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Anna Veronica or Fronica Wampfler

Female 1726 - Abt 1789  (62 years)


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  • Name Anna Veronica or Fronica Wampfler 
    Born 5 Nov 1726  Hinsingen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 7 Nov 1726  Altwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Abt 1789  of, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1178  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Hans Peter Wampfler,   b. 1701, Sparsbach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Apr 1749, Lebanon Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Anna Veronica Lung,   b. Abt 1702, Zollingen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1755, of Lebanon Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Married Abt 1719  Zollingen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F776  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Johann Jacob Brenneisen,   b. 17 Sep 1733, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1778, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Married 13 Jan 1747  Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, North Annville Township, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F796  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Notes from Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" 22 Feb 2003:
      A. Children:
      John Michael Brenneisen, b: 6 Oct 1747 in Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA.
      John Jacob Brenneisen, b: 28 Sep 1749 in Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA.
      Anna Elizabeth Brenneisen, b: 1750 in Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA.
      B. At Hill Church (Ber Kirche, Church on the Quitapohila) a record exists which shows the marriage of Jacob Brenneisen and Anna Veronica Wampfler in 1747. Married in Hill Evanagelical Lutheran Church in Lebanon Twp. Book of Records of Rev. John Casper Stover. Lebanon Co. Hist. Soc.

      2. FHL book 974.8 B4 pgp, Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 16, 1983, "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America," vol. I: The Northern Kraichgau, by Annette Kunselman Burgert, pp. 74-75:
      "Pennsylvania records:
      Stoevers's Record: m. 13 Jan. 1747 Jacob Brenneiser and Anna Veronica Wampfler, Lebanon
      Hill Lutheran CHURCH, NORTH ANNVILLE Twp., LEBANON CO.:
      Jacob Brenneissen and wife Veronica had:
      1. Joh. Michael b. 6 Oct. 1747
      2. Joh. Jacob b. 28 Sept. 1749
      3. Anna Elisabetha bp. 28 Oct. 1750
      ("Renounced Evangelical truth and the Lutheran Church and became Dunkers.")
      Jacob Brenniser, Lebanon tp., Lancaster co., nat. Philadelphia Fall 1765, without taking an oath."

      3. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 88-91 notes that the ship Lydia arrived in Philadelphia carrying passengers identified as being from the Palatine (the present German state of Rhineland-Palatinate or Rheinland Pfalz in German. The book "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, as cited above, points out that vertually all German speaking people coming to America during this era were identified as Palatines. Part of the passengers could be Palatines and the remaining passengers could be German speaking people from adjacent areas to the Palatine. This was the case for the passengers aboard the ship Lydia. The following Wampflers were listed on the ship:
      Hans Peter Wampfler, 40 years of age.
      Hans Peter Wampfler, 18 years of age.
      Hans Michel Wampfler, 16 years of age.
      There were assuredly more of the family aboard but only the males age 16 and older were listed. Considering the list was made by the captain prior to the departure of a voyage that took about 3 months, the ages work out exactly. The book as photocopies of first two males who signed their names but Hans Michel did not since he probably could not write yet. The christening records for Anna Magdalena Wampfler, Hans Peter Wampfler, Jr., and Hans Michael Wampfler all indicated the family left for America May 3, 1741. Also in the record books of Zollingen (the home of Anna Veronica Lung, the wife of Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr., the following words were written on 12 Apr 1755: "Peter Wampfler married Veronica Lung, the heiress of Jacob Lung, who was a citizen of Zollingen. They have for about 15 years been moved to the new land." This was probably written since she was an heiress to her mother who was the last of her parents to die in 1754. Also on the list of arriving passengers was a Johannes Mettauer (age listed as 25) who was the son of Samuel Mettauer and Anna Magdalena Wampfler and a nephew to Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr.
      Another book by the same author, "Wampler Family History, 1701-1980," pp. 1-4, adds additional insight into the voyage to America. In the late 1600's and concurrent with the internal conflicts within continental Europe, there was a visit by William Penn of Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the German States of the Rheinland. He assured these very productive farmers, whose farming efforts were now largely in vain because of political and religious wars, that if they were to come to his Province of Pennsylvania, they would be free to worship according to their own beliefs and they would have the civil liberties they desired. By 1683 there began a steady influx of German immigrants. By 1729 the new German immigrants were required by law to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and also an oath of abjuration and fidelity to the laws of Pennsylvania Province. The actual voyage itself began when families left their German homeland by boarding a boat on the Rhine River around the first of May and journeyed down the Rhine through many custom inspeciton stations. The ships were often detained at each station and each family had to spend money there for essential items. This trip from their homeland to where the ship departed in Holland usually took about 4-6 weeks. There was usually also another wait in Holland of 4-6 weeks before the English ships sailed. After embarking in Holland, the ship usually had a 1-2 week layover in England awaiting proper winds for the 8-12 week transatlantic voyage. In the case of the ship Lydia, James Allen was shipmaster and they sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, with an english port stop in Deal. The ships were crowded with not enough food and water. Disease was prevalent and many passengers died. Once the ships arrived n Philadelphia, health officers from the city inspected the ships for persons with infectious diseases and if such persons were identified, the ship was ordered to be removed one mile from the city. The Wampfler family swore allegiance to the British Crown upon arrival on Sep. 29, 1741. These foreigners had faith that their new homeland would allow them to farm, prosper, and worship God in peace.

