In terms of the bigger chronological picture, the posts thus far have touched parts of three centuries: the latter part of the 1700s, all through the 1800s, and ending with ???? Ratzlaff Buller sometime in the 1920s or 1930s.
Another way to look at this is generationally: we began our series with Grandpa Chris’s great-great-great-grandfather Benjamin 1, moved forward in time to his son Benjamin 2, and most recently covered his son and our ancestor David, the father of Peter D, the father of Peter P, the father of Grandpa Chris.
We have explored our family both vertically (Benjamin > Benjamin > David) and horizontally (all four sons of Benjamin 2). We will take up a vertical investigation of all the children of David Buller (including Peter D) shortly, but before we do we should briefly survey all the Bullers covered thus far.
GM 1: Benjamin Buller 1 (here)
Our earliest known direct answer, Benjamin 1 lived in the last half of the eighteenth century. In all likelihood, he and his family (wife unknown) lived in the Schwetz vicinity in Poland. We know only his name, and that only because his son is identified as Benjamin Benjamin.
GM 2: Benjamin Buller 2, 402138 (here)
Benjamin 2 and family emigrated from Poland to Volhynia in 1817, from Volhynia to Waldheim in Molotschna colony in 1839, from Waldeim to Heinrichsdorf in Volhynia around 1849, and, finally, from Heinrichsdorf back to Waldheim sometime in the 1860s. We assume he died and was buried in Waldheim.
GM 3: Helena ????? Buller, 402139 (here)
We know little about Benjamin 2’s wife Helena, apart from the fact that she was the mother of four sons and perhaps as many as five daughters. She was younger than Benjamin 2, but her birth year is not known with certainty; it was likely sometime in the 1793–1799 range.
GM 4: Benjamin Buller 3 (here)
Benjamin 2 and Helena’s oldest son Benjamin 3 was born around 1816, so probably before the family emigrated from Poland to Volhynia. He was granted a Wirtschaft in Waldheim the year after his father, and he and his wife and children stayed in Waldheim when the rest of the family moved to Heinrichsdorf. Benjamin 3 disappears from view after 1845; he no longer owned a Wirtschaft in Waldheim, and we do not even know if he remained in the village.
GM 5: David Buller, 11303 (here, here, and here)
Our ancestor David was born 25 January 1818 in Volhynia, emigrated with his family to Waldheim in 1839, married Helena Zielke within the next few years, moved back to Volhynia (Heinrichsdorf) with most of the family around 1849, then returned to Waldheim in the early 1850s, where he lived out his days, passing away 25 November 1904. David was married twice: first to Helena Zielke, then to one of the daughters of Jacob and Lehncke Schmidten Ratzlaff. He fathered four daughters and five sons. (Writing this summary led me to realize that important information about David was omitted from the earlier posts; it will be added in a GM5c post in the near future.)
GM 6: Helena Zielke Buller, 11304 (here and here)
Helena Zielke was younger than husband David by perhaps a year, so she was born in 1818 or 1819; like David, she was born in Volhynia. We do not know when Helena’s family moved to Waldheim, only that it was there that she and David were married. Helena bore David’s first six children: Helena (1844), Peter (1845), Elisabeth (1847), Benjamin (1851), Maria (1853), David (1855). She apparently passed away shortly after the birth of her last son.
GM 7: ???? Ratzlaff Buller (here and here)
The first name of David Buller’s second wife is unknown, but we can now be certain that she was a daughter of Jacob and Lehncke Schmidten Ratzlaff. She was born sometime between 1825 and 1836 and married David probably shortly after the 1855 (?) death of his first wife Helena. Ratzlaff Buller bore David three children: Heinrich (about 1860), Jacob (1864), Sarah (unknown). In 1908 she and son Heinrich and his family emigrated several thousand miles east to Kazakhstan. She died there at the age of ninety-eight.
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The next post will list all the changes suggested for the GRANDMA database, in light of all that we have discovered, followed by a third post on David, to fill out all that we know about him. After that we will move forward with the series, working vertically into the next generation, specifically all of the children of David, including our own ancestor Peter D Buller.
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