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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1357 | | TITLE: | Lilge family fonds | | CREATOR: | Lilge family | | DATE RANGE: | 1863-1970 | | EXTENT: | 0.14 m of textual records and other material
Includes 26 photographs, 4 photographic postcards and 1 map. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | In the German colony in Augustowok, Tarsheminer Kempe near Warsaw, Andreas and Anna (Blank) Lilge had five children: Samuel, Ludwig, Kristi, Andreas and Wilhelm. In 1893, Andreas negotiated with the Canadian Department of the Interior, securing homesteads in a block of land in Township 56, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (56-20-W4) for a Moravian Colony in Alberta. The settlement was named Bruderheim, meaning “Home of Brothers.” He was joined in 1894 by his brothers Ludwig and Wilhelm.
Ludwig, along with his wife Anna Carolina (Fennert) and children Julius and Lydia homesteaded the southwest quarter of Section 2, Township 56, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (2-56-20-W4); Julius (born August 12, 1869) filed for his own homestead November 29, 1897, the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 56, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (2-56-20-W4). In 1903, Ludwig and Julius opened a general store in Lamont, Alberta. On February 25, 1903, Julius married Helene Lilge, daughter of Wilhelm Lilge; their children included Arthur, Agatha (Bieraugel), Erna (Pilot), Doris (Phillips), Hubert, Rita (Macdonald), Eleanor (Rothenburger) and Gerry. After living in Lamont, Alberta since 1906, the family returned to Bruderheim in 1911 where Julius worked for the Canadian National Railway. Lydia, born April 9, 1882, married Wilhelm Schultz in 1901; they farmed on the southeast quarter of section 35, Township 55, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (35-55-20-W4), and later moved to the Ludwig Lilge farm and opened a store in Lamont. Lydia and Wilhelm’s children include Leonard, Elizabeth, Jana-Marie, Susan, Lawrence and Alyce. Ludwig died July 26, 1906, Anna December 26, 1927, Julius January 12, 1935 and Lydia October 7, 1968.
Andreas, born November 2, 1851, was a cabinetmaker and later a sacristan-teacher. He married Wilhelmine Kopp in 1871. Their children included Anna, Augusta, Hulda Ernestine, Amalia Christine, Ludwig, Martha, Ernest, Gerhard, Andreas Renatus, Carl, Wilhelm and Otto. In 1881 and 1882, Andreas studied theology in the United States, and was subsequently a lay minister in Russia. In 1884, he became a member of the Moravian church. In 1892 he and his family moved to the United States, and the following year, he organized for the establishment of a Moravian Colony in Alberta. Once in Bruderheim, Andreas homesteaded the northwest quarter of section 16, Township 55, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (16-55-20-W4). Andreas was instrumental in the organization of the Bruderheim Moravian Church, the Bruderfeld Moravian Church, and the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Andreas became a Lutheran pastor and served the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, the Beaver Hill district, organizing the Lutheran Church of Beaver Hills, Alberta, which later became the Bethany Lutheran Church. The family left Bruderheim in 1907 for Wetaskiwin, Alberta, where Andreas served as a full-time pastor for St. John’s Lutheran Church near Wetaskiwin until 1909. His family returned to Bruderheim while Andreas went to Russell, Manitoba to be a pastor there. After returning to Bruderheim briefly, Andreas again left, this time for Detroit, and the Lilge family heard from him for the last time in 1914. He died in a poor house in the United States possibly around 1930.
Wilhelm, born September 12, 1853, was married to Wilhelmine (Bartz). Their children included Helene (Lilge), Adolph, Bertha (Weinstock and then Hermann), Edward, Alfred, Edith, Ernst and Clara (Fischer). They homesteaded the northeast quarter of Section 4, Township 56, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (4-56-20-W4). Wilhelm died July 31, 1934. His son Edward took over his farm.
| | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Clair Lilge Fischer (PR1977.0205), Doris A. Phillips (PR1977.0224, PR1983.0177), and Agatha A. Bieraugel, Erna E. Pilot, Doris A. Phillips, Rita M. Macdonald and Eleanor Rothenburger, the daughters of Julius Lilge, (PR1979.0134) deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1977, 1979 and 1983. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of records of the Lilge family and includes correspondence, a passport, certificates, homestead records, newspaper clippings, booklets about Bruderheim and Bruderfeld, and photographs of members of the Ludwig, Andreas and Wilhelm Lilge families, including portraits and weddings, the Ludwig and Julius Lilge store. | | INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ACCESSIONS: | PR1977.0205 PR1977.0224 | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Other records pertaining to the Lilge family are located in the Lilge family fonds at the Lutheran Historical Institute in Edmonton, Alberta. | | RELATED RECORDS: | An oral history with Ewald Oscar Lilge can be found in PR1971.0266. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the records, from Along Victoria Trail: Lamont and Districts, From Bush to Bushel: A History of Bruderheim & District, and The Founding of the Moravian Church in Western Canada and the Andreas Lilge Story, available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 St15, 971.233 B831 and 284.67123 B831v.
The homestead locations are represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.
A number of clothing artifacts once belonging to Bertha Hermann, daughter of Wilhelm Lilge are located in the Human History division of the Provincial Museum of Alberta under accession number 83.85.
Rita M. Macdonald also deposited a discrete item, a letter, in German, to Samuel Fredenkind, Juliana Daus and Auguste Daus from Adolf Jabs.
A confirmation scroll and presentation booklet originally deposited in accession PR1977.0224 were transferred to the Lutheran Historical Institute in Edmonton, Alberta.
| | RELATED FILES: | Display FileList | | RELATED ITEMS: | A9302 (Lamont - Views)
A9303 (J.Lilge and Company Store and Pendleton and Company Real Estate and Insurance Agent, Lamonte.)
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