Descendants of Gerhard Weisel

1. Marty <mlriley@erols.com>.
Weisel (Von Weisel, Von Hochweisel, Von Hohenweisel) Genealogy

Compiled by Colonel Calvin Ira Kephart
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So far as I have been able to ascertain from medieval records, only three Weisel (or von Weisel) families existed in western Europe. One, of knightly origins, lived in southern Swabia, as shown in Wirtemborgisches Urkundenbuch, V, 54, year 1254, and XI, 514, year 1266. The tradition persists in this family that one of itís members who had served in Bohemian wars married a Jewish girl and left descendants of that faith, as verified by statements from later descendants in the United States living in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Richmond, and Norfolk and perhaps other places as well as in Vienna and doubtless other places in Austria and elsewhere.
An ancient town named Weisel is situated near Caub, on the Rhine in Hessen-Nassau, 28 miles northwest of Wiesbaden. In the 12th century it was held by a man of unknown origin, but said to have been a Sternberg, who in 1190 was called Udo von Wiselo, who then was burgmann (castle-guard) at Sternberg. His superior lord was a Count von Bolanden, but at this death it went to Count von Sponheim, related to the Bolandens. Heinrich von Sponheim sold the vogtei-recht (prefecture) to Arnolf II von Sternberg. His death ended the senior line and his younger brother Udo took it over and founded the ritters (knights) von Sternberg; so that the surname von Weisel fell into disuse. See The Rhine by W.O. von Horn (W. Oertel).
The third Weisel family, from which immigrant George Michael Weisel, born c. 1692, descended, was indigenous to Upper Hessen and took itís name originally from the vil- liage of Weisel, now called Niederweisel, situated on the railway between Butzbach and Friedberg, a short distance south of the former. It is in the main valley of the Wetterau, at an elevation of 689 feet. As said by Ernst H. Kneschke in his Neues allgemeines Adels-Lexiknon, the Upper Hessian family of this name belonged to the old Wetterauer nobility, but from which older family did it branch? That was the question. The answer required research in the 12th century records.
History shows that the possessions of the ancient Hagen, Arnsberg, and Nuring committal families coalesced in the Munzenberg family, apparently through Lovegarde, wife of Graf Cuno I vonMunzenberg (c.1132 - 1211), who may have been a Nuring. Another dominant family of this Upper Hessian region was that of von Ziegenhain, and about 1205 Ulrich I, son of Cuno I, married Adelhaid, daughter of Graf Rudolf I von Ziegen- hain and widow of Burkhart von Schwarzfelt, and left issue. Isengard, their eldest daughter, born c. 1205, about 1225 married Graf Philip IV von Bolanden and I von Falkenstein. Thus, these families were intermarried. The ancient counts of Nuring (including Einrich) descended from Count Berthold (Bardo), born c 898, of Wetterau, who may have married a daughter of Count Adelbert of Babenberg. Berthold was a son of Burkhart I (c. 870 - 908), count of Worms 897 - 906 and later duke of Thuringia. He was slain in warfare with the Hungarians. His wife, the mother of Berthold, was a daughter of Markgraf Berthold of Bavaria (Nordgau). Burkhart I descended through counts Walaho and Adalard from Eberhard ( c. 793 - 870), marquis of Friuli, Italy, and his wife Gisela (born 797), daughter of Emperor Louis I (the pious), son of Charlamagne.
References: Die hochste Zierd Teutschlandes und Vortrefflichkeit des Teutshen Adels ( Frankfurt a.M., 1777), by Johann Maximilian Humbracht; Nassauisches Urkunden, I, 108, year 1130, and other items; History of Nassau, by J.W.T. Schliephake; Archiv fur Hessisches Geschichte; Hessisohen Urkunden, by Ludwig Bauer; Urkundenbuch der Abtei Arnsberg, by Ludwig Bauer; Hessischer Chronik; and others; also encyolopedias.
In the 12th century, the fief of Weisel belonged to the counts of Ziegenhain. The meaning of the name is uncertain. One suggestion is that of "queen-bee", but other opinions point to the adjective "white" as applied to something, perhaps a stream or some other conspicuous aspect of itís site. Diligent search and analysis of genealogical charts and data pertaining to the Munzenberg, Ziegenhain, and related families

clearly indicated that the first holder of this fief, one Rucker (Rudiger) von Weisel, born c. 1182, Nassauisches Urkenden, II, 592, was not a member of any of those families but must have been a nobleman of another family in the region, as the forenamed Rudiger did not occur in them. However, this name was found at that time in the nearby comital family on the north, the ancient Counts of Bielstein (later Bilstein) of easterly Kurhessen, whose name means 'hatchet-stone'.
