Metta Virginia Tomlinson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Episcopal
• Census: 1920, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1930, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Graduation: 1935, Rice University, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1940, 3265 Chalfant Rd., Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio

Notes:

Census:
aged 27, college-4; lived in Houston 5 years ago

Buried:
The service was held at Christ Episcopal Church in West River, MD

Metta married John "Jack" Lansdale, Jr. on 17 Jun 1936 in Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, Harris Co., Texas. John (son of John Lansdale, Sr. and May Hamilton Mannen) was born on 9 Jan 1912 in Oakland, Alameda Co., California; was christened on 14 Jul 1912 in All Soul's Church, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California; died on 22 Aug 2003 in "Essex", Anne Arundel Co., Maryland; was buried in All Hallows Chapel, Davidsonville, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Private
2. Living
3. Living
4. Private
5. Living

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Texas A&M
• Occupation: Tomlinson-Mills Lumber Co., Houston, TX
• Religion: Episcopal
• Social Security Number: 454-03-5200
• Census: 1900, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1930, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1940, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1950, Houston, Harris Co., Texas

Notes:

He was known as "Bapaw" to his grandchildren.

He sold his father's lumber yard in 1923, moved to Houston, and there became president of Tomlinson-Mills Lumber Co. He was a Mason, and enjoyed fishing for trout.

In 1940, living with his family is a maid names Sarah Jones.

Census:
aged 11 (b. Oct. 1888), born in Texas; father born in Louisiana, mother in Virginia

Census:
aged 52, born in Texas as with both parents; education C2; owner of a lumber co.

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34151442

Hendley married Alma Julie von Rosenberg on 27 Nov 1912 in Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas. Alma (daughter of William Carl von Rosenberg and Metta Brossmann) was born on 11 Aug 1890 in Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas; was christened on 13 Apr 1914 in St. Mary's Church, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas; died on 16 Jan 1963 in San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas; was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Episcopal
• Census: 1900, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1930, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1940, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1950, Houston, Harris Co., Texas

Notes:

She was known as "Granmama" to her grandchildren. She was also the family historian for the von Rosenberg family, and the author and compiler of the first volume of the von Rosenberg family history.

Census:
aged 9 (b. Aug., 1890); born in Texas

Census:
aged 50, born in Texas as with both parents; education C2;

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34151441/alma-julie-tomlinson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Austin Co., Texas

Notes:

He had a lumber yard in Bellville. Where he might be on the 1860 and 1870 censuses is a mystery. His father was only 19 when he was born. By 1860 he would have been 9 years old. A biography appears in the Historical Review of Southeast Texas.

I cannot find him, or his mother, on the 1860 or 1870 censuses.

Census:
aged 29; he is HOH, "lumber dealer," and his parents are living with him; all are born in Louisiana

Census:
aged 48 (born Dec. 1851); born in Louisiana as with both parents; married 17 years; proprietor of a lumber yard

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34151414/edgar-austere-tomlinson

Edgar married Helen Adams Simpson on 25 Jan 1883 in Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas. Helen (daughter of James Hendley Simpson and Emily Dye) was born on 21 Dec 1854 in Union Mills, Fairfax Co., Virginia; died on 14 Dec 1933 in Hillsboro, Hill Co., Texas; was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1870, Colorado Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1930, Hillsboro, Hill Co., Texas

Notes:

Census:
aged 45 (born Dec. 1854); born in Virginia as with both parents; married 17 years; 3 children, all still living

Died:
according to her death certificater

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34151415

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., San Antonio Express, 6 Feb. 1905: William von Rosenberg. Hallettsville, Tex., Feb. 5 [illegible word] William von Rosenberg, aged 42, merchant and banker, died this morning after an illness of a week. He leaves a widow and 5 children.
• Census: 1870, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas

Notes:

He died of pneumonia just after turning 42; he was much missed by his children. There is also an un-named daughter with this family in the 1900 census, born abt. 1899 (aged "8/12," eight months, at the census taken on June 14th). Apparently she did not live.

Census:
aged 17; living with his older brother Friedrich and his wife.

Census:
aged 37 (b. Aug 1863); born in Texas and parents born in Germany; no profession

William married Metta Brossmann on 9 May 1889 in Bellville, Austin Co., Texas. Metta (daughter of Carl “Charles” Henry Brossmann and Catrina Margretha “Elise” Umland) was born on 12 Aug 1866 in Bellville, Austin Co., Texas; died on 5 Aug 1928 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas; was buried on 6 Aug 1928 in St. James Episcopal Church, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., Houston Post, 6 Aug. 1928, p15: ROSENBERG - Mrs. Metta von Rosenberg, 61, widow of the late William von Rosenberg, banker and merchant of Hallettsville, died at 3 a.m., Sunday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.E. Tomlinson, 2022 West Main Street. Mrs. von Rosenberg was born in Bellville August 12, 1866, where she lived for many years before moving to Hallettsville. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Tomlinson of Houston and Mrs. R.K. Boettcher of Brownwood; three sons, H.C. von Rosenberg of Harlingen, L.A. von Rosenberg of Fort Worth and W.E. von Rosenberg of San Antonio. The funeral procession will leave Houston at 6 a.m. Tuesday, arriving at Hallettsville about noon, and the body will lie in state in the Hallettsville Episcopal church until 4 p.m. when funeral services will being. Burial will be in the Hallettsville cemetery under direction of the Oliver-Lewis company.
• Census: 1870, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas

Notes:

Census:
aged 4, born in Texas

Census:
aged 14, born in Texas

Census:
aged 34 (b. Aug. 1865--apparently an error); born in Texas; father born in Saxony and mother in Hanover

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas

Notes:

The biography of his son Edgar in the Historical Review of South-East Texas says that he was born in Georgia, though this seems to be an error, perhaps for his own father William or another Tomlinson. This biography say of Augustus:

"Augustus A. Tomlinson, a native son of Georgia, when a young man in 1849 made the overland trip to California, and later returning to Louisiana he was an overseer on a sugar plantation there for a few years or until moving with his young wife to Marshall [Harrison Co.], Texas, where he became identified with wholesale and retail mercantile pursuits. In 1860 he joined the Texas Rangers, and he was stationed at Ringgold Barracks when the Civil war was inaugurated. Enlisting in the Confederate army, he served until the close of the war, and was made captain of the scouts in Colonel T. B. Likens' Regiment. In 1865 he resumed his mercantile pursuits at Harrisburg [In Houston], and he continued there for several years, but his death occurred at Bellville on the 3d of July, 1898, when sixty-eight years of age."

In the 1860 census for him—his wife is not in this household—there is a T.R. Hartman in his household, an attorney-at-law, aged 22 (b. abt. 1838). Presumably he was a relative of his wife's.

His wife does not seem to be living with him in the 1860 or 1870 census, and in 1870 the only child living with him was Willie Ruben. Apparently they were living apart at the moment. In these two censuses he was also living with his step-family the Farrows, with whom he was apparently in business (at least, in 1870 they had the same profession, "stock dealer"). In 1880 he was living in his son Edgar's household, this time with his wife.

Birth:
In another place, AAT wrote that he was born in Jefferson Parish, LA

Census:
age 22, planter; he is living in his mother-in-law's household, and is mistakenly named Augustus Hartman (a ditto mark is mistakenly carried down).

Census:
aged 30, farmer, born in Louisiana

Census:
aged 39, "stock dealer," born in Louisiana; just his son W.R. is living with him, in his step-brother L.R. Farrow's household (also a "stock dealer").

Census:
aged 49, in his son's household; born in LA

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34151413/augustus-austere-tomlinson

Augustus married Mary Leonese Hartman on 24 Oct 1850 in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Mary (daughter of Michael Hartman and Mary Leonese Theriot) was born about 1830 in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; was christened in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana; died on 16 May 1891 in Bellville, Austin Co., Texas; was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
• Slave Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas

Notes:

Her godfather was Zephiron Theriot, her mother's brother.

I cannot find her or her son Edgar Austere on the 1860 or 1870 censuses. Willie Ruben is not apparently on the 1860 census, though in 1870 he is living wit his father.

Census:
aged 21, living in her mother's household with her husband

Slave Census:
owner of 15 slaves

Census:
aged 46, born in LA; in her son Edgar's household

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34151412

Notes:

Married:
attested by him on his "Declaration of Survivor for Pension" when he applied for a Mexican War pension.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1860, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1870, Colorado Co., Texas

Notes:

He was a planter and a banker. He emigrated to Texas in 1857.

Census:
Precinct 2

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69177453

James married Emily Dye on 10 Sep 1844 in Virginia. Emily (daughter of John Hixson Dye, Sr. and Ann "Nancy" Hixson Johnson) was born on 20 Aug 1820 in Union Mills, Fairfax Co., Virginia; died on 22 May 1891 in Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas; was buried in Weimar Masonic Cemetery, Weimar, Colorado Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit, Colorado Citizen, May 28, 1891: Simpson, Emily Universal regret was expressed by our citizens last Friday morning when it became generally known that Mrs. Emily Simpson was dead. Though afflicted for many months, and herself despairing of recovery, her friends had hoped that with care and the use of remedies suggested by skilled physicians, her life might be prolonged for years yet to come. It was not to be. The hope was rudely dispelled. Mrs. Simpson was born in Fairfax county Va, August 20, 1820, was married to James H. Simpson, September 10, 1844, immigrated to Colorado county, Texas, March, 1862, and died May 22, 1891, at her home in this city. Her long life was one of quiet, unostentatious usefulness and labor for home interests, her family and friends, of devotion to her children's comfort and well being, finding within the home, its attachents and adornments the greatest meed of her happiness--the fruition of her highest desire. Her malady was borne with the resignation of inate courage and fortitude enshrined to the decrees of an All wise Power; and in her last days she "put her house in order" for her expected departure. To her gentle spirit what the world terms "grim death" came as a longed for messenger of peace, the summons of relief, the invitatiion to rest. Her remains were transferred to Weimar and interred beside her husband, who preceded her over a decade ago "to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler e'er returns," Rev. G. H. Collins of the Methodist church conducting services at the residence here, and at the Odd Fellow's cemetery in Weimar, assisted by Rev. Mr. Haynie. a large concourse of relatives and friends were present at the sad rites. A son and three daughters are left to mourn their irreparable loss. The Citizen extends sincere condolence. "The night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where she sleeps; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep her memory green in our souls"
• Religion: Baptist, Episcopal
• Religion: Old school Baptist/Episcopal
• Census: 1850, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1860, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1870, Colorado Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas

Notes:

Much of her ancestry is of Dutch descent, from families who moved from New York and New Jersey to northern Virginia in the 18th century. Her grandmothers, Mary and Lydia Hixson, were sisters.

