This family tree holds over 4,500 names. Birthdates and detailed information of those who are living have been privatized.

My son's Paternal side traces back to England and Ireland, as early as 1605. My Maternal side dates back to Shetland, also the Paternal, Mennonite portion from within the Ukraine as early as the 1700's.

Some common names you'll find:
Giesbrecht, Thiessen, Braun, Smith, Hildebrand(t), Walker, Plumridge, Graves, and many more. Thiessen is a very important name in the Mennonite Church!!

Always looking for connections to Hartley, White, Hebblethwaite, & Braun.

Some interesting family members (really really old ones) are Thomas Graves, Rear Admiral of the British Navy who settled in Charlestown Massachusetts, his lineage moved onwards to become United Empire Loyalists, settling in Canada, near Bear Creek.

• Kira Walker's Family History (958 KB)
  CONTAINS SURNAMES BRAUN, SMITH, WALKER, GIESBRECHT, PLENERT, HILDEBRAND(T), HARTLEY, PLUMRIDGE, GRAVES, ROBINSON

• Robina Jamieson Leask 1865 to 1956 Sandsting, SHE (21 KB)
  This is my Great Grandmother. She had 8 children, the youngest of which was my Grandfather. There is still one living daughter, Mary Tigwell, who will be 101 years old this year.
• Cornelius Braun & Anna Epp (313 KB)
  Pictured here is my Great Grandfather, with his second wife, along with some of his children from marriage #1, and the first few children of their marriage. This photo was taken somewhere in the Ukraine.
• Braun Family in Russia/Ukraine (341 KB)
  The same Cornelius and Anna Braun, with all children, some years later.
• Jacob and Hans Braun (68 KB)
  My Opa Jake and his brother Hans. Notice their crossed fingers - they must have been superstitious of the camera.
• The Quilting Circle (29 KB)
  This group of young ladies gathered to do quilting; one of them is Susanna Pauls who married my Oma's father and raised 12 children as her own.
• Heinrich and Helena Plenert (560 KB)
  Heinrich Plenert and Helena Hildebrandt were my Great Great Grandparents. They had 13 children.
• Johann and Maria (Plenert) Giesbrecht (47 KB)
  My Great Grandparents.
• Jacob and Olga Braun (57 KB)
  My Paternal Grandparents, Jacob and Olga (Giesbrecht) Braun
• Harold & Alma Plumridge (203 KB)
  June 5, 1937 - Harold and Alma's Wedding Day. They are my husband's Maternal Grandparents. Harold's line traces back through his mother Mary Maud Ryckman, through to the Robinson line, which married into the Graves family.

Kira Walker

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