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THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHANN TOBIAS STOCKMANN

Generation No. 1

1. JOHANN TOBIAS¹ STOCKMANN was born about 1734 in Germany, was living in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, from at least c.1760 to 1773 ¹, and died Aft. 1773 in Germany, probably in Gräfenhausen. He married MARIA JULIANA [----?----]. She was born about 1740 in Germany, lived in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt¹, and died Aft. 1773 in Germany, probably in Gräfenhausen.

Notes for JOHANN TOBIAS STOCKMANN:
[The writer's fourth great-grandfather?]
[CAUTION: Although persuasively strong circumstantial evidence makes it almost certain that the Justus Christian Stockmann born to Johann Tobias and Maria Juliana Stockmann was in fact the writer's third great-grandfather, Justus Christian Stockmann, no primary evidence has been found yet to confirm that relationship. On the basis of the circumstantial evidence, the writer makes a rebuttable assumption that this construction is accurate.]
Johann Tobias Stockmann and his wife Maria Juliana were living in the village of Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt (now the Land [State] of Hesse), Germany, at least from 1765 to 1773, the years in which their seven children were baptised there in the Protestant (i.e., Lutheran) parish church, the Gräfenhause Evangelisch Kirche. The children christened were Christina, Eleonora, and Philippina in 1765, Catharina Elisabetha in 1766, Johann Philip in 1768, Justus Christian in 1771, and Eleonora Dorothea in 1773.
The fact that Johann Tobias Stockmann's first three daughters were baptised at Gräfenhausen on the same day in 1765 seems to indicate that he moved his family to Gräfenhausen in that year from elsewhere and was "catching up" on his children's christenings. The following data suggest that Johann Tobias may well have moved to Gräfenhausen from either Darmstadt or Bürstadt, both towns located in Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. Darmstadt is one mile south, and Bürstadt eighteen miles south, of Gräfenhausen.
The International Genealogical Index reflects that few German Stockmans are found to have lived in Hesse-Darmstadt, the vast majority (several thousand) having been resident in Prussia. Of the Stockmanns who lived in Hesse-Darmstadt, only two are shown by the IGI to have been born in the late 1600s. One of them likely was Johann Tobias's father. The first was Johann Philipp Stockmann, born about 1692, whose daughter Christine Marie Stockmann lived in Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt:[a]

1. Johann Philipp Stockmann, b. about 1692 in Germany, probably in Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt.
i. Christine Marie Stockmann, b. 12 October 1722 in Germany, and lived in Darmstadt, Starkenburg,       Hesse-Darmstadt.

Darmstadt is one mile south of Gräfenhausen and, given that proximity combined with her date of birth in 1722, she could well have been Johann Tobias's sister.
The second Stockmann living in Hesse-Darmstadt who may have been Johann Tobias's father was Georg Conrad Stockmann, born about 1691 in Bürstadt, a town about eighteen miles south of Gräfenhausen.[b] Georg married Elisabeth Grez in Bürstadt on 1 June 1723. It is likely that the following were two of the children who were born to them: (1) Christian Stockmann, born about 1725 in Germany, who married in 1756 Juliana Faust,[c] daughter of Christoph Faust and Elisabetha Bischoff;[d] and (2) Catharina Stockmann, born 1736 in Bürstadt, married in 1757 to Johann Philipp Faust (probably Juliana Faust's brother).[e] A reconstruction of the probable descent from Georg Conrad Stockmann is as follows:

