A Genealogy of the Kreiser Family


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Frederick Kreiser was born in 174? in Switzerland. He is believed to have had twenty children. Traces the descendants of two of his sons, Casper (1767-1854) and Frederick (1774-1849). They emigrated in about 1770 and settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.







Genealogy of the Parthemore Family. 1744-1885


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John Frederick Parthemore immigrated to America in 1744 and settled in Pennsylvania.







Genealogy of the Kemble (Kimble) Family in America


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Descendants of Thomas Kemble of Berkshire, England (1616?-1680), Anne Page (1623-1665), and Hannah Chaffen Aplin (d. 1697). Hannah and her children Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin and Edward emigrated from Devonshire to Burlington County, New Jersey in 1681. In 1683 she married Benjamin Scott (d. 1685). Includes other Kemble families whose ancestors are unknown. Descendants have settled throughout the United States.




The Genealogy of the Matthias Frantz Family of Berks County, Pennsylvania


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Michael Frantz Sr., Balser Frantz, and Christian Frantz Sr. arrived in Pennsylvania from Switzerland in 1727 and 1732. Matthias Frantz, son of Christian III and Anna, was born August 2, 1769 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. About 1790, Matthias married Elizabeth Boeshore.




The Heilman Family Genealogy


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The Heilman families of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. John Peter Heilman (1712-1777) was born in or near Heilbronn in the Province of Württemburg. He died in Lebanon Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. He was the first Heilman to arrive in America. He came in 1732 landing at Philadelphia, Pa. He married in 1739 Salome Fry (b. ca. 1719), daughter of Andreas Fry (or Frey) and Catharina Barbara Ritter. They had thirteen children all born in Lebanon Twp. John Adam (Hans Adam) Heilman (1715-1770) was born in Zuzenhausen, in the Province of Baden, the eldest son of John Jacob and Maria Katharina Heilman. He married Maria Catharina Stager (1709-1787), daughter of John Barnhard Stager. John Adam came to America in 1738. Both died in Lebanon Twp., Lancaster Co. (now Lebanon Co.), Pa. William B. Heilman (1840-1901) was born in East Hanover Twp., Lebanon co., Pa., and died at Annville, Lebanon Co., Pa. He married 1861 at Annville, Pa. Elizabeth Leslie (1843-1905).