Johan Christian Heinrich Binedell

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The death notice of Johann Gottfried Binedell (born 1888) indicates that his father was Johann Christian Binedell. When the Binedell group arrived in South Africa on 1 March 1878 there were three people with the name Johann Christian Binedell:

1. Casper Binedell's son born 1877

2. Johann Jacob Binedell's son born 1873

3. Johann Christian Binedell born 1857 (age 21) travelling independently with his younger siblings Johannes (18) and Marie (15). According to his gravestone his date of birth was 18 November 1856 and date of death 13 April 1937.

Neither of the other 2 could likely have fathered Johann Gottfried Binedell who was born in 1888. Therefore Johann Christian Binedell born 1856 is the father of Johann Gottfried Binedell by default.

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The Volga Germans were German farmers who had emigrated from Germany to Russia with the agreement at the time that they were allowed to keep their German culture and faith. Eventually many of their descendents left again for various reasons. Johann Christian Binedell was part of the Binedell family party that emigrated from the Volga German state of Niedermanjou to South Africa. They travelled 23 November 1877 by train from Saratov to Hamburg, and then on the ship Saturnus from Hamburg to Cape Town, leaving on 3 January 1878 and arriving 1 March 1878. There is an interesting story on the Rootsweb website by Vera Beljakova about how their hopes to emigrate to North or South America were dashed, and how they subsequently ended up emigrating to South Africa.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GER-VOLGA/2004-01/107...

There were 4 Binedell men travelling together. They were Casper Binedell (45) with his wife and children, Peter Johann Binedell (34) with his wife and children, Johann Jacob Binedell (32) with his wife and children, and Johann Christian Binedell (21) with his younger brother Johannes (age 18) and sister Marie (age 15). It is possible Casper, Peter Johann and Johann Jacob were brothers and that that Johann Christian and his siblings were the children of another deceased brother. It is unclear, however; they could be cousins or other relatives. There was also an older lady age 67, Maria Elisabeth Binedell, who might be the mother of these men, but seems most connected to Casper, age 45, as she is mentioned in his travelling party and is identified simply as "mother" on the shipping document. According to Volgate German researcher, Steven Grau, her maiden name was Meier.

http://volga.niedermonjou.org:8000/vg2sa.html

http://www.safrika.org/Names/schiff_27.html

Casper Binedell (1832) was travelling with his wife Catharina Marie Buss (1833) and 7 children, of which 2 were married with their own children, namely Johann Heinrich Binedell 1854 (married to Anna Marie Betz, and later to Catharina Petronella Phyffer) and Catharina Sophie Binedell 1856 (married to Georg Conrad Rieb). The unmarried children were Catharina Elisabeth (1862), Johann Friedrich (1864) who later married Maria Christiane Kraus, Anna Elisabeth (1868) who later married Carl Ludwig Althaus, Johann Peter (1869) and Johann Christian (1877).

Peter Johann Binedell (1844) travelled with his wife Catharine Sophie (1842) and children Marie Sophie (1868), Marie Elisabeth (1870), Johannes (1875) and Johann Peter (1877). There is a gravestone of Peter Johann and Catherine Sophie (and presumably their later born son Johann David) on eggsa.org under Binedell :: Dehning :: Kronenberg.

Johann Jacob Binedell (1846) travelled with his wife Marie Elisabeth Fiedler (1844) and children Johann Gottfried (1868), Johann Conrad (1869) who later married Johanna Bertha Augusta Gerstner, Johann Christian (1873) who later married Matilda Paulina Maria Dehning, and Johann Carl (1877). Two other children mentioned separately might be his as well (but could also be orphans travelling with the group): Anna (1874) and Christine (1876). Additionally he later had more children, born in South Africa: Marie who married F. Freibus, Johann Jacob (1881) who married Reta Marie Adele Ahrens, Johann David, Elisabeth who married A. Freibus, and Heinrich Emannuel (1887) who married Catharina Christina Johanna Underhay. A few of Johann Jacob's children's gravestones can be found on eggsa.org.