Saturday, May 24, 2014

Surname Saturday - REIFFENBERGER (German states to colonial New York)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 7th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #969, who is MARIA CATHARINA REIFFENBERGER (1705-1749)
.   [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations in this REIFFENBERGER family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

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 Abraham Kemp (1831-1902)

31.  Mary Jane Sovereen (1841-1874)

60.  Abraham James Kemp (1795-1881)
61.  Sarah Sephrona Fletcher (1802-1865)

120.  John Kemp (1768-1861)
121.  Mary Dafoe (1776-1850)


242.  Abraham Dafoe (1755-1815)
243.  Katreen Diamond  (1755-????)

484.  Johann Ernst Dafoe (1726-1784)
485.  Maria Keller (1729-1789)

968.  Abraham Defoe, born about 1703 in Missy, Vaud, Switzerland; died before 1753 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States.  He was the son of 1936. Daniel Thevou and 1937. Maria Anna Delcour.  He married about 1723 in probably Dutchess, New York, United States.
969.  Maria Catharina Reiffenberger, born about 1705 in Haiger,  Hessen, Germany; died 20 January 1749 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States.  

Children of Abraham Defoe and Maria Reiffenberger are:
*  Johann Ernst Dafoe (1726-1784), married 1749 Maria Keller (1729-1789).
*  Johann Jurgen Dafoe (1727-1788), married 1750 Annatje Keller (1730-1790).
*  Daniel Defoe (1721-????), married 1755 Catherine Keller (1731-????).
*  Johann Teevee Defoe (1733-????), married 1759 Anna Althuyser (1737-????).
*  Maria Elisabetha Defoe (1735-????), married 1753 Thomas Dates (1732-????).
*  Anna Margaretha Defoe (1738-????), married 1759 Abraham Vanderkeer (1733-????).
*  Eva Defoe (1740-1815), married 1759 Henrick Katzenbach (1736-????).
*  Elisabetha Defoe (1742-????), married 1759 John Northern (1738-????).
*  Abraham Defoe (1745-????).

1938.  Johann Georg Reiffenberger, born about 1674 in Flammersbach, Hessen, Germany; died 1750 in Livingston Manor, Columbia, New York, United States.  He married about 1703 in Hessen, Germany.
1939.  Maria Elisabetha Deiken, born about 1680 in Flammersbach, Hessen, Germany; died 1755 in Livingston Manor, Columbia, New York, United States.

Children of Johann Reiffenberger and Maria Deiken are:
*  Maria Catharina Reiffenberger (1705-1749), married 1723 Abraham Dafoe (1703-1753)
*  Anna Margaretha Reiffenberger (1708-????), married 1732 Abraham Laucks.
*  Georg Reiffenberger (1710-1754), married 1735 Anna Marie Leick (1714-????).
*  Daniel Reiffenberger (1713-1789), married 1732 Anna Elisabetha Stuber.
*  Adam Reiffenberger (1716-1756), married 1714 Agnes Falckenberg.
*  Johannes Reiffenberger (1720-1784), married Anna Maria Hauch.

3876.  Johannes Christianus Reiffenberger, born 1650 in Haiger,  Hessen, Germany.  He married 06 October 1672 in Herborn, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
3877.  Catharina Cuntz, born 1652 in Amdorf, Lahm-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany.

Child of Johannes Reiffenberger and Catharina Cuntz is:
*  Johann Georg Reiffenberger (1674-1750), married 1703 Maria Elisabetha Deiken (1680-1755).

I have no idea where I found the information on this family line above.  It may have been in one of the Henry Z. Jones books on Palatine families (and the photocopies may be buried in my paper piles), or it may have been in online family trees.  There are several trees on Rootsweb Worldconnect with essentially the information I have above.

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