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Notes for Michael Krey Sensenig and Magdalena Wenger

1723 Michael Sensenig was born to parents Jacob and Maria Krey Sensenig. [1]

1729 On 26 August, Magdalena Wenger was born to parents Christian Wenger and Eve Graybill. [2] [3]

Michael Sensenig and Magdalena Wenger were married. Their children were Jacob, Christian, Michael, John, and Mary W. Sensenig. [4] [5]

1760 "There is on record in the Recorders Office in Lancaster, PA, for a tract of land of 102 acres, from Hans Wenger (John) to his brother-in-law Michael Sensenig, which Hans John Wenger received from his father, Christian Wenger, and for which he subsequently secured a patent. [6]

1787 Magdalena (Wenger) Sensenig died. [7]

1790 Michael Sinsenick lived in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (0 thru 15) and 1 (16 +); and females: 1. Joseph Wenger, perhaps Magdalena's brother, was listed nearby. [8]

1800 Michael Sensenich lived in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (10 thru 15) and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 3 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), and 1 (26 thru 44). [9]

1801 Michael Sensenig died on October 10, 1801, and was buried at Sensenig Cemetery, New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Plot: C-9, born in 1723. [10] [11]

Research Notes:

Dr Jacob Sensenig and Maria Krey have been named as the parents of Michael Sensenig, married to Magdalena G. Wenger. Michael and Magdalena were the parents of Michael Sensenig, who married Barbara Shirk. [12]


Footnotes:

[1] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 169, C1.

[2] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 161.

[3] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), 21, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[4] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 169, C1.

[5] Sylvester M Kauffroth. The Kauffroth/Sensenig Families (1984), 16, [FHLCatalog].

[6] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed R3-713 to 716, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[7] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 169, C1.

[8] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[9] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[10] Find A Grave Memorial 47063088, [FindAGrave].

[11] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 169, C1.

[12] Grace N. Rissler Eshleman, "Reader's Ancestry," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 34-36, at 35, person 38.