She lived in the Union Mills area of Fairfax Co., VA. She and her family moved to Texas in 1862.

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51506699

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1849, Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas
• Census: 1860, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas

Notes:

Johannes Carl von Rosenberg was born at Eckitten Estate in 1826, where his mother died when he was a few weeks old. The Veithofer-Froelich grandmother (Johanna Dorothea Viethofer, his maternal grandmother) beloved by all, took him home immediately after the funeral and cared for him until the remarriage of his father four years later.

Johannes immigrated to America with his family in 1849. After Johannes married Julie Groos in 1850, they lived on a farm that was part of Nassau Plantation, which he had cultivated while he boarded with his sister Hannchen Hellmuth nearby. Later he bought a larger farm at Evergreen, then Lee County, now Washington County.

At his return he decided to give up farming and moved to Round Top, where the family resided until his wife died in 1894. In Round Top he founded a mercantile business and also an inn, which was widely known to travelers in that day.

After 1894 he retired and lived with his two unmarried daughters, Hulda and Minnchen, until his death at the age of eighty. Johannes Carl died in l906 and was buried in the new cemetery in La Grange. There his wife was soon re-interred by his side.

Birth:
Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46766487

Johannes married Julie Wilhelmine Christine Groos on 26 Aug 1850 in Round Top, Fayette Co., Texas. Julie (daughter of Karl Wilhelm Apollo Groos and Sophie Wilhelmine Luise Martin) was born on 29 Apr 1829 in Ebersbach (Ewersbach), Dietzhölztal, Lahn-dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany; died on 22 Mar 1894 in Round Top, Fayette Co., Texas; was buried on 24 Mar 1894 in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Fayette Co., Texas

Notes:

She was known as "Julchen." She had 12 children, and so was a very busy housekeeper. She and her neighbors would arrange turns cooking soup for more indigent neighbors. She was a small person, very energetic, and wore her hair in braids around her head with a velvet bow. She died at 65 of uremia.

Birth:
This seems to be the Ebersbach mentioned in Nachrichten über die Familie Groos.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46766492/julia-wilhelmine_christine-von_rosenberg

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., San Antonio Express, 13 Jan. 1905: C.H. BROSSMAN — C.H. Brossman, aged 67 years, of Bellville, Tex., died at the Southwestern Insane asylum of chronic nephritis. The deceased is survived by a son A. H. Brossman. The remains are to be taken to Bellville for interment today. Obit, San. Antonio LIght, 13 Jan. 1905: C.H. BROSSMAN — C.H. Brossman, aged 65 years, died at the Southwestern Insane Asylum. He was a resident of Beeville [sic] where a son A.H. Brossman survives him. The remains were taken to the family in Beeville [sic] today.
• Occupation: carpenter on 1860 census for Bellville, TX
• Immigration: 1853
• Immigration: 1859
• Census: 1860, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Passport Application: 29 Mar 1886, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Southwestern Insane Asylum, Bexar Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas

Notes:

His ancestry in Germany is a stumper.

He was 17 when he immigrated, according to family history, arriving in Texas in 1856. Dates among records seem to vary a bit, however. He had apparently been educated as an architect in Germany. I don't know of any other family members of his who came over, nor of his parents. His family is a brick wall.



He became an overseer on the Crump plantation on the Brazos River in Austin Co., TX. He married two cousins. The first was Johanna Umland, daughter of Heinrich. He second married Elise Umland, daughter of Heinrich’s brother Johann.

He re-visited Germany in 1886. The passport application show his town of origin in Germany, Auma, now in Thuringen. Several notes appeared in newspapers about the trip. For instance, in the San. Antonio Light, 13 May 1886: "Carl Brossman, eight years County Treasurer of Austin county, is on his way to visit his mother in Germany, whom he has not seen for 30 years." Family history says that he was traveling a friend Carl "Schauerhaume." His return travel manifest shows him travelling with a Carl Schauermann, aged 22.

He appears twice on the 1900 census. The first is in Bexar Co. as (mistakenly) aged 43. The second is with his family, aged 63, in Bellville, Austin Co. The first was his physical location. He died in the San Antonio Insane Asylum, where, according to his death record, he had been living since June 1895.

Birth:
His 1886 Passport application gives his birthdate as 27 March 1837. It also gives his place of birth as "Auma, Germany," which corresponds with family history.

Immigration:
Date according to 1900 census. In U.S. for 47 years. No Naturalization indicated.

Immigration:
He seems to have traveled back and forth several times in the 1850s. The 1900 census gives his immigration date as 1853. Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson gives his immigration date as 1856.

Census:
carpenter; born in Germany; living in the household of F.W. Brandis (aged 27), also a carpenter from Germany. Another person in the household of L.W. Schlotman, carpenter, aged 21 from Germany.

Census:
carpenter; real estate 2,000, pers. estate 275; born in Saxony; both parents of foreign birth; US Citizen

Census:
aged 43, county treasurer; born in Saxony

Passport Application:
According to this he was a naturalized citizen.

Census:
patient, aged 43 [sic], from Germany; no information on parents; U.S. Citizen

Census:
aged 63 (born March 1837?); married 34 years;

Died:
The certificate says that he died in the San Antonio insane asylum, where he had been living since 11 June 1895. It also says that he was a U.S. Citizen.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39695576/charles-henry-brossmann

Carl married Catrina Margretha “Elise” Umland on 22 Sep 1865 in Austin, Travis Co., Texas. Catrina (daughter of Johann Umland and Metta Möller) was born on 20 Dec 1845 in Freiburg, Kehdingen, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 23 Sep 1924; was buried in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1856, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1900, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1910, Austin Co., Texas
• Census: 1920, Austin Co., Texas

Notes:

The name also appears as "Umbland" or "Umlang," esp. in newspapers.

Her family on her father and mother’s side were all from Lower Saxony, her father’s family from Kehdingen and her mother from Cuxhaven. Both lie in northern parts of the area known as the Elbe-Weser triangle.

Family notes say that she was from "Freyburg, Hanover, Germany,” not to be confused with the university town. See the German Wikipedia page on Königreich Hannover. Freiburg was part of Kehdingen in the northwest of Lower Saxony. The Kingdom of Hanover was formed in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna, and lost its independence to Prussia in 1866.

She immigrated to Texas in 1856, at age 8 with her family. Nothing is known of her life. No obituary is apparent. All four of her siblings died fairly young.

Immigration:
date from the 1900 census. 44 years in the United States. No naturalization recorded.

Census:
aged 14, born in Hanover, Germany; as "Lizzie"

Census:
aged 22, born in Hamburg; both parents foreign born; not a US Citizen

Census:
aged 35, keeping house, born in Hamburg as with both parents

Census:
aged 52 (born Juny 1847?); born in Germany like both parents; married 34 years; has had 2 children, 2 still living;

Census:
aged 65, born in Germany; widow; two children, both still living; living just with her son August.

Census:
aged 75, born in Germany; widow; living just with her son August.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39695575/elise-brossman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Death Notice, True American (New Orleans, LA), 2 June 1836, p2: DIED - at Baton Rouge, on the 30th ult. of typhus fever, Wm. C. Tomlinson, a native of Geo. The Georgia and Franklin papers will please copy the above.

Notes:

This person's ancestry is a stumper! Can anyone help? He is on the Louisiana Mysteries page. The name also appears as Tumblinson, Tamlinson, Tumbleston, Tomelson, Tomblenson, Tomblesson, Thompson.

Other Tomlinsons, maybe or maybe not related:

According to family researcher Karen Theriot, a son of Thomas Tomlinson and "Geuty" (Gertrude or Margaret?) named Jesse "acted as sponsor or witness on William's family records." Hebert's Southwest Lousiana Records names Jesse's father as Thomas Tombleson and Jesse's mother as "Guerty." Jesse Tomlinson appears elsewhere on this site connected via other family in St. Mary Parish. See him for more information.

William Chisholm Tomlinson, who was born in 1805, would have been of an age to be one of the 25-40 year-old men in Jesse Tomlinson’s household in the 1830 census. He was not there, though, in 1820, when he would have been 15.

Nathaniel and Elizabeth/Isabel Tomlinson from Natchez appear in New Orleans judicial records around the year 1800.

John Chappell Tomlinson died in 1845 in Nacogdoches, m. to Margaret. His family was from Georgia. Leonard Tomlinson was a son of John Chappell. A biography of William Chisholm's grandson Edgar Austere says that William Chisholm's family was from in Georgia, as does his obituary. William Chisholm's wife Tabitha Knight appears as a citizen in the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), along with "Leonard Tomlinson" and "Aaron Tomlinson." I have not seen evidence to connect John Chappell's family to William Chisholm's, however.

Tomlinsons appear in newspapers before 1825 in Georgia newspapers.

There is a Tomlinson Cemetery in Heflin, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. There was a Chisholm family from St. Landry Parish.

I have seen no evidence to connect these three families - Jesse's, William Chisholm's, and John Chappell's.

Birth:
according to his obit.

William married Tabitha Marguerite Knight on 5 Jun 1827 in Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Tabitha (daughter of William Knight and Catherine Russ) was born on 16 Oct 1807 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 7 Dec 1807 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 26 Nov 1890 in San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Funeral Notice, Austin-American Statesmen, Thurs. 27 Nov. 1890, p3: DIED - Yesterday at 2:30 p.m. in San Antonio, Mrs. T.M. Farrow, mother of J.S. Farrow and Mrs. C.L. Lowday. Remains will reach Austin this morning and be buried from the Christian church at 9:15 a.m. Friends of family requested to attend.
• Census: 1850, Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas
• Census: 1860, Houston, Harris Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Austin, Travis Co., Texas

Notes:

Her father’s and mother’s names, William and Catherine, appear on her marriage records.

She was married to her second husband Thomas Baker in Louisiana in 1837. By 1840 she was living in Galveston.

Her husband John Farrow's three children were all born in the 1840s, so I assume that she was not their biological parent. She is listed as their mother on the 1850 census.

She appears as a citizen in the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), along with a "Leonard Tomlinson" and an "Aaron Tomlinson." The application was made by Francis G. McDonald (I3907). This is the narrative:

"Tabitha Marguerite Knight was born 16 Oct. 1807. She was baptized 7 Dec. 1807 in St. Martinville, La. Her parents were William Knight and Catherine Russ. Tabitha married William Chisholm Tomlinson (b. 5 May 1805) in St. Mary Parish, La 6 June 1827. They had 5 children. . . . William Chisholm Tomlinson died 25 May 1836 and Tabitha remarried to [her second husband] Thomas C. Baker 17 Feb. 1837 in St. Mary Parish, La.
"Tabitha came to Texas and was living in Beaumont in 1838, and on 24 Oct. 1838 received grant of 640 acres from the Republic of Texas. In 1850 she married [her fifth husband] John Madison Farrow in Galveston. She lived in Beaumont, Galveston, and San Antonio; and died in San Antonio 26 Nov. 1890 and is buried on Lot 353 Sec. 1 of Oakwood Cemetery in Austin. Her 2 Tomlinson sons served as officers in the Confederate Army (1861-1865)."

