Surnames of my direct ancestors.
Jans – Gerrit Janszen (Janss Jannssen) married Vroutgen/Vroutje Pieters 13 November 1616 in Amsterdam, Netherlands at Nieuwe Kerk. The Nieuwe Kerk is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Her was the son of Israël Janszen and Anneke Gerritje Wessels. Vroutgen/Vroutje Pieters was the daughter of Jacob Pierters and Jannetgen Jans. The line continues: Gerritts/Stoffelszen/Van Sant/Cornelius Gerritz/Brouwer/Van Sant/Severns/Cooper/Barton/Lyons/Armstrong.
Janse Demen – related to Schermerhorn. See Schermerhorn.
Janszen (Janss/Jannssen). See Jans.
Johnson (paternal) – Mary Johnson was born 25 April 1743 in Colonial Virigina. Her parentage is unknown. She married John Watts. See. Watts, and York.
Johnson (Johnston) (maternal) – George Johnson married Hannah Dorman on 4 January 1695 in Colonial Stratford, Connecticut. His parentage is unknown. Related lines: Pritchard and Merchant.
Jones – Benjamin Jones was born about 1630 in Wales, and died 30 December 1692 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. He married Hannah Spencer. Related lines: Pritchard and Merchant.
Joynt – From Counties Clare and Galway in Ireland
Judd (Fed)
Kasebier (Casebeer)
Keller – married Schwenck. Schwenck/Loeser – Loser – Looser (Losure). Loeser/Lozier/Losure. I descend from two Losure/Lozier first cousins. The first line is Lozier/Dumbauld. Lozier/Losure. Losure/Cole. The second line is Losure/Womelsdorf. Losure/Lozier. Losure/Cole.
Kerling (Corleene) – Agnes Kerling Kerlin/Corleene married Godfrey Gottfried Christian Kasebier (Casebeer) on 22 February 1739 at Christ Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Peter Kerlin. See Kasebier and Womelsdorf. Related line: Losure/Lozier.
Kilbourn/Kilbourne – John Kilbourn married Ann Collyn on 2 November 1561 at St. John’s Church in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England. He was the son of John Kilbourne and Agnes ____. Related lines: Moody, Root, Spencer, Leonard, Scott, French, and Merchant.
Kingsley – Elizabeth Goodwife “Goody” Kingsley married John Cummings II on 13 September 1680 in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Samuel Kingsley/Kinsley and Hannah Brackett. See Brackett. Related lines: French and Merchant.
Kirchenbauer – Anna Maria Kirchenbauer, the daughter of Sebastian Kirchenbauer, married Lorentz Spatz, Sr. Some confuse two women with same name, because their son Lorentz Spatz, Jr. married (his first cousin) Anna Maria Kirchenbauer, the daughter of Hans Jacob Kirchenbauer and Catherine ____. Hans Jacob Kirchenbauer was a brother of Anna Maria Kirchenbauer who married Lorentz Spatz, Sr. My line is not through the son Lorentz Spatz, Jr. My line is through the son Johann Jacob Spatz who married Maria Esther Wenrich. My line continues with David Spatz/Hannah Hafer – Mary Ann Spotts (Spatz)/John Palmer – Susan Palmer/John Davis Kennedy.
Krische – married Weigt. Possible ancestry of Elias “Eli” Nutick, from Rawicz, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
Kubel (Kubal/Kubala) – married Weigt. (Possible ancestors of Elias “Eli” Nutick). Marie Elisabeth Kubal/Kubala was the daughter of Johannes Wojciech Kubal. She married Samuel Weigt, both were born in Rawicz, Wielkopolskie, Poland. The Weigt and related lines were living in what is now Poland but have German roots. The Kubal/Kubala and related lines were Polish. My line continues with their son Elias “Eli” Wegt who was born in Rawicz, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He married 3 March 1870 in Hamilton County, Ohio, to Margaret (Margarethe) Weiss, who was born in Klingenmünster, Germany. She was the daughter of Heinrich Weiss and Margaretha Maria Fried. The Wegt surname eventually became Nutick in the USA.
Lamberton – Elizabeth Lamberton married Willliam Trowbridge on 9 March 1657 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. She was the daughter of George Lamberton, a mariner of Wappingwall, England, and Margaret Lewen. She was seven days old when she was baptized on 20 March 1634/5 in St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England. See Trowbridge. Related lines: Mallory, Canfield, and Prindle.
Leibfarth – Anna Leibfarth married Christoph Silber. The family was of Dettingen an der Erms, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She was the daughter of Christoph Leibfarth and Agnes Reutter. See Silber, Diem, and Swartzlander.
Leonard – Mary Leonard married John Root on 14 April 1703 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Josiah Leonard and Sarah Dumbleton. See Dumbleton. Related lines: Root, Scott, French, and Merchant.