According to Ernest H. Kneschke in his Neuse allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Laxikon, (1859), I, 421 - 422, the original castle of this Bilstein family stood on a high hill in a valley in the Vogalsberg Mountains in Kurhessen, near the Werra River, Which over- looked a large region. They are said to have been a powerful comital family, whose ancestor was Eberhard (c. 793 - 870), marquis of Friule, who married Gisola, daughter of Emperor Louis I (the Pious), who had been very generous to the churches at Fulda and Wurzberg. They also held estates in westerly Thuringia. A Count Wigger (Wichart) was first mentioned in 966. He had a brother named Count Sigo (Siegfried). Count Rucker IV, who held property in Thuringia and died in 1095, was among the followers of King Heinrich IV. He had a brother named Eberhard. His son Rucker V is named as Graf von Bilstein until 1148. apparently, several brothers in different families have been called counts simultaneously; perhaps that was the medieval custom, more or less. The family also held properties in Westphalia and a village named Bilstein lies toward Arnsberg. An early Count Rudiger (Rucker) is supposed to have married a Countess von Padburg.
Count Rucker V had sons named Giso (evidently an abbreviated name) and Eberhard. The former gave funds in 1153 to the monastery of Fulda for the restoration of an estate at Unterriede, near Bilstein, and the latter is mentioned as a witness in a document executed in 1158 at the monastery of Biedhausen in Henneberg territory. Gisoís son Wigger (Wichart) is named in documents of 1182, 1189, 1200, and 1205. Another son named Wittekind is mentioned in 1200 and in 1218 was a follower of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz at Fitzlar; he may have been slain in warfare. Kneschke, ibid. Herr Hans Joachim von Breckhusen, of marburg on the Lahn, reported that others named Erpo (Eber- hard) II, Wittekind II, Otto I, and Burkhard I bore the title of Grafen von Bilstein from about 1200 to about 1268. Kneshke indicated the Bilstein as having been a mighty family, whose name in senior lines is said to have become extinct about 1593. Stamnbuch des Adels in Deutschland (Regensburg, 1860).
Count Gisoís son Count Wigger (Wickhart), for reasons later indicated, was the father of a younger son, the first mentioned Rucker (Rudiger) von Weisel, born c. 1182, whose was the ancestor of our Weisel family and the first to bear this surname. He married Bertha, daughter of neighboring Count Rudolf II and Mechtild (von Nidda) von Ziegenhain, southwestward across the Fulda River, and promptly was granted the manor of Weisel held by the Ziegenhain family, whereupon he assumed that place-name, and became a vassal of his wifeís family shortly in the person of Rudolfís son, Count Ludwig I von Ziegenhain. Nassau. Urkundenbuch, II, 592, year 1282. The latter was related to the Munzenberg family in some manner.
In addition to the works cited above, at least a dozen other publications on the history and genealogy of the counts of Bilstein have been reported, some without author stated and others by Steimen, Lenz, Landau, Bruchmann, Wenek, Seibert, Posse, and Killmer. Humbracht also reports the Weisel (Hochweisel, Hohenweisel) family, and the Munzenberg and Ziegenhain families likewise are well reported. The above Rudolf II von Ziegenhain (who died in 1189) was a son of Gottfried I (mentioned 1141 - 1158), graf von Wagebach and Ziegenhain and domvogt of Fulda and brother of Graf Gosmar III von Ziegenhain (died 1184). The first two Hohenwwisel generations by Humbraht are unreliable; the first acceptable is the third, forename Herman, edelknecht of 1331.
In those troublous times, it was necessary for every lord to possess a strong castle perched on a high and well protected site as a fortress and refuge for himself and his family and his local employees and serfs in case of necessity. Accordingly, since the village of Weisel lay on a plain, Rucker von Weisel soon erected a castle on a nearby peak, known as Hausberg, and his seat became designed as Hefweisel; but later, in order to distinguish it more clearly from Weisel, it was called Hochweisel and that became the family surname (although one line later spelled it as Hoheweisel). It is 2.5 miles west of Niederweisle, 1594 feet high, commands a view of the lands on the east, and both sides of Hausberg are washed by tributaries of the Wetter River.
It may not be presumed that the town of Weisel ever was without a master of some status prior to the time that it was assigned to Rucker von Bilstein about 1204. For example, in a document attested in the court of the Pfalzgraf in 1073 a certain Herr Volmar de Wizela concluded an agreement with one Adelbert for landed estates situated at hausen and Fischbach, which he had acquired by purchase from the latterís demised sister. Nassau Documentary Record Book 1, 71. Volmarís antecedents cannot even be imagined nor is the ownership of the town at that time indicated in the records reported, as the forename Volmar has not been seen elsewhere. Humbracht shows a Johann von Hohenweisel in 1192 as the first name in the Weisel chart and the second as Arnold von Wisela in 1254. The former has not been found anywhere and is not acceptable because the castle has not been erected on Hausberg until a half century later and then was called hofweisel for another generation.
