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Notes for Johan Andreas Billmeyer and Catherina

Son-in-law Andreas Schenck's death record states that Rosina's father "Andreas Billmeyer" was from Ansbach area, Bavaria.

1709 Daughter, Rosina Billmeyer was born at Ketschenweiler. She was baptised at Weidelbach 15 JAN 1709, Sponsors were Rosina and Balthasar Zegebnis, also subjects of Lord Schell. Her father, John Andreas Billmeyer was a Shepherd, subject of Lord Schell, and lived at Ketschenweiler, Bavaria. [1]

1711 Christina was baptised at Weidelbach 4 October 1711.

1714 John Andreas moved to Schonbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg by 1714 when his son Jacob was baptised.

1714 John Andreas died in Schonbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg in 1744.

1715 Anna Sybilla was born. She married Georg Michael Schmidt, born ca. 1707, s/o Casper Schmidt, who was deceased by 1732. Casper was a weaver, small farmer, and subject of the Count of Erckenbrechtshausen at Groningen, Baden-Wurttemberg.

1732 Daughter Rosina and Andreas Schenck, daughter Anna Sybilla and Georg, and son Jacob Billmeyer went to U.S. Sept. 25, 1732 on the ship "Loyal Judith" to Philadephia. Andreas became Andrew Shank.


Footnotes:

[1] Thomas Lee Shank, Schenck, Shenk, Shank: History of the Descendants of Andreas Schenck in America, 1732-1984 (Gateway Press, 1985), 258, [GoogleBooks].