Sunday, February 24, 2019

Our Wilderson Line of Descent






Gottleib Wiltensinn was born about 1670 in Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany

Johannes J. Wiltensinn was born in 1690 near Alsey, Pfalz, Germany

John Jacob Wildasin was born in 1747 in Hanover, Lancaster, PA

Charles Wilderson was born in 1770 in Mannheim, York, PA

Henry Wilderson was born in 1811 in Mannheim, York, PA

Mary Ann Wilderson was born in 1849 in Newton, Trumbull, OH, our great grandmother who lived with her daughter, Cora Phillips,  in the Ellet district of Akron, Ohio before WWII.

The Wilderson Cemetery of Newton, Trumbull, Ohio, in the photograph above, holds the graves of Charles and Henry Wilderson and some of their family members and nearby neighbors. Mary Ann was buried in the cemetery of Niles, Ohio in Trumbull County, Ohio.

Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Kuster/Custard Line of Descendants



Kuster, Reinhart 1592-1616 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuster, Johannes 1576-1650 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuester, Johannes 1606-1679 of Kaldenkirken Germany

Kuster, Paulus 1644-1708 of Krefeld, Germany, the emigrant to Germantown, PA

Kuster, Arnold 1667-1739 born in Kaldenkirken but lived in Pennsylvania most of his life

Custard, Conrad 1695-1772 of Germantown, moved to Brocks Gap, VA

Custard, William 1729-1806 of Philadelphia County and Pike County, PA

Custard, Jane 1752-1850 born in Sussex, NJ; lived most of her life in Harrison County, OH

Jane Custard married George Davis Brokaw, from another long line of ancestors in our family tree, as I showed you in a recent blog. The Kusters and Brokaws are our grandmother, Alma Spitzer's ancestors. 

Thursday, February 7, 2019

OUR BROKAW LINE


We have seven generations of Brokaw/Broucard/Brouquart ancestor surnames, as follows:

Louis Brouquart, of Belgium, born 1620
Bourgeon Broucard, of Normandy, France, born 1645
John Broucard, of Flatbush, NY, born 1678
Abraham Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1728
George Davis Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1755
Abram Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1778
Mary Brokaw, of Harrison, OH, born 1815

Mary Brokaw, our great, great grandmother married John Morrison. Their daughter, Sarah Emeline Morrison married David C. Spitzer whose daughter, Alma Spitzer Mackey is our grandmother.