Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer Descendants.
"UPDATE 2001, Descendants of Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer"by Fannie Belle Taylor-Richardson.I AM WORKING ON THE AFOREMENTIONED UPDATE AND WOUULD APPREACIATE ANY CRITISM OF THE ENCLOSED, [email protected].
FORBEARS OF HANS NICHOLAS EISENHAUER, b.1691.BE ADVISEDTHAT THE FIRST THREE GENERATIONS ARE BASED ON EDUCATED SPECULATION TO SOME EXTENT.
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I.Hans Eisenhauer,Grandfatherof111. Hans Eisenhauer
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Birth Date:c1546,Grossbieberau, Starkenburg, Hessen-Darmstadt.
Marriage:24 Nov, 1576, wife unknown.
II. Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer
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Birth Date:1600,of Eiterbach, Germany
Spouse: Margaretha(?)
Birth Date: 1635
Notes:The above listedparents of 111. Hans Eisenhauer, b. 1631,is somewhat speculative and, likewise, may or may not be related to II Hans Nicholas and /or I Hans Eisenhauerabove!
WhileI. Hans Eisenhauer, b. 1546, might probably be be thegrandfather of Hans, b. 1631,atributingII. Hans Eisenhauer,and / or, any other offspringis probably grossly speculative, i.e. there are just too many records of Hans Eisenhauers' from too many towns with approximate and simuliar dates and places of birth( frequently with similiarly named wives, also] to designate particular groups of siblings with any degdree of certainty given current information available.
Children: Hans Eisenhauer, b. c1631. [While there are several purposed family groups,to attribute a spouse or other children to him at this time is too speculative to be useful. ]
III Hans EISENHAUER
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Birth Date: 1631,Eiterbach, Germany(Parentage Uncertain)
Death Date: 01 Jan 1683, Weschnitz , Germany
Spouse: Margaretha(?)
Birth Date: 1635
Research: Susan Isenhower; also, see son Johann Frederick's notes. [Submitter from Ancestry .com,[email protected], has his place of birth, date and place of death as Werchnitz, Germany (?)
Children: Hans Peter & Johann Frederick, etc.
IV.1a Hans Peter EISENHAUER*
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Birth Date: c1650, Eiterbach, Rhenish Palatinate, Germany
Death Place: c28 Feb 1728 / 1729,Karlsbrunn, Saar, Germany.
Spouse: Anna Breckenbach Brand
Birth Date: 1651, Heddeschback,Germany
Death Date: Before 1677
Marriage Date: 1672
Other spouses: Anna Catharina"Catherine" Mildenberger
Notes: There is records of a Hans Peter Eisenhauer working as a farm hand for Hans Brand.Mr. Brand & his wife had three children.Mr. Brand was killed in a clearing on the land, & Hans Peter later married his widow, Anne Beckenbach Brand.She apparently died before 1677 and he married his second wife in 1677 was also named Anna.Distant cousins still live near Eiterbach. The village is just outside of Heiligkreuzsteinach
Children: Hans Nichol Eisenhauer, bornc. 1673, Eiterback, Germany.There were two others born in 1675 & 1677, whose history is too uncertain to list.
IV.1bHans Peter EISENHAUER*
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(See above)
Spouse: Anna Catharina"Catherine" Mildenberger
Birth Date: 1655, Heidelberg-Eiterbach, Germany.D/o Christoph Mildenberger, b. 1629, from same town.
Death Date: 1700
Marriage Date: 1677[Her dates are courtesy of Jimmie Ruth Eash"
Research: Based on Mrs. Taylor/Richardson document "Eisenhower Lineage and Reference" and information courtesy of George Alan Ulch, M. D., 114 Camphor Tree Lane, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714 - 5802, e-mail: [email protected] and Daniel and April Geyer, [email protected], I am inclined to accept conditionally the linage as I have it documented for Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer
Children: Christopher; A. Catherine; Hans, b. c1685; Mathaus, b. c1689 & Lydia Ann.HANS NICHOLAS EISENHAUER, b. 1691;Maria Sara Eisenhauer, b.1693.; Anna Margaretha Eisenhauer, b. 1695 & Elizabeth Catherina Eisenhauer, b.1697,all born in Weschnitz, Starkenburg, Hesse, Germany. Only the last four are firmly established, the earlier five are probably more speculative.
