There is surely not much I can add
here in these notes for this family name. There is so much already
written. Volumes on this family have been published, there
is a Weiser Family Association, and Henry Z. Jones has accomplised
so much with his writing on the Palatines of New York.
Yet, personally, I do have some material to add, because of my
own ancestral link which took place in 1712 at Kingston, Dutchess
County, New York when Anna Magdalena Weiser married Johann
Valentin Frolig.
This marriage established many other Palatine ancestors for
me (about 8 new ones as of Dec '97) and is very interesting, indeed.
With the help of another Weiser descendant, who is in possession
of the Weiser volumes I found the Weiser line traced back quite
a long way, although the earlier generations in the data are very
sketchy and seem to me to be not very reliable.
I will not try to stretch out these notes that long at all, but do
want to write down the surnames just in case someone reading
this material spots something they don't know about and can use
it. Or, hopefully, someone will see that I don't know something
and they will send me a note to help me out.
The parents of Anna Magdalena Weiser were Johan Conrad
Weiser and Magdalena Ubelin. They had migrated in 1710
to America and eventually settled in New York state at Schochary
which was near present day Albany.
Johan, born at Grossapach, Germany in 1664, was married twice.
About 1686 he had married Anna Magdalena who was the daughter
of Hanns Ubelin and Anna Magdalena Muller. Sadly, according to
the findings of Henry Z. Jones, the records appear to indicate Hanns
died from starvation and neglect in 1693. It was hard times for the
Palatine peoples.
Johan married the second time to Maria Margreta Mullerin. The
assumption by me is that this was much later in his life, because
they had been married for 23 years when Anna died on the first
of May in 1709. It is said she brought 15 children into the world!
I do not know the date of Johan's second marriage, but it is certain
that he needed much help with so many children (assuming many
of them survived those times). He could not rely on his mother-in-
law, Anna Muller since she had passed away in December 1697 a
good 12 years before.
Nor was it possible to turn to his mother, Anna Trefz, who had
died even earlier on the 7th of May in 1696. It is possible some
of his sisters helped during this time as his parents had a fairly
large family. His father, Jacob, born about 1625 in Grossapach,
was the descendant of a long line of the Weiser family who held
important positions in the village of Grossapach. Jacob had married
Anna Trefz around 1653. She was a widow, it is said, but I do not know
who her husband had been. Born or baptized on 28/8/1629, Anna was
the daughter of Jacob Trefz and Agnes Schumacher.
Jacob Trefz, born about 1590, was married to Agnes on 6/3/1626/27
at Rientenau, Germany. Her father was Michael Schumacher and Jacob's
father had the given name of Hans.
To continue with the Weiser line . . .Jacob who had married Anna
Trefz, had parents: Jacob, born about 1595, and Barbara Meyer-Zeiher.
I have no marriage dates for his parents and I'm not sure why Barabara
has a hyphenated surname except as a possible tie in to her grandfather's
given name which happens to be Zeiher and it was a way of keeping the
surname alive.
Jacob's father, Georg Weiser, was born in 1565. He had married a
woman with the surname of Kloepfer and I know nothing else about
her at this time.
Barbara's parents were Hans Meyer-Zeiher and Margarethe Hainckh.
Her grandfather's names were: Hans Meyer and Zeiher Hainckh. I have
no information on their wives.
This is all I intend to write on my Weiser line until I find more
about them. If anyone has more information or has any comments
I would be very pleased to hear from you. Just drop me a note by E Mail
using the mail box on the main page.
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