Saturday, June 30, 2012

Surname Saturday - LNU (WALDRUFF?) (Germany > NJ)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  I have some blanks between 487 and 495, so I am up  to number 497: Ann LNU (Waldruff?) (????-1768). [Note: The 6th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts] 

My ancestral line back to Ann LNU (Waldruff?) is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) 


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)


14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952) 


30.  James Abram Kemp (1831-1902)
31.  Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874)


62.  Alexander Sovereign (1814-1907)
63.  Eliza Putman (1820-1895)

124.  Frederick Sovereign (1786-1875)
125.  Mary Jane Hutchison (1792-1868)

248.  Jacob Sovereign (1759-1845)
249.  Elizabeth Pickle (1765-1849)

496.  Frederick Zavering/Zofrin/Sovereign, born about 1715 in probably Germany; died 25 October 1805 in Waterford, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.  He married before 1757 in probably Germany.

497.  Ann ????? (Waldruff?), born before 1739 in probably Germany; died before 1768 in probably Morris, New Jersey, United States.

Children of Frederick Zavering and Ann ????(Waldruff?) are:
i. David Sovereign, born about 1757 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 1845 in Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married Anna Rarick before 1782 in Probably Morris, New Jersey, United States; born about 1760 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States..
ii. Jacob Sovereign, born 06 November 1759 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 1845 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married Elizabeth Pickle 01 March 1781 in Oldwick, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
iii. Leonard Sovereign, born about 1763 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 02 January 1823 in Waterford, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married Rhuhama Culver about 1788 in New Jersey, United States; born 1765 in New Jersey, United States; died 10 November 1828 in Waterford, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.
iv. Frederick Sovereign, born 25 December 1764 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 10 August 1851 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married Patience 04 July 1790 in New Jersey, United States; born 16 February 1769 in New Jersey, United States; died 18 July 1852 in Woodhouse, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.
v. Anna Sovereign, born 01 March 1765 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 1853 in Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married John Heath 26 February 1795 in New Germantown, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States; born 16 March 1763 in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States; died 27 November 1847 in Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.
vi. Elizabeth Sovereign, born about 1766 in Schooleys Mountain, Morris, New Jersey, United States; died 17 August 1823 in Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada; married Leonard Clouse about 1785 in Morris, New Jersey, United States; born about 1764 in New Jersey, United States; died 07 August 1823 in Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.

Frederick Zavering/Zofrin/Sovereign married (2) Levinah Culver in 1768 and had seven more children between 1771 and 1782.  

There seem to be no records for the first wife of Frederick Zavering/Zofrin, who came from one of the areas that is currently in Germany.  A website by Robert Whitside (http://www.whitside.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=69) provides a summary of the evidence collected by him to date for Frederick Zavering/Zofrin/Sovereign, including a discussion of his first wife's name and possible ancestry, plus a descendants report.

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