Anna Barbara Wüster1

F, #24, b. 25 January 1702, d. between 26 October 1762 and 25 January 1775
Last Edited: 15 Dec 2021

Parents:

Father: Hans Caspar Wüster1 b. 5 Apr 1671
Mother: Anna Catharina Müller1 b. 17 Dec 1671, d. 24 May 1743

Family:

Johannes Epler b. 22 Aug 1694, d. b 25 Jan 1775

Children:

Susanna Epler6
Valentine Epler6 b. 26 May 1723, d. 13 Nov 1803
Jacob Epler6 b. 1 Aug 1725, d. 27 Aug 1792
Adam Epler6 b. 23 Apr 1730
Maria Barbara Epler+ 7 b. 16 Aug 1732, d. 5 Oct 1809
Anna Barbara Epler6 b. 7 Jul 1736
Margaret Epler6 b. 13 Mar 1740, d. 7 Jan 1805
Peter Epler6 b. 13 Mar 1740, d. 30 Aug 1805

Notes

  • Immigration*: 1737; Pennsylvania3
  • Note*: "In 1719, Maria Barbara married Johan Georg Bauer, a miller from the neighboring town of Meckesheim. After his death, she eventually moved from Meckesheim with her second husband, Johan Georg Hütner, their two children, and those from her first marriage, to Pennsylvania.(69)...In [1720] Anna Barbara married Johannes Epler, a farmer from Gaiberg whose family had lived there for several generations. They migrated with Maria Barbara and her family to Pennsylvania in 1737.(71)"

    footnote 69: "Their marriage, the baptisms of their children, and his death are recorded in the Bammental and Meckesheim Reformed Church records. Annette R. Burgert, Eighteenth-Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, vol. 1, The Northern Kraichgau (Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1983), 184..."

    footnote 71: "Epler family records are recorded in the Bammental Reformed Church records. Burgert, Eighteenth-Century Emigrants, 1:103-4."4
  • Note: Anna Barbara Wüster's eldest brother Casper Wistar had immigrated in 1717, and was a very successful merchant, with continuing connections to his family and to business connections in Germany. He completely lost communication with his family in the Palatinate between May 1733 and November 1736 during the French invasion. He and his brother John had sent money to Caspar's business partner, Georg Friederich Hölzer, to aid the Wüster family there, which he did. Hölzer then assisted the two Wüster sisters and there families in their journey to Pennsylvania in spring 1737.5

Citations

  1. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 181, citing Neckargemünd lutherische Kirchenbuch. Evangelisches Oberkirchenrat, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  2. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 181, citing Bammental reformierte Kirchenbuch. Evangelisches Oberkirchenrat, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  3. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 48.
  4. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 47-48.
  5. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 148.
  6. [S152] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196, Berks Co. "Estates 1752-1799 Eisenach, Charles-Fox, David". Folder: "Epler, John, BN 1775" images 376-380. Will.
  7. [S152] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196, #185 pr Penn Probate     Berks Co. "Estates 1752-1799 Eisenach, Charles-Fox, David". Folder: "Epler, John, BN 1775" images 376-380. Will.