1. Georg Conrad Stockmann, b. about 1691 in Bürstadt, Starkenburg,
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; m. Elisabeth Grez, b. about 1696.
i. Christian Stockmann, b. about 1725 in Germany, and lived in Bürstadt; m. 6 July 1756 in Catholic       parish church in Bürstadt Juliana Faust, bap. 24 December 1728 in same church in Bürstadt.
a. Maria Barbara Stockmann, bap. 5 May 1757 in Bürstadt; d. 11 April 1762 in Bürstadt.
b. Anna Maria Stockmann, bap. 18 April 1759 in Bürstadt; d. 26 February 1842 in Bürstadt.
c. Maria Sybilla Stockmann, bap. 7 July 1761 in Bürstadt; d. 16 October 1761 in Bürstadt.
d. Maria Barbara Stockmann, bap. 3 February 1763 in Bürstadt; d. 11 January 1830 in Bürstadt.
e. Catharina Stockmann, b. about 1765 in Bürstadt.
f. Christina Stockmann, bap. 31 August 1768 in Bürstadt.
ii. Catharina Stockmann, b. 1736 in Bürstadt; d: 15 April 1773 in Bürstadt; m. 26 April 1757 in
      Bürstadt Johann Philipp Faust, b. 7 September 1732 in Bürstadt; d. 5 June 1801 in Bürstadt.
a. Johann Leonhard Faust, b. 30 April 1758 in Bürstadt.
b. Christoph Faust, b. 17 April 1760 in Bürstadt.
c. Maria Apollonia Faust, b. 17 September 1761 in Bürstadt.
d. Caecilia Faust, b. about 1763 in Bürstadt; d. 6 December 1812 in Bürstadt.
e. Johannes Faust, b. 25 October 1765 in Bürstadt.
f. Anna Maria Faust, b. 5 June 1767 in Bürstadt.
g. Christian Faust, b. 6 August 1769 in Bürstadt; d. 7 January 1842 in Bürstadt.
h. Johann Philipp Faust, b. 23 December 1771 in Bürstadt.

One of these two Hesse-Darmstadt Stockmanns -- Johann Philipp of Darmstadt and Georg Conrad of Bürstadt -- could have been Johann Tobias's father:
---In favour of Johann Philipp Stockmann: Johann Tobias named one of his daughters "Philippina" (after his father?), and another "Christina" (after his sister?); and Darmstadt is only one mile south of Gräfenhausen.
--- In favour of Georg Conrad Stockmann: Johann Tobias gave his son, Justus, the middle name of "Christian", which suggests a sibling relationship between George's son Christian and Johann Tobias; and Bürstadt is only eighteen miles south of Gräfenhausen.
A third Stockmann family which likely was related to Johann Tobias Stockmann's branch was that of Johann Peter Stockmann (b. c.1698) of Burbach, Duchy of Nassau-Siegen (now the Land [i.e., State] of Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany.[f] The town of Burbach is located about sixty miles north-northwest of Gräfenhausen. The proximity of the two families in the same general area of western Germany, and the similarity of the families' naming patterns, point to the likelihood that Johann Tobias Stockmann and Johann Peter Stockmann were related, perhaps closely. Johann Peter Stockmann married Anna Catherina Löhr, and their sons, all born in Burbach, were:

i. Johann Peter Stockmann, b. 1723; m. (1) 17 April 1746 Anna Maria (Mrs) Dellers;
and (2) 16 April 1765 in Burbach Anna Christina Christen, dau. of Johann
Gottfried Christen, of Wahlbach, Germany. Their children were:
a. Johann Martin Stockman, b. 31 January 1766 in Germany.
b. Johann Peter Stockman, b. c.1768 in Frederick Co., Maryland.
c. John George Stockman, b. c.1770 in Frederick Co., Maryland.
d. Mary Stockman, b. c.1772 in Frederick Co., Maryland.
ii. Johann Engelberth Stockmann, Revolutionary War Soldier, b. 1725 in
Burbach; m. (1) 4 August 1747 in Burbach Anna Maria Schmid (b. 31 May
1722), dau. of Conrad Schmidt and Anna E. [----?----]; m. (2) Katherine [----?----]
before 1786. The children of Johann Engel and Anna Maria Schmid were:
a. Anna Elisabeth Stockmann, b. 24 October 1748 in Burbach.
b. Frederick Stockmann, b. c.1749 in Burbach, or Frederick Co., Maryland.
c. Christopher Stockmann, Rev. War Soldier, b. c.1751 in Frederick Co., Maryland.
d. Peter Stockmann, Rev. War Soldier, b. c.1753 in Frederick Co., Maryland.
e. Henry Stockmann, Rev. War Soldier, b. c.1755 in Frederick Co., Maryland, or
Dutch Fork area, 96th District (now Newberry Co.), South Carolina.
f. George Stockmann, b. c.1757in Dutch Fork area, 96th District (now Newberry
Co.), South Carolina.
g. John Stockmann, Rev. War Soldier, b. c.1759 in Dutch Fork area, 96th District
(now Newberry Co.), South Carolina.
iii. Johann Phillip Stockmann, b. 1729.
iv. Johann Georg Stockmann, b. 1740.