The known children of Rucker (Rudiger) and Bertha (von Ziegenhain) von Weisel are named below. His status was that of freiherr, baron, or dominus.
Anselmus (born c. 1205), named with his father Rukerus de Wissele in Urkunden- buch des Klosters Arnsberg in der Wetterau, by Ludwig Bauer, 1851, page 23, document 35, year 1243. This document was executed by Graf Ulrich II von Munzenberg. He also is mentioned in a document of 1250 in which Philip von Falkenstein was a party. He married Mechtild, but is reported as childless in 1250. see also Hessische Urkunden, by Baure, I, 75, doc. 103, year c. 1252. Rudolf von Hofweisel, born c. 1209; of whom below. Arnold, born c. 1213 named as a soldier; ibid.; no further data. Gise, born c. 1215, named for Bilstein ancestor; also a soldier; ibid.; do. Ortwin, born c. 1219; document ibid., page 37, number 53, year 1248 mentions ëGisone de Hegeren and Ortwino, filio Rukeri de Wiselaí. Both documents were executed by Ulrich Jr. von Munzenberg. In Nassauisches Urkunden, II, no. 913, a document by Rudolf von Hochewisel and wife Methildis refers to our brother Ordwin of Hegen as a witness. It was attested by henry, abbot of Hegen, of the church and university at Franchenford (Frankfurt), from which it may be inferred that he was a monk. Done in year 1276.
RUDOLF von Hofweisel, dominus, born c. 1209, mentioned in documents of 1251 and 1252 as a surety for Ritter Eberwin Kranich von Kransberg. Ibid., I, 354. Identifiable children:(Rudolf apparently died in 1277-78.)
Rudolf II, born c. 1234; of whom below. Hartmud, born c 1238; canon at St. Peterís in Mainz; named in 1278 with "die erben Rudolfs von Hochweisel", which is in plural form, indicating several heirs. Ibid., II, page 561, doc 93. Kune, born c. 1242; canon at St. Peterís, Mainz, 1278, pastor at Ursel, 1295.
RUDOLF II, born c. 1234, dominus of Hefweisel but soon called Hochweizel. He married mechtild, sister of Marquard Scholm von Bommersheim, who in 1276 referred to Rudlof as his brother-in-law. Nassau Documentary Records, II, page 541, doc. 913, at Bergen, 1276, in which estates were exchanged. He also is named in other docu- ments of 1281 and 1282, in the latter year as unterlehnsman (vassal) of Graf Ludwig II von Ziegenhain and as advocate at Heidersheim. Nassau Urkunden, II, 592. Identifiable children: Herman von Hochweisel, born c. 1256; of whom below. Lysa (elizabeth); born c. 1258; no further data; ) Alheidis, born c. 1260; no further data; )Named in Hessische Mige (Margaret?); born c. 1262; no further data)Urkunden, I, page 339 Rudolf, born c. 1266; at home; no further data.*)doc. 490, April 4, 1318. Nikolaus, born c. 1270, of whom below. (* He married Elizabeth _____.)
(Note - The reference ëNassau Documentary Records above in English, may be synonymous with that of Nassauisches Urkunden, also cited here.)
HERMAN I von Hochweisel, born c. 1256, named as edelknecht (knight) in 1331, contineued the senior line with this place-name. He married Hedwig____ and died in 1335, when his wife was named as a widow. Nassau. Urkundenbuch, page 161, doc. 130 and 1960. Known children:
Anselm, born c. 1286; of whom below. Eva, born c. 1295; married Heinrich von Bellersheim in 1320. Humbracht.
ANSELM I von Hochweisel, called ëder Alteí, born c. 1286, died about 1360; reported by both Humbracht and Die Hochate Zierdo Teutschlands....... table 282, and verified by the following data. Known children, but they may have been others. See Staatsarchiv darmstadt, abt. Urkunden Oberhessen, Schiffenberg, March 30, 1372. Anselm II, born c. 1312; of whom below.
