Abraham Giesbrecht born February 28 1846 in Russia was the son of Jacob Giesbrecht and Elizabeth Driedger. He married Helena Martens daughter of Johan Martens and Maria Harder. They had 13 children before she died in 1890. Abraham then married Anna Dyck and began a second large family. He came to Canada in the 1870's living first in Manitoba and then in Saskatchewan He died in September 1923 Cornelius Giesbrecht born in 1880 was a son of the first marriage
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