The Batdorf Family History


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Martin Batdorf was born about 1699 in Palatinate Germany. He came with his mother and sister to America about 1710. He married Maria Elizabeth Walborn, living in New York for a while before settling in Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania. Information on his descendants is the subject of this material. The majority of these descendants have remained in Pennsylvania and the surrounding area.




Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986


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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.




A German-American Hacker-Hocker Genealogy


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Cristoph Hacker was born in Germany in 1697. He married Anna Margaretha Jock in 1723. They emigrated to America where they settled in Pennsylvania.







The Blake-Ambrose Family History


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Simon S. Blake was born in Martinsburg, Bedford (later Blair) Co., Pennsylvania, 29 October 1829, the son of Burdine Blake (1800-1874) and Mazey Ann Simpkins (1794-1867). He married Mary Magdalena Ambrose (1836-1909), the daughter of John Walker Ambrose (1798- 1880) and Salome Kanable (1804-1882), 18 January 1855, in Orion, Wisconsin. They had ten children, two died in infancy. He served in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry for three years during the Civil War. He died 5 March 1904 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Descendants are scattered throughout the United States.







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Descendants of Peter and Sophia (Lauer) Ruth


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Johann "Peter" Ruth was born ca. 1700 at Steinberg, Germany, the son of Johann Melchior and Maria Catharina Trein Ruth. Anna "Sophia" Lauer was born in 1703 at Hierstein, Germany, the daughter was Hans "Claus" and Maria "Margaretha" Wentz Lauer. Peter Ruth and Sophia Lauer were married in 1724 at Wolfersweiler, Germany. They had four sons, the first three born 1724-1728 at Walhausen, Germany. The family immigrated to America in 1733 and probably settled first in the Myerstown or Stouchsburg area of Berks County, Pennsylvania. After Sophia's death, he married 2) Catharin Mayer Meyer. They had ten children. He died in 1771 in Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants of his oldest three sons lived in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and elsewhere.




Descendants of Hans Lauer Lower


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After more than 15 years of research, this family can now trace their origins back to about 1600 in Germany. The immigrants arrived in 1737. Each family paragraph includes the following information when known: generation number, child number, name of descendant, dates, name of spouse, parents of spouse, residence, burial, children, and biographical notations. Some of the major surnames in the every-name index include: Batdorf, Butdorf, Dieffenbach, Fisher, Holstein, Irick, Kaser, Knoop, Lauer, Lower, Miller, Smith, Snyder, Spangler, and others. There is a wealth of information in this massive genealogy!