ANSELM II von Hochweisel, born c. 1312, called ëder Jungí in 1359. Married Konne _____. Amtmann (magistrate) at Butzbach through 1364. Hessisches Urkunden, 1, pages 656-7, doc. 984; document with seal (apparently first record of the family armorial insigne) of August 5, 1366, page 672, no. 1010; and again of February 6 1372, page 697, no 1053. This is the insigne described later here. In 1364, he is referred to as ëedelknechtí, and in 1372 as ëjunkerí (nobleman). Known children: Herman, born c. 1335, of whom below. Johannes, born c. 1340; married Agnes, daughter of Adlolf Riedesel von Bellersheim; issue. (See Humbracht; some of his connections are uncertain)
HERMAN II von Hochweisel, born c. 1335; no further data than reported in J.H. Humbracht, Die hochste Zierde Teutschen Landes.... In Hessische Urkunden, 1, pages 238-9, doc. 241, on November 30, 1481, he is called ëder Junghe Obersteí (young colonel); on page 477, doc. 693, year 1382, he is called ëHerrí; and on pages 768-9, doc 1154, on December 1, 1384, he is called "Herr Herman...Ritter."
This, the senior, line is said by Humbracht to have become extinct with the death in 1559 of Marquard von Hoheweisel (a form of spelling used in the later centuries), burgmann (castle guard) at Friedberg, who had married Catherina von Walderdorf. For Ruker von Wizele (Bilstein name) and Heinrich Wyzelere, see Urkundenbuch der Klosters Arnburg, p. 474, doc 762, year 1350, and 481, 1351.
Now, we shall continue with our own lineage, that from the aforesaid Nikolaus:
NIKOLAUS von Hochweisel, born c. 1270; as a younger man, he adopted the form ëvon Weiselí and became a citizen of Friedberg in 1308. Shown as of 1314 in Hessische Urkunden, 1, page 889, doc. 1317. Reported in Stamntafel des Gesch- lechts von Hochweisel as ratsherr (councilman) through 1312-1316, schultheiss (mayor) through 1323, schoffe (assistant judge) through 1332, and as a house- owner in 1343. the name of his wife is not known, but there are indications that she may have been a daughter of Dominus Werner I (von Bolanden) von Munzen- berg (c. 1240-c.1300), whose wife was Mechtild, daughter of Graf Gerhard III and Agnes von Dietz, of Nassau. The evidence, in fact, is quite persuasive. Werner had an elder brother Philip and both of these forenames were carried down this Weisel family at Friedberg. Following custom, they later dropped the ëvoní. About Nikolaus, see Urkundenbuch des Klosters Arnsburg, by Bauer, page 280, doc. 409. Numerous data pertaing to this von Weisel (and later simply Weisel) family of Friedberg are reported in such publications as Friedberger Urkundenbuch, by M. Foltz, Geschichte von Friedberg, by Philip Dieffenbach, Frankfurter urkundenbuch, by Boehmer-Lau, and others, including the Hessische Chronik, pages 23ff. One assertion by a German correspondent that this Weisel family did not descend from the von Weisel family in the same town cannot be taken seriously. It indicates a lack of imagination as to how younger sons of younger lines went to the towns and engaged in business and became the patricians famlies there. Ample proof of this procedure is profuse, even in various lines of descent in this genealogy. In Jacob Grimmís Weisthumer. III, pages 439 - 447, appears an item headed Bingenheimer Mark 1554 (1416) in which the name of Niklas Weissel is shown as schultheiss (mayor) of Nieder-Mockstadt, situated in southern Oberhessen, Kreis Budinton, just east of Friedberg. This fact demonstrates the continuance in the Weisel family of the forename Nikolaus, shown above, proving direct descent from Nikolaus von Hochweisel (born c. 1270) through the form von Weisel to the simpler Weisel form. This is a common mode of descent in the social scale to simple patrician statue as guild leaders and officers in the growing towns over Europe. Nicholas von weisel had a son named Werner, who also was a city officer at Friedberg after his father. He must have been born around 1295 and served the city through the middle of the 14th century as councilman and in other capacities. The genealogy through the next two centuries apparently has not been compiled, according to an article by attorney Dr. alexander Dietz, a descendant of Frankfurt a. M., to which city some members went. This article is entitled Die Friedberger Patrizierfamilie Weisel and appeared in the Hessische Chronikís Monatschrift fur Familien- und Ortsgeschichte in Hessen und Hessen-Nassau, VIII, January and February, 1919. Publisher: Verlag von Professor D. Dr. Wilhelm Diehl, in Friedberg, pages 23 - 28.
