Monday, August 13, 2018

Monday Is for Mothers: Mary Meyer/Myer/Meier (1726 - 1786)

Just about everything I know about this maternal sixth great grandmother can be found on the front and back of the file card reproduced below.


[Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Genealogical Card File. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.]

She was about eleven years old when her family left Ibersheim, an estate in Germany which had been leased since about 1650 by Mennonites fleeing from religious persecution in their native Switzerland. In Pennsylvania, the Myers would have joined other Mennonite families who had begun arriving there as early as 1719.

Mary and Peter's oldest child was born about 1745 which gives us an idea of their marriage date. Here's how I'm related to her:

[Ancestry.com]


Later this week I'll be transcribing her father John Myer's will but here's how he described her:



["Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-KCR8?cc=1999196&wc=9PM8-FM9%3A268493601%2C270202601 : 3 July 2014), York > Wills 1749-1779 vol A-D > image 103 of 647;
county courthouses, Pennsylvania.]





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