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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY

BERDJANSK, SOUTH RUSSIA [BERDYANSK, SOUTH RUSSIA, BERDIANSK, SOUTH RUSSIA

PORT CITY ON THE SEA OF AZOV

Molotschna Villages © ica.net - http://home.ica.net/~walterunger/Molotch.html

• Among the first Mennonites to move to Berdyansk was Abraham Sudermann, Caldowe, Prussia, in 1845, who built and operated a treadmill there. Being a minister, he started to gather a congregation which was first a subsidiary of the Pordenau Mennonite Church, then independent 1865-1876, under Elder Leonhard Sudermann, and later a subsidiary of the Gnadenfeld Mennonite Church, and after 1914 of the Rudnerweide Mennonite Church.
  • http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/B44980.html
• Some of the people who moved to Berdyansk from the Molotschna Colony were living there since 1840. Mennonites living in Berdyansk, were under their own management with a director under the jurisdiction of the district office. They have been without passports because the distance from the Molotschna Colony was short. On the basis of passport regulations and in accordance with instructions from the Guardianship Committee for Foreign Settlers, under Regulation No. 7808, dated October 15, 1851, passports have begun to be issued in 1852 for those living in Berdyansk.
  • http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/russia/1852_Molotschna.htm