In 1328 a deceased Thilo Wyselin, former attache of the Frankfurter Liebfrauen- stift is reported. Through 1367 a Henne Wysele of Friedberg gained citizenship at Frankfort. In 1368 a Heinrich Wyssel was a taxpayer in Friedberg. In 1409 a Barbara Wisselin of Friedberg was admonished by officers of King Ruprecht to pay 100 florins forth local tax on the patricians. Paul Weisel, Sr., was burgermeister of Friedberg through 1436 - 1441 and his sone Paul, Jr., "the jungerer", occupied that office through 1444 - 1453 at least. The compiled genealogy actually begins with Gerhard Weisel, Sr., born about 1475, who was burgermeister at Friedberg through 1540. He was succeeded by his son Gerhard Weisel, Jr., born about 1510, who served as burgermeister there through at least 1550 - 1565 and who died in 1567.
The following is a translation of a paragraph in the above article by Dr. Dietz:
In the 16th century, Gerhard Weisel, Jr., as burgermeister, rose to high honors by his intorduction of the Reformation in his home town. In 1560 he entered into a treaty with the Kurmainzische monastery Ruprechtsberg, near Bingen, under the terms of which it was to forfeit, for a yearly fee of 40 gulden, its patronage rights to the Friedberger town church and to accord it to the town. In this chruch there is an honorary enrollment of Hospitalmaster Konrad Weisel and his gifts from the Year 1635, when he died.
Dr Dietz continues that various descendants scattered from Friedberg and settled and became mayors, treasurers, and councilmen at other towns in Hanau, Munzenberg, Solms, and Kurpfalz (a part of the Palatinato) territories or became military officers. For example, Gerhard, Jr,ís son Adam Weisel (c. 1545 - 1618) and the latterís second son Gerhard (1584 - 1673) and their descendants served fully 100 years in such offices as mayor and treasurer at the nearby town of Dorheim, an amt (community) in Hanau. The earliest official families of Hessen and Rhineland are accounted their relatives.
Dr Deitz apparently descended from Dr. Jur. Johannes Weisel, baptized February 24, 1685, at Friedberg, who married Cassandra, daughter of Dr. Elias von Offenbach, on July 4, 1615. He was highly educated and in 1621 was awarded citizenship status at Frankfurt.a.M. His genealogy has been compiled and published by Dr. Dietz; but here we are more interested in our ancestral line, which descended from the foregoing Adam and Gerhard. Incidentally, the high origin and status of this Weisel family is indicated the marriage of this Dr. Weisel with a lady ëvon Offenbachí.
This linage continues from the aforesaid Adam Weisel, born about 1545 and died April 26, 1618, the third son (after Konrad, hospitalmaster named before, and Johannes), as shown in the Hessischo Chronik in the before mentioned article by Dr. Alexander Dietz. He married in 1581 Ursula, daughter of Johannes Fild (Phildius, Fuld), pastor of the Evengelical church and principal arch-presbyter at Friedberg. Later he was appointed by the Count of Kanau-Minzenberg to be the first chief mayor and keeper of the wine cellar of the newly created community of Dorheim, near Friedberg.Children:
Andreas, born c. 1582; in secondary school at Marburg in 1598; married October 4, 1606, Margareta, daughter of Mayor Johan Weitz, of Bergen. He was a property holder. He died in December, 1657. Issue. Gerhard, born December or early January, 1584; married Elizabeth ____ (who died 1646); succeeded his father; further data below. Johannes, born February, 1586, at Friedberg; in secondary school at Marburg in 1601; married Cassandra von Offenbach, as already stated; issue. Johannes II, born June, 1589, at Friedberg; married February 23, 1618, Justina Widmann, daughter of town councilman Balthasar Wiemann, and again on July 2, 1632, Anna Margareta Weitz, daughter of Johannes Weitz, hotel-keeper. Issue (indicated as of second wife only.) Margareta, born October, 1591 at Fridberg; married Dr. Jur. Philip Bott of Dorheim, chancery director and town mayor at Noustadt, Hanau.
Cassandra, born October, 1593 at Friedberg; married the chief mayor of Rodheim, Wurtemberg. No further data. Ursula, born May, 1595, at Friedberg; married (1) Dr. Theol. Johann Fild (Phildius) and again in 1642 Dr. Jur. Anton Glock, lawyer and town council attorney at Frankfurt a.M. No further data.