IV. 2 Johann Frederick EISENHAUER
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Birth Date: c1659, Eiterbach, Rhenish Palatinate, Germany
aka Place: [See His Brother's Notes]
Spouse: UNNAMED
Marriage Date: 1672
Notes: One researcher has Johann Frederick rather than Hans Peter working for Herr Brand and marrying his widow. but he would be too young for this to have occurred.
Research Notes: John Frederick Eisehauer, c1659,was the son of Johann Nicholas, b. c1630, Eiterbach, Rhenish, Palatinate. [Bill Abrams, Maple Shade, NJ - [email protected]]
Supplimental Notations:
Note #1. After sifting thru numerous research sources, it appears that both Anna Margareta Strubel and Elizabeth Graff have a number of instances of co-mingling of husbands as a result of some researchers trying to make the facts they find, fit the information they have on hand and a failure to appreaciate how common some of these names are during this period of time.
Note # 2.John Frederick Eisehauerwas the son of Johann Nicholas, b. c1630, Eiterbach, Rhenish, Palatinate. [Bill Abrams, Maple Shade, NJ - [email protected]]
Note # 3.caycedo@hotmail has Hans NicholasEisenhauer, b. 1695, Darmstalt, Germany, d. 1759 in Penn. married to Anna Strubble;son of Peter and Anna Catherine Mildenberger Eisenhauer
Note #3Another early Eisenhower migrant was Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer, b. 1691 in Forbach, France (near the Palatinate) and died 27 July 1802 in Dauphin Co. Penn. He was the son of Johann Frederick Eisenhauer,b. c1659, Eiterbach, Germany, d. 28 Feb 1728/29 inKarlsbrunn, Germany and Anna Catherina Mildenberger, daughter of Christoph Mildenberg, b. 1655. Johann subseuently married Anna Margareeta Strubel and they had Johann Peter and Johannetta Maargaretha Eisenhower.
His father's second wife was Anna Breckenback Brand and they had two daughters, Anna Breckenback Brand Eisenhower & Anna Catarina Mildenberger Eisenhower.
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Research: Based on Mrs. Taylor/Richardson document "Eisenhower Lineage and Reference" and information courtesy of Susan Isenhower;George Alan Ulch, M. D., 114 Camphor Tree Lane, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714 - 5802, e-mail: [email protected] and Daniel and April Geyer, [email protected]. Dr. Ulch spent several weeks in Germany researching this family group.
I am inclined to accept conditionally the linage as I have it documented for (1)1. Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer with full appreciation of its fragility.
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(1).1 Hans Nicholas 01 EISENHAUER
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Birth Date: 1691, Weschnitz-Starkenberg,Hesse, Rhine-Palinate Germany
[Less likely but Forbach, France is also sited occasionally]
Death Date: After Mar 1760, the date he attested to the will of his son,Martin.
Burial Place: Burial: most probably in Fredrickberg, Pennsylvania
Notes:Descendants of Frederick Eisenhower indicate the Eisenhauers lived in Switzerland for a period of time due to religious percusition and possibly in Holland for a while before coming to America.Some family member indicates they lived along the French border, in Alsace- Lorraine" (Richardson, in: SammelbandFriederichs, p. 8) andthat he was born inForbach, France.
"Palatines" who emigrated from Germany in the 18th century, tpically, went down the Rhine River by raft or flat boat to Rotterdam, where they embarked on English ships that then stopped briefly in England before proceeding to Philadelphia.It was the result of an agreement between William & Mary of Orange and William Penn. This was, in modern terms, a rescue effort for minorities who were being "ethnically cleansed."William, who was originally Dutch, sympathized with the Palatines, but not enough to want to keep them in England, it appears.The emmigrants were required to take an Oath of Allegiance to the English Crown before proceeding on their journey.Penn was, of course, famously hospitable to non-traditional peoples; today, we would say he appreciated "diversity"....Christopher T. Hill"
Spouse: Anna Margareta Strub(b)le
Birth Date: 1696, Germany;
Death Date: 09 Dec 1775, Penn.
