Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Barbara Biehn[1]

Female 1839 - 1894  (55 years)


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  • Name Barbara Biehn 
    Born 5 May 1839  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Occupation tailoress 
    Residence 1861  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Farmer 
    Residence 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Mennonite 
    Eby ID Number 00008-1032 
    Died 24 May 1894  Wallace Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I15639  Generations
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Father Aaron S. Biehn, Sr.,   b. 16 Mar 1814, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Apr 1897  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Hannah Snider,   b. 8 Mar 1815, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1884  (Age 69 years) 
    Married 8 May 1838  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6
    Family ID F4220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Barbara Biehn, "was born May 5th, 1839, and died May 24th, 1894. She resided in Listowel where she was engaged in sewing and dressmaking. She was unmarried."

      Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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      Christian Biehn administered her estate:

      "BE IT KNOWN that on the twenty-fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, Letters of Administration of all and singular the Property of Barbara Biehn later of the Town of Listowel in the County of Perth, spinster, deceased, who died on or about the twenty-fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety four at the Township of Wallace in the County of Perth, intestate, and had at the time of her death a fixed place of abode at the Township of Wallace in the said County of Perth,were Granted by Her Majesty's Surrogate Court of the County of Perth to Christian Biehn, of the Township of Wallace in the County of Perth, farmer, brother of the said Intestate, he having been first sworn faithfully to Administer the same, by paying her just debts and distributing the residue (if any) of her property according to law, and to Exhibit under oath a true and perfect Inventory of all and singulart he said property and to render a just and true account of his Administration within eighteen months or sooner if thereunto required.")

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 263.

    2. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851.

    3. [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 3, Pg. 38.

    4. [S1946] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1861 (South Division), Div. 2 Page 11.

    5. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 309.

    6. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 10 May 1838:21.
      8 May 1838 Benjamin Eby, teacher, m. Aaron Bien to Miss Hanna Schneider, both of Waterloo.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 5 May 1839 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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