Census:
aged 42, born in Louisiana

Census:
aged 52, born in Louisiana

Census:
aged 73, born in Louisiana as with both parents; she is living in her daughter Augusta's household

Buried:
placed by F. McDonald, a descendant: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64399795

Notes:

Married:
permission granted on 4 June

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., The Planters' Banner (Franklin, Attakapas Co., LA), August 16, 1849: On the 14th inst., Michael Hartman of Plattenville.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

The family name is also spelled "Terriot."

The Theriot and Le Blanc familes which comprise her ancestry were thoroughly Acadian, Mary's grandparents and great-grandparents having emigrated from Acadia (now called Nova Scotia) due to the forced expulsion connected to the French and Indian War (1754-63). They eventually settled west of New Orleans in central/south Louisiana, in what are now St. Charles, St. James, St. Martin, and St. Mary Parishes.

There are lots of sites on Acadian ( > Cajun) ancestry. For two good ones, see:
1. Canada's Digital Editions: the Acadian Historic Atlas: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/neo-ecossaise/default.htm
2. Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and Histor: http://www.acadian-cajun.com/index.htm

Census:
aged 40, b. in "unknown," planter, real estate valued at 10,000

Census:
aged 50, born in Louisiana; realty 6000, pers. estate 4500; "hires out [as?] servant"; as "widow Michel Hartman"

Census:
aged 70, born in St. Mary's Parish; living with "Isa. Knight" (?), aged 32, and his wife Mary, aged 33. I think it says that she is "Gmother." They are living right next to W.B. Theriot, aged 40, wife Delarue, two children Effie and Lela, with Hays Clementine (?), "mother-in-law."

Notes:

Married:
recorded Jan. 30 in Franklin

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist
• Census: 1820, Loudoun Co., Virginia
• Census: 1850, Loudoun Co., Virginia
• Slave Census: 1850, Loudoun Co., Virginia

Notes:

He was a farmer in Loudoun Co., living about six miles west of Leesburg. In the 1850 census, he is living right next to his brother John.

According to S268, "There is a story that John [Simpson, wife of Mary Moore] had a Scotch teacher for his children and that she said the Scotch spelling of French was ‘Friench,' so that spelling was adopted for John's son and has continued to be used down through the generations of Mary Simpson Gulick's descendants and also down through the generations of Friench Simpson and Betsy Ish's descendants, to the present generation [1961] of the Simpson line" (275).

Note that his first cousin (his father's brother Gilbert's son) is named French.

Census:
as “French”

Census:
aged 55, born in Virginia; farmer; realty 17000

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44268167

Friench married Elizabeth "Betsy" Ish on 16 Dec 1816 in Union Mills, Fairfax Co., Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Ish and Susannah King) was born on 14 Mar 1798 in Loudoun Co., Virginia; died on 8 May 1874 in Loudoun Co., Virginia; was buried in North Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, North Fork, Loudoun Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Loudoun Co., Virginia
• Census: 1860, Loudoun Co., Virginia
• Census: 1870, Loudoun Co., Virginia

Notes:

She is listed as "Elizabeth Simpson, dau." on the will of her father.

I have also seen her named as Elizabeth Fairfax, the daughter of Hezekiah Fairfax and Margaret Calvert; this is incorrect.

Census:
aged 52, born in Virginia

Census:
Living in the household of a John A. Carter, with her daughter. I don't know of any relation to the Carters.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44268218/elizabeth-simpson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist

Notes:

He apparently owned a mill, Dye's Union Mill, at Pope's Head Run, Fairfax City, VA. He and Nancy were ‘old school Baptist.'"

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17497582/john-hixson-dye

John married Ann "Nancy" Hixson Johnson on 16 Feb 1812. Ann (daughter of Rut Johnson, Jr. and Lydia Hixson) was born in 1796; died on 21 Sep 1861; was buried in Clover Hill Farm Cemetery, Manassas, Prince William Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist
• Census: 1850, Fairfax Co., Virginia
• Census: 1860, South Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Fairfax Co., Virginia

Notes:

Census:
Enumerated 7 December. She and some of her family appear twice on this census. They were also counted on 18 June. At that point they were living next to Emily Dye and James H. Simpson.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17497610/ann-hixson-dye

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Dec 1849, Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas
• Census: 1850, Fayette Co., Texas
• Census: 1860, Fayette Co., Texas

Notes:

Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, soldier of Waterloo and pioneer of Texas, was born at "Eckitten", near Memel in East Prussia, on October 2, 1794. He was nine years old when his parents were divorced and we know nothing of his early life and education.

In 1819 he inherited the "Eckitten" estate on the death of his widowed stepmother, and the same year he married Johanna Dorothea Frölich. They had four children before she died in 1826.

In 1830 Rosenberg married Amanda Fallier, by whom he had five more children. They also adopted his niece, Libussa Frölich.

In June 1849 Rosenberg's eldest son, Carl Wilhelm von Roseberg, a royal architect, was proscribed because of his outspoken democratic ideas and was barred from further employment with the government. He thus decided to emigrate to Texas. When Carl was unable to dissuade his son, he concluded that the entire family should emigrate together. He had a historical connection to Texas: his brother Ernst Ludwig was one of the first Germans in Texas with the Long expedition of 1821 and was killed in Mexico in 1826.

From Vol. 1 of The von Rosenberg Family of Texas (8): "Peter Carl [the immigrant], the grandson of Sigismund Gustav, also chose to live at "Eckitten", although "Garossen" was not sold and was occupied by Peter Carl's brother Gustav and his wife Ida. Gustave and Ida reared, at "Garossen", two orphaned sisters of Eleanore von Rosenberg-Froelich, the sisters of LIbussa Froelich who was brought to America when she as 10 years old."

According to Alma Julie's notes on these children, "Ida von Ruckeshall-von Rosenberg [the third wife wife of Peter Carl's oldest brother Gustav Gotthard] was repeatedly referred to as the aunt and Guardian of the Froelich girls, who became orphans and went to old Garossen and then to Russia as Governesses and never returned. They were sisters of Libussa Froelich who came to Texas, adopted by Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, and she never saw her immediate family again!"

Peter Carl resigned his commission as a reserve lieutenant in the Prussian Reserve Army, and in October 1849 the family sailed from Bremen aboard the "Franziska"; they landed in Galveston in early December and traveled by mail coach and wagon down the coast to the mouth of the Brazos River. There they boarded the "Washington" and sailed up the Brazos to San Felipe de Austin. Carl and Wilhelm traveled to Bastrop and La Grange seeking to purchase a farm. Carl purchased the manor and 800 acres of Nassau Farm, a plantation in Fayette County that had been owned by the Adelsverein. He was a Freidenker (freethinker), and in his letters back to friends in Europe, he often wrote of the freedom he and his family enjoyed in Texas and America.

Carl and Amanda prospered on the farm and stayed there until all the children were grown. In 1861 they moved to a small home in Round Top, where Carl stayed after Amanda's death in 1864. Near the time of his death, he stayed with his daughter, Caroline Meerscheidt, in La Grange. He died of typhoid fever in La Grange on October 19, 1866.

Descendants in the first few generations after Peter Carl live in various towns around Fayette Co. (which sits about half-way between Houston and Austin), including La Grange, Round Top, Fayetteville, Colorado City. Family also lived in Hallettsville, just south in Lavaca Co.; in Bellville, just east in Austin Co.; and in towns just to the southeast in Colorado Co.

There are some genealogical materials for this family in the "Andrew Forest Muir papers" at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX (see Box 27, folder 4: "Baker, Joe H. Genealogy materials and notes on related families on central and southeast Texas: Menke, Bettis, von Rosenberg, Baker, Affleck, and Hass (late 18th through 20th centuries)"). I'm not sure which branch of the family this would be.

Peter married Johanna Dorothea Froelich on 2 Jun 1819 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ). Johanna (daughter of Pfarrer (Pastor) Christoph Froelich and Johanna Dorothea Veithofer) was born on 12 Jun 1797 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovestk, Kaliningrad, Russia ); was christened on 22 Jun 1797 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovestk, Kaliningrad, Russia ); died on 30 Apr 1826 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ); was buried in Froelich Burial Ground, "Collaten", East Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Johanna Dorothea Froelich (or Frölich) was born in Tilsit, East Prussia; she was called "Hannchen" as a child. See a brief biography in The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, 18-19.

She died April 30th, 1826 six weeks after the birth of her son Johannes. She was buried in the churchyard at "Collaten", in the old Froelich burial grounds. Johanna was twenty-nine when she died.

After her death, her children were cared for by her mother and their uncle Reinhold at "Collaten".

Notes:

Married:
Memel is now named Klaipeda.

Notes:

He and his brother Johann married two (Martin) sisters.

He immigrated to Texas August 28, 1848, as a widower with 8 children, on the ship Louis which had sailed from Antwerp. His wife had died in 1844. He bought a farm which had been part of Nassau, next to the von Rosenberg farm.

He is recorded in the 1880 census as living in the house of his daughter-in-law Wilhelmine Giesecke in New Braunfels, Comal Co., Texas.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11477506/carl-wilhelm_apollo-groos

Karl married Sophie Wilhelmine Luise Martin on 28 May 1824 in Erndtebruck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Sophie (daughter of Nikolaus Martin and Hedwig Wilhelmine Jacobine Catherine Sinner) was born on 18 Dec 1805 in Erndtebruck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 21 Apr 1844 in Ebersbach (Ewersbach), Dietzhölztal, Lahn-dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her sister Karolina married two Groos brothers. Sophie died well before her husband emigrated to the States.

Erndtebruck is in the same small region (now called Siegen-Wittgenstein, in the south-east corner of North Rhine/Westphalia) in which Wittgenstein is located.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit. notice, Brenham Weekly Banner (Brenham, Washington Co., Texas), 24 June 1886: John Umbland, for many years as citizen of Chappell Hill and for the past five years a citizen of Bellville, died in that town on the 12th inst.
• Occupation: furniture maker
• Immigration: 1853, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas

Notes:

The name also appears as "Umbland" or "Umblang," esp. in newspapers.

He immigrated with his father to Texas in 1853. Family notes say that he was from "Freyburg, Hanover, Germany." Freiburg was part of Kehdingen in what is now Lower Saxony. "Hanover" refers to the Electorate and then (after 1814) the Kingdom of Hanover.

