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The Gottlieb & Augustine Fangrath Family
Shown in the picture at the top left, is the Fangrath family, in May of 1925. The parents shown are Gottlieb Fangrath and Augustine Groß. They died before the end of the second world war and all children (10), with two exceptions, emigrated to Canada (8). This group and their descendants are the subject of this site.
Having lived in both East and West Prussia (Ost-
After World War II, the second wave of brothers and sisters and their families arrived in Canada, between 1950 and 1956. This group had all married and completed their families in Germany.
The majority became established in and around Kitchener, Ontario. Initially, two farmed near Londesborough and one settled in Stratford. The last three brothers also changed their surname to the anglicized spelling, established by the first three. Most of the immigrant children married spouses of German origin.
Gottlieb Fangrath and Augustine Groß feared God and respected their fellow men. God honoured them with 174 direct descendants (as of June, 1999). We still experience what the scriptures express in Exodus 20:6, "But showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
The Gross Family
Augustine Groß was from East Prussia (Ostpreußen) and met her husband in ???? Her brother Wilhelm Groß, was the only one of his family to emigrate to Canada.
