Johann Christian Merkel/Merckel/Markle, 1678-1766, Update
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Johann Christian Merkel/Merckel/Markle, 1678-1766, Update
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Posted: 17 Jul 2007 10:06PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Merkel/Merckel/Markle, Coehorn, Weurtz/Wurtz, Benner/Bender
Time to correct some of the unfounded internet garbage (and some printed).
Johann Christian Merkel/Merckel/Markle, 1678-1766.
He was NOT born in Metz or Lorraine or Hasslock.
He was NOT a son of Peter Markle.
He was NOT a son of Magdalena Coehorn.
He did NOT, and NEVER was married to a Jemima Weurtz (That was some work of fiction created by one of his great-granddaughters in a vanity flush - and this fiction continues to persist).
There is NO evidence his brothers followed him, though they may have been related.
He was NOT a General.
He did NOT come to America in 1703.
He did NOT live in Holland.
He did NOT immigrate on the ship Phoenix.
He was NOT Huguenot.
(Now someone is going to come along and say, "I have," "I was told," "my GEDCOM has," "Ancestry.com WFT says," "my research," "IGI says," someone else's research, etc., etc. -- but, none can cite any original or primary records to support any of the above).
The simple truth is he was born in Schillersdorf, s/o George Merckel and Esther Haus. He was Lutheran, and married to Anna Catharina Bender/Benner, his only known wife. He had 13 children, 9 surviving. 1704-1719 he was living in Lambsheim, where he married and had seven children. He immigrated once, about 1719/20 on an unknown ship (no extant record exists showing the exact date or ship he immigrated on). His reasons for immigration where probably economic, as was true for most of the Palatine immigrants. The evidence is irrefutable. So, working backward.
-- The first proof Christian of Lambsheim is identical to Christian of Richmond Twp.
His daughter Maria Catharina Merckel m. Johann Caspar Stoever. Her husband wrote his wife "Maria Catarina Stoeverin was born the 14th of May 1715 in Lambsheim, District of Kurpfalz, to Christian Merkling and Maria Cath, sponsor was Catarina Schmidling." Her baptism record at the Evangelische Kirche, Heuchelheim reads: Christian Merklin, Wagner of Lambscheim and Anna Catharina ... 21 Jan 1715, ... Maria ... Schmidt.. Maria Catharina.
-- The second proof Christain of Lambsheim is identical to Christian of Schillersdorf.
Christian Merckel was taxed in 1704 at Lambsheim. He m. 6 Jan 1707 at the Heuchelheim Kirche to Anna Catharina Bender/Benner, his record reads: Christian Mercklin, wagon maker, son of Hans Georg Mercklin, wagon maker from Schülkersdorff located in Elsass, and Anna Catherine, daughter of Johannes Benner, blacksmith in Lambsheim... Christian sold his house at Lambsheim in 1719 and the record states he immigrated to PA along with his father-in-law. Christian died before 22 May 1766 (probate) at Moselem Creek, Richmond Twp, Berks Co, PA.
Extract from the record of baptism at Oberbronn Lutheran Church, Alsace, Germany: Anno Domino 1678 Dec 29, a son of Johann George Markle, Wheelwright, of Schullersburg was baptized and was named Johann Christmann. That the above is a true copy from the Book of Baptism, Witness the hand of the present parson J.J. Aulber, Done in Oberbronn Nov 10, 1907.
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The following are not original or primary documents, and contain numerous errors and fiction:
Montgomery, Morton L. "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania; Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Representative Families" vol I & II, Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co, 1909.
Merkel, Norton W. "The Merkel, Merkle, Markle, Markel Freündschaft," Fleetwood, PA: N. Merkel, 1977. (This work incorporated a lot of Gustave Anjou's work).
Anything by Gustave Anjou, a known fraud.
Anything that is a GEDCOM or WFT.
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Original Primary Records:
Burgert, Annette K., FASG., "Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers", Myerstown, PA: AKB Pub, 2000, pp225-6. (while not an original document, her work is all based on original primary documents)
Rembe, Heinrich. "Lambsheim. Die Familien von 1547 bis 1800 - für Maxdorf bis 1830: mit Angaben aus Weisenheim a. S. Eyersheim und Ormsheim." 2 vol. Otterbach-Kaiserslautern: F. Arbogast, 1971.
Evangelische Kirche Heuchelheim (BA. Frankenthal), Kirchenbuch (FHL film 0193892).