His ancestors mostly derive from this region of Lower Saxony on the western bank of the Elbe river called the "Elbe-Weser triangle," especially the northern part of it.

He and his older brother Heinrich are mentioned in the Handbook of Texas on-line as cabinet makers; he specialized in undertaking, and making coffins. They are recorded in the 1880 census as residing in Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas.

His two oldest sons Jacob and Heinrich died of yellow fever in 1867. Both are also said to have served in the CSA.

This family is all buried in the same cemetery in Chappell Hill, Texas, but dates from the bible differ from the cemetery as recorded on findagrave.

Census:
aged 52, cabinet maker; real estate 500, pers. estate 100; born in Hanover, Germany

Census:
aged 61

Census:
aged 70, born in Hanover

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93206349/john-umland

Johann married Metta Möller on 16 Sep 1842 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. Metta (daughter of Jacob Müller and Margaretha Elisabeth von Spreckelsen) was born on 5 Jan 1821 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; was christened on 7 Jan 1821 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 26 Jan 1906 in Bellville, Austin Co., Texas; was buried in Masonic Cemetery, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., Freie Presse Fur Texas (San Antonio), 29 Jan 1906, p4: In Bellville starb Frau Meta Umland im Alter von 85 Yahren. Sie lebte seit dem Jahre 1853 in jener Stadt.
• Religion: Lutheran
• Confirmation: 14 Apr 1835
• Immigration: 1853, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas
• Census: 1870, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas
• Census: 1880, Chappell Hill, Washington Co., Texas

Notes:

Her father is named Jacob on her marriage record. Family history says she was from Obendorf Parish in Hanover. "Oberndorf" is just to the east of Freiburg, where her husband's family originated in northern Lower Saxony. Her family ran a textile mill, and grew flax. She had a small Luther Bible inscribed "to Metta Möller from her "lehrer," teacher, in 1829, when 8 years of age.

Her name and her father's name are spelled "Möller" on her marriage record, and family history records this as the spelling. Her own 1821 birth record spells her family's last name as "Müller." The two spellings were almost interchangeable. Her given name, her father's name, the specific date (5 Jan. 1821), and the place all match, however, so this birth record will be her's.

Her family, like her husband's, comes from the region of Lower Saxony on the western bank of the Elbe river called the "Elbe-Weser triangle," especially the northern part of it.

Her family lived in a house on the site of St. Mary's Church in Bellville. This family is all buried in the same cemetery in Chappell Hill, Texas. Names on findagrave only use initials.

Census:
aged 40, born in Hanover, Germany

Census:
aged 50

Census:
aged 60, born in Hanover

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93206357/metha-umland

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Berwick, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Birth:
Both the Russ and Knight histories say that he was born in "Greenriver" Kentucky, but while there is a Green River in central Kentucky, I can find no place by that name.

Census:
aged 64, in the household of his nephew Henry Knight (Jr.)

Census:
aged 62. This must be him, in the household of his nephew Henry again.

William married Catherine Russ on 21 Sep 1804 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Catherine (daughter of William Russ and Winnifred West) was born in 1787 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; died on 17 May 1864 in Tigerville, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit, Daily Picayune, 20 May 1864, p2: On the 17th Inst., at the residence of her son, Mr. Michael Knight, Tigerville, Terrebone Parish, La., Mrs. Katherine Russ, consort of Wm. Knight. Sr., at the advanced age of seventy-five years.

Notes:

His first names appear as John Peter, or Jean Pierre; and his family name is spelled Hartman, Hartmann, or Artmann. There are more children to this family.

Birth:
Born in Pennsylvania or Baltimore, MD

Johann married Anna Ryan. Anna (daughter of John Louis Ryan and Marie Barba) was born in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also Honorine. Also very possibly Ring, Rime, Rine, R(a)ian, Rianine, Rienguen. "Rienguen" seems to be a phonetic version of "Ryan" transcribed by a French (Louisiana) speaker.

Notes:

Charles Theriot is listed as both the buyer and seller of slaves in Attakapas Co. in April and June of 1812.

Charles married Rosalie le Blanc on 23 Jun 1804 in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Rosalie (daughter of Joseph (Josine) le Blanc and Marguerite Duon) was born on 25 Dec 1786 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 18 Mar 1787 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died in Jul 1853 in Dutch Settlement, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Census:
in the household of her son Rosemond. She appears about three pages before her daughter Leonese Hartman.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

I rely on Niebling for the connection between this Gilbert and his son John, whose information is more complete than anyone else's that I've seen. The confusion between the three Gilbert Simpsons is a notorious genealogical problem, and Neibling has worked extensively on them. Please refer to his work for full documentation.

John Simpsons owned a farm named "Coon Skin" farm, on Goose Creek, near Carter's Mill, Loudon Co., VA.

According to the volumes of will abstracts between 1757-1800 there are no Simpson (or Hixson, or Isch) wills recorded in Loudoun Co. According to the Simpson family history compiled by J.H. Simpson (d. 1977), he always lived in Loudoun Co.

I've seen on-line notes which give him ancestry in Fairfax Co., VA, and before that in Charles Co., Maryland.

Harry Wright Newman, in The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families, describes a Simpson family which descends from Thomas Simpson of St. Thomas, Charles County; I don't see any possibiity in the volume, however, of a John Simpson who migrates to Loudoun County, or Virginia at all. Since his wife, however, seems to be related to Charles County families, this still might be possible.

There is another possible ancestry. Other internet sources claim that he was a Scottish immigrant who settled on Dogues Neck in Fairfax Co., on the Potomac River. The same information comes from the reliable S268, the Gulick family history, which mentions that "Mary Simpson [John and Mary's grand-daughter] was a granddaughter of John Simpson and Mary More. John Simpson came from Scotland and was the ancestor in America of this Simpson Line" (275). However, there is no documentary evidence provided here.

John married Mary Moore in 1773. Mary (daughter of Samuel Moore and Charity Courts) was born about 1751; died before 11 Jul 1814 in Loudoun Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to researcher Robert NIebliing: "Mary is a proven daughter of Samuel Moore. Loudoun County Deed Book x, pages 424 and 425 dated 13 April, 1797 record that Samuel Moore of Fauquier County, VA initiated two deeds of gift. One deeded two slaves named Henney and Cornelius to his daughter Mary Simpson of Loudoun and the other, one slave named Nan to his daughter, Ann Hendley Chinn of Loudoun. Witnesses were Richard Chinn and Thomas Chinn. The deeds were recorded 10 July, 1797.

"Proof that the Mary in this deed is identical to the Mary Moore who married John Simpson is found in the inventory of John estate dated 23 February, 1803 which includes "One Negro boy named Cornelius--80 pounds" and "One Negro woman named Henney--60 pounds." In other words, the same slaves that were in the deed of gift.

"Proof that this Mary is the daughter of Samuel Moore is found in the listing of Samuel Moore's heirs in a Mercer County Kentucky deed dated 23 March, 1808 which includes Mary Simpson and Thomas Chinn and his wife, Ann H.

"Proof that Mary Simpson died in Loudoun County is found in her will dated 25 April, 1814 and proved 11 July, 1814."

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115238449/jacob-ish

Jacob married Susannah King. Susannah was born on 15 Aug 1773 in Pennsylvania; died in 1847 in Loudoun Co., Virginia; was buried in Ish Family Cemetery, Aldie, Loudoun Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I have seen her parents listed as Christian King and Margaret Toot, but without any evidence. Among other issues, the reported date of her mother Margaret's birth would only make her 6 when Susannah was born, an impossibility. The connection from her to her parents--and thus to a Dutte family ancestry--can only be rated as tentative to the point of confusion.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115238496/susanna-ish

Other Events and Attributes:

• Legal Documents: This will is recorded in Prince William Co., VA, for 1798. Why is it "John Jr."? Given Name: John, Jr. Surname: Dye Year: 1798 Will Book: H Will Page #: 260 Inventory Book: H Inventory Page #: 275

Notes:

He is often recorded as "John, Jr." because his father Vincent apparently had a brother named John who was "John, Sr."

From the Dye listserv: "The cemetery is behind the Methodist Church on the brow of the hill south of Manassas, Prince William County. 284,757 - 4290,172 on my GPS Unit. See: One Hundred Old Cemeteries of Prince William County, VA, E. R. Conner, pages 107-111. "

John married Mary Hixson about 1774. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Hixson, Jr. and Sara Hutchinson) was born about 1752; died in Mar 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Something to look up: William Amel Sausaman, Ten Generations of Hixsons in America, (1977, Springfield, Illinois).

Notes:

He moved from New Jersey to Virginia, apparently with his father.

From Prince William, Stories . . .: , in a section about a tour on Route 234 north from Dumfries; this is just south of the Manassas battlefield:

"At 16.7 m. [from Dumfries] is CLOVER HILL (L). In 1740 Patrick Hamrick patented 118 acres of land. In the grant the statement is make the Hamrick then owned the adjecent tract of 760 acres, which had been first granted to Roger Day and re-granted in 1725 to Henry McDonnac, who had married Day's widow. Another deed shows that he land here was purchased in 1770 from "Patrick Hambrick, planter, by Rutt Johnson, farmer." Rutt Johnson was among the band of immigrants from New Jersey who moved to Prince William. He seems to have been a forester and orchardist as well as a farmer, for he set aside one field in which he planted acorns and raised a ‘crop' of oak trees and other in which he set out apples.
In the old burial ground, which the Johnsons found on the place, are many illegible stones. Two inscriptions can be read, however, one bearing initials and the other a legend, "in memory of Joseph Sims. D. in 1790 in the 49th year of his age."

Rut married Lydia Hixson. Lydia (daughter of Benjamin Hixson, Jr. and Sara Hutchinson) was born in New Jersey; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She moved to Prince William Co., Virginia abt. 1770. She apparently had 5 children overall with Rut Johnson.

Notes:

Note the tangled marriages among his children and the Froelichs.

These notes are from Alma von Rosenberg about a divorce in the family in 1803:

"The inheritor and owner of Eckitten and Raddeilen Estates in 1750 was Sigismund Gustav von Rosenberg. His first son was Otto (1776-1871) who also later inherited and owned "Eckitten" and "Raddeilen," married three times, and was divorced twice! This Otto von Rosenberg was the father of our Pioneer father, Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg and we had thought there were no divorces in that day, having constantly thought about how such would be handled for Generation Four! when our next book of the family would be published.
Of Otto's first wife there is no record, no children.
Of the second wife, Maria Wilhelmine von Stempel, there were nine children after a marriage of twelve years and then a divorce in 1802.
Of the third wife, Cathrine von Barkenhagen there were seven children, only one daugher, Emelie, was ever mentioned, and then only one time in the Froelich Book."