Marriage Date: 1722, Karlsbrunn, Germany
Her Notes:The last record of Anna Struble's name is at the baptism of John Michael Fisher, 02 Feb 1759Reputable researchers have her as the d/o of Christian Strubel [[email protected], [email protected], while Ben Struble, [email protected], et elhave Anna Margareta Struble, b. c1695,Albig, Rheinhessen, Germany; d/o Peter Struble, b. c1670, Albig, Germany & Anna Catherine Wueck; grandson of George Struble,[email protected] et el)Christian Strubel
Children: Hans (John) Peter 02
Johannes Martin 03
Martin 04
Maria Magdalena
D01 John Jacob
Historical Notes:Accordingto " The Eisenhower Family" by Betty White, the passenger manifest of the ship,Europa, listed 44 passengers over the age of 16 embarkingfrom Rotterdam, the Netherlands with Captain Ludsaine, the ship's master.They debarked on 17 November 1741 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[ The Europaran aground in the port at Lewes, Deleware and sank.Captain Lusdaine anda cabin boy drown but "the 120 souls on board " were saved and transported to Philadelphia by boat.Ocean going vessels usually tied up at Lewes inside Cape Henlopen at enterance to the Delaware River estuary and the passengers were carried by sloop or shallop to Philadelphia where they took the Oath of Government three days later,after having been processed and medically examined..... From Family Tree Maker, Book of Emmigrants and also Mr. And Mrs Lloyd D.Eisenhower. Rt. 14, Box 164, Moore, Okla. 73105. Material researched by DeJohn , " EisenhowerGenealogy" by Heinz Friederichs.
The trip probably took longer than the usual three months and the passengers probably experienced the roughest of seas as the North Atlantic has many storms during that time of the year.Hans was 50 years old when he left Europe.
The manifest listedHans Nicholas, age 50; *John, age 28 (sic, D01 John Jacob Eisenhauer ),Hans (John) Peter, age 25;and Johannes, age 16, (family name, Josshower).The Qualification Record at the Court House, 20 Nov, 1841, states "The Palatines whose namesare undersigned, imported on the ship, Europa, Captain Lumsdaine, Late Master, did this date take the oath to the government, viz: - Hans Nicol Eisenhauer, Johan Peder Eisenhauer and Johan (X, his mark) Isen Hower, someone else having written his name and explains the difference in spelling.
Females and males under the age of 16 were not manifested.Therefore Martin,who was about age 14,was not on the manifest and neither was his sister, Maria Magdelena, age unknown.[*There is no evidence that John, b. c1713,was a son and subsequentlythere is no mention of him.]
Hans Nicholas and his family settled in Bethel Township, Lancaster (now northwestern Berks, Lebanon and Dauphin counties.) County, Pennsylvania.The land lay to the north and west of Fredericksburg on a gentle slope to the north lookingtowards the Blue Mountain.The Blue Mountain is a northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains into Penn.
On 20 Jan 1753, a land grant showing a tract of land of168 acres andidentified in a warranty deed as 'Nicholas Iron Cutter's' land is recorded inBook A55-224, Land Patent Office, Harrisburg, Penn.Below the name Nicholas Iron Cutter, the clerk wrote, "Say Eisenhower." *Two Hundred years later, on the same day, his great-great-great-grandson was inaugurated as the 34th President of the United Satates.
*[Mrs. Fannie Belle Taylor-Richardsonrepeatsthe same story about a clerk writing "Hans Nicholas, Ironcutter" and the name "Eisenhour."]
On 13 Sept 1759, he deeded this tract to his son, Peter.Peter and Ann, in turn, deeded the tract to Jacob Meiley.These two families are frequently linked and may be related or just close friends.The Miley's were from Zurich, Switzerland.Pennsylvania was settled by the Swedes in 1643; the Dutch in 1655; the British in 1664;and by the William Penn. Colony in 1862.The southern boundary was established by the Mason-Dixon Survey of 1763-1767.
Attested his signature on the will of his son,04 Martin Eisehhauer, 27March 1760, the last known written record of his name.It appears to be the custom of this family to use the middle name of their children as it is not uncommon for several childer to have a common first name
Although no graves have been found, it is believed Hans Nicholas and his wife Anna Margreta are buried in Fredricksburg, Penn.[B.S., p.25]Hans Nicholas was still alive on 19 Dec 1759 when he witnessed a will of his son, Martin.
