1717 David Mellinger, son of Johannes and Maria Eva Mellinger, was baptized on January 3 with sponsors David Rapartie and wife Appolonia, at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany. [1] [2]
1738 David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena Bärensel were married on October 21, at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany. [3]
1739 Johann Jacob Mellinger, son of David Mellinger and Anna Madlena, was baptized with sponsors Joh. Jacob Mellinger and wife Maria Elisabeth, at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on January 14, 1739. [4] [5]
1741 Maria Catharina Mellinger, daughter of David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena ehelich frau, was born on May 3, 1741. She was baptized at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on May 6, 1741 with sponsors Theobald Honich und Maria Catharina sein ehelich hausfrau p. H? Hoffman ? Excell Hapsberg Refor:. [6] [7]
1743 Maria Catharina Mellinger, daughter of David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena, was buried on September 1, 1743 at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany. [8] [9]
1744 Johann Philipp Mellinger (+ died?), son of David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena, was born on January 28, 1744. He was baptized at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on February 2, 1744 with sponsors Johann Philip Siting ? Eulenborg? und ? Anna Elisabetha Bar? wife. Refor. [10] [11]
1744 Johann Philipp Mellinger, son of David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena, died on April 21, 1744 at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on February 2, 1744. [12]
1746 Maria Magdalena Mellinger, daughter of David Mellinger and Catharina Magdalena, was born on August 28, 1746. She was baptized at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on September 1, 1746. [13] [14]
1751 Philipp Jacob Mellinger, son of David Mellinger, was born on October 4, 1751. He was baptized at Ruchheim, Bayern, Germany on October 8, 1751. [15]
1752 David Mellinger emigrated from Germany on the Snow ship Louisa, arriving in Philadelphia on November 8, 1752. [16] [17] [18] Wife Magdalena and family emigrated with him. [19] [20]
1756 David Mellinger was taxed for 40 acres in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [21] [22]
1757 David Mellinger was listed twice for taxes in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [23] [24]
1777 Letters of administration for son, Jacob Mellinger, were granted to Jacob's widow, Susannah. [25]
1784 The will of Magdalena Mellinger, of Cocalico Twp, was in probate on December 15, in Lancaster County, (dated 10/13/1784) with administrators Michael Frantz and Peter Rayer, and witnesses George Merkle and Jacob Mohler. [26] [27] The estate was split among the four daughters of deceased son Jacob Mellinger: Magdalena, Elizabeth, Susanna, and Anna. Jacob Mellinger's wife Susannah was referenced as Susanna Mellinger, not Susanna Bordner, although she had remarried by then. Barbara Mohler was to receive a striped coat for good service she has done to me during my sickness. [28] [29] [30]
1785 John Brenneisen, husband of Magdalena Mellinger, daughter of Jacob Mellinger, petitioned the Lancaster County Orphans Court on November 1 [31]:
On the petition of John Breneisen who is intermarried with Magdalena one of the Daughters of Jacob Mellinger late of Cocalico Township yeoman deceased to this Court setting forth that the said Jacob Mellinger died intestate seized in fee of and in a certain Plantation and Tract of Land (Patented) situate in Cocalico Township aforesaid containing twenty five acres or thereabouts with the appurtenances adjoining Lands of George Mercle, John Mohler, Michael Kneisley and others and left his wife Susanna a widow and four children viz the said Magdalena the wife of the petitioner, Elizabeth Mellinger, Susanna Mellinger & Anna Mellinger, which said Elizabeth Susanna & Anna are yet minors. That the petitioner is willing and desirous to hold and enjoy the said plantation and tract of patented land with the appurtenances and pay the several and respective shares of the widow and other children of the said deceased according to a valuation and appraisement thereof to be made by an inquest to be awarded by the court for that purpose and praying the court to award an inquest to view & it is ordered by the court that the sheriff of Lancaster County do forthwith summon a jury to view the said plantation and tract of patented land … whether the same may or can be divided to and amongst the widow & children of the said deceased without injury … they then value and appraise the same …
1785 Magdalena Mellinger's estate was distributed to the four daughters of son Jacob Mellinger on December 6. [32]:
Michael Frantz and Peter Reyer executors of the last will and testament of Magdalena Mellinger late of Cocolico Township widow deceased produced to the Court the account of their administration on the estate of the said deceased duly passed before the register whereby there appears a balance … of £52.11.2 … be paid and distributed agreeable to the will of the testatrix … To Susanna Mellinger, Anna Mellinger, Magdalena Mellinger, Elizabeth Mellinger [each received £14.9.9½ hard money and £5.6.3 paper money, after deducting expenses of the court] …
1785 Son Jacob Mellinger's land was sold on December 6, to John Brenneisen, husband of Magdalena Mellinger, eldest daughter of Jacob. [33]
1786 Magdalena Mellinger's inventory was filed on December 15. [34]
1787 Jacob Keller released John Brenneisen of Allen Twp, Cumberland County following his payment to the other heirs. [35] [36]
Research Notes:
We suspect that David Mellinger of Ruchheim, Germany was the same as David Mellinger, who emigrated to America on the Louisa in 1752, and as David Mellinger, whose widow named deceased son Jacob Mellinger in her will in Cocalico Twp. No records of David Mellinger or their children have been found in the Ruchheim records after 1751. We seek further evidence to clarify these potential relationships.
Mennonite records list David Mellinger, born Jan 3, 1717 [presumably the one baptized at Rucheim], as the same David Mellinger who died in 1815 in Manor Twp, Lancaster County. [37] We suspect that the Mennonite record is incorrect.
1739 The baptism of John Jacob named mother Anna Madlena. There were no other baptisms listed in this time period with father David, other than those with mother Cathrina Magdalena. We suspect that the name of the mother was a variant or an error.
1786 Who was David Mellinger, listed on the septennial census for Hellam Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. [41]
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[4] Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Ruchheim (BA. Ludwigshafen), "Taufen 1670-1791; Heiraten 1701-1789; Tote 1700-1791," Kirchenbuch, 1670-1865, FHL film 488543, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].
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[6] Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Ruchheim (BA. Ludwigshafen), "Taufen 1670-1791; Heiraten 1701-1789; Tote 1700-1791," Kirchenbuch, 1670-1865, FHL film 488543, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].
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[14] Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, citing GS film 488543, [AncestryRecord].
[15] Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, citing GS film 488543, [AncestryRecord].
[16] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 374, lower right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[17] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 296, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[18] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 506, left column, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[19] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 6, B9.
[20] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 50, Emigrant H=B9.
[21] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, page on right, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[22] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, column 3, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[23] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[24] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[25] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 50, citing Lancaster County Bond Book 3-156.
[26] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, Lancaster County, E-143, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[27] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), El-143, [USGenWeb].
[28] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), Y2-445, [USGenWeb].
[29] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), Y2-217, [USGenWeb].
[30] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 50.
[31] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records Lancaster County, Miscellaneous Books (Orphans Court) 1782-1791, 209, [AncestryImage].
[32] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records Lancaster County, Miscellaneous Books (Orphans Court) 1782-1791, 217, [AncestryImage].
[33] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records Lancaster County, Miscellaneous Books (Orphans Court) 1782-1791, 223, [AncestryImage].
[34] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 51.
[35] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 51.
[36] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book GG, 1-1, [1], [FHLCatalog].
[37] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[38] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 6, B9.
[39] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 50, Emigrant H=B9.
[40] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Mellinger B29, [Website].
[41] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, person 58, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].