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My mom and I had done considerable work about 20 years
ago in the genealogy of the Ache/Achey's of Pennsylvania.
The Bethlehem clan is pretty clear cut.
Unfortunately, I will quote from memory here as I
do not have the primary source in front of me.
In September of the year 1752, three men with the
surname of Ache arrived in Philadelphia, Pa. on the
ship "Halifax" sailing from Amsterdam. Their names
were Johannes Ache, Hermannius Ache and Johann Jakob
Ache. These were not the first named Ache to appear
in Pennsylvania, the clan in Lancaster and Lebanon Co.
appear to have arrived earlier.
Anyhow, Johannes appears to have settled in Philadelphia
and died young. Jakob was a bit of a mystery man to
us. The early clan was primarily Calvinist (German
Reform) in faith.
Hermannius was a farmer in what is now Montgomery
Co. Pa, and lived a good long life dying in the
early 1790's (you can find him on the 1790 Pa. census).
His son, Ludwig, moved to Hellertown, Pa. and is
the sire of the entire Bethlehem clan (buried at
the old Union Church not far from I-78 in Hellertown,
Northampton Co., Pa).
I relate to Hermannius through Ludwig of Hellertown,
though his son Michael (of Bethlehem) and his
grandson Charles (of Bethlehem, later of Reading, Pa.)
who was my Great Grandfather.
Send me private e-mail so that I can get you in
contact with my mom for further information.
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