      4. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 12-13:
      A. "Anna Veronica Wampler... was married 13 Jan 1747 at Hill Lutheran Church, Lebanon Twp., Lancaster Co., PA to John Jacob Brenneisen, son of Hans Valentine Brenneisen and Margaretha ___. John Jacob was born 17 Sep 1733 in Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. They had at least three children baptized at Hill Lutheran Church, then after 1750 they 'denounced Evangelical truth and Lutheran Church and became Dunkers.' When Anna Veronica died is unknown, but John Jacob Brenneisen was married a second time."
      B. Referenced sources:
      a. Parish Register, the Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, Annville-Cleona, PA, FHL974.819 V26L.
      b. Archival Records, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

      5. Wampfler is the proper surname for those Wamplers born in Alsace. It was anglicized to Wampler upon immigrating to America in 1741.

      6. FHL film 599224 it. 2 "Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Cleona and Annville in North Annville Township, Lebanon Co., PA. Parish Registers 1743-1943," p. 21:
      "Jacob Brenneissen and wife Veronica (Renounced Evangelical truth and the Lutheran church and became Dunkers)
      -A son Joh. Michael b. 6 Oct 1747, bapt. 8 Nov 1749, sponsors: Joh. Michael Wamfler and wife.
      -A son Joh. Jacob, b. 28 Sep 1749, bapt. 1 Nov 1749, sponsors: Johan Peter Wampfler and his wife Maria Barbara.
      -A daughter Anna Elisabetha, b. 1750, bapt. 28 Oct 1750, sponsors: Michael Wampfler and his wife.

      7. FHL book 974.8 B4pgp "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," by Annette Kunselman Burgert (Camden, ME; Picton Press), pp. 520-24:
      "Wampfler, Hans Peter age 40 (Keskastel=67260 Sarre-Union; Altwiller=67260 Sarre-Union)
      Wampfler, Hans Peter age 18
      Wampfler, Michael age 16
      [Immigrated on the ship] "Lydia," 1741; [Source:] S-H, I: 300, 301, 302 [Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers. 3 vols. (Norristown, 1934)].
      European Records
      Keskastel Lutheran KB [Kirchebook (Church book)]:
      Peter Wampffler, linenweaver at Hinsingen, and wife Veronica had:
      1. Anna Magdalena bp. 7 June 1720; Sp.: Samuel Mettauer, linenweaver at Kastel; A. Magdalena, wife of Peter S__tz of Newhausel; Anna Magdalena ?___. (Record extracted 3 May 1741)
      2. Hans Peter bp. 4 Aug. 1722; Sp.: Hans Peter Klein, Harskirchen; Johannes Wampffler;
      Anna Elisa, wife of Jacob Lang of ?Zollingen; Maria Barbara, ?daughter of Michel Buttner (Ext. 3 May 1741).
      3. Michael b. ca. 1724
      Harskirchen Lutheran KB:
      4. Anna Fronica b. 5 Nov. 1726, bp. 7 Nov. 1726 at Altweyler
      5. Anna Barbara bp. 24 July 1729 at Altweyler [Altwiller]
      6. Anna Elisabetha bp. 3 Dec. 1732 at Altweyler
      7. Anna Catharina bp. __ ___ 1734
      8. possible Georg, bp. not located
      American Records
      Hill Lutheran KB, near Annville, Lebanon co:
      -Mattheis Boger m. 7 Jan. 1746 Anna Magdalena Wampflerin.
      -Jacob Brenneyssen m. 13 Jan. 1747 Anna Veronica Wampflerin.
      [See Burgert, The Northern Kraichgau for Boger and Brenneisen]..."

