, in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, Minnesota, USA.

They’d come to the US on the SS Vaderland, arriving on Jun 29, 1877.

Two years after Susanna’s loss of life, Johann married Sarah Boldt Goertzen (a widow) on Mar 4, 1894. She had been born on Nov 5, 1851, and she or he died on Mar 25, 1922, in Kelstern, Sask., the place she was buried in Elim Mennonite Brethren Cemetery.

They’d moved to Rosehill, Cavalier County, N. Dakota in 1898 after which they moved to a homestead in Hodgeville, Saskatchewan in 1910, together with the kids from Johann’s first marriage.

• Dietrich Lepp Tiessen was born on Jul 13, 1837 in Danzig, West Prussia (Poland), and he died on Apr 5, 1895 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He married Anna Flaming on Might 2, 1861 in Margenau, Molotschna, Russia. She had been born on Dec 23, 1841, in Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia. She died on Feb 13, 1904 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.

They’d 22 kids, solely two of whom survived into grownup, most of them dying at or quickly after beginning, which is tragic to ponder.

They’d travelled to the US on the SS Strasbourg, arriving on July 2, 1878.

They had been constitution members of First Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, MN.

• Susanna A. Lepp Tiessen was born on Feb 28, 1840, in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia, and she or he died on Jun 16, 1916 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, the place she was buried within the Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. She married Johann Abraham Lepp (Loepp) on Jun 17, 1866. He had been born on Apr 10, 1820 in Nassenhueben, Prussia, and he died on Sep 20, 1892 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, Minnesota.

They’d travelled to the US on the SS Strasbourg, which departed from Bremen and arrived in New York on July 2, 1878.

• Jacob Abraham Lepp Tiessen was born on Oct 20, 1842 in Sparrau Rrussia. He died on Apr 19, 1912 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He had married Anna Kunkel on Nov 10, 1862 in Hiershau, Molotschna, Russia. She had been born on Dec 16, 1832 in Pordenau, Molotschna, Russia, and she or he died in 1912 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, Minnesota.

They traveled to the US on the SS Vaderland, departed from Antwerp and arrived in Philadelphia on June 29, 1877.

They had been constitution members of First Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, MN.

• Katharina A. Lepp Tiessen was born on Mar 5, 1844 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia. She died on Jan 5, 1933 in Dallas, Oregon. She married Dietrich D. Loewen on Aug 31, 1864 in Sparrau, Molotschna, Russia. He had been born on Dec 19, 1845 in Sparrau, and he died on Might 2, 1904, in Mountain Lake Minnesota.

They travelled to the US from Bremen on the SS Strasbourg, arriving in New York on July 2, 1878.

My 2^nd great-grandfather was Abraham Lepp Tiessen

Abraham Lepp Tiessen was born on Feb 2, 1831 in Danzig, West Prussia (Poland), and he died in 1901 in Saskatchewan Canada. He married Anna Regier Neufeld (my 2^nd great-grandmother) on Mar 9, 1854 in Pordenau, Russia. She was the daughter of Jacob Neufeld and Helena Regier, and she or he had been born on Might 23, 1832 in Margenau, Molotschna Colony, Russia, and she or he died on Aug 1, 1906 in Saskatchewan Canada.

(Uncle Abe remembered, from when he was 12, that he had seen his Uncle Abraham Lepp, in Saskatchewan.)

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Abraham Lepp Tiessen and Anna Regier Neufeld had 12 kids:

• Henry Tiessen was born on Mar 23, 1856 in Russia and he died in Sep 1856 in Russia.

• Sarah Tiessen was born on Sep 20, 1857 in Russia and she or he died on Feb 7, 1859 in Russia.

• Henry Abraham B Neufeld Tiessen (b. 1859) – see beneath.

• Anna Tiessen was born on Aug 6, 1860 in Russia and she or he died on 09 Oct 1860 in Russia.

• Abram Tiessen was born on Oct 27, 1862 in Russia and he died on Aug 10, 1863 in Russia.

