Georg Kern
Ulrich Gruber
Hans Kern
Elizabetha Gruber
(1676-)
Abraham Kern
(1708-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Maria Catharina Müller

2. Anna Barbara Brendel

Abraham Kern 1 3 4

  • Born: 1708, Hirschland, , Alsace, FRA
  • Christened: 16 Jul 1708, Hirschland: Hirschland Lutheran Church, , Alsace, FRA
  • Marriage (1): Maria Catharina Müller on 18 Feb 1731 in Soultzbach, , Alsace, FRA 1
  • Marriage (2): Anna Barbara Brendel on 26 Nov 1764 in New Holland: Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA 1 2
  • Died: Cocalico Twp., Lancaster, PA

   FamilySearch ID: LHXJ-LHP.

  Christening Notes:

Sponsors were Abraham Brion from Kirburg; Jacob Bilarich from Kirburg; Catharina Gruber; Barbara Nägel.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He immigrated "Abraham Kern" arrived on the ship Britannia from Rotterdam last of Cowes. On 21 Sep 1731 to Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. 5 Usually ages of immigrants weren't recorded when a ship arrived, nor were women and children arriving with males, but the Britannia recorded both: Abraham was recorded being 28 years old. Abraham married Catharina Müller and on the same ship Brittannia were: Christian Muller (age 60), Herman Muller (25), Hans Georg Muller (25). Women and children: Katherina Kern (22) [Abraham's wife], Elizabeth Kern (55), Gertrowte Kearn (8), Johannes Kearn (3), Katerina Muller (50), Margerita Muller (22).

2. In 1743 in East Cocalico Twp.: Muddy Creek Reformed Church, Lancaster, PA. 1 Abraham Kern signed the 1743 Muddy Creek Reformed church doctrine as one of the founders of the church. His wife is named Maria Catharina in this record.


Abraham married Maria Catharina Müller, daughter of Conrad Müller and Unknown, on 18 Feb 1731 in Soultzbach, , Alsace, FRA.1 (Maria Catharina Müller was born about 1709 in Lembach, , Alsace, FRA and died on 27 May 1794 in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster, PA.)


  Marriage Notes:

The Langensoultzbach Lutheran Kirchebuch record:
Abraham Kern, son of Hans Kern born in the Hochfurst, Anschbachischen, and former citizen at Kurburg, Nassauischen Graffschafft, m. 18 Feb 1731 at Sultzbach Catharina, daughter of Conrad Müller, former schoolmaster at Lembach.

Abraham next married Anna Barbara Brendel on 26 Nov 1764 in New Holland: Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA.1 2


  Marriage Notes:

In the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in New Holland is a marriage on 26 Nov 1764 of Kern, Abraham, of Muddy Creek, and Brendel, Anna Barbara, of Brecknock, married in Henrich Brendel's house. Sermon: 1 Cor. 7:16. 1

Sources


1 Burgert, Annette Kunselman, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992.), Page 288.

2 Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania (Note: Some very early records that appear in this church register were from Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Brecknock Township, before the congregation moved to New Holland.), FHC Microfilm 1305845.

3 Hinke, William J. (translation), Muddy Creek Reformed Congregation, East Cocalico Twp Lancaster Co. PA (Copied September 1916. Microfilm 0020346 Family History Center Library. Vol. 1 (1743-1770). Vol. 2 (1766-1810).), Item 9 Page 8.

4 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, PA > Lancaster > Cocalico > Muddy Creek Lutheran Church. Joh. Christoph Kern b. Feb 1735 father Abraham Kern.

5 Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Edited by William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania German pioneers : a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808
(View online at https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2049299), https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48379/images/PAGermanPioneersI-004450-51 page 51, List 16A, Ship Brittannia arriving 21 Sep 1731 Abraham Kern.



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