GERHARD WEISEL, born December or January, baptized January 28, 1584; died August 27, 1673, in his 90th year; evidently married late, c. 1617, Elizabeth___?, who died September 8, 1646. He succeeded his father in 1618 as chief mayor and "keller" (rentmeister - treasurer) at dorheim. Children:
Elizabeth Maria, born baptized April 13, 1620, died 1698; married April 21, 1646, Nicolas Reuss at Friedberg, who died in 1655. No further data. Johann Conrad, bapt. April 18, 1622, died 1635. Johann Adam, bap. April 18, 1624, died Sept. 7, 1652; married October 16, 1649, Eva Catherine Appel; daughter Anna Maria, bapt. July 25, 1650, married November 27, 1677, Georg Eckard, and daughter Louise Ursula, bapt. November 24, 1651, no further data. Elizabeth, bapt. August 24, 1629; married (1) Rent collector of Friedburg Castle Anton Marolf and (2) Adam Heiderich, burgermaster at Friedberg. Maria Margareta, born c. 1630, married November 9, 1652, Georg Gustav Knorr (von Rosenroth), mayor at Lich, who died June in 1709. Elizabeth Ursula, bapt. April 3, 1634, died June 2, 1712; married May 4, 1652, Melchoir Christian Bonhauser, quartermaster, Hessen-Darmstadt Regiment, who died May 25, 1692. Johann Jacob, bapt. December 31, 1639, at Friedberg; student at Herborn high school 1658, Marburg 1661, and Giessen 1662; of whom below. Anna Catharina, bapt. May 10, 1642; no further data; probably died soon. Anna Catharine II, bapt. January 2, 1644; married March 3, 1670, Nicolaus Bechstadt; no further data. Anna Elizabether, bapt. September 2, 1646, died September 12, 1646.
JOHANN JACOB WEISEL, born and educated at Marburg and Giessen Univís. Apparently as an educator, he went to Assmannshausen on the Rhine, in Nassau, where relatives already lived. After marriage, he must have settled at a hamlet named for him in Rheinland province, across the Rhine, about 9 kilometers southwest of Bad Kreuznach, c. 1665. No record yet has been found of the names of his wife and children, but the evidence indicates that the son next in this lineage was named Georg Michael. Worthy of the note is the fact that approximately 30 different men named Weisel attended institutions of higher learning at Marburg (the first Protestant university), Herborn, Giessen, and Strassburg (Alsaco) during the years from 1550 to 1784, apparently all of this stock. Next Generation here:
GEORG MICHAEL WEISEL (forename subject to verification) was born about 1667 in the aboved region. He apparently married a daughter of Friedrich _____? in the area c. 1690 and soon settled at a site in the Palatinate about 25 kilometers northwest of Kaiserslautern, where another hamlet was named for the family. At this time, the elector-palatine Count Philip William of Neuberg extended equal rights to both protestants and Roman Catholics, but under his sone and successor, elector John William, the Protestants were deprived of various civil rights; whereupon this Weisel family moved southward through the Zweibrucken region to and settled in the vicinity of Gersdorf, in northern Alsace.

George Michael Weisel, born in the region of Worth, northern Alsace (a Huguenet), about 1693, married Susanna Kufer (Kiefer, Keefer), believed to have descended from a Paris (France) Huguenot family named Tonnelier (having same meaning - cooper), of which a member fled from persecution to Zweibrucken, in the Palatinate. This couple and their children named below came to Philadelphia on the ship John and William on October 17 (now 28), 1732, took the Oath of Allegiance to William Penn's province, and settled in Bedminster township, Bucks County, Pa., where they developed a 281 acre plantation of 2 tracts of land surveyed for them on February 18, 1743, and became public spirited citizens. Michael also was a weaver. They were among the organizers of Tohicken Union Church. Michael died in July, 1770; the date of decease of his wife is not known. Children:
Fredrick, born c. 1716; married; issue. Michael, born c 1720; (my line) (married Magalena Drach). Apollonia, born c. 1722; married George Anthony Heintz; issue. Jacob born c. 1724; of whom below. Barbara, born c. 1726; married Frederick Salade (later Solliday); issue. Christina, born c 1728; married George Windanger; issue. George, born c. 1730; married Mary Weierbach; issue.
Jacob Weisel, born c 1724, died April 27, 1797; married Anna Margaret Beyer. Ensign in Capt. David Mellengerís Company, Bucks County Militia, and later 1st Lieutenant in 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Col. John Kellerís Regiment, Bucks County militia, in the Revolution. Ref Penn. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 5. Jacob acquired the plantation of his parents, later conveying a portion to his brother Michael, the youngest brother George settling in Richland township. Children:
Frederick, born January, 1751; served in Revolution. Jacob, born Aug. 5, 1753; died unmarried at Williamsport, Md. Anna Catherine, born March 18, 1756; died August 18, 1758. John, born July 6, 1758; married Margaret Schneider Sept. 29, 1796; issue. George, born January 29, 1761; married Elizabether Hoenig Jan. 18, 1788; issue. Henry, born 1753; no further data. Daniel; of whom below Maria Elizabeth, born August 1, 1769; married....______?