According to von Rosenberg family historian Jon Koenig, “Otto von Rosenberg was born on the Radeilen estate which was near the village of Krottingen near Memel in Kurland, East Prussia.  He was a Baron of the East Prussian nobility. He married three times and was divorced twice. Upon the dissolutioion of his second marriage to Maria Wilhelmine von Stempel, he kept the Eckitten estate as well as a mill on the estate, and a brewery and hotel in Memel which he had received as a part of the dowery from the von Stempel family. He was appointed the Royal Forester of the Royal Braslausten Estate in the then Kingdom of Prussia by King Friedrich Wilhelm III towards the end of his life. The estate was located far east of Memel near the village of Sarasen (now present day Jeziorosy in Lithuania). Shortly after his arrival on the Royal Estate with his second wife, Catharina Borkenhagen and their children, Baron Otto suffered a stroke and was buried three days later in the local Lutheran churchyard. He was a Lieutenant in the Infantry of the Royal Prussian Army.”

Otto married Marie Wilhelmine von Stempel on 21 Oct 1791 in "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia, and was divorced in 1803. Marie (daughter of Gotthard Melchior Johann von Stempel and Maria Charlotta von Stempel) was born on 6 Jul 1768; died in 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Otto and his second wife had 9 children during a marriage of 12 years, after which they were divorced (in abt. 1803).

See the introduction to Ancestral Voices for clarification, and a list of the children. Note that Laura Rosette married Dr. Christoph Froelich, the brother of her father's last wife Johanna Dorothea Froelich.

Notes:

He was enrolled in Königsberg on October 9th, 1786 to study theology, and became a teacher there in the Frederick's College. He passed examinations in 1791, and became a rector in the Latin school in Memel. He was ordained on Nov. 21, 1794, and on May 14, 1795 became an adjunct deacon at the city church in Tilsit. He moved over to the local Lithuanian church on Aug. 10, 1800, where he remained until his early death.

Part IV of the Froelich book describes his family; he and his brother George were the only two children of their father to have heirs.

Christoph married Johanna Dorothea Veithofer on 21 Aug 1793 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ). Johanna (daughter of Martin Veithofer and Christine Batjamina Hassenstein) was born on 1 May 1778 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ); was christened on 5 Jun 1778 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ); died on 30 May 1846 in "Paul Narmond," near Memel, East Prussia (now near Kalinovka, Kaliningrad, Russia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was married before she was 16. She was "beloved by all" and fondly remembered by her grandchildren since she took care of them after their mother, her daughter Johanna's, death, until her son-in-law Peter Carl re-married four years later.

Died:
Several different dates are given in the Froelich history: 31 May 1778 (page 18); 30 May 1778 (page 39)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: pastor
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran

Notes:

His son, Carl Apollo, was the 3rd of 8 sons.

He studied theology in Marburg. He became pastor in Arfeld 1 Mar. 1789. He was later a school inspector on one-half of Kreis Wittgenstein from 1809 to 1834.

He was the son of several generations of Evangelical Lutheran pastors (back to his Grandfather, Johannes Georg Groos b. 1696). By the time of Johannes, the Reformation was well entrenched in Wittgenstein, which is in the western side of present-day Germany, near the Rhine and Cologne. Erndtebruck, where the Martin family is from, is located the same small region (now called Siegen-Wittgenstein, in the south-east corner of North Rhine/Westphalia).

Philipp married Charlotte Wilhelmine Kneip on 22 Sep 1789. Charlotte (daughter of Conrad Kneip and Maria Catherina Kloeber) was born on 8 Feb 1770 in Arfeld, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 8 Nov 1852 in Freudenberg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Catholic

Notes:

References (for S247): Copy of marriage register from church in Erndtebruck. Also "Als der Grossvater and die Grossmutter nahm." Erndtebruck is to the northeast of Siegen.

Three of his daughters by his first wife migrated to Texas - Sophie, Caroline, and Henriette.

Nikolaus married Hedwig Wilhelmine Jacobine Catherine Sinner on 27 Sep 1801 in Erndtebruck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hedwig (daughter of Johann Jost Sinner and Louise Johannette Wilhelmine Elizabeth Groos) was born on 21 Dec 1783 in Feudingen, Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 29 Nov 1834 in Erndtebruck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

References (for S247): Marriage register from Evangelisch Kirchengemeinde Erntebruck; also her death register (she died of pneumonia at age 50 years, 11 months, 8 days at 10 a.m.). Erndtebruck is to the northeast of Siegen.

Three of her daughters migrated to Texas - Sophie, Caroline, and Henriette.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: furniture maker, esp. coffins
• Immigration: 16 Apr 1853, Texas
• Will: 4 Jun 1855, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas
• Probate: 28 Jun 1858, Bellville, Austin Co., Texas

Notes:

He sailed to Texas on April 16, 1853, and was called the "pioneer father." They brought "the chest" made by his grandfather.

Family notes say that he and his family were from "Freyburg, Hanover, Germany." The baptismal records are from “Freiburg, Kehdringen, Hannover, Preußen.” See the German Wikipedia page on Königreich Hannover. Freiburg was part of Kehdingen in what is now Lower Saxony.

His will was signed by J.F.A. Heinzelman, presumably a relation of his son Heinrich's wife, and Heinrich Dahlgrün.

Jacob married Catrina Margaretha Richters on 16 May 1806 in Freiburg, Kehdingen, Niedersachsen, Germany. Catrina (daughter of Johann Conrad Richters and Anne Margaretha Wiesen) was born on 26 Oct 1789 in Lamstedt, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 7 Nov 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
as "Jürgen Jacob Umland."

Notes:

His name "Jacob Möller" appears on his daughter's marriage record. He is named Jacob son of Jacob on his marriage record.

Records give the place name "Oberndorf, Neuhaus an der Oste, Hanover, Prussia" after about 1783. Before that, the place name is "Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland." Cuxhaven and Neuhaus are both larger towns near Oberndorf.

Jacob married Margaretha Elisabeth von Spreckelsen in 1814 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. Margaretha (daughter of Claus von Spreckelsen and Margaretha Rebecca Postels) was born on 28 May 1786 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; was christened on 29 May 1786 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 20 Oct 1848 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried on 24 Oct 1848 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also as Spreckelßen, Speckelsen, Spaekeln, Sprecheln, etc. Her 1814 marriage record names her as the daughter of Claus.

Records give the place name "Oberndorf, Neuhaus an der Oste, Hanover, Prussia" after about 1783. Before that, the place name is "Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland." Cuxhaven and Neuhaus are both larger towns near Oberndorf.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1790, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
• Probate: 1819, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Ganier records the name of his father.

He may have been in Bucks Co. in the 1790 census; there is one white male who is HOH, four other white males, and two white females, which would match his family (page 112). Ganier notes that "the following appear in 1790 census records of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania: Jacob Knight, John Horner, Henry Knight, William Tomlinson, William Hamilton, Peter Hartman, Jacob Hartman - all names that occur in this area of Louisiana" (3). It's a possibility, if they migrated west and then south via the Ohio and Mississippi. Jacob, however, purchased land in Louisiana in 1790.

I cannot find him in the 1800 census. Lousiana would not have been recorded then.

Ganier gives Jacob and Solomon as children of his first wife, Sarah Winn (or Wind). Solomon married Rachel Hamilton in St. Mary Parish in 1814.. Ganier names Henry, William, Elizabeth, and Michel are children of his second wife Catherine. This concurs with Sanders as the information from his will. Joseph's name does not appear in his father's will.

Jacob married Catherine Christiana Infeld. Catherine (daughter of Joseph Michael Infeld and Christina Winters) was born about 1760 in Strasbourg, Grand Est, Bas-Rhin, France; died about 1825 in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also "Emfeld," "Enfield." "Enfile" and "Enfil" appear in Louisiana records (Ganier uses it), a French version of what was a German name.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: shoemaker

William married Winnifred West about 1775 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Winnifred (daughter of Nathaniel West and Mary Unity Sellers) was born about 1756 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; died about 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband were planters in the Baton Rouge region.

She and her husband appear in the 1786 Spanish census She left a succession document when she died in 1799. It is preserved in the "Spanish West Florida Records (SPWF), the official court records of the Royal Spanish government of colonial Louisiana, 1782-1816, at Louisiana State University’s Hill Memorial Library in Baton Rouge. The court records were originally written in Spanish and were translated into English and transcribed by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. The transcribed records (over 7,000 pages) include slave sales, emancipation records, succession inventories, wills, conveyance records, criminal cases, and civil cases that include documentation for enslaved individuals who were affiliated with MMP [Magnolia Mound Plantation]." This note is from Roe's dissertation.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: 13 Mar 1839

Notes:

probably from Alsace, then in Germany.

Heinrich married Maria Hoffman. Maria and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also very possibly Ring, Rime, Rine, R(a)ian, Rianine, Rienguen. "Rienguen" seems to be a phonetic version of "Ryan" transcribed by a French (Louisiana) speaker.

John married Marie Barba. Marie was born in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Madeleine Bourgeois about 1758 in Isle St. Jean, Acadia. Madeleine (daughter of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie Francoise Cormier) was born about 1737 in Beaubassin, Acadia; died in Aug 1811 in St. James Parish, Louisiana; was buried on 18 Aug 1811 in Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Marguerite Duon on 10 Aug 1784 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Marguerite (daughter of Charles Duon and Marie Josephe Prejean) was born on 6 Feb 1764 in Halifax, Acadia; died before 7 Jan 1801 in Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I rely on Niebling for the connection between this Gilbert and his son John, whose information is more complete than anyone else's that I've seen.

Sometime before August 1741 he migrated across the Potomac to Fairfax Co., Virginia.

Gilbert married Elizabeth Williams before 1730. Elizabeth (daughter of James Williams and Elizabeth Tennison) died about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dates need substantiation. He is on the Maryland Mysteries page under Charles County.

He was his wife's Charity's third husband, and married again after she died.

"Mary Simpson" is mentioned in his estate settlement (dated 23 Mar. 1808, Mercer Co., KY). This indenture, a sale of land from his estate, names his children and their spouses.

(Some web sources record his ancestry, via a mother named "Abigail Gilman," way back to some noble families in England. This is a very, very dubious connection; Abigail Gilman seems instead to have been from from Exeter, New Hampshire, and her husband seems to have actually been "Samuel Thing.")

Died:
His estate was settled in Mercer Co., anyway.

