[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] History book - Names: Bossert,Cherkas,Engel

[Michelle Bakke-Purnell]

Taken from the Endian History book:

Jacob and Louise Bossert:
Jacob Bossert was born in Bessarabia in 1873.  He married a widow from 
Beresina, Bessarabia, Louise Hagel (nee Flaig) who had a daughter Marie. 
 A daughter Bertha was born to Jacob and Louise in Bessarabia in 1902. 
 In 1903  the family immigrated to North Dakota.  Twins were born there, 
a son Albert survived.  In 1911 they came to the Endiang area.
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The Cherkas (Czerkas) family
Stanley Cherkas ,was born in Poland in 1898.  He came to Canada in 1926. 
 He obtained employment as a section man with the C.N.R. and was 
stationed in Scott Saskatchewan.  Stanley married Frances Wdowicki in 
1930.  Frances's father Jakob Wdowicki came from Poland in 1925 and got 
a job with the C.N.R. as a sectionman in Scott.  In 1928 he brought his 
family from Poland to Scott.  Frances was the oldest child.  Stanley and 
Frances had four children.  John, Ed, Stan Jr., and Shirley.

Alexander and Elizabeth Engel
Alexander Engel was born May 26, 1899 in Klositz, Bessarabia, Romania. 
 (Bessarabia was controlled by Romania 1918 to 1940 and is now part of 
Russia).  Elizabeth Rotfus was born in 1897, in Boridina, Bessarabia, 
Romania.  They were married in 1917 in Klositz.  They and their four 
children Pauline, Ludwig (Louie), Helena (Lena), and Elvira, arrived at 
Craigmyle on April 24 1929.
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John and Pauline Engel
John, Pauline and their oldest son Fred (Three years old) arrived in 
Hanna in early April, 1929.  Their long journey had taken them from 
their home in a small village called Klostitz, in the province of 
Besserabia, Russia.  This area is located immediately north of the Black 
Sea, north of the port of Odessa.  The Engel families had been living 
and farming in that area since 1790, being one of 127 families who had 
left Germany to settle that region, thereby securing the Eastern 
boundaries of what was then known as Czarist Russia.  They had two more 
children after immigrating to Endiang.  Arthur and Hilda.
There is lots more to this story.