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Billie Fremont utkid@sbcglobal.net |
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| My research has taken me from Abels to Zugs. I will never complete this task as there is always someone who has a mother and father to learn about. Some people say they have gone back to Adam and Eve but unfortunately most of my family records were destroyed in a huge flood!! I'm trying to do the best I can under the circumstances. I love this hobby and will talk to anyone about it. I offer help to anyone and will accept it from anyone. I have a very poorly put together homepage on Geocities that I'm trying to edit. Most of the surnames I research are listed on that page but scroll down on this page and click on the tree report. My research encompasses both mine and my husband's families. I will tell you stories about pirates, noblemen, Quakers, Amish and Amish Mennonites. This work will be ongoing so stop by now and then to view the changes. PIRATES One of my husband's fifth great grandfathers, Johann Michael Beeghley, was the son of Johann Adam Beeghley, German Nobleman, and Catherine Hertzler. I found the following information about this family in the book entitled, Two Centuries of Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren by H. Austin Cooper. "The Beeghley family descends from a German Noble family, by the name of Buechele, this Nobleman, having married a morganatic wife (a man of Royal rank marrying a woman of inferior rank, whose chldren are legitimate but cannot inherit their father's rank or possessions). When the Nobleman is ready to inhabit his palace, then he must get rid of this morganatic wife, and marry a wife of his own rank. Generally in an instance as this the morganatic wife was sent somewhere out of the country by the man of higher rank. This being the case in the Buechele family, this nobleman was about to take his castle, in the Province of Baden, and therefore he sent his wife and one son to America. The name of this son was Michael Buechele, who was born near the town of Baden, Germany, on Feb 2, 1739. It was sometime during the year of 1750, that this Nobleman sent his morganatic wife and her son to America. They landed in the colony of Pennsylvania, and settled at Germantown, Pa. They resided here a short time when they received word from the motherland, Germany, that this mother had fallen heir to a large fortune in Germany. The rules of Germany were that in a case of this kind the mother and all her children had to come back to Germany to claim it. At this time traveling over the ocean was very hazardous, and also dangerous, and therefore they pondered for a while whether they should return to Germany. Finally making up her mind to return, they started their return journey in the year 1751 or 1752. The ship they wre traveling on was boarded by sea-pirates, by whom this mother was killed and her son Michael, a lad of twelve or thirteen years of age was taken captive by the pirates. This son remained a captive of these sea-pirates for about two years. One night while the ship of these pirates was anchored in the Philadelphia harbor, this lad, Michael Buechele, made his escape, and returned to Germantown, Pa., where he was reared by a German family there." The article goes on to say that in the year 1762 Michael took to himself a wife, Barro Inken. They had several children before Barro died Jan 20, 1789 of childbirth upon giving birth to their youngest son, Michael, Jr. For many years a war was breeding between the 13 colonies and the mother Country, England. He, being of Amish faith, was opposed to taking of arms in a conflict. In 1773 he loaded his wife and three sons on the back of a horse, and he led the horse across the mountains to middle PA, and finally settled in Somerset County (then Bedford County). Michael became affiliated with the German Baptist Brethren Church, in which he was elected to the ministry 1784, and ordained elder 1788. |
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