Emma Caroline Fahrenkrog

Emma Fahrenkrog > Walter Siever > Joseph Siever > Kim Siever

Emma Fahrenkrog with her family. Her father is seated to her right. Her mother is seated to her left. Her oldest brother and sister are standing to her left and behind their mother. Her youngest brother and sister are seated at far left.

Emma Caroline Fahrenkrog was born on 03 January 1889 in Hamburg Germany to Gustav Heinrich Friedrich Fahrenkrog and Wilhelmine Caroline Ottilie Schröder.

Emma's mother operated a laundry business in Hamburg—located at Durchschnitt 1—from 1903 to 1920. Her father was a baker by profession, but had an allergy to flour. As a result, he ended up running a bar. He also took care of the house while his wife operated the laundry facility.

Emma Siever in her wedding dress and Willy Siever in his wedding suit.

On April Fools Day of 1911, at the age of 22, Emma married a 27-year-old bookkeeper named Willy Albert Siever, son of Heinrich Ernst Siever and Johanne Dorothee Sophie Friederike Laudahn. At the time, Emma was employed as a seamstress.

For their honeymoon, Willy and Emma travelled to Canada where they decided to homestead. Their first year was spent in Herbert, Saskatchewan, but their 320 acre homestead was located at NW 33 12 9 W 3, near Hallonquist, 15 miles from Herbert.

Emma died in the month of August 1931, thirty years before her husband. She passed away in the Regina General Hospital from cancer of the spleen

Emma and Willy Siever standing in front of their homestead house.

Willy and Emma had five sons (Herbert, Walter, Werner, Erwin and Alvin) and one daughter (Helen). Willy was 5 ft 6 in. tall and had brown eyes. He had a birthmark on the left side of his neck.

All Sievers in Canada are descended from Willy and Emma.

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