Samuel married Charity Courts on 18 Nov 1748. Charity (daughter of Hon. John Courts, III and Elizabeth Barnes) was born in 1712; died before 1768 in Charles Co., Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Info about her varies greatly. I see her listed as the daughter of Ann Harrison, or Elizabeth Barnes, or Elizabeth Yate (Yates, Yeates)? I've also seen her last name as Coates.

This family seens to be where the name "Hendley" originates from, which descends though the Simpsons to the Tomlinsons; note the children of Charity Courts via her second and third husbands.

She appears on the Maryland Mysteries page under Charles County.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1749, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Naturalization: 28 Aug 1763, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Probate: 20 Oct 1780, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

Have also seen "Saverne area, Bas-Rhin, Alsace" as a birth place.

He appears on the 1771 Lancaster Borough Proprietary Tax Lists with 1 horse and 1 cattle, tax "8.6" (PA Archives ser. 3, vol. 17--rootsweb database).

There is a land indenture from Peter Ish (and wife Philipina) to John Miller in Lancaster Co, PA on March 14, 1777

Peter Isch appears 7 times in the Ancestry.com database “Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881” as a father at a baptism, and 3 times as a sponsor. No names are given about who he was standing for or sponsoring. All were at the First Reformed Congregation at Lancaster, PA. All the events were between 1753 and 1758.

His will was probated Oct. 20, 1780 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

Birth:
In the Lower Alsace region

Immigration:
on the “Phoenix”

Peter married Philippina. Philippina was born about 1740; died before 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I have seen Zion Church, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania as her birth place/baptismal place.

Notes:

According to the compilation Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, series 1, vol. 2 (page 311), comp. Dorothy Ford Wulfect, (Naugatuck, CN:pub. by the author, 1963), Vincent Dye was born abt. 1715; her reference is to the Hartford CT Times Genealogy Page (30 Aug. 1958).

He married Sarah Artepe before he left. Because this couple had 15 children they are an important originary family for much work on the subsequent Dyes. They stayed in New Jersey until after the Revolution, and all their children were born. He then bu 1782 migrated from New Jersey to Prince William Co., VA. He located himself just south of what is now Manassas.

I don't know that he was in the Revolutionary War, but brothers and cousins of his were.

His will is recorded in Prince William County:
Given Name: Vincent
Surname: Dye
Year of first entry: 1796
Wills/Book: H
Wills/Page: 166
Inventory and Appraisements/Book: H
Inventory and Appraisements/Page: 180
Accounts/Book: H
Accounts/Page: 373
Final Account/Book: H
Final Account/Page: 180

Vincent married Sara Artepe on 1 Sep 1746 in Middlesex Co., New Jersey. Sara was born on 9 Jan 1727 in Somerset Co., New Jersey; died on 2 Oct 1797 in Prince William Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I've seen her as "Sarah Artesse" who was the daughter of Benjamin Hixson and Sarah Hutchinson, but these are the parents of Mary Hixson, the wife of Vincent's son John "Hickory" Dye. For her name, note the marriage certificate, attached, which gives her as "Sarah Artepe." There is no evidence that Artepe is a married name. To the contrary: she is called "spinster" on her marriage license.

Her will is recorded in Prince William County for 1798:
Given Name:Sarah
Surname:Dye
Year:1798
Inventory Book: H
Inventory Page #: 253
Final Account Book:H
Final Account Page #: 272

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist

Notes:

He moved from New Jersey to Northern Virginia in abt. 1770.

There may also be a daughter named Elizabeth?

Benjamin married Sara Hutchinson. Sara (daughter of William Hutchinson and Ann Simpson) was born on 12 Nov 1726 in Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died in Prince William Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He apparently married someone surnamed "Morrell" in New Jersey, and had four children. There is a high probability that his wife was descended from Thomas (abt. 1662-abt. 1686) and Martha Morrell of Hopewell, NJ, where the Johnsons lived, but is not definite.

Mentioned in his grandfather Rut Johnson's will; the executor of his father's will.

Rutger married ? Morrell. and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I've also seen Morrell as the name of her son Rut's Jr.'s second wife. I've not seen the primary sources on this.

Notes:

He (or possibly his son) was the first to actually bear the "Esthland" Arms; his branch is traced from his great-grandfather Gotthard-Wilhelm von Rosenberg.

Why the new arms? It has to do with this branch's abandonment of estates they held; they are in fact a matter of some disgrace. This is from Vol. 1 of The von Rosenberg Family of Texas (8):

"The lineage was indigenous to Kurland but not to Esthland. The barons living in Kurland at Garossen Estate from 1500 AD on bought more and more property in Esthland; after about 1741 other estates appear on the charts (from the Froelich book) especially near Ragnit and Memel, such as "Wintzheim," "Holwigshof," "Laugsch," and the more familiar "Raddeilen" and "Eckitten." Friederich Wilhelm von Rosenberg was the first owner of the Raddeilen near Memel, but he also acquired other estates. The first owner of Eckitten was Wilhelm's son Sigismund Gustav, who acquired it in 1749.

"In 1786, for some cause related to the Krottingen War, the family emigrated from the Garossen Estate in Esthland. This ‘departure by seal' caused them to be known ‘in disgrace' for leaving an old home in a native land. For fighting in the Krottingen War and other reasons the family, or at least Otto (b. 1772), was granted more charges to be used on the coat of arms; but it had to include the ‘lion rampant regardant'--looking backward--because the family had affronted the old arms by leaving it. By permission of the College of Arms the name was changed from Kurland to Esthland, a new grant was given, but the old one retained in case any descendant desired to use it. Otto inherited Eckitten in 1793 and chose to live there instead of at Garossen because the lands were better and the surroundings and educational opportunities better for children.

"Peter Carl [the immigrant], the grandson of Sigismund Gustav, also chose to live at Eckitten, although Garossen was not sold and was occupied by Peter Carl's brother Gustav and his wife Ida. Gustave and Ida reared, at Garossen, two orphaned sisters of Eleanore von Rosenberg-Froelich, the sisters of LIbussa Froelich who was broght to America when she as 10 years old."

Sigismund married Barbara von Bohlschwing on 22 Nov 1760. Barbara (daughter of George Johann Friedrich von Bohlschwing and Eva Elizabeth von Schröders) was born on 28 Sep 1738 in Courland; died in 1785 in "Raddeilen", Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife were first cousins.

Gotthard married Maria Charlotta von Stempel in 1756. Maria (daughter of George Wilhelm von Stempel and Ursula von der Osten, genannt Sacken) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband were first cousins.

Notes:

He is identified as the progenitor of the line in the Froelich book; no ancestors of his could be securely identified.

A Christoph Froelich b. abt. 1700 in Insterburg (now Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) is named as a cousin. Christoph b. 1700 had a son Johann Jacob Froelich bpt. 7 June 1738 in Insterberg, and Johann in turn had a son Johann Ernst Froelich bpt. 8 July 1767 in Insterburg.

Christoph married Maria Elisabeth Hauenstein on 13 Feb 1766 in Ragnit, East Prussia (now Neman, Kaliningrad, Russia ). Maria and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The name was formerly "Voithofer." It appears this way in the Austrian records, and it changed with this generation, presumably with the move to Königsberg. According to "the church book of the free evangelical pastors in Goldegg in Pongau," his birthdate was 24 Feb. 1726; according to his wife's recollections the date was 1730.

According to the Froelich history, "following the expulsion of all Protestants from Salzburg [Austria] Michl Voithofer also left with his mother, his wife, 2 children (Martin and Anna)—Andreas had already died in 1729—and with diverse other relatives with the name Veithofer, in all 25 persons: 4 men, 4 women, 11 children, 2 servingment, and 4 maids. They emigrated to Prussia and arrived in Königsberg with their own kitchenware on November 12, 1732."

According to the Froelich History, he "probably studied pedagogy in Königsberg and later became Precentor, Adjunct Pastor, and Lithuanian Pastor. The introduction for him [at some moment introducing him as a pastor] is word for word: [']Martin Veithofer, a Salzburger, born in Goldegg 1730 on Palm Sunday, previously—since 1758—Precenter at the Lithuanian church in Memel, was June 14, 1771 ordained as adjunct of Pastor Johann Samuel Hassenstein and on the seventh Sunday after Trinity he was introducted, continuing until 1773.[']"

According to his wife's journal, "In the year 1787 God sent me great sorrow as my dear husband became blind in both eyes. Oh Master, You all-knowing God! You also knew then the pain in my heart and our great crying and imploring you. You were not spared my personal sighs. But as You in Your word relenteth and deigneth to hear, so You also brough to us, since no one here knew how to advise and help us, an eye doctor from Saxony who said it was cataracts and there is no help but to cut out the cataract. This was done on the 14th of April 1798. Afterwards he was tied and had to lie still on his back 9 days. This was very difficult but God helpd us to overcome although it was still three months before his eyes were healthy."

Martin married Christine Batjamina Hassenstein on 24 Oct 1773 in Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ). Christine (daughter of Pastor Johann Samuel Hassenstein and Dorothea Gottlieb Rehge) was born in 1737 in Georgenberg, Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Bavaria, Germany; died in 1798. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She kept an occasional journal which is recorded in the Froelich Book (8-9). She had to flee Memel in August 1757 with her four-month old son, during the Seven Years War, after the Russians took the town following a brief siege. The child died that October. Her first husband soon went to war.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: pastor
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran

Notes:

He studied near Herborn from 1751-53, and was a field preacher. Later, he was a pastor in Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein, Germany.

Johannes married Henriette Luise Elizabeth Hoffman on 12 Sep 1756 in Raumland, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Henriette (daughter of Johann Phillip Hoffman and Catherina Elisabeth Abresch) was born on 13 Sep 1734 in Raumland, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 1 Feb 1802 in Feudingen, Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A minister in Arfeld.

Conrad married Maria Catherina Kloeber. Maria was born on 12 Apr 1732; died on 8 Nov 1815 in Arfeld, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This couple had 13 children born between 1761 and 1781. Nikolaus was the youngest of their 13 children.

"Peter Ludwig's son, Christian Jonathan Martin, was born on November 30, 1732 in Käferthal and, as is often the case with converts, was raised strictly Catholic. He married on August 18, 1760 in Ladenburg near Heidelberg to Katharina Margaretha Zentner, who was also a Catholic. He became Palatinate forest master of the two upper offices Alzey and Oppenheim, at the same time district administrator for Kriegsfeld and Ruppertsecken. Christian Jonathan Martin and his wife died at Kriegsfeld and were buried there: he on June 15th and 17th, 1783; she on April 15 and 18, 1797.
"He left 13 children, of whom 4 sons (Philipp Ludwig, Georg Franz, Franz Seraphicus, and Nikolaus) founded the lines named after them. Two daughters and three sons were married as Protestants."

