Fenstermacher, George

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 13 Jan 1805, North Whitehall Twp., Lehigh Co., PA; Schlosser's or Reformed Union Church

George married Williams, Hannah Marie about 1857. Hannah was born on 01 Oct 1835 in Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., PA; died on 25 Nov 1907 in Wheeling, Livingston Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Fenstermacher, Anna Belle was born on 28 Aug 1860 in Amboy, Lee Co., IL; died on 30 May 1939 in Hollywood, Los Angelos Co., Ca.

John married Andreas, Anna. Anna was born about 1785 in Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA; died after 1840 in Luzerne Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• DAR Ancestor Number: A039067
• Military: Revolutionary War Veteran
• Tombstone Photo: Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA; Heidelberg Union Cemetery; Original tombstone no longer exists

Notes:

From Find A Grave.com:
About 1770, he purchased land 3 miles southwest of Slatington, PA. and settled in Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, where he became a man of prominence. He operated a distillery in connection with his farm of 170 acres.

During the early days of the Revolutionary War, in 1778, he was a member of Captain Conrad Roeder's 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion. In 1780 he served under the same Captain in the 2nd Class, 5th Company, 6th Battalion of the Northampton County Militia.

Records show that of his 7 children, all except William moved to the Wyoming Valley in Columbia and Lucern Counties.

William was survived by his Widow (who later remarried) and his seven children: Philip, GEORGE, William, Jacob (who never married and had moved to Schuylkill Co. PA), Charles (who never married and had moved to Wyoming Co. PA), Elizabeth (wife of Gottfried Peter) and John. He was buried in the Old Heidelberg Cemetery, but there is no longer any marker of his grave site.

Exerpt from http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dettweiler/webdocs/e066.htm:

FENSTERMACHER FAMILY
From: History Of Lehigh County, Vol 1,2,& 3.
Transcribed by: Sandra Hart

William Fenstermacher, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 11, 1740, and about the year 1770 settled in Heidelberg township, this county, where he became a man of prominence. During the early days of the Revolutionary War he was a member of Capt. Conrad Roeder's Fifth Company of the Third Battalion of militia, and later served under the same captain in the fifth battalion. He operated a distillery in connection with his farm of 170 acres, and died Nov. 27, 1801, survived by his widow, Margareth Elizabeth, and five children: (1) Philip, b. Oct. 6, 1771; (2) George, b. Jan. 18, 1773; (3) William, b. March 22, 1775; (4) John; and (5) Elizabeth, b. Oct. 25, 1787, wife of Gottfried Peter. Another daughter, Anna Catharina, born in Longswamp township in 1763, probably died young, as no mention is made of her. William Fenstermacher is buried in the old Heidelberg cemetery, and doubtless also his wife, although no trace can be found of her tombstone.

William married Elizabeth, Margaret about 1762. Margaret was born on 15 Oct 1744 in PA; died on 19 Apr 1815 in Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1738, Philadelphia, PA

Notes:

Exerpt from http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dettweiler/webdocs/e066.htm:

FENSTERMACHER FAMILY
From: History Of Lehigh County, Vol 1,2,& 3.
Transcribed by: Sandra Hart

The name Fenstermacher, was all students of German well know, is derived from a like word in that language signifying "windowmaker." By many members of the family it is spelled "Fenstermaker," and the writer of this sketch has heard of at least one instance where the still more anglicized form "Glazier" was adopted. In one of the early Berks county tax lists, the clerk who copied the record, perhaps in a spirit of humor, wrote the name "Windowmaker."

The Fenstermacher family with which we are most familiar, and whose representatives are quite numerous in this and nearby counties, has its origin in Mathias Fenstermacher, a native of the German Palatinate, who crossed the sea on the good ship "Glasgow" which landed at Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1738. On the original list of passengers his age is given as sixty years, and he was therefore born about 1678. He was accompanied to America by his two sons, Jacob, then twenty-nine years of age, and Wilhelm, twenty-five years of age. These three were preceded to the new world by a third son, Philip, who was removed to Alburtis and there carried on a general store business until he died in 1909. Altogether he followed the life of an enterprising, successful merchant for upwards of forty years. a passenger on the good ship, Samuel, and qualified at Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 1737. He was then twenty-four years of age.

There is a tradition that the family first settled in Oley township, Berks county. The first positive record we have, however, is in the Berks county tax list of 1753, where Longswamp township is given as the residence of the father and of his two sons, Jacob and Philip. Concerning the other son, Wilhelm, who accompanied his father to the new world, nothing further is known at this time. The name of Mathias Fenstermacher appears in the early tax lists as late as 1761, at which time he probably died, being then eighty-three years old.

Jacob Fenstermacher, the eldest son of Mathias, was one of the founders of the Longswamp Reformed church. The proprietary return of 1767 shows that he was the owner of one hundred acres of land in that township, and his name appears in the federal census of 1790, indicating that he was then still living. We have no record as to the date of his death and he had no WILL. He was twice married, his second wife being the Widow Koehler, and we know of at least seven children: (1) William; (2) Anna Maria, b. May 16, 1740 (?), d. May 10, 1801 (wife of Michael Bieber, b. Feb. 11, 1740, d. Oct. 26, 1832); (3) Christian; (4) Joseph; (5) Jacob; (6) Anna Barbara; And (7) Johannes.

Johann married Schweig, Margaretta on 20 Apr 1736 in Traunen, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Margaretta was born on 09 Nov 1719 in Traunen, Germany; died in 1790 in Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]