Daniel Weisel, born April 10, 1765, died May 19, 1825. Went with his brother Jacob to Williamsport, western Maryland, where they settled. There Daniel married Margaret, daughter of Henry and Eve Startzman, and established a general merchandise store. In his home, said to have been among the earliest built on the Potomac River, they are said to have entertained General Washington. His wife was born Sept. 16, 1773, and died July 28, 1817. Left Prominent descendants. Children:
Jacob, born May 2, 1791, Md. Catherine Ruebush c 1816 in Rockingham Co., Va. Elizabeth, born Nov. 17, 1792, Md. Daniel Cyester; no issue. Williamsport. George; of whom below. Sarah, born c 1797; married Skipwith Wilson; issue. Williamsport. Mary, born c 1799; unmarried, died April 4, 1846, at Williamsport. Daniel, Jr., born Jan 25, 1803, died Sept. 25, 1880, at Hagerstown, Md.; married Matilda Davis, niece of General Otho Holland Williams; no issue. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1824 and afterward read law. Judge of Washington County court 1847 - 1852 and 1861 - 1864; judge of Md. Court of Appeals 1864 - 1867. Assisted in founding Hagerstown Lyceum and Hagerstown.
Female Seminary. Founder of Williamsport Bank and its president many years. Margaret, born Oct. 11, 1807, died Mar. 8, 1870; Md. Jacob Rhode, Jr.; issue. Samuel, born May 16, 1810, died Jan. 26, 1872; Md. Susan M. Turner; issue. He studied medicine and was an eminent surgeon; served as such in the Union Army during the Civil War. Susanna, born Oct 11, 1813, died Jan 23, 1907; Md. Adam Shoop; issue. George Weisel, born Januare 29, 1795, and as shown in Waylandís Virginia Valley Records, page 39, was married by Rev. John Brown about 1816 in Rockingham County, Va., to an orphan named Susan Detweiler (mispelled Tudwiler), also of Bucks County, Pa., origin. For some unknown reason, they moved back norhtward via Md. to the vicinity of Belvedere and Conemaugh, Cambria County, Pa., where they reared their family.
2. Bill Diehl <WAD52@icdc.com>.
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From the book: Place Names in Bucks Countyby: George Mac ReynoldsCopyright : 1942. Published by the Bucks County Historical Society
WEISEL--Village in northeastern East Rockhill Township, near the township line between East Rockhill and Bedminster, on Bethlehem Road (Route 656). It has been a post office for the past thirty years. Before that it wasknown as Church Hill from the time of the establishment of Tohickon Church near by, across the township line in Bedminster, about 1744. It was named Weisel for the Colonial family of that name. George Michael Weisel, a descendant of a noble mediaeval family of Upper Hesse, with his wife Susanna (Kiefer) and seven children, emigrated from northern Alsace to Philadelphia on the ship John and William, which arrived on October 17, 1732. In 1743 he received from Thomas and John Penn a grant of 281 acres of land in Bedminster Township, bordering on East Rockhill. Three sons, Michael, Jacob and George, served in the Bucks County militia in the Revolutionary War.
Bill Diehl
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3. "Cathy Williamson" <catjo1949@aol.com>.
4. TMyers17@aol.com.
Migrated on the ship "Pink, John and William" on 8/17/1732
5. http://www.concentric.net/~Mcclaran/fulbright.htm.
From: "Jim Gallman" <jgallma1@tuelectric.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:32:16 -0500
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from url: http://www.concentric.net/~Mcclaran/fulbright.htm

Johann Wilhelm Vollbrecht/ John William Fulbright, c.1720-1808, married
Christina Schuck (6 Feb. 1716-Mar. 1808), in about 1744-45. Born in
Germany, she was the daughter of Johannes Georg Schuck (1694-29 Dec. 1767),
whose family were close neighbors of the Vollbrecht family in Williams
Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The Shucks had come to
Philadelphia on the ship "Pink John and William" on 17 Oct. 1732. (See
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers" by Strassburger and Hinke.) Old John
Schuck's will, dated 4 July 1763 and probated in Dec. 1767, said in part;
"my children, namely George, Dorothea, the widow of Jacob Yount deceased,
Christina, the wife of William "Fullbrecht of the township of Williams . .
. and the said Maria Catherina . . ."

The family moved, apparently as a group, probably accompanied by others
from the same area, undoubtedly by means of wagons they had constructed
themselves and drawn by oxen, to North Carolina. There they settled on the
north side of the Catawba River in what was then Lincoln, and is now
Catawba County.

Their children were baptized with the name of Vollbrecht in every such
record found, but all later used the name of Fulbright. The German name was
generally used in Pennsylvania and the English version later in North
Carolina, however, in some estate papers dated as late as 1815 use is still
made of the old German spelling.