The three brothers, Johann Engelberth, Johann Phillip, and Johann Georg Stockmann, emigrated in 1749 to British North America where they disembarked at Philadelphia. The brothers soon moved their families to Frederick County, Maryland. Shortly after 1755, Engel moved his family south, to the Dutch Fork area of the 96th District of the colony of South Carolina, which later became Newberry County. In 1766, the elder brother Johann Peter Stockmann left Germany and joined Johann Phillip and Johann Georg Stockmann in Frederick County, Maryland.[d]
In regard to various groups that settled in South Carolina, one writer has stated:

"The back country, or Piedmont, of South Carolina, was inhabited by more recently arrived groups of Scotsmen, Germans, and Quakers who generally supported the Crown. Many of the German immigrants felt especially loyal to King GEORGE III, as he was Elector of Hanover, a German state, as well as being King of Great Britain."[f]

Nevertheless, Johann Engelberth Stockmann and his sons Christopher, Peter, Henry, and John embraced the patriot cause and served militarily in the Revolutionary War of Independence.
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a. LDS ENDOWMENTS FOR THE DEAD, 1945-1970; HEIR INDEXES, 1945-1957; BAPTISMS FOR THE DEAD, 1943-1970: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Idaho Falls Temple (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957-1974); 16 Jun 1950, FHL US/CAN Film 442565; as cited in FamilySearchTM International Genealogical Index v. 4.02, (c) 2000 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).
b. LDS INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX v 4.02; FamilySearchTM (c) 1999-20__ by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).
c. LDS FAMILY GROUP RECORD; submitted by Virginia Keller, P.O. Box 1211, Forked River, New Jersey, 08731; FamilySearchTM Ancestral File v4.19 © 1999-2001 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved; http://www.familysearch.org, v.2.3.0.
Also see KELLER LANE GENEALOGY (Virginia Keller: rvkeller@davtv.com); Ancestry.com, Copyright © 1998-2002, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries (http://awt.ancestry.com); this source cited Josef Albert Bauer, BÜRSTÄDTER SIPPEN AUS DEN KIRCHENBÜCHERN DES ACHTZEHNTEN UND NEUNZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS (Bürstadt: Verein für Heimatgeschichte, 1991); FHL INTL Book, call no. 943 B4do ser. B v. 71, Subject Class 943 B4, Series DEUTSCHE ORTSSIPPENBÜCHER, REIHE B: Bd. 71; LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
d. LDS FAMILY GROUP RECORD; submitted by Virginia Keller, P.O. Box 1211, Forked River, New Jersey, 08731; FamilySearchTM Ancestral File v4.19 © 1999-2001 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved; http://www.familysearch.org, v.2.3.0. This source cited KIRCHENBUCH, 1715-1875, KATHOLISCHE KIRCHE BÜRSTADT (Kr. BENSHEIM) (Salt Lake City : The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973, 1972); Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1715-1807; FHL INTL Film 949561.
e. LDS ENDOWMENTS FOR THE DEAD, 1956-1970; BAPTISMS FOR THE DEAD, 1956-1970 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957-1971); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Los Angeles Temple: 12 Sep 1967 (includes 14 Jun 1967); FHL US/CAN Film 537092; as cited in FamilySearchTM International Genealogical Index v. 4.02, (c) 1999-20__ by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).
f. Lee Stockman, ed. and pub., THE STOCKMAN FAMILY NEWSLETTER (http://www.zianet.com/stockman_allen/); copyright © 1998 Stockman Family Newsletter and Lee Stockman (stockman_allen@zianet.com).

