Helen Kornelsen (Rutherford)

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KORNELSEN GENEALOGY

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HELEN "LENA" (KORNELSEN) RUTHERFORD
(June 21, 1927 - March 29, 2008)
and
JAMES EDWARD RUTHERFORD

1959

HELEN "LENA" KORNELSEN
(June 21, 1927 - March 29, 2008)
Married
(June 20, 1959, Leamington)
JAMES EDWARD RUTHERFORD

KORNELSEN LINEAGE

KORNELSEN

DESCENDANTS

Wedding of Interest - Miss Lena Kornelsen, daughter of Mrs. Clara Kornelsen of Leamington, and James Edward Rutherford, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rutherford, of Blenheim, were married Saturday in the Mennonite Brethren Church, Leamington, in a ceremony performed by Rev. Derksen, They will reside in Leamington.

http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post, June 25, 1959 - Page: 5

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HELEN "LENA" (KORNELSEN) RUTHERFORD
(June 21, 1927 - March 29, 2008)
and
JAMES EDWARD RUTHERFORD

Lene (Lee) Rutherford passed away on Saturday March 29, 2008 at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. She was born in Wheatley 80 years ago to her late parents Jacob and Clara Kornelsen. Lee met her future husband Jim Rutherford one day at an Essex County vs. Blenheim Badminton League game. Lee and Jim would have celebrated 49 years of marriage this June. Together they raised their daughter Jane, Mrs. Dennis Jenner and enjoyed their grandchildren Brandon and Ian Jenner. Lee was an avid golfer, she enjoyed reading, knitting and curling at the Golden Acres Curling Club which Jim’s parents co-founded. Lee is survived by her sister Elsie, Mrs. Bob Bibby of Surprise, Arizona, by her brother in law Henry Dick of Leamington and by several nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her sister Hilda.

http://www.blenheimcommunityfuneralhome.com/past2.htm

ANCESTRAL GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Hello Eric,
I ran across your page at http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/KornelsenJacob.htm while searching for a line of my cousins that went to Canada.

Klara/Clara (Moos) Kornelsen, born 14 Dec 1904 in Alt Nassau, was a 3rd cousin of my grandfather Heinrich/Henry. Her mother was Christina Neff, born 21 or 22 Jun 1871 in Dinkel (Tarlykovka), Kukkus, Samara, Russia. This family appears to have wound up moving through the Caucasus area and wound up in the area of Alt Nassau.

Klara/Clara and her husband Jacob/Jake Heinrich Kornelsen came to Canada with a daughter, Maria/Marie. Your page on travel to Canada does not include Maria/Marie, but there is a record for her just as for her parents. I think this is the reason why you note that there is an "error" involving this young girl.

There are a couple of things on your page that I'm confused by. One is the daughter Helen. Her obituary gives her name as Lene (Lee). Is "Lene" simply a nickname for Helen that she used?

Also, there is a daughter Ilsa married to a Gerhard Baerg, but the obituary of Klara/Clara calls this daughter Elsie, wife of Robert Bibby. Did she marry twice?

I've been doing genealogy as a hobby for about 15 years, and I try to trace down all of my lines and find the cousins. As Klara/Clara was a third cousin to my grandfather, her kids would have been fourth cousins to my mother, and her grandkids fifth cousins to me. I would greatly appreciate your putting me in touch with descendants of these folks.

Thanks and regards,

Jack Saunders
Calabasas, CA, USA

March 12, 2014 3:10 AM
Klara/Clara (Moos) Kornelsen
J D Saunders

[Dear Eric]

Nice to hear from you. I think the confusion is the German and English. We always called the girls Lene and Elsie. Lene was pronounced “Leenah”. In German they would be “laynah” and “Ilsa” if the grownups were talking German. “Laynah” would be translated as Helen.

I presume that the girls didn't want German names and so went by the English translations. What was on their birth certificates, I wouldn't know.

As you know my name is spelled Margreta, but I was always called Margaret or Marga if someone was speaking German. I spelled my name the English way until University when a professor suggested the name on my degree should match my birth certificate. There was a stigma attached to being German.

Lene went by “Leenah” in her early working days. (I met her ex-boss several years later). That might have been shortened to Lee later.

Elsie (Ilsa) was married to George Baerg and they divorced. I have no knowledge of who she married later. It was the topic of much gossip in Leamington at the time. Elsie had two daughters, I think, but I don't remember their names. Elsie moved away and I never heard where.

Hilda's daughter Janet married “Red” Robinson, I think his proper name was John and when my mother was still alive they lived in the Leamington area. Janet made some draperies for my mother in the late 1980’s.

I presume that you have a copy of the Kornelsen family tree prepared in memory of Micha Willms. I would think the proper names are in there. Mine is at home and we're in Arizona right now. I'm tempted to look up Elsie, we're quite close to Surprise. Do you have any more information on her?

Hope this helps.

Margreta

March 13, 2014 11:44 AM
Re: From Eric Krause - Kornelsen Query
Margreta Gronski

I guess the reason I could answer your questions was that my parents often visited Hilda and Elsie, they were Dad’s nieces. When we would visit Aunt Clara, Lena would often be there. I got dragged along because I was too young to stay home ...

Friday, March 14, 2014 12:39 PM
Re: From Eric Krause - Kornelsen Query
Margreta Gronski