In Eisenhower -Man and Soldier by Francis T. Miller, Hugh Oscar Eisenhower of Gastonia, N.C. relates that a good-looking school teacher named Miss Coffin persuaded his grandfather to change the spelling of his name to Eisenhower [ means iron hitter].The family name has been found in many various combinations of prefixes and suffixes. With twenty commonly used prefixes and eight suffixes, there is a possible combination of 120 different spellings (not counting a number of ways to mis-spell the variations.) The more common versions are:Prefixes - Eisen, Ysen, Isen,Icen, Ising, Issen andSuffixes - har, hauer, hawer, hour, hower, houer,plus any number of mis-spellings.
It appears that it was common practice in all these families to use primarily the middle name in every day usage and that a same first name may be given to multiple living children.Name spelling in this book will try to conform to the forebear's individual preference including mid-life changes as much as possible, although it plays havoc with an Index.
Indians were evidently a problem for the settlers in this region, a report in the Pennsylvania Gazette of 12 Aug 1756 from Fort Henrymentioning that indians has busted into Nicholas Eisenhauer's house.The house later was burned.The following year on 30 Sept. five children of Peter Wampler were carried off.This family was on the Europa with the Eisenhauers and lived just south of their farm.
In the 1770s,some of the family begin to roam, some going to Virginia and some to Wyoming Valley in Central Pennsylvania with adherants of Lazarus Stewart formerly of the Hanover Presbyterian Church including Peter Eisenhauer, 02 Peter's son.Hanover is eleven miles northeast of Harrisburg.Some moved to Lincoln Co.Canada near Niagara.and were primarily from Bucks and Lancaster Counties, traveling by Conestoga wagons.Originally called Rumbletown, it was later changed to Kitchener during World War I.Another group of Lancaster Mennonites formed a company, raised $20,000 in silver and cleared the title to 60,000 acres in what is now Waterloo Co. Ontario.507 Leonard, s/o 03 Johannas,was one ofthe Eisenhauers in this group.
Eisenhauer families continued to immigratethroughout the 19th Century from Germany,settling mostly inNew York, New Jersey, and Penn. as well as to Nova Scoia {See notes under D01 John Jacob for more information on those Eisenhauer immigrants not related to Hans Nicholas.}
Rev. Johann Casper (Caspar) Stover
The Reverand Johann Casper (Caspar) Stover played an important part in the lives of the Eisenhauers, performing marriage for four of Hans Nicholas' immigrant children, then baptizing many of their children.He arrived on the ship, James Goodwill, David Crocket,Master, leaving Rotterdam on 15 June 1828 and arriving in Philadelphia on 11 Sept 1828.He is buried in Lebanon Valley, Penn.His tombstone indicates he was born 21 Dec 1707, Berg, Lower Palatinate, Germany;that he was an Evangelical Lutherian minister, that he and his wife, Maria Catharine Merckling [ 02 Dec 1707-13 May 1779],had eleven children and that he died 13 May 1799. HIs father was John Casper Stoever.
He was ordained 08 April 1733 and until 1742 was the only German Lutheran Pastor in Penn. at the time.In 1735, he moved into the Conestoga settlement in Lancaster Co. in the area now known as York Co.
Reverend Stoever's little church was on the north bank ofLittleSwatara Creek, about a mile and a half east of Jonestown and threemilessoutheat of the original home ofHans NicholasEisenhower, in what is now Lebanon County, Penn.
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For more on his family see,REV. STOEVERS RECORDS, From 1730 to 1779,Hans Nicholas Eisenhauerand His Decendants,by Fannie Belle Taylor-Richardson. Record of Historical Society of York County, KK11.
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RESEARCH NOTES
Research Notes: According to tradition, the Eisenhauer family....hewers of iron, lived on the banks of the Rhine under the rule of the court palinates which began in 945 AD.The early family members were reputed to have been horse mounted warriors. This Palatinate, which eventually became one of the states of the Holy Roman Empire, was part of the Rhineland (a Rhinish Prussian Province) bounded by France, Lexenboug, Belgium, Alsace, Wittenberg-Baden, Saar, Hesse and Westphalia.
Being a small municipality, it was frequently overrun by rulers of more powerful countries with the result its people were frequently oppressed and deprived of religious, personal and political liberty.Equally disruptive was the fact that in the the locale where Has Nicholas was born,the population was about evenly devided between Catholic and Lutheran confessions with riotous strife from time to time including home and church burnings, business disruption and mob killing.
