[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Mass Migration, Schadura to Brazil, 1886

[Paul Rakow]

  Hi Bob,

      A Moravian connection makes good sense - especially with
 the colony name Bruederthal.

      The Hamburg passenger lists seem to be free on
 ancestry.com (I don't know if that's always so).

 <http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1068>

       If you search the Hamburg lists with
 Departure date: 1886
 and
 Lived in: Schadura
 you should get all the names, and a link to the scanned
 microfilm.

                      Paul Rakow

On Sat, April 4, 2015 20:00, Robert Radke wrote:
> Hi Paul,
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> This sounds familiar.
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> There was a mass migration from Schaduri to Brazil sponsored by the
> Moravian Brethren Church (whence the name Bruederthal of the colony that
> they established).  The colony was not successful, owing in part to the
> unfamiliarity of the colonists with how to farm in the Brazilian climate.
> The bad experience in Brazil led the Moravian Church to be
> extremely reluctant to have anything to do with the 1894 Moravian migration
> from Volhynia to Bruederheim in Alberta.
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> I have this information from a history of the Moravian Church in Alberta
> written by the late Rev. Kurt Witt of Bruederheim (to whom, as you probably
> know, we are both related by marriage).  I don't have my copy at hand to
> check the details and whether there is more information that I can't
> recall, but I don't think there is much more there. (I loaned the book a
> few years back and it hasn't returned).
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> I'm very interested in having a look at that passenger list.
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> --Bob Radke
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