      CHRISTENING:
      1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 85 has a photocopy and translation of the christening church record from Altweiler as follows: "November 5, 1726 was born in Hinsingen to Peter Wampfler a linen-weaver and to his wife Franica a young daughter and christened November 7, 1726 and name Anna Fronica. Witnesses: Johann Christina Caspar of Sparsbach near Lützelstein, Anna Maria Mettauer [cousin, daughter of Aunt Anna Magdalene (Wampler) Mettauer] of Keskastel, Maiden Fronica, dau. of Hanss Adam Lungen [Lung, possible brother or uncle of mother Anna Veronica Lung?] of Hinsingen." Note Hinsingen did not have a church and the family used the one at Keskastel until a church was started at nearer Altweiler by about 1726.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/church/stoever/stoevermarriage1.html: "Marriage Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever of Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania," compiled by Mildred Smith (msmith@cybermania.net); these following individuals are all relatives and the marriage of this person is noted with an asterisk:
      1737 09 18 Brenneis, Margaretha (Cocalico) - Uhrich, Johannes 1749 01 17 Brenneisen, Rudolph - Schaeffer, Anna Barbara (Cocalico) *1747 01 13 Brenneiser, Jacob (Lebanon) - Wampsler, Anna Veronica (Lebanon) 1743 09 26 Brenneiss, Anna Barbara (Swatara) - Wampler, John Peter 1751 01 21 Brennersen, John - Minier, Christina(Bethel)
      1743 09 26 Wampler, John Peter - Brenneiss, Anna Barbara (Swatara) 1746 01 07 Wampsler, Anna Magdalena (Lebanon) - Boger, Mattheis (Lebanon) *1747 01 13 Wampsler, Anna Veronica (Lebanon) - Brenneiser, Jacob (Lebanon)

      2. FHL 929.273 W181sh book "Wamplers in America," by Genevieve M. Shouse, pp. 365-6, gives some of the history of the "The Hill Church (Berg Kirche)": "The Hill Church is located four miles northwest of Lebanon, Pennsylvania in North Annville Township. It was built in 1733 and was used jointly by the Lutheran and Reformed congregations. Ref. John Casper Stoever formed the congregation in 1733. Rev. Stoever called it 'the church on the Quittapahilla' because he lived and had a mill on that stream. The Hill Church was the first organization for religious services in what is now Lebanon County and was the first to erect church buildings. According to Egle's history of Lebanon County, '...In 1754, and thereafter, when the Indians made frequent incursions, people often took their guns with them to defend themselves against savages. During divine service men with loaded muskets were placed at the door as sentinels.' The present church, built in 1837, is the third church in the same location. An ancient grave yard adjoins the church and many old markers are long gone. [The book has a picture rendering of the old two story Hill Church.]"

      3. FHL film 599224 it. 2 "Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Cleona and Annville in North Annville Township, Lebanon Co., PA. Parish Registers 1743-1943," p. 121:
      "Jacob Brenneyssen and Anna Veronica 13 Jan 1747."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Books, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s" and "Wampler Family History 1701-1980," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D.

      2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" 22 Feb 2003.

      3. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999. He adds the following additional sources:
      a. Annette Kunselman Burgert, "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1992.
      b. "Early Lutheran Baptisms and marriages in Southeastern PA: the Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730-1779," Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1988.