Warkentin and Draper Family History

The Stories of the WARKENTIN and DRAPER Families are a story of how two very different families left western Europe centuries ago to eventually come together in the New World.
 
The DRAPER family was originally from the Netherlands. John le Drapour and his brothers, William and Henry were cloth weavers by trade. They moved to England six hundred years ago and established their weaving business in Yorkshire.
Three Hundred years later, in the late17th century, Samuel Draper ran away from the home of his father, Thomas Draper, an English Clergyman. He became a Pirate, who sailed the "Seven Seas", eventually settling his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
  
The WARKENTIN family were of the Mennonite faith. They moved from the Netherlands in the 16th century to Western Prussia where Johann was born in the village of Blumenort in 1760. In 1789 Catherine the Great of Russia invited the Mennonite people to settle on land that was being opened up in the southern Ukraine. In 1804 while Napoleon's Armies were rampaging across Europe, Johann and his family started the long trek to their new home in the Ukraine.

Major connected family names include: Bender, Brown, Braun, Carpenter, Doerksen and Friesen

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