Maria Eva FÄSS
1713 - 1792 (78 years)-
Name Maria Eva FÄSS Born 12 Oct 1713 Berg, Alsace, Germany 
Gender Female Confirmation 1728 Diedendorf Reformed Church, Diedendorf, Sarre-Union, Germany Immigration 29 Sep 1741 PA ("Lydia") _UID 210FC4FB43C045A487D061EAE43651A8907E Died 20 Jun 1792 Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA Person ID I625332589 My Genealogy Last Modified 17 May 2014
Father Andreas FÄSS, b. Abt 1693, Germany , d. Bef 1766, Germany (Age ~ 73 years) Mother Anna EICHENBERGER, b. Abt 1693, Germany , d. 1766, Berg, Alsace, Germany (Age ~ 73 years) Married Bef 1713 Germany Family ID F549248606 Group Sheet
Family Abraham KNERR, b. Abt 1716, Switzerland , d. 21 Apr 1793, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age ~ 77 years) Married 1740 Burbach Reformed Church, Alsace, Germany Children 1. John Christopher KNERR, b. 8 Oct 1742, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. Abt 1777, Weisenberg Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 34 years)2. Catharina Barbara KNERR, b. 20 Aug 1744, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 17 Feb 1803, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 58 years)3. Maria Eva KNERR, b. 9 Apr 1746, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 3 Dec 1802, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 56 years)4. Johannes KNERR, b. 11 Aug 1747, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 12 Jun 1825, Weisenberg Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 77 years)5. Anna Barbara KNERR, b. 13 Jan 1749, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 6 Mar 1831, Menallen Twp, Adams Co, PA (Age 82 years)6. Susanna KNERR, b. 13 Dec 1751, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 30 Jun 1813, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 61 years)7. Abraham KNERR, b. Abt 1753, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. May 1777, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age ~ 24 years)8. Anna Elisabeth KNERR, b. 16 Dec 1754, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 3 Jan 1778, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 23 years)9. John Jacob KNERR, b. Abt 1755, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. Between 1772 and 1790, Lehigh Co, PA (Age ~ 17 years)10. Dorothea KNERR, b. 11 Aug 1756, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 15 Mar 1818, Weisenberg Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Allentown Paper) (Age 61 years)11. Andreas KNERR, b. 5 Jun 1758, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 13 Dec 1840, Lowhill Twp, Lehigh Co, PA (Age 82 years)Last Modified 17 May 2014 Family ID F549247192 Group Sheet
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Notes - From jrknarrSat Jan 24 21:58 EST 1998
Hi Tim,
I recall that at the workshop last spring when I first met you, you kindly
pointed out Burgert's book on Emigrants from the Northern Alsace. I just
about purchased her book while attending her session but decided in the end
to pass on the purchase. I now regretnot having it in my possession.
Well, guess what...while attending Gentech conference in Ft. Wayne
yesterday, I went to the library to take another look atthis book, a most
valuable resource for our purposes. Looking at the same information again,
I was startled to recognize our Abraham's wife Maria Eva on page 566.
Burgert simply fails to connect "Abraham Kuchen or Kuohren" to the Abraham
Knoerr she had already identified on page 302. As I recall, adding the
suffix -in to a name is distinctly Swiss syntax, isn't it?
On page 566 the following information can be found:
Emigration: ca. 1741
Residence: Berg
Maria Eva's father: Andreas Fass [a is umlauted; I have also seen Fahs]
Maria Eva's mother: Anna nee Eichenberger
Maria Eva's birthdate: Oct 12, 1713 at Berg, Berg and Thal Lutheran KB
Maria Eva's confirmation: 1728 at Diedendorf [five years before Abraham's
in same church]
Inventory of Anna Eichenberger Faess, dated Jun 26, 1766: "the eldest
daughter Maria Eva Faess and her husband Abraham Kuchen or Kuohren [sic!]
have moved to the New Land 25 years ago with manumission."
There are more references to the Faess/Fahs family members on pp. 149, 150,
357, 358.
On page 358, we learn that Maria Eva's sister Anna Dorothea married Jacob
Martin and emigrated on the ship Windsor, 1753. Jacob Martin, son of Jacob
Martin, was confirmed at Buetten Lutheran.
These church records appear to confirm our suspicions that Abraham's wife
was not Vogelsang and that Abraham did not hail from the immediate
Pirmasens-Zweibruecken area. And if you take a look at all that sponsor
information you have accumulated one discovers that most of those families
were from the northern Alsace areatoo (Biber, Scheuer, Quirin, Clauss,
Eschbach, Obel, Onstott,Traxel, Stettler, Balliet, Dormeyer, Bachman, Acker,
etc.)
The towns of Diedendorf, Berg, Thal, Buetten, Altwiller where Christofel
Obel was from, etcetera, are all just afew miles distant from one another.
This is an area about 40 miles northwest of Strasbourg,just 5-10 miles south
of Sarre-Union, and approx. 35 miles southwest of Zweibruecken. If we
accept the authenticity and accuracy of this dataso far, we must once again
acknowledge that the birthplace and parentage of Abraham still eludes us.
But we seem to be getting closer! At least, for me, the feel, the look, the
smell, the flavor seems right.
Best regards, John
- From jrknarrSat Jan 24 21:58 EST 1998