Christian married Katharine Margaretha Zentner on 18 Jul 1760 in Ladenburg, Karlsruhe, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Katharine (daughter of Johann Michael Zentner and Elisabeth Friederike Müller) was born on 16 Aug 1743 in Ladenburg, Karlsruhe, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 15 Apr 1797 in Kriegsfeld, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; was buried on 18 Apr 1797 in Kriegsfeld, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This couple had 13 children born between 1761 and 1781. Nikolaus was the youngest of their 13 children.

"Peter Ludwig's son, Christian Jonathan Martin, was born on November 30, 1732 in Käferthal and, as is often the case with converts, was raised strictly Catholic. He married on August 18, 1760 in Ladenburg near Heidelberg to Katharina Margaretha Zentner, who was also a Catholic. He became Palatinate forest master of the two upper offices Alzey and Oppenheim, at the same time district administrator for Kriegsfeld and Ruppertsecken. Christian Jonathan Martin and his wife died at Kriegsfeld and were buried there: he on June 15th and 17th, 1783; she on April 15 and 18, 1797.
"[They] left 13 children, of whom 4 sons (Philipp Ludwig, Georg Franz, Franz Seraphicus, and Nikolaus) founded the lines named after them. Two daughters and three sons were married as Protestants."

Johann married Louise Johannette Wilhelmine Elizabeth Groos. Louise (daughter of Rev. Johannes Konrad Groos and Henriette Luise Elizabeth Hoffman) was born on 22 Nov 1761 in Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 25 Mar 1800 in Erndtebruck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Catrina Hardekoph on 31 May 1771 in Oederquart, Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. Catrina was born on 1 Apr 1745; died on 2 Mar 1801. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Johann married Anne Margaretha Wiesen on 10 Oct 1780 in Lamstedt, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. Anne was born about 1757; died on 28 Apr 1845 in Lamstedt, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried on 2 May 1845 in Lamstedt, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
as "Lamstedt, Hannover, Prussia"

Notes:

Named on his son Jacob's marriage record.

Notes:

His name is on his daughter Margaretha's 1814 marriage record. There are a number of Claus von Spreckelsens in the area.

Claus married Margaretha Rebecca Postels on 20 Oct 1775 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. Margaretha (daughter of Matthias Postels) died on 25 Feb 1828 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried on 1 Mar 1828 in Oberndorf, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her last name is clearest on her marriage record and her son Johann's baptismal record. There are number of (no doubt inter-related) Postels families in the area.

Died:
aged 78 years 3 mos. at her death

Notes:

Or, "Enfile" in Louisiana records.

Joseph married Christina Winters. Christina was born in Germany; and died in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His name is also Ezekias and Ezechias.

Hezekiah Russ appears as the buyer (from John Russ) of one slave named Bob in Spanish West Florida on 11/10/1801. He is listed as the seller (deceased) of two slaves being inventoried on 10/12/1805; one was named Samson, and the other Bob. This must have been for the dissolution of his estate.

Here is a note from Rootsweb archives: Louisiana History, Vo. XXIV, No 1 ( Winter 1983), pp. 70-84, contains a paper by Albert Tate, Jr., 'Spanish Census of the Baton Rouge District for 1786.'" According to Tate's article, which lists the Heads of Household for this census, "There is included an additional annotation on the Russ family, children of Ezechias who had come to British West Florida in 1772, who were living in the vicinity although not listed on the census."

Hezekiah married Rebecca Eleve in 1751 in Anson Co., North Carolina. Rebecca was born in 1730 in Anson Co., North Carolina; died in 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I've also seen her last name as Eleve.

Nathaniel married Mary Unity Sellers. Mary was born about 1735 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Madeleine Bourg on 13 Oct 1712 in Beaubassin, Acadia. Madeleine (daughter of Michel Bourg, Sr. and Elisabeth Melanson) was born about 1696 in Beaubassin, Acadia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pierre married Marie Francoise Cormier on 18 Aug 1722 in Beaubassin, Acadia. Marie (daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine le Blanc) was born about 1706 in Beaubassin, Acadia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Osite Anne Melanson. Osite (daughter of Jean Baptiste Melanson and Madeleine le Blanc) was born on 21 Sep 1732 in Acadia; was christened on 19 Oct 1732 in Grand Pré, Acadia; died in Feb 1803 in St. James Parish, Louisiana; was buried on 27 Feb 1803 in St. James Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Marie Josephe Prejean about 1759 in Halifax, Acadia. Marie (daughter of Charles Prejean and Francoise Boudrot) was born on 20 Mar 1737 in Port Royal, Acadia; was christened on 17 Aug 1737 in Port Royal, Acadia; died on 14 Jun 1818 in Vermillion, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; was buried on 15 Jun 1818 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For the first few generations of the Simpson's descendancy I rely entirely on Neibling, whose information is more complete than anyone else's that I've seen.

John married Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1678; died after May 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

How might he be related to the family of Baruch Williams?

James married Elizabeth Tennison. Elizabeth (daughter of Justinian Tennison, Sr. and Katherine Gresham) was born about 1673 in Charles Co., Maryland; died after 24 Aug 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably born bet. 1690 and 1700, probably in Charles Co.

William married Mary Cofer about 1721. Mary (daughter of Francis Cofer and Mary Littlejohn) was born about 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note that Michael Marshall's rootsweb tree differs from Niebling on Mary's parentage. Because Marshall's tree is available on rootsweb, I include Neibling's work here. This is also, I confess, beyond the time that I have to evaluate for myself from primary sources; I am indebted to their work.

Notes:

See the Maryland Gazette for a note of his death (Feb. 3, 1748).

He may have married a 4th time to Anne Whyte.

John married Elizabeth Barnes. Elizabeth (daughter of Mathew Barnes) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name and dates need to be confirmed.

Johann married Maria Magdalena Kreup on 10 Oct 1719. Maria (daughter of Jacob Kreup) died before 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name and dates need to be confirmed. Also "Elizabeth" on the web, though this looks like a mistake for his second wife.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Dutch Reformed Church

Notes:

He purchased land in Middlesex Co, NJ in 1725, and had probably been there before that. The farm, known as the "Old Church Farm," was in the family for the next 125 years.

John married Anne ? Brown. Anne (daughter of William ? Brown) was born before 1695 in New York State. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Butler calls her birth date as "before 1700," but it must have been well before then if her first child was born in 1711. I'll call it "before 1695."

Notes:

Co-executor of his father's will in 1722.

Benjamin married Mary Morrell. Mary was born about 1684; died about 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There is a lot of confusion about Mary Morrell; I have also seen her as Rugter Johnson's wife; his son Rutland's second wife (also called Mary Florence); and the wife of Benjamin Hixson Jr.

Emily Hixson's notes (S233), however, place her here, and from the dates I've seen this is the most logical. Note, however, that this is secondhand evidence, and S 233 in fact says that Mary Morrell's parentage is only possible, not definite. She is possible a descendant of Thomas Morrell of Newtown, NJ.

She appears on the Virginia Mysteries page.

Notes:

He immigrated with one brother. He was a Justice for the Peace in Middlesex Co., NJ.

This couple had 13 children, 5 boys and 8 girls.

His father may be Robert Hutchinson, a Scots-Irish immigrant who landed in 1685.

Richard Hutchinson, the pre-eminent researcher for this family, found and recorded the gravesite for Richard and Ann Hutchinson. I've included here excerpts from his narrative about the location of the gravesite; I'd refer the reader to his site for the full narrative.

"The following story appeared in the Village Record, of Hightstown, New Jersey, dated 20 Nov 1857:

"Mr. Editor: On the farm now owned by Isaac Goldy, near Milford, about 2 1/2 miles from Hightstown, there is an ancient burial ground, wherein several of the old owners of the soil thereabout found the last resting place of their earthly remains. From a tombstone in that place I copy the following, verbatim et literatu: "Sacred to the Memory of Ann Hutchinson, Relict of Wm Hutchinson Esqr. departed this Life Jany. 4th 1801. Aged 101 years 9 Months and seven days. She was mother of 13 children, and Grand Mother and great grand mother, & great great Grand Mother of 375 Persons.

"By applying the rule of compound subtraction, or more properly subtraction of denominate numbers, and making allowance for the difference between Old and New Style, we perceive that she was born on the 17th day of March 1699, and consequently lived in three different centuries, i.e. she was born on the 17th, lived through the whole 18th, and died in the 19th century. A very lengthy article might be written upon the times, the scenes, and changes through which she passed, and which she witnessed; but those conversant with history can fill up the great space of her life with general incidents to suit themselves. I will only mention a few facts in connection with her history, and that of her family. She was the wife of Wm. Hutchinson, Esq, a Justice of the Peace under the crown and government of England. This William Hutchinson took up from the government all the land bounded easterly by or near the Earl of Perth's Patent, (at the corner of the farm now owned by Mr. Wesley Sill,) and bounded northerly by Rocky Brook, and extending westerly to at or about the farm now owned by Thomas Mount, (son of Hiram Mount, dec'd); and extending southerly also to the Ely tract, (a tract of 1500 acres taken up by John Ely, my great grandfather,) at or about the property now owned by Abijah J. Chamberlin. You will perceive then, Mr. Editor, that your office, and all of Hightstown south of Rocky Brook, stands on the tract of this old lady's husband. [ . . . ] J.J.E. [Joseph J. Ely]"

Richard Hutchinson then adds another letter:

"In the Village Record on the following week of the 27th Nov 1857, a response to the above article was made by a great-grandson, Daniel P. Hutchinson, of William & Ann:

"Mr. editor - Having noticed an article in your paper of the 20th inst., relative to the history of William and Ann Hutchinson, their burial place, and descendants, and thinking it may be interesting to some of your readers who may have lost the knowledge of their ancestors, I ask your indulgence while I speak of some matters connected with these things.

"William Hutchinson and one of his brothers came from England to this county early in the 18th century. The maiden name of his wife Ann, was Simpson. Their family of children, thirteen in number, as is recorded on Ann Hutchinson's tombstone, consisted of five boys and eight girls. From these branches have sprung numerous families, bearing the name of Tindall in the neighborhood of Hamilton Square; English and Laird in Englishtown; Ely, Wilson, Moore, Taylor, and others, of this vicinity; Kannan [Kinnan], Bennett and others, of New Brunswick. The marriages into families of these names took place about one century ago. With later generations come in the names of Cubberly, Dey, Moore, Taylor, James, Hartman, and many others down to the present time, and now beside hundreds of Hutchinsons in this vicinity, these descendants may be found in almost every resident name among us. Although the date of the woman's birth reaches back a period of about one hundred and sixty years, and her descendants are numbered in the thousands, yet if she were living to-day in your borough, she might receive daily visits from a grand-daughter who is now in the middle age of life, while in other branches of the family she might look upon children with a string of greats too long for any but a clear-headed person to mention.

