| The "Sicher" name is a rare and unusual name in America. One branch dates back to 1750 when Jacob Sicher and his brother Peter immigrated to America, Jacob settling in Zionsville in Lehigh County and Peter in Montgomery County. These "Sicher's" are of the Dutch Reformed Church and came to America from Prussia. A second line immigrated to America sometime around the 1870's from the Austrian Alps on the Italian boarder. Though being Austrian, the Italian is dominant in the naming of the family members. The genealogy dates into the 1200's, the original name being "Sicheri." This line was and is mostly still of the Jewish faith and reside in New York City, Washington D.C., and Northeast and Central Pennsylvania. There was a William Sicher in New York and New Jersey around the Revlutionary War period. I found information that he was a Loyalist and settled into Northern New York State, relocating from Canada. There is a Sicker Cemetery in the Town of Niskayuna, Schnectady County, New York. I have been unable to trace my line of "Sicher's" into either of these lines, but am more tempted to believe our line is connected to the Zionsville Sicher than the other. My great-grandmother, Mary Cooper, who married Horatio M. Sicher, was living in Weatherly, Carbon County, just north of Alentown. There wedding picture was taken in Easton, Northampton County, just east of Allentown. The baby picture of their first son, James Edmund Sicher, who was born in 1871, was taken in Catasauqua, a suburb of Allentown. Their first son, James Edmund Sicher, had a family and baby picture taken in Catassayqya, Northampton County in 1871. My grandfather, William Cooper Sicher was born in 1873 in Penobscot, just south of Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County. All of this suggests that my great-grandfather worked for the railroad line which hauled coal from the Susquehanna and Lackawanna Valleys to New York City. Mary Cooper's sister Ann's husband, Jacob Miller, was an engineer on the railroad and lived in Weatherly. It is hoped that anyone with an interest in the "Sicher" Family name, or any of those listed below, would contact me so that we might be able to compile as much information as possible on this rare and unusual family name. I have a database of more than 190,000 names from Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New York State. The names include: Sicher, Hinch, Dietrich, Cooper, Thomas, Williams, Owen, Tyler, Conklin,Marvin,Johnson, Lamoreaux, Eldred, Dexter, Conklin, Chapin, Ransom,Dodson,Trescott,Cobb,Westcott, McLain, Beavers, Sheerer, Batzel, Cobb, Black, Davenport, Lord, LaCoe, DePew, Trescott, Johnson, Santee, Hollister and Tuttle. Many of these lines go back into the founding generations of our country as well as into the English Royalty genealogy. |
SICHER Family History
Updated February 8, 2003 |
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David Phillip Sicher 432 Center Street Clarks Summit, PA 18411 United States [717] 587-0129 dpsicher@aol.com |
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