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Waterloo Region Generations
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Christian Boss
1816 - 1903 (86 years)
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Name Christian Boss Born 22 Nov 1816 , Mecklinburg Schwerin, Germany 
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Gender Male Occupation 1861 Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [2] Laborer Residence 1861 Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [2] Lutheran Directory 1867 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Directory 1867 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation 1871 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [1] Farmer Residence 1871 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [1] Lutheran Occupation 1891 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [4] Farmer Residence 1891 Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [4] Lutheran House of Industry and Refuge 1903 Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [3] HouseofIndustryandRefugeca1869.JPG
The House of Industry and Refuge. In 1868, 141 acres was purchased on Frederick Street in Berlin (now Kitchener) and the house opened on June 15, 1869. The original building housed 100 and operated as an industrial farm, which raised crops and livestock. The residents worked for their keep if possible, those most did not. The House eventually became a strictly a residence of the aged and later relocated and renamed Sunnyside.Name Christian Baas Name Christian Bahs Eby ID Number Waterloo-133799 Died 25 Jun 1903 Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [3, 5] Cause: paralysis Buried New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [5] Person ID I133799 Generations Last Modified 28 Jan 2025
Family 1 Wilhelmine "Mena" Press, b. 22 Dec 1832, , Germany , d. 23 Sep 1925, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (Age 92 years) Last Modified 29 Jan 2025 Family ID F258517 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Dorothy Sophia "Sophia" Papke, b. 7 Apr 1814, , Germany , d. 10 Jun 1879 (Age 65 years) Last Modified 29 Jan 2025 Family ID F228611 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - After 1850, mainly Lutherans would continue to come from the same German states as before, as well as from Bavaria, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen.111 While many later emigrants gravitated to the industrializing towns, others continued to settle on in pockets of small lots all over the township, as the landless Mecklenburgers did in Pine Bush (BLB3-6).112 Some of the 30,000 mercenaries in the British army at the end of the American wars were men from Mecklenburg who chose to take up land in Upper Canada rather than return to their homelands. Messages home about opportunities in the New World attracted clusters of interrelated Mecklenburgers like those who settled on "Lot Six of the Third, the small tract informally subdivided by Michael Bergey in the late 1840s. Mecklenburg men usually laboured for a while in Preston or Hespeler before leasing and later perhaps buying small lots. As well as clearing their own land, most continued to work for Jacob Hespeler at New Hope, as recorded in his ledgers of the 1850s and 1860s.113 Some cleared land, chopped or sawed wood, or burned charcoal to supply Hespeler's distillery. Others worked as labourers building the Galt and Guelph Railway in 1854 or Hespeler's Upper Mill Dam in 1859. Men with special skills, such as the stonemasons Johann Baumgartner, George Krieg and Henry Knack, could command better pay. Some who worked for several years first in Preston, New Hope or Berlin were able to buy larger acreages in the Pine Bush area and in nearby Puslinch Township, across the townline.114
114 Those who came from Mecklenburg-Schw'erin included the Bohn and Baas families in 1854; the Gillow brothers (John, Friedrich and Helmuth), Friedrich Krueger and Johann and Joachim Fink in the later 1850s; Johann Ernst Luhsow (Lisso, Lesser), Heinrich Spekin (later Speckeen), Friedrich Jonas and Christoph Prestien in the 1860s. Several smallholders from Mecklenburg are recorded in the Pine Bush area, according to the 1861 assessment rolls (their names often anglicized and spelled phonetically). Daniel Baetels, Henry Bucholes, John Fink, John Gelow, John Lesser are all noted as labourers with five acres each. Elizabeth Bloomfield, Linda Foster and L.W. Laliberte, Ihe Waterloo Township cadastre in 1861: "A system of the most regular irregularity" (Guelph: Department of Geography, University of Guelph, 1994), pp.43,93. Another cluster of migrants from Mecklenburg settled on the southern edge of Berlin
Waterloo Township through Two Centuries Elizabeth Bloomfield
- After 1850, mainly Lutherans would continue to come from the same German states as before, as well as from Bavaria, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen.111 While many later emigrants gravitated to the industrializing towns, others continued to settle on in pockets of small lots all over the township, as the landless Mecklenburgers did in Pine Bush (BLB3-6).112 Some of the 30,000 mercenaries in the British army at the end of the American wars were men from Mecklenburg who chose to take up land in Upper Canada rather than return to their homelands. Messages home about opportunities in the New World attracted clusters of interrelated Mecklenburgers like those who settled on "Lot Six of the Third, the small tract informally subdivided by Michael Bergey in the late 1840s. Mecklenburg men usually laboured for a while in Preston or Hespeler before leasing and later perhaps buying small lots. As well as clearing their own land, most continued to work for Jacob Hespeler at New Hope, as recorded in his ledgers of the 1850s and 1860s.113 Some cleared land, chopped or sawed wood, or burned charcoal to supply Hespeler's distillery. Others worked as labourers building the Galt and Guelph Railway in 1854 or Hespeler's Upper Mill Dam in 1859. Men with special skills, such as the stonemasons Johann Baumgartner, George Krieg and Henry Knack, could command better pay. Some who worked for several years first in Preston, New Hope or Berlin were able to buy larger acreages in the Pine Bush area and in nearby Puslinch Township, across the townline.114
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Sources - [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 2, Pg. 10.
- [S1837] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1861, Div. 1 Page 6.
- [S1848] House of Industry and Refuge Burial Register - Kitchener, Pg 14 No. 435 Reg. Number in Admittance Record Book: 1667.
Christian Boss Died: 25 Jun 1903 Aged 86 Cause: Paralysis - [S2575] Census - ON, Waterloo Township - 1891, Sect. 3 Page 36.
- [S237] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - New Hope CC#4498 Internet Link .
[North] Hier Ruhet in Gott/ Wilhelmine BAHS/ geb.(PRESS) / den 22 Dec. 1832/ in Mecklenburg Schwerin/ gest. den Sept. 23, 1925 in Kitchener/ Alter 93 Jahre/ [eroded, 2017]
[West] Hier Ruhet in Gott/ Christian BAHS/ geb. den 22 Nov. 1816/ in Mechlenburg Schwerin/ gest. den 25 Juni 1903/ in Berlin, Ont./ Alter 86 Jahre./ 7 Mo. und 4 Tage/ verse/ BAHS/
[South] Hier Ruhet in Gott/ Sophia BAHS/ geb. PAP(TZA)/ geb. den 7 April 1814/ Gest. den 10 Juni 1879/ Alter 65 Jahre/ 2 Mo. and 3 Tage./
- [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 2, Pg. 10.
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Event Map 
Born - 22 Nov 1816 - , Mecklinburg Schwerin, Germany 
Occupation - Laborer - 1861 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada 
Directory - 1867 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Directory - 1867 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada 
House of Industry and Refuge - 1903 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: paralysis - 25 Jun 1903 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada 
Buried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada = Link to Google Earth
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