The James P. Woerner, Jr. Family Home Page
Updated August 28, 2009This Woerner family, which descends from a brickmaker named Michael Woerner (born c. 1750), has its origins in the Werbach (49º 40'N 009º 38'E) region of Baden in Germany. Although I have not been able to establish direct links with any of them, there were other Woerners living in that same area for nearly another century before that. The first of the line to come to the United States was Anton J. Woerner who immigrated around 1864. The family of his wife, Margaretha Englert, was from the nearby village of Unterbalbach and can be traced back to 1660. After a few years in Philadelpia, the birthplace of their first child, Anton and his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in the 1870's while Margaretha Englert's brothers settled in Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee. While many family members now live in other States, the majority of the Woerner family has continued to reside in the State of Delaware since that time. There is a second line of Woerners descended from a Lafayette G. Woerner that has lived in Delaware since about 1900. It would appear that nearly all contemporary Woerners living in Delaware are descendants of these two individuals. I have not found any link between the two families and based upon my research, I doubt that one exists. The common surname is only a coincidence. To facilitate research by others and to allow distinction of my kin from this second line I have included Lafayette and his kin in both the Internet Tree and the list of persons in the database, but not in the other reports listed below. Additional surnames found on this site include Allmond, Boisaubin, deCourcelle, Devaux, Englert, Foresman, Haupt, Miklasiewicz, Niles, Ogden, Van Schalkwyck, Thébaud, Webber, White and Yatkowski (variant: Jatkowski). The Haupt line is that of my mother. It can be traced back to a Hessian soldier who was captured by the Continental Army at the Battle of Saratoga. When given the opportunity to join the Patriot cause he did so and served honorably in Armand's Legion. After the war came to an end he remained in the United States and around 1794 settled in Baltimore. The Ogden family is another maternal line. David Ogden arrived with William Penn on the ship "Welcome", landing at New Castle, Delaware on October 27, 1682. His grandson, William (my 3rd Great-grandfather), despite his Quaker upbringing fought as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Two Ogden brothers, William Henry and Robert (my second great-granduncles), died at sea when the vessel returning them from the California gold fields, SS Central America, sank off the Carolina coast on September 12, 1857. I would welcome the opportunity to exchange data with others researching these same family lines. |
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James P. Woerner, Jr. 1396 Valencia Loop Chula Vista, CA 91910-6841 United States 619-482-3138 jwoerner@cox.net |
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