Lutman – Jane Lutman married William Dudley on 4 August 1636 in Ockley, Surrey, England. The couple immigrated to the British American Colonies and settled in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. She was the daughter of William Lutman and Jane Hastings. See Dudley and Hubbard.
Lyons – James W. Lyons, Sr. married Catherine Ann Barton on 11 February 1817 in Newtown, Bucks, Pennsylvania. See Barton. Related line: Armstrong.
McComas (MacComas) – Daniel McComas was born in Scotland. He married Elizabeth McGill about 1687 in Colonial Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Related lines: Day, Norris, Willougby, and Armstrong.
McGill – Elizabeth McGill married Daniel McComas/MacComas. See directly above.
McKie – Christian/Kirstin McKie was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and died 30 March 1722 in Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. She married John Sproat. See Sproat.
Mallory – Peter Mallory, Jr. married Elizabeth Trowbridge on 28 May 1678 in Colonial New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Peter Mallory and Mary Preston. See Trowbridge. Related lines: Canfield, Northrup, Gray, and Prindle.
Manwaring – Rev. John Manwaring (Mainwaring) married Susannah Piggot. He was the son of Edward Mainwaring and Anne Lomax, and was born in 1623, probably in England. He died after 1654, in England. He was Rector of Stoke on Trent in 1633. He married Susannah Piggot, the daughter of Walter Piggot, Esq.
Immigrant ancestor is Stephen Manwaring who married Elizabeth _____, married Hannah Vose (widow Jones), married third to Jane Wilkinson.
My Manwaring line continues with Hannah, a daughter of Stephen Manwaring and Hannah Vose. Hannah Manwaring married Robert Moore. The Moore and Manwaring families lived in Perquimans County, North Carolina and were Quakers. Robert Moore was born in the Isle of Man.
Marshall – Elizabeth Marshall married Thomas Trowbridge on 26 March 1627 in Exeter, Deveon, England. She was the daughter of John Marshall and Alice Bevys. See Trowbridge. Related lines: Lamberton, Mallory, Canfield, Northrup, Gray, and Prindle.
Marshfield – Mercy Marshfield married John Dumbleton I in May 1649 in Colonial Springfield, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Thomas Marshfield and Mercy “Goody” ____. See Dumbleton. Related lines: Leonard, Root, Scott, French, and Merchant.
Matheny – Susanna Matheny married John Davis. She was the daughter of Daniel Matheney and Sarah Wentworth. Related lines: Thomas, York, and Watts.
Mathess – Anna Margaretha Barbara Mathess / Matheß married Johann Philip Scherp on 26 November 1711 in Laubenheim, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Related lines: Metz and Doman.
Menck – see Scherp.
Menke – see Freudenberger.
Mitchell – Sibel Mitchell married James Prudden, the son of Rev. Robert Prudden and Mildred. The families were from King’s Walden, Hertfordshire, England. James Prudden immigrated to Colonial America and settled in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.
Moore – Robert Moore was baptized 10 November 1695 in Braddan, Middle, Isle of Man. He died 12 October 1755 in Perquimans, North Carolina. He married Hannah Manwaring. He was the son of James Moore and Jane Cannell. See Cannell and Manwaring.
Müller – Bartholi Müller married Anna Diem on 24 January 1561 Dettingen an der Erms, Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. His parentage is unproven. She was the daughter of Michael Diem and Margaretha ____. Related lines: Egen, Silber, Swartzlander, Williams, and Kennedy.
Nestor – From Galway, Ireland, not German roots.
Nolff/Nolf (Wolf) – Some lines used Nulph/Nulf. In German church records is listed as Nolff. My line became Wolf. See Wolf.
Norris – I descend from two children of Edward Norris and Mary Freeman. First line is: John Norris/Elizabeth “Eliza” Parsons; Joseph Norris/Mary Talbot; Hannah Norris/Nathaniel Shepherd Armstrong. The second line is: Thomas Norris/Elizabeth ___; John Norris/Ann Wheatley; Thomas Norris/Elizabeth McComas; James Norris, Sr./Martha Willoughby; Sarah “Sally” Norris/John A. Armstrong.
Norton – Elizabeth Norton married John Plumb on 24 November 1668 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. She was the daughter of John Norton and Dorothy Rowley. The parentage of her father is unproven, although his roots were in England. Her mother Dorothy Rowley was the daughter of Thomas Rowley and Frances Blackburne. The Rowley and Blackburne roots go back to Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Related line: Prindle.
Nutick (Wegt/Weigt) – married Weiss. Possibly from Rawitsch, Posen, Prussia, now Rawitsch, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
Orchard – John Orchard was born in England. He came to Colonial Virginia. He married there on 15 July 1638 to Mary Ann Phillips. Their daughter Elizabeth Orchard, who married Robert Cartwright, is my ancestor.
