Note: Nov/2023 - Final ancestorial conclusion: This Maria is not the daughter of Bishop Hans Herr (b.1639,d.1725); nor is she the same person as the Maria Herr born in 1673 (see FaG memorial #80526415) who is in fact a daughter of the Bishop Hans Herr.
She married her husband Johann Anton Weber (b.10Jan1658, d.17Dec1724) during 1680 in Baretswill, Switzerland.
The family is listed in "Martyrs Mirror" as landing in Amsterdam, Holland from the Palatinate in 1693. Shortly after that the moved on to Freidrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Then in 1710 the family immigrated to America. The family moved for the last time in 1717 to Weaverland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Between 1683 and 1700 they had 4 boys and 2 girls named: John, Jacob, Henry, George, Maria and Anna Catharine Weber.
The three sons of Johan and Maria Weber, were some of the first settlers in the Weaverland Valley but John himself never lived there. John & Maria lived and died in the Pequa Valley, on the other side of the hill which divides the Pequea and Weaverland valleys.
Johann & Maria Weber may be buried at Weizenthal [the name of the Weber plantation] as the first in a long line of Weavers buried in the old Weaver family burying ground there. The Weaver family stopped using this burial ground about 1850.
No longer marked, the graveyard is located in a field in West Lampeter Township. The 21 marked graves were moved to Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite cemetery in the 1930s. The other 40-odd unmarked graves remain in the field and Johann Anton is undoubteldy among them. (William Woys Weaver: Mennonite Research Journal, January, 1973, pp.10-11)
Note: Who Died on 1 Dec 1725
There is much speculation and genelogy records that suggest that Margarethe Sieber "Maria" Herr (b.1663, d.1725) and her sister Maria Herr (b.1673, d.1725) are in fact the same person. This is supported by the fact that currently they are both recorded to have died on 1 Dec 1725 in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., PA.
The birth dates of Margarethe's children by John Weber between 1683 & 1695 and those of her sister Maria between 1702 & 1704 in the same place with the father being Benedictus Brackbill (b.1665, d.1720) would have made this a possibility if Margaretha divorced John Weber and remarried in 1701 to Benedictus Brackbill.
However I have found nothing in the history of any of their offspring to suggest this happened. Combined with the fairly well documented fact that John Weber lived until 1724 and divorce was rare in the Mennonite community I continue to believe Margarethe and Maria Herr were two seperate individuals.
She married her husband Johann Anton Weber (b.10Jan1658, d.17Dec1724) during 1680 in Baretswill, Switzerland.
The family is listed in "Martyrs Mirror" as landing in Amsterdam, Holland from the Palatinate in 1693. Shortly after that the moved on to Freidrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Then in 1710 the family immigrated to America. The family moved for the last time in 1717 to Weaverland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Between 1683 and 1700 they had 4 boys and 2 girls named: John, Jacob, Henry, George, Maria and Anna Catharine Weber.
The three sons of Johan and Maria Weber, were some of the first settlers in the Weaverland Valley but John himself never lived there. John & Maria lived and died in the Pequa Valley, on the other side of the hill which divides the Pequea and Weaverland valleys.
Johann & Maria Weber may be buried at Weizenthal [the name of the Weber plantation] as the first in a long line of Weavers buried in the old Weaver family burying ground there. The Weaver family stopped using this burial ground about 1850.
No longer marked, the graveyard is located in a field in West Lampeter Township. The 21 marked graves were moved to Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite cemetery in the 1930s. The other 40-odd unmarked graves remain in the field and Johann Anton is undoubteldy among them. (William Woys Weaver: Mennonite Research Journal, January, 1973, pp.10-11)
Note: Who Died on 1 Dec 1725
There is much speculation and genelogy records that suggest that Margarethe Sieber "Maria" Herr (b.1663, d.1725) and her sister Maria Herr (b.1673, d.1725) are in fact the same person. This is supported by the fact that currently they are both recorded to have died on 1 Dec 1725 in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., PA.
The birth dates of Margarethe's children by John Weber between 1683 & 1695 and those of her sister Maria between 1702 & 1704 in the same place with the father being Benedictus Brackbill (b.1665, d.1720) would have made this a possibility if Margaretha divorced John Weber and remarried in 1701 to Benedictus Brackbill.
However I have found nothing in the history of any of their offspring to suggest this happened. Combined with the fairly well documented fact that John Weber lived until 1724 and divorce was rare in the Mennonite community I continue to believe Margarethe and Maria Herr were two seperate individuals.