"In the old burying ground alluded to, this host may look upon the final resting place of their time-honored ancestors- their first parents of this western world. But it would be a sad sight to many, for the plough has already broken the sod over many graves of this ancient burial place, and unless steps be speedily taken, there will soon be left no mark to designate the sacred spot where these first breakers of the soil rest.

"I would ask if some plan may not be devised by which the remaining graves shall be religiously protected, so that future generations may read this headstone. We presume the present owner of the land would sell the lot to the descendants for a trifling amount - That such graves should be thoughtlessly trampled upon seems to us a burning shame; and from the personal knowledge we have of many of the descendants, we believe that a sufficient amount of money could be raised to do it in a permanent manner. D.P.H. [Daniel P. Hutchinson]"

Richard Hutchinson continues, about this gravesite:

"Today, this ancient cemetery still exists off of Cedarville Road but with only the two existing stones of Ann (Simpson) Hutchinson and her husband William plus pieces of other fieldstones used as grave markers. I'm afraid that nothing was done after the above article to preserve it and nothing has been done since. Recently, many members of the community thought that site had been protected by East Windsor Township due to the work of the East Windsor Township Preservation Commission several years ago. This was work in which I participated to a limited degree and even received written thanks from the Commission for helping preserve the site. However, after many years, I was among the many surprised residents who found out through various news articles in the local Hightstown, New Jersey papers that this ancient burial ground was not protected and had not been so protected as had been proclaimed by the Commission. After having found this gravesite, many years ago, I have walked through the fields to the site and tended to this ancient cemetery each November in an attempt to keep it open. I have planted numerous bulbs near the stones and have even introduced it to my grandson, aged 5, who would help me. This is the oldest known cemetery, with existing stones, in East Windsor Township and it should be protected from further destruction. The blade of the farmer's plow in the field currently passes over those two remaining burials while the farm nearby uses the site as a place to discard various materials. It would be a worthy project of the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society to clean it up, put a fence around it, and try to gain the proper preservation of the site for the future generations. It would be a great project for the Society to complete the job that the East Windsor Township Preservation Commission failed to finish.

"William is buried in field to the right of the big bend in the road from Etra to Roosevelt, after leaving Etra, by Feldsher Road. The two trees in the field to the right mark the spot of these two graves.

"I found unauthored notes & material on the Hutchinson family in the New Jersey Historical Society in 1980s in an uncataloged cardboard box. I was given access to this material that appeared to have been given to the Society from a family. It contained newspaper clips, notes, and many pages of handwritten family sheets. I believe that this material MAY have come from Elmer Tindall Hutchinson, who was an officer of the Society and a well known author and historian. In this material, was information on the William and Ann (Simpson) Hutchinson family, which indicated that an Isaac Hutchinson of Three Hills Run, NJ, had the family record material on William and Ann."

Buried:
Off of Cedarville Rd.

William married Ann Simpson about 1719 in New Jersey. Ann was born on 17 Mar 1699; died on 4 Jan 1801 in East Windsor Twp., Mercer Co., New Jersey; was buried in Family Cemetery, Etra, Mercer Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a remarkable woman and a key to much later genealogical history, if only by the number of her descendants.

According to Richard Hutchinson, "William And Ann (Simpson) Hutchinson lived in both Middlesex County and Monmouth County, New Jersey, in the early 1700s. They had 13 children. We know this fact because of the inscription on Ann's gravestone in the family burial plot on their homestead land. The inscription reads: "Sacred to the Memory of Ann Hutchinson, Relict of Wm Hutchinson Esqr. departed this Life Jany. 4th 1801. Aged 101 years 9 Months and seven days. She was mother of 13 children, and Grand Mother and great grand mother, & great great Grand Mother of 375 Persons." Their first born child was a Robert Hutchinson, born 11 December 1720. Therefore, one can assume that they were married in, or about, 1720."

See under her husband's narrative for information about her burial place.

Buried:
Off of Cedarville Rd.

Notes:

Also Gerrard Johnson in his father's will. This couple had 12 children.

Garrett married Judith. Judith and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He bought the "Tauerhollen" and "Holwigshof" Estates; he inherited "Wintzhiem"; and he bought "Eckitten" outside of Memel, which was kept until the 1849 emigration.

Friedrich married Agnesa Gertruda von Lieven on 26 Feb 1731. Agnesa (daughter of Heinrich Friedrich von Lieven and Anna Catherina von Koskull) was born in 1712 in Courland; died on 26 Sep 1763 in "Raddeilen", Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the von Lieven family history, she and her husband had 6 children. This seems to refer to those who survived to adulthood. She was a widow at her marriage to von Rosenberg.

George married Eva Elizabeth von Schröders on 28 Jun 1726. Eva (daughter of Gotthard Magnus von Schröders and Catherine Elizabeth von Lieven) was born in 1700; died on 13 Oct 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Dorothea Gottlieb von Stempel in 1735. Dorothea (daughter of George Melchior von Stempel and Louise Charlotte zum Berge) was born in 1714; was buried on 27 Oct 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She married two von Stempel cousins: the first named Heinrich Magnus, the second named Heinrich Wilhelm.

Notes:

He was married twice; Ursula was his first wife, with whom he had only two daughters.

George married Ursula von der Osten, genannt Sacken. Ursula and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She had two daughters with her husband George Wilhelm.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Abt 1731, Hohnstein, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
• Immigration: 12 Nov 1732, Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia )

Notes:

The name in the Austrian records is Voithofer.

They were married in the Catholic church but converted. According to the Froelich book, "Following the explusion of all Protestants from Salzburg, Michl Voithofer also left with his mother, his wife, two children (Martin and Anna)—Andreas already having died in 1729—and with diverse other relatives with the name Viethofer. . . They emigrated to Prussia and arrived in Koenigsberg . . . on November 12, 1732."

According to Wikipedia, "In a series of persecutions ending in 1731, over 20,000 Protestants were expelled from their homeland by the Prince-Archbishops. . . . The majority of the Salzburg Protestants accepted the Prussian offer and traveled the length of Germany to reach their new homes in Prussian Lithuania."

Michael married Maria Kohlbin on 15 May 1725 in Goldegg, St. Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria. Maria (daughter of Johannes Kohlb and Magdalena Wallnerin) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name appears on her son Andreas's baptismal record in Goldegg. She and her husband inherited the Voiderploin property outside of Goldegg from her parents.

Johann married Dorothea Gottlieb Rehge. Dorothea and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: pastor
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran

Notes:

This couple apparently had 13 children in all. He seems to have been the first of several generations of Evangelical Lutheran pastors.

Johannes married Philippine Elizabeth Sartorius on 12 Sep 1717 in Driedorf, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. Philippine (daughter of Johann Wilhelm Sartorius and Anna Kunigunde Börberg) was born on 29 Dec 1697 in Schönbach, Lanh-Dill-Kries, Hesse, German; died on 24 Jul 1761 in Haiger, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This couple apparently had 13 children in all.

Notes:

A priest in Raumland, Wittgenstein, Germany.

Johann married Catherina Elisabeth Abresch on 26 Apr 1728. Catherina (daughter of Wilhelm Abresch and Anna Hedwig) was born on 10 Sep 1704 in Bad Berleburg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 23 Oct 1760 in Raumland, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johann married Appolonia Sabina Hausman. Appolonia was born about 1702; died on 10 Nov 1786 in Elshoff, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
died at 84 years old

Notes:

"Heinrich's son was Peter Ludwig Martin, born in Weingarten in 1692 and baptized as a Protestant. He was married on June 25, 1731 in Feudenheim near Mannheim to the widow Anna Margaretha Rebwald, née Wüdes, who was born in 1700 in Kirchen near Eisenach, and was also said to have been baptized as a Protestant. Like his father, Peter Ludwig was a Calvinist, but converted to the Roman Church with his wife 15 years before the birth of his first son, Christian Jonathan, and had his son baptized a Catholic. Peter Ludwig, first a forester at Kefferthal, then became a chief forester at Kriegsfeld in the Palatinate. He and his wife died there and were buried there: he on the 19th and 22nd of February, 1757, and she on the 23rd or 24th of January, 1782. She died at the home of her son Jonathan of complications from a stroke."

Peter married Anna Margaretha Wüdes on 25 Jun 1731 in Feudenheim, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württenberg, Germany. Anna was born on 15 Jan 1699 in Mudersbach, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died on 23 Jan 1782 in Kriegsfeld, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; was buried on 24 Jan 1782 in Kriegsfeld, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Heinrich's son was Peter Ludwig Martin, born in Weingarten in 1692 and baptized as a Protestant. He was married on June 25, 1731 in Feudenheim near Mannheim to the widow Anna Margaretha Rebwald, née Wüdes, who was born in 1700 in Kirchen near Eisenach, and was also said to have been baptized as a Protestant. Like his father, Peter Ludwig was a Calvinist, but converted to the Roman Church with his wife 15 years before the birth of his first son, Christian Jonathan, and had his son baptized a Catholic. Peter Ludwig, first a forester at Kefferthal, then became a chief forester at Kriegsfeld in the Palatinate. He and his wife died there and were buried there: he on the 19th and 22nd of February, 1757, and she on the 23rd and 24th of January, 1782. She died at the home of her son Jonathan of complications from a stroke."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Catholic

Johann married Elisabeth Friederike Müller on 7 Jan 1734 in Seckenheim, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Elisabeth (daughter of Johann Conrad Müller and Maria Christina Groos) was born on 1 Jan 1715 in Ladenburg, Karlsruhe, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 3 Jan 1784 in Ladenburg, Karlsruhe, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran, though she was married Catholic

Johann married Marie Catherina Schmidt on 4 Dec 1732 in Niederlaasphe, Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Marie (daughter of Hans Joachim Schmidt and Marie Elisabeth Baltz) was born on 19 Jan 1710 in Niederlaasphe, Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 10 Nov 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: pastor
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran

Notes:

He studied near Herborn from 1751-53, and was a field preacher. Later, he was a pastor in Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein, Germany.

Johannes married Henriette Luise Elizabeth Hoffman on 12 Sep 1756 in Raumland, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Henriette (daughter of Johann Phillip Hoffman and Catherina Elisabeth Abresch) was born on 13 Sep 1734 in Raumland, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 1 Feb 1802 in Feudingen, Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
according to age at death.

Erich married Adelheit Maria Nagel. Adelheit was born on 2 Nov 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His name appears on his daughter Margretha's marriage record.