Maria (Ida) Rosendahl (dutch link) died 4 Apr 1820 in Waldenrath, Germany. Her death certificate lists her as 66 years old; her sons Bernard and Michel registered her death. She was the wife of Philip (Heyman) Lichtenstein, and my husband’s third great-grandmother. According to her death certificate, she was born in …
Martha Mayer (dutch link) was born 2 Apr 1882 in Schifferstadt in the Pfalz, 8th child of Leopold Mayer and Henriette Julia Wolff. She is my husband’s grand-aunt on his mother’s side. As I realized that I had only secondary sources for her and her siblings’ birth dates, I spent the …
Today being Easter Sunday, I thought I would try to see whether any one in my database was actually born (or baptized) on Easter Sunday, April 1. Interesting enough, none of the Jewish ancestors was born on April 1. Easter fell on April 1st in the following years: 1714, 1725, 1736, 1804, 1866, 1877, 1888, 1923, 1934, 1945, …
Thomas Wilkinson Furnas was born 23 Mar 1768 in Bush River, SC, fourth child and third son of John Furnas and Mary Wilkinson. He is my son-in-law’s 5th great-grandfather. His parents were Quakers, his father was born in Standing Stone, England (it seems to have been a village near Wigton, Cumbria, …
Otto Pfann was baptized (Ev. Luth.) on 18 Mar 1759 in Amsterdam, first son of Balthasar Pfann (dutch link) and Agnieta Meulman. He was baptized at home, something the Evangelical Lutherans frequently did, and the sponsors were Daniel Bittelmeijer (husband of a probably sister of Otto’s father) and Kunigunda Pfan (probably another …
My database has two Samuel Ball, both supposedly born on 16 Mar 1647/8 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. As they are both …
Clara Hertz was born 14 Mar 1900 in Rozanie (At the moment it is still unclear to me where this is, see …
Benjamin Sisco was born 11 Mar 1853 in Newark, NJ. He was the son of Peter A. Sisco and his first wife …
Gertrudis Stroothuis was baptized 19 Jan 1758 in Tubbergen, Overijssel, The Netherlands. The family was Roman Catholic, one of the few families …
Just found an interesting coincidence: My husband’s 7th great-granduncle married (as his second wife) Isabel Latham (dutch link) on 1 Feb 1699 in …