Evangelische Kirche Oberbronn (Kr. Hagenau), Kirchenbuch (FHL 7759030).
Evangelische Kirche Schillersdorf, Kirchenbuch (FHL film 760930)
Johann Christian Merkel/Merckel/Markle, 1678-1766.
He was NOT born in Metz or Lorraine or Hasslock.
He was NOT a son of Peter Markle.
He was NOT a son of Magdalena Coehorn.
He did NOT, and NEVER was married to a Jemima Weurtz (That was some work of fiction created by one of his great-granddaughters in a vanity flush - and this fiction continues to persist).
There is NO evidence his brothers followed him, though they may have been related.
He was NOT a General.
He did NOT come to America in 1703.
He did NOT live in Holland.
He did NOT immigrate on the ship Phoenix.
He was NOT Huguenot.
(Now someone is going to come along and say, "I have," "I was told," "my GEDCOM has," "Ancestry.com WFT says," "my research," "IGI says," someone else's research, etc., etc. -- but, none can cite any original or primary records to support any of the above).
The simple truth is he was born in Schillersdorf, s/o George Merckel and Esther Haus. He was Lutheran, and married to Anna Catharina Bender/Benner, his only known wife. He had 13 children, 9 surviving. 1704-1719 he was living in Lambsheim, where he married and had seven children. He immigrated once, about 1719/20 on an unknown ship (no extant record exists showing the exact date or ship he immigrated on). His reasons for immigration where probably economic, as was true for most of the Palatine immigrants. The evidence is irrefutable. So, working backward.
-- The first proof Christian of Lambsheim is identical to Christian of Richmond Twp.
His daughter Maria Catharina Merckel m. Johann Caspar Stoever. Her husband wrote his wife "Maria Catarina Stoeverin was born the 14th of May 1715 in Lambsheim, District of Kurpfalz, to Christian Merkling and Maria Cath, sponsor was Catarina Schmidling." Her baptism record at the Evangelische Kirche, Heuchelheim reads: Christian Merklin, Wagner of Lambscheim and Anna Catharina ... 21 Jan 1715, ... Maria ... Schmidt.. Maria Catharina.
-- The second proof Christain of Lambsheim is identical to Christian of Schillersdorf.
Christian Merckel was taxed in 1704 at Lambsheim. He m. 6 Jan 1707 at the Heuchelheim Kirche to Anna Catharina Bender/Benner, his record reads: Christian Mercklin, wagon maker, son of Hans Georg Mercklin, wagon maker from Schülkersdorff located in Elsass, and Anna Catherine, daughter of Johannes Benner, blacksmith in Lambsheim... Christian sold his house at Lambsheim in 1719 and the record states he immigrated to PA along with his father-in-law. Christian died before 22 May 1766 (probate) at Moselem Creek, Richmond Twp, Berks Co, PA.
Extract from the record of baptism at Oberbronn Lutheran Church, Alsace, Germany: Anno Domino 1678 Dec 29, a son of Johann George Markle, Wheelwright, of Schullersburg was baptized and was named Johann Christmann. That the above is a true copy from the Book of Baptism, Witness the hand of the present parson J.J. Aulber, Done in Oberbronn Nov 10, 1907.
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The following are not original or primary documents, and contain numerous errors and fiction:
Montgomery, Morton L. "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania; Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Representative Families" vol I & II, Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co, 1909.
Merkel, Norton W. "The Merkel, Merkle, Markle, Markel Freündschaft," Fleetwood, PA: N. Merkel, 1977. (This work incorporated a lot of Gustave Anjou's work).
Anything by Gustave Anjou, a known fraud.
Anything that is a GEDCOM or WFT.
---------------
Original Primary Records:
Burgert, Annette K., FASG., "Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers", Myerstown, PA: AKB Pub, 2000, pp225-6. (while not an original document, her work is all based on original primary documents)
Rembe, Heinrich. "Lambsheim. Die Familien von 1547 bis 1800 - für Maxdorf bis 1830: mit Angaben aus Weisenheim a. S. Eyersheim und Ormsheim." 2 vol. Otterbach-Kaiserslautern: F. Arbogast, 1971.
Evangelische Kirche Heuchelheim (BA. Frankenthal), Kirchenbuch (FHL film 0193892).
Evangelische Kirche Oberbronn (Kr. Hagenau), Kirchenbuch (FHL 7759030).
Evangelische Kirche Schillersdorf, Kirchenbuch (FHL film 760930)