Re: Bruegger -> Bruecker -> Bricker ?
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In reply to:
Bruegger -> Bruecker -> Bricker ?
Dale Bricker 1/10/01
We too trace back to this line, and spelling HAS been a problem.NJ history of Piscatawynotes that a Matthis Bruchli (which is the spelling our family line has used for a long long time) who purchased land in NJ from the indians in 1736.We trace from *Hann (Johann) Heinrich Brugler (Bruchli)and second wife Magdalena Finck from
Wigoltingen,Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland born 12 December
1675,son of Hans Bruchli and Elizabeth Mueller.Johan Heinrich Bruchli and Magdalena (above) had son Johan Jakob 29 October 1714, a twin to daughter Anna Magdalena.
We trace from their son Samuel born 1717 (could be Johan Samuel or Heinrich Samuel).At any rate, our family history states that they lived for a time on Long Island
before moving to NJ.They lived in Westcamp in NY where the Palatine contingent lived for a time.The histories write that these Palatine families then moved back to PA
and NJ.As for our line, the Brugler (which is what our line speling became) family has been in NJ for 300 years!The original farm still exists and is in Warren Co.My
mother remembers seeing a document with her granfather (she died at 90 several years ago) that showed a land grant from the King of England of this land to the Brugler family.The document according the the NJ Piscatawy history has since been lost.We have been trying to find Samuel, and lose track of him after about the late 1780's. We have this line back the the 1500's. I have seen
the spellings Brakeley, Brinker, Von Bruch, etc. Keep in
mind that the record keepers were not all German and names were spelled how they SOUNDED and they became Americanized.
The NY records particularly were German and Dutch sounding spellings and it makes it hard to definitively say, oh yes, that's my Johan Heinrich.The first name was to give the line, yet in the records, many of them dropped the first name and used their middle name.i.e. Johan Heirich became Henry in the records.That makes it harder also.