• Jacob Tiessen was born on Nov 11, 1864 in Russia and he died on Oct 19, 1868 in Russia.

• Anna Tiessen was born on Feb 16, 1866 in Russia and she or he died on Feb 1, 1905 in Saskatchewan, Canada. She married Johann A. Derksen, who was born on Might 2, 1866 in S. Russia and died in 1944 in Dallas, Oregon.

• Aaron Tiessen was born on Sep 7, 1867 in Russia and he died on Nov 23, 1868 in Russia.

• Frank Tiessen was born on Feb 17, 1869 in Russia and he died on Apr 27, 1869 in Russia.

• Helena Tiessen was born on Jun 3, 1870 in Russia and she or he died on Oct 14, 1952 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She married Henry A. Derksen on Jan 20, 1891 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He had been born on Jul 15, 1871 in Hirshau, South Russia, and he died on Aug 1, 1955 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.

• Edith Tiessen was born on Jun 19, 1872 in Russia, and she or he died on Nov 5, 1908 in Saskatechwan, Canada. She emigrated to Canada in 1902, and she or he married Jacob Wiebe.

• Deitrich Abraham Neufeld Tiessen was born on Apr 28, 1874 in Russia. He died in 1960, in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada. He had married Sara Neufeld on 08 Mar 1895 in Mountain Lake Minnesota. She was born on Mar 8, 1873 in Russia and she or he died on Oct 4, 1942 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

My great-grandfather was Henry Abraham B. Neufeld Tiessen

Henry Abraham B. Neufeld Tiessen was born on Might 6, 1859 in Sparrau, Russia, and he died on Oct 29, 1923 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. He married Anna Derksen (my great-grandmother) on Dec 2, 1884 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota they usually emigrated to Canada in 1902. Anna had been born on Sep 22, 1859 in Russia and she or he died on Feb 9, 1929 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan.

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Henry Abraham B. Neufeld Tiessen and Anna Derksen, had 12 kids:

• Anna Tiessen was born on Nov 6, 1885 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She died on Jan 29, 1965 in Saskatchewan. She married Jacob Wolfe on Feb 26, 1905 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. He had been born on Mar 24, 1881 in Manitoba, Canada, and he died on Apr 13, 1985 in Fortunate Lake, Saskatchewan.

• Jacob Tiessen was born about 1886 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He died of diphtheria within the prepare station in Osler, Saskatchewan, in 1901.

• Elizabeth Tiessen was born on Apr 20, 1887 in Mountain Lake Minnesota. She moved to Saskatchewan in 1902, and she or he died there on Feb 11, 1935, being buried within the Dalmeny Bible Church Cemetery. She had married Jacob Goosen on Jul 8, 1906, in Saskatchewan. He had been born on Apr 20, 1887 within the USA, and he died on Aug 9, 1949 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan.

• John Tiessen was born about 1888 in Mountain Lake, Minnestoa. He died of diphtheria within the prepare station in Osler, in 1901. in Osler, Saskatchewan, alongside along with his older brother Jacob.

• Katharina Tiessen was born on Jun 16, 1889 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She moved to Saskatchewan in 1902, and she or he died there on Nov 23, 1971. She had married Jacob Jansen on Aug 8, 1909 in Saskatchewan. He had been born on Sep 30, 1885, in Russia, and he died on Aug 16, 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Dietrich Tiessen was born about 1890 in Mountain Lake Minnesota USA. He died of diphtheria, within the prepare station in Osler, Saskatchewan, in 1901, alongside along with his two older siblings, which implies that Henry and Anna misplaced three sons there in that tragic time, within the midst of their transfer to Canada.

• Abraham Tiessen was born on Jan 31, 1891 in Mountain Lake Minnesota, and he emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1902. He died on Oct 7, 1973 in Vancouver, BC. He had married Mary Dyck on Jul 15, 1916 in Canada. She was born on Apr 20, 1892, and she or he died on Jun 20, 1979 in British Columbia, Canada.

