Fenstermacher, Johann Matthias

1678 - 1761  (82 years)

• Name	Fenstermacher, Johann Matthias  [1, 2]
  Birth	24 Sep 1678	Zweibrucken, Palatinate, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1738	PA   [1, 2]
  Immigration	09 Sep 1738  [3]
  	On the ship Glasgow; landed at Philadelphia
  Death	1761	Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA   [1]
  Person ID	I83853	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	Fenstermacher, Hans Conrad,   b. 1650, Hillscheidt, Rhenish, Bavaria, Germany d. 1678, Rhein-Pfalz, Germany (Age 28 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Hoffner, Johanneten Brictie,   b. 1658, Thalfang, Bavaria, Germany
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	06 Nov 1677
  Family ID	F31518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruppenthal, Anna Catharina,   b. 08 May 1689, Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 1759, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1707
  Children	1. Fenstermacher, Johann Jacob,   b. 21 May 1709, Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 1798, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA (Age 88 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   2. Fenstermacher, Maria Elisabeth,   b. 07 Nov 1727, Ellerstadt, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. PA  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   3. Fenstermacher, Johan Matthias,   b. 27 Aug 1723, Ellerstadt, , Bayern, Germany  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   4. Fenstermacher, Maria Catharina,   b. 19 Sep 1720, Traunen, Bayern, Germany  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Fenstermacher, Johann Wilhelm,   b. 16 Apr 1713, Palatinate, Ehenis, Bayern, Germany d. 1757, PA (Age 43 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   6. Fenstermacher, Maria Margred,   b. 28 Jan 1711, Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   7. Fenstermacher, Anna Maria,   b. 28 Jan 1710, Traunen, Bayern, Germany  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   8. Fenstermacher, Franz Philip,   b. 27 Feb 1717, Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 15 Jun 1790, Alburtis, Lehigh Co., PA (Age 73 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F31517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 24 Sep 1678 - Zweibrucken, Palatinate, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany Arrival - 1738 - PA Death - 1761 - Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S618] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Johann Jacob Fenstermacher [S618] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Anna Catharina Ruppenthal [S685] Charles Rhoads Roberts, Roberts, Charles Rhoads, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families: Vol II, (Name: Lehigh Valley Publishing Company, Ltd; Location: Allentown, PA; Date: 1914;), 343.