Children of JOHANN STOCKMANN and MARIA [----?----] are:

CHRISTINA² STOCKMANN, b. about 1760, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; d. Unknown.

Notes for CHRISTINA STOCKMANN:
Christina and two of her sisters, Eleonora and Philippina, were christened on 25 April 1765 in the Evangelisch (i.e., Protestant = Lutheran) parish church in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. The parish register names their parents as Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana.
[KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT) (Darmstadt: Zentralarchiv der Ev. Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, [19--]); Taufen 1743-1779; Heiraten 1614-1627, 1651-1779; Notizen 1785-1786; Kirchenbußen 1669-1777, item 2; Pfarrliste 16. Jahrh.-1971; Taufen, Konfirmationen, Heiraten, Toten 1780-1807, items 3-4; Taufen 1808-1842; LDS FHL INTL Film 1195072; as cited in FamilySearchTM International Genealogical Index v. 4.02, (c) 1999-20__ by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).]

ii.

ELEONORA STOCKMANN, b. about 1762, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; d. Bef. 1773, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany.

Notes for ELEONORA STOCKMANN:
Eleonora and two of her sisters, Christina and Philippina, were christened on 25 April 1765 in the Evangelisch (i.e., Protestant = Lutheran) parish church in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. The parish register names their parents as Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana.
[KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT)].

iii.

PHILIPPINA STOCKMANN, b. about 1764, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; d. Unknown.

Notes for PHILIPPINA STOCKMANN:
Philippina and two of her sisters, Christina and Eleonora, were christened on 25 April 1765 in the Evangelisch (i.e., Protestant = Lutheran) parish church in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. The parish register names their parents as Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana.
[KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT)].

iv.

CATHARINA ELISABETHA STOCKMANN, b. 1766, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; d. Aft. 1802; m. JOHANN GEORG BECKER, April 1802, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, at the Evangelisch Kirche; b. about 1761, Germany, presumably; d. Aft. 1802.

Notes for CATHARINA ELISABETHA STOCKMANN:
Catharina Elisabetha Stockmann was christened on 31 August 1766 in the Evangelisch (i.e., Protestant = Lutheran) parish church in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt.[a] The parish register names her parents as Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana. In April 1802 Catharina married Johann Georg Becker in the Evangelisch Kirche at Reichelsheim Odenwald, Starkenburg, Hessen.[b] Reichelsheim is about forty miles south-southeast of Gräfenhausen.
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a. KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT).
b. KIRCHENBUCH, 1643-1900: EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE REICHELSHEIM (Kr. ERBACH) (Darmstadt: Zentralarchiv der Ev. Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, [19--]); Taufen 1860-1876, Heiraten 1802-1827; LDS FHL INTL Film 1195020; as cited in FamilySearchTM International Genealogical Index v. 4.02, (c) 1999-20__ by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).

JOHANN PHILIP STOCKMANN, b. 1768, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany¹; d. Unknown.

Notes for JOHANN PHILIP STOCKMANN:
Johann was baptised in the Evangelical (i.e., Lutheran) church of Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, on 26 October 1768. [KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT)].

2.	vi.		JUSTUS CHRISTIAN STOCKMANN, M.D., b. 1771, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt (now the Land [State] of Hesse), Germany; d. Bef. 1830, (probably) Albany or Renssaeler County, New York.
	vii.		ELEONORA DOROTHEA STOCKMANN, b. 1773, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; d. Unknown.

Notes for ELEONORA DOROTHEA STOCKMANN:
Eleonora Dorothea Stockmann was baptised on 9 July 1773 in the Evangelisch (i.e., Protestant = Lutheran) parish church in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. The parish register names her parents as Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana. [KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT)].

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