•  Henry Derksen Tiessen (b. 1892) – see beneath.

• Frank Tiessen was born in 1899, in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and he died in 1907 in Fortunate Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.

• Maria Tiessen was born on Apr 29, 1901, in Mountain Lake, Minnestoa and she or he died in 1986, in Saskatchewan. She had married Henry Boehr on Dec 12, 1920 in Saskatchewan, to which Maria had emigrated in 1902. Henry had been born on Aug 20, 1896 in Lushton, North Dakota and he died on Apr 19, 1980 in Saskatchewan.

• Helen Tiessen was born on Mar 13, 1903, in Fortunate Lake, Saskatchewan, and she or he died on Apr 5, 1988 in Haddonfield, Camden, New Jersey. She married Freidrich Tiessen on Dec 17, 1925 in Marion South Dakota. He was born on Dec 26, 1899 in Marion South Dakota, and he died on Nov 26, 1991 in Marion South Dakota.

• Dietrich Tiessen was born on Feb 26, 1905, in Fortunate Lake, Saskatchewan and he died there. He married Mathilda Rempel on Oct 24, 1945 in Saskatchewan, the place she had been born on Jun 4, 1916.

Henry Derksen Tiessen was my grandfather. Genetically, my grandmother was Helena Derksen however she had died lengthy earlier than I used to be born, so Mary Funk, my father’s step-mother, was the fantastic lady whom I knew as my “grandmother.”   

Henry Derksen Tiessen was born on Sep 22, 1892 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He died on Mar 4, 1973 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He married Helena Derksen on Oct 21, 1913 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, within the Mennonite Brethren Church. She was born on Oct 12, 1892 in Langdon, North Dakota, and she or he died on Jan 3, 1923, in Warman, Saskatchewan.

Henry D. then married Mary Funk on Aug 19, 1923 in Warman, Saskatchewan. She was born on Jul 26, 1905 in Fortunate Lake, Saskatchewan, and she or he died on Sep 20, 1967 in Abbotsford, BC.

Henry D. married Martha Neufeld on Jul 18, 1968.

Era 17

Henry Derksen Tiessen and Helena Derksen had simply two kids, Frederick and Annie:

Annie Tiessen was born on Aug 18, 1915 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. She

died on Mar 7, 2003 in Toms River, Ocean, New Jersey. She married Peter G. Reimer on 25 Jun 1939 in Warman, Saskatchewan. He was born on Might 10, 1911 in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada and he died on Mar 19, 1991 in Kansas Metropolis, Clay, Missouri.

My father was Frederick Tiessen

Frederick Tiessen was born on Jul 26, 1914, in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, and he died on Might 2, 2005 in St. Catharines, Ontario. He married Ella Irene Wellwood on Jan 31, 1939, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She had been born on Jul 31, 1911 and she or he died on Mar 12, 2019, in Vineland, Ontario, a bit in need of her 108^th birthday!  

Many of the “Uncles” and “Aunts” I knew, on the Tiessen aspect, had been kids of Henry D. and Mary Funk, my grandfather’s second spouse.

My mom’s Wellwood ancestors had been of Scottish after which Irish descent, so her heritage was extra akin to the English (Ridley) line on my father’s aspect than to the Tiessens, who hailed from Belgium and the Netherlands previous to connecting with my English roots.

An exquisite Christian heritage runs by all of those strains which represent my ancestry, and I’m deeply grateful to God for that truth. I inform the story now due to my delight at having discovered of my household connection to the godly Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London and martyr for his religion. To him, I’m sincerely grateful for his contribution to the event of the Anglican E book of Widespread Prayer with its very good liturgy, by which I’m usually richly nourished spiritually at this level in my life. [A more recent edition of the Book of Common prayer is available in pdf format, and you’ll notice that Nicholas Ridley is remembered in the church calendar, on Oct 16, (p. 28).]