Note: Nov/2023 - Final ancestorial conclusion: This Maria is not the daughter of Bishop Hans Herr (b.1639,d.1725); nor is she the same person as the Maria Herr born in 1673 (see FaG memorial #80526415) who is in fact a daughter of the Bishop Hans Herr.
She married her husband Johann Anton Weber (b.10Jan1658, d.17Dec1724) during 1680 in Baretswill, Switzerland.
The family is listed in "Martyrs Mirror" as landing in Amsterdam, Holland from the Palatinate in 1693. Shortly after that the moved on to Freidrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Then in 1710 the family immigrated to America. The family moved for the last time in 1717 to Weaverland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Between 1683 and 1700 they had 4 boys and 2 girls named: John, Jacob, Henry, George, Maria and Anna Catharine Weber.
The three sons of Johan and Maria Weber, were some of the first settlers in the Weaverland Valley but John himself never lived there. John & Maria lived and died in the Pequa Valley, on the other side of the hill which divides the Pequea and Weaverland valleys.
Johann & Maria Weber may be buried at Weizenthal [the name of the Weber plantation] as the first in a long line of Weavers buried in the old Weaver family burying ground there. The Weaver family stopped using this burial ground about 1850.
No longer marked, the graveyard is located in a field in West Lampeter Township. The 21 marked graves were moved to Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite cemetery in the 1930s. The other 40-odd unmarked graves remain in the field and Johann Anton is undoubteldy among them. (William Woys Weaver: Mennonite Research Journal, January, 1973, pp.10-11)
Note: Who Died on 1 Dec 1725
There is much speculation and genelogy records that suggest that Margarethe Sieber "Maria" Herr (b.1663, d.1725) and her sister Maria Herr (b.1673, d.1725) are in fact the same person. This is supported by the fact that currently they are both recorded to have died on 1 Dec 1725 in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., PA.
The birth dates of Margarethe's children by John Weber between 1683 & 1695 and those of her sister Maria between 1702 & 1704 in the same place with the father being Benedictus Brackbill (b.1665, d.1720) would have made this a possibility if Margaretha divorced John Weber and remarried in 1701 to Benedictus Brackbill.
However I have found nothing in the history of any of their offspring to suggest this happened. Combined with the fairly well documented fact that John Weber lived until 1724 and divorce was rare in the Mennonite community I continue to believe Margarethe and Maria Herr were two seperate individuals.
She married her husband Johann Anton Weber (b.10Jan1658, d.17Dec1724) during 1680 in Baretswill, Switzerland.
The family is listed in "Martyrs Mirror" as landing in Amsterdam, Holland from the Palatinate in 1693. Shortly after that the moved on to Freidrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Then in 1710 the family immigrated to America. The family moved for the last time in 1717 to Weaverland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Between 1683 and 1700 they had 4 boys and 2 girls named: John, Jacob, Henry, George, Maria and Anna Catharine Weber.
The three sons of Johan and Maria Weber, were some of the first settlers in the Weaverland Valley but John himself never lived there. John & Maria lived and died in the Pequa Valley, on the other side of the hill which divides the Pequea and Weaverland valleys.
Johann & Maria Weber may be buried at Weizenthal [the name of the Weber plantation] as the first in a long line of Weavers buried in the old Weaver family burying ground there. The Weaver family stopped using this burial ground about 1850.
No longer marked, the graveyard is located in a field in West Lampeter Township. The 21 marked graves were moved to Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite cemetery in the 1930s. The other 40-odd unmarked graves remain in the field and Johann Anton is undoubteldy among them. (William Woys Weaver: Mennonite Research Journal, January, 1973, pp.10-11)
Note: Who Died on 1 Dec 1725
There is much speculation and genelogy records that suggest that Margarethe Sieber "Maria" Herr (b.1663, d.1725) and her sister Maria Herr (b.1673, d.1725) are in fact the same person. This is supported by the fact that currently they are both recorded to have died on 1 Dec 1725 in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., PA.
The birth dates of Margarethe's children by John Weber between 1683 & 1695 and those of her sister Maria between 1702 & 1704 in the same place with the father being Benedictus Brackbill (b.1665, d.1720) would have made this a possibility if Margaretha divorced John Weber and remarried in 1701 to Benedictus Brackbill.
However I have found nothing in the history of any of their offspring to suggest this happened. Combined with the fairly well documented fact that John Weber lived until 1724 and divorce was rare in the Mennonite community I continue to believe Margarethe and Maria Herr were two seperate individuals.
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