The children of the couple were: 1) Johann Georg Vollbrecht, 1746-c.1781
who remained in the immediate area; 2) Jacob Vollbrecht, 1747-1835, who
married Elizabeth Weisel and moved to western North Carolina; 3) Mary
Vollbrecht, c.1751-____, who married John Link and they are believed to
have moved to Missouri prior to her death; 4) Anna Catherina Vollbrecht,
1752-1811, who married Johannes Bollinger and moved to Missouri; 5)
Margaret Vollbrecht, 1753-1816, who married Peter Crites and lived in
Missouri; 6) Anna Elizabeth Vollbrecht, 1754-1802, who married a Killian;
7) Dorothea Vollbrecht, c.1755-1833, who married Elias Moyers and moved to
Indiana, probably in about 1816, and both were buried there; 8) Christina
Vollbrecht, c.1756-____, who married Benjamin Taylor and moved to Missouri;
and 9) John William Vollbrecht, 1757-1820, who married Elizabeth (nee
Coulter ??) and moved to Missouri.
6. Davis, HISTORY OF Bucks Co, Pa, 1975, 730,731.
7. "bob stewart" <bgs2@flash.net>.
From: "bob stewart" <bgs2@flash.net>
To: "jim gallman" <jgallman@ticnet.com>
Subject: Re: Ezekiel DANIEL SC/GA/MS Cont'd
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:02:11 -0500

Jim: That is William B. Gallman 1824-1870, son of Jesse, grand son of John Conrad. He was an evangelist and is buried at the Damascus Baptist Church mentioned in the note. Bob

8. Sally Ann Kile Sytko SAKSRN@aol.com.
9. Tom Myers
10. Tom Myers
11. Tom Myers
12. Tom Myers
13. Tom Myers
14. Tom Myers
15. Tom Myers
16. Tom Myers
17. Tom Myers
18. Tombstone Deep Run West Cemetary Bdeminster, PA
19. Tombstone Deep Run West Cemetary Bdeminster, PA
20. Tom Myers
21. Funeral Home Card Treffinger Funeral Home
22. "Lewis Kile death certificate." Funeral Home Card Treffinger Funeral Home.
23. Tombstone Deep Run West Cemetary Bedminster, PA
24. Tombstone Deep Run West Cemetary Bedminster , PA
25. 1900 Census
26. 1900 Census
27. Tombstone Deep Run West Cemetary Bdeminster, PA
Registrar's office, Doylestown, PA
28. marriage application
29. 1900 Census
Social Security CD
30. Social Security CD
31. 1900 Census
32. Lamar Kile
Tombstone Keller's Church Bedminster, PA
33. Lamar Kile
Tombstone Keller's Church Bedminster, PA
34. Lamar Kile
35. Lamar Kile
36. Lamar Kile
37. Lamar Kile
38. Funeral Home Card Nuagle Funeral Home Quakertown, PA
39. Funeral Home Card Nuagle Funeral Home Quakertown, PA
40. Funeral Home Card Nuagle Funeral Home Quakertown, PA
41. Funeral Home Card Nuagle Funeral Home Quakertown, PA
42. "Samuel Kile birth certificate." Anna Betz Kile.
43. "Samuel Kile death certificate." Anna Betz Kile.
44. Norman Kile
45. Mildred Kile Landenberger
46. Sevilla's death papers
47. Lamar Kile
48. Lamar Kile
49. Lamar Kile
50. Lamar Kile
51. Social Security CD
52. Lamar Kile
53. Lamar Kile
54. Lamar Kile
55. Lamar Kile
56. Lamar Kile
57. Lamar Kile
58. Lamar Kile
59. Lamar Kile
60. Tombstone Keller's Church Bedminster, PA
61. Emmaelaine Kile
62. Anna Betz Kile
63. Anna Betz Kile
64. Norman Kile
65. Norman Kile
66. Norman Kile
67. Mildred Kile Landenberger
68. Mildred Kile Landenberger
69. Lamar Kile
70. Lamar Kile
71. Lamar Kile
72. Lamar Kile
73. Lamar Kile
74. Emmaelaine Kile
75. Emmaelaine Kile
76. Carol Schuetz
77. Sally Wiszneski Kile
78. Sally Wiszneski Kile
79. Sally Wiszneski Kile
80. "Richard Reed" <rdreed@wichita.infi.net>.
81. Anna Betz Kile
82. Mildred Kile Landenberger
83. Mildred Kile Landenberger
84. Lamar Kile
85. Lamar Kile
86. Lamar Kile
87. Lamar Kile
88. Carol Schuetz
89. "Family Tree Maker," 14, Broderbund.
90. "Family Tree Maker," 5, #1857, Broderbund.

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