Maria Margarethe (Weber) Herr

1663 - 1725  (62 years)

• Name	Maria Margarethe (Weber) Herr
  Birth	1663	Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
  Gender	Female
  Death	1 Dec 1725	Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Weaverland Mennonite Cemetery, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I17969	Tulpehocken Genealogy | Hackman
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Rev Hans Herr,   b. 17 Sep 1639, Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland d. 11 Oct 1725, Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Mylin Kendig,   b. 1 May 1639, Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland d. 9 Jun 1730, Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1664
  Family ID	F6203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hans Johann Anton Weber,   b. 10 Jan 1658, Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland d. 17 Dec 1724, Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1680	Bäretswil, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
  Children	+ 1. Maria Herr Weber,   b. 1695, Switzerland d. 1787, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F6202	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Maria is the daughter of the Rev. Hans Herr and Elizabeth Mylin (Kendig) Herr of Switzerland. She married her husband Johann on 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 Co., PA. 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46921878/maria-margarethe-weber.