This territory later became a part of the German Empire.At the end of the Thirty Years War (1648) Switzerland and Holland became independent and began to practice religious tolerance as did Russia under Czarina Catherine the Great.Members of vairousEisenhauer famililesfledto these states to excape the carnage from time to time.Religiouspersecution was a major factor contributing to Eisenhauer emmigrationduring these troubled times as would be draft evasions from theFranco-Prussian Wars in the following century which saw a number of other Eisenhauer families immigrate to America.
THE EISENHAUER COAT OF ARMS was discribed in Jacob Puterich'sStanza 37, "Ehrenbrif" of 1462 - "awhite shield with three pairs of black sheep shears in a sloping position; sheep shears being made of iron, an allusion to the name- Ironcutter - and carries the name "Hauer des Eisins".An updated Eisenhauer cost of armsdisplays a golden haired boy holding a sword upurightin the Crest;In the lower portion , (Shield) the sword is cutting thru an iron anvil, i. e. Ironcutter orEISENHAUER.
Posted by Tina Eisenhauer:"Iron Bender."Coat of arms is a man standing in front of an anvil with a sword & hammer in hand
Already during the years 773-795 reports was given of an ore mine situated right in the midst of the Odenwald (Germany) and even in modern times iron ore have been wrought there.A picture originating in the year of 1528 shows the primitive way iron and ore were exploited. The man below in the pit of the mine who breaks off the iron ore is the EISENHAUER (ironcutter).Derived from this professional term the family name of Eisenhower developed;the translation into Englishwas later sometimes given with the amended suffix "ironcutter" in America.
By 1450 the Eisenhauers appeared in many a place in Odenwald, next to all of which are situated in that zone where ore was found and iron mills were located.This gives evidence that the original home of the Eisenhauers may be traced back to this very spot. The Odenwald are magnificent woody mountains between Frankfurt or Darmstadt and Heidelberg, with some larger hills with ancient small towns, castles and valleys.By Cathy McHugh-Aug 14, 2000
(From Der Odenwald Als Herkunftslandschaft und seine "Eisenhauer-Probleme" von Heinz F. Friederichs)
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Research:Unless otherwise noted, the primary source of information is attributed to Fannie Bell Taylor-Richardson's books, (1)"Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer, The 1741 Immigration to America and his Descendants " printed in 1956 documenting his descendants,the last being that of Mary Jean Eisenhower, fourth grandchild of 194 Dwight David Eisenhower, born 21 Dec 1955 & (2) "Eisenhower Lineage and References" which beganas a series of family history bulletins in 1956, documenting over 2,228 numbered families and 17,000 Eisenhower family names.
Her method of assigning sequencial neumerical designators for major heads of family (with survivors) is utilized here for easy of cross-reference with her materials [but it sure complicates computer indexing. ]She compiled a vast index of names and numerous referances of great interest. It is available on Microfilm through any LDS Research Library.She had access to several of the early family bibles including Hans Nicholas Eisenhauser's family bible records. She was the great-great-great- great-granddaughter of 03 Johannes and Veronica Mayer Eisenhauer.There are several family placement errors in her work but it detracts little from the over-all scope of her effors.
Probably the most amazing thing about her records is that everyone of the several hundred sheets was typed onMemograph stenciles on a manuel typewriter and handprinted, one page at a time,on a Memograph machine, consequently it took her years to compile and print all of her material. Equally amazing is the poverty of typographical errors.
(3) The New York Genealogical and Bographical Record, Vol. LXXVI, No. 2, New York, April 1945.EISENHOWER FAMILY IN AMERICA by Ross Keeye Cook & Mrs Claire Robison Shirk.
(4)Crack filling courtesy of:Roger Cramer, [email protected] & web page; James S. D. Eisenhower, III,[email protected] &Linda Smith, [email protected]
(5) Individual family group sources are credited locally.
"Eisenhower Linage & References Bulletins" as follow-up to"Descendants of Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer"by Fannie Belle Taylor-Richardson is available from Higgingson Book Company, 148-GH Washington Street,Salem, MA 01970,$89.00 plus $5.00 postage.Telephone: 978-745-7170,e-mail: [email protected]
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