York County Church Records of the 18th Century Volume 1:
Friedensaal (Schuster's White) Luthern Church
Springfield Twp.page15
Anna Margaretha Graaf daughter of Franz and Ann Graaf, born March 29, 1780, baptized June 19, 1780 Witnesses: Jacob Kirchner and wife.page 31
Jacob Merckell son of Jacob and Christina Merckell, born Feb 9, 1800, baptized Aug 21, 1800 Witnesses: Jacob and Susanna KerchnerFissel's (Jerusalem) Union Church
Shrewsbury Twp.page 135
Eva Kercher (Kerchner) daughter of Jac. and Susanna, born July 9 1794, baptized July 30, 1794. Sponsors: Wendel Heiss and wife ElisabethJohannes Kerchner son of Jac. and Susanna, born Oct. -- 1791, baptized Nov. -- 1791. Sponsors: Jac. Stehli and wife Elisabeth
page 139
Johann Jacob Maier (Meyer) son of Philip and Anna Barbara, born Aug. 3, 1800. Sponsors: Jacob Kirchner and wife Susanna--------------
Charles Kerchner research:
I made another breakthrough census find by finding Jacob Kerchner, Sr., in the 1810 census of Codorus Township, York Co PA. I never found that back in 1995 and thus some key information was missing to analyze the approximate dates of birth for his children from his two Bailey wives. His name was grossly misspelled as Jacob Carigner. I have seen that before. I have now analyzed the census records for Jacob Kerchner, Sr., from 1800 to and including 1820 combining that with what is known from Jacob's Orphan's Court file as to who of his daughters were married, who were adults, and who were minors when he died, etc. He died circa 1828. I have fitted all the children from the two wives and with a +-1 year or so tweaking their birth years according if exact dates weren't known. Now they all fit nicely.
Date of birth is theory/best estimate based on DOB of earliest known child.
Surmising he was about age 22 when married the first time. Just a guess.
Location of birth in Berks County PA is theory of mine.
Possibly linked to Berks Co Kerchners.
NAME:
His name was first found in the 1800 census of PA.
MARRIAGE:
He was apparently married twice:
1st: Married to Susanna Bailey, d/o Jacob Baehli.
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.
2nd: Married to Elizabeth Bailey, d/o George Bailey.
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.
Record of the marriage of Jacob Kerchner to Elizabeth Behley (sic).
Index Card Files; Historical Society of York County Pa.
Elizabeth w/o Jacob Kerchner per her tombstone inscription.
Dub's Union Cemetery, Manheim Township, York Co PA.
Email rec'd 19 & 22 Aug from Terry Wagner.
CENSUS:
1800; York Co PA; p.1362; Jacob Kercher (sic), age 26-45.
Listed are 2 males 0-10, 1 male 26-45, 2 females 0-10, 1 female 16-26, and 1
female 26-45.
DEATH:
Died in 1826-1828 leaving a wife and 12 children.
See children's petition to partition the estate filed 13 May 1828.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
E-Mail message from David Bailey rec's 7 Jun 95.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.
RELATIONSHIP:
Pedigree Chart for David Lewis Bailey received 29 Apr 1995.
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.Rev. Caspar Kerchner or Rev Lischy's German Lutheran Congregations in 1760's. Looking for connections through church names in York Co, PA during 1750's. Believe that family came to MD through York or Lancaster Co PA in late 1740's or early 1750's.
STUFF TO LOOK INTO
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1783 tax report - Codorus (Last name, first name, acres, # of inhabitants)
Bailey Jacob 10 5
Bollinger Abraham 100 6
Gerberich Peter 100 11
Kershner Jacob 100 5
Rootsweb, WorldConnect database: nharejr
Norman Hare nharejr@aol.com
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ID: I23332
Name: Jacob Kerchner
Sex: M
Birth: BEF 1785
Death: BEF 4 MAY 1828 in York Co., PA. 1Marriage 1 Elizabeth Bailey b: BEF 1780
Married: 14 