Mennonite
Historical
Society

of Alberta

Cliff Wall Fonds

Accession 2009.043

Title and Description

Cliff Wall fonds. – 2007. – 4 cm.

Administrative/Biographical History

Cliff Wall was born on 1 December 1926 near Macrorie, Saskatchwan, the son of Henry P. Wall and Anna Unruh.  The family took up a homesetad in the Nipawin district of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.  In 1947 they moved on to Vancouver Island where Cliff met and married Dorothy Michelson the following year.   They moved on again in 1960, to San Jose California where Cliff established an automoto-ive financing and leasing business.  In retirement Cliff Wall spent 12 years researching the family history.

Scope and Content

The fond consists of 26 entries documenting the genealogy, family histories and stories of Cliff Wall’s maternal and paternal ancestors and relatives.

Source of Acquisition

Donated by Cliff Wall

Notes:

Accession 2009.043

GRANDMA #484701

File List

1-1. Overview
1-2 Index
1-3. Appreciation and Introduction
1-4. Our Family History
1-5. Tobias A. Unruh (1819-1875)
1-6. Our History – Anabaptist Origins
1-7. Ships Pictures
1-8. The Neufeld Family Legend
1-9. The Unruh Family from 1750
1-10. Tobias B. Unruh & Katharina Sperling
1-11. Peter Tobias Unruh & Eva Dirksen
1-12. The Daniel Unruh Family
1-13. The Harder Family
1-14. Henry Wall (1843-1916) & Family
1-15. The Toews Connection
1-16. The House of Dirk
1-17. The Voth Family
1-18. The Jacob Voth Family
1-19 The Funk Family Connection
1-20. The Wedel Connection
1-21. The Hiebert Family
1-22. Peter Wall and Mary Buller
1-23. The Henry Peter Wall Family
1-24. The Cliff Wall Story
1-25. The Clifford & Dorothy Wall Family
1-26 Addendum