Palmer – Solomon Palmer married Mary Budd, the daughter of Elijah Budd and Hannah Ursula “Ursy” Sine. They lived in Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York, and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania – this region became part of Mifflin County and in 1800 became part of Centre County, Pennsylvania. Solomon Palmer was the son of Peter Palmer and Judith Reynolds. See Feake.
Parsons – See Norris.
Pastor – Anna Margaretha Pastor was born about 1570 to 1580 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her marriage record has not been found, but based on the baptism records of her children, she most likely was married in Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany to Johann Henrich Schwebel. She died 1644 in Bergzabern, Südliche Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Her parentage is unknown. See Schwebel. Over time this line migrated to nearby Godramstein, Landau in der Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and eventually to Heuchelheim-Klingen, Bergzabern, Südliche Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany near Klingenmünster. This is on my paternal recent German immigrant lines. It is connected to My Weiss, Fried, Propheter, and Related Ancestors from Klingenmünster, Germany
Peck – Joseph Peck married 1/ to Alice Heath, widow of John Burwell. After her death he married 2/ Mary Richards (my ancestor), the daughter of Thomas Richards and Priscilla Wakeman. They lived in Colonial Connecticut.
Piggot – Susanna Piggot married Rev. John Manwaring (Mainwaring). She was the daughter of Walter Piggott, Esq., of Chetwynd, Salop, England. Chetwynd, a parish in Newport district, Salop; on the verge of the county and on the river Mees, adjacent to the Newport canal, and near the Stafford and Shrewsbury. See Manwaring.
Plumb – John Plumb married Elizabeth Norton on 24 November 1668 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of John Plumb and Elizabeth Norton. See Norton. Related lines: Baldwin Crackbone, Chaplin, and Prindle.
Preston – Mary Preston married Peter Mallory, Sr. about 1647 in Colonial New Haven Connecticut. She was baptized on 13 December 1629 in Chesham, Buckhamshire, England, as the daughter of William Preston and Elizabeth Sale. See Mallory. Related lines: Trowbridge, Canfield, Northup, Gray, and Prindle.
Price – John Price married Nancy Anna Albert on 2 May 1810 in Washington County, Maryland. She was the daughter of Johann Peter Albert and Anna Walpurgis Hoerner. Her family were originally from Niklashausen, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. John Price was the son of John Price. He was the grandson of John Price and Urith Cole.
Prichard – Roger Prichard married Elizabeth Prudden Slough, a widow and daughter of James and Sybil Mitchell Prudden, on 18 December 1653 in Colonial Milford, Connecticut. His place of birth is listed variously as Wales and England. Related lines: Jones, Johnson, Merchant, Northup, and French.
Prindle – If you go back far enough it goes to Scotland. They settled in Colonial New Haven and New Milford, Connecticut. Prindle/Plumb. Prindle/Fed (Judd). Prindle/Leach. Prindle/Canfield. Prindle/Greatsinger. Prindle/Doman. Prindle/Cole. West Haven and New Milford, Connecticut to Fairfield and Sherman in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Then to Utica, Oneida County New York, and Mexico Township, Oswego County, New York. My Prindle/Greatsinger 3rd great-grandparents migrated from New York to Scioto Township, Pickaway County, Ohio. See Greatsinger, Doman, and Cole.
Propheter – My 4th great-grandmother Margaretha Propheter was born in Klingenmünster, Südliche Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob Propheter and Anna Margaretha Weinmann. She married Johann Georg Fried on 12 September 1820 in Bad Bergzabern, Südliche Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Johann Georg Fried was the son of Johann Adam Propheter and Maria Barbara Schmitt. The Propheter/Fried/Schmitt families were all from in and around Klingenmünster and are found there in church records for several generations. The Weinmann lines go back to nearby Oberotterbach, then to Ingwiller, Bas-Rhin, France. I have Propheter DNA matches in Germany.
My 3rd great-grandmother Margaretha Maria Fried was born 25 April 1819 in Klingenmünster. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Fried and Margaretha Propheter. She married Henry Heinrich Weiss, who was also from Klingenmünster. He was the son of Johann Jakob Weiss and Katherina Wendel. The Weiss/Wendel and related lines are also found in church records in and around Klingenmünster for several generations.
Margaretha Maria Fried died and was buried in Klingenmünster. I have not located a death record for Heinrich Weiss, he either immigrated to the USA, and died shortly thereafter, or he remained in Germany. My line continues with their daughter, my 2nd great-grandmother, Margaret (Margarethe) Weiss, who was born 23 June 1846 in Klingenmünster, Germany. She married 3 March 1870 in Hamilton County, Ohio, to Elias “Eli” Wegt. Elias “Eli” Wegt. The surname Wegt eventually became Nutick in the USA.
Prudden – James Prudden married Sibel Mitchell. He was the son of Rev. Robert Prudden and Mildred _____. The families were from King’s Walden, Hertfordshire, England. James Prudden immigrated to Colonial America and settled in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.
Purcas (Purchas) – Plumb related line.
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