A Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy
the genealogy & family research site of Kris Hocker
I can trace my Frantz family line back to Johannes “Hans” Frantz [Jr.] and his presumed father Johannes “Hans” Frantz [Sr.] of Manor Township. There are three generations of Frantz men names John, starting with the immigrant, and, thus, there has been some confusion between generations. This collection starts with the second generation.
In 1733, Johann Martin Weidman immigrated to Pennsylvania on board the ship Elizabeth with his father Johann Matthias Weidman, step-mother Maria Catharina (Stengler) Weidman, father-in-law Johann Henrich Still, wife Anna Margaretha (Still) Weidman, his children, and some young siblings. Martin is my seven times great grandfather.
This collection contains biographies of several family members.
Johann Martin Weidman (1698-1768)
Johann Christoph Weidman (1724-1794)
William and Eliza Craig (Bonnington) Smith came to the United States from Scotland in the late 1880s, settling in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This collection includes biographies of their Scottish ancestors.
Michael Huber and his sons immigrated prior to 1758 and settled first in Pennsylvania before moving to Washington County, Maryland by the early 1770s. Not long thereafter family members moved further west in Bedford County, Somerset County, and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This collection includes biographies for descendants of this family.
This collection includes biographies for members of the Andreas Huber family of Washington County, Maryland then Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Third generation family members also moved to Ohio County, Kentucky and multiple counties in Ohio.
In America this surname is also seen as Hoover.
The biographies included in this collection include those of Hacker and Hocker families that I’ve been unable to link to the Hacker family of Rußheim and Lancaster County—to date.
I believe them to be related, but so far lack proof. As I locate proof of a connection, I will move then into the Hacker Family of Rußheim, Baden-Durlach, Germany and Lancaster County Pennsylvania collection.
This collection includes biographies for members of the Hacker family of Rußheim, Baden-Durlach and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In America this surname is also seen as Hocker.
This collection includes biographies on the ancestral families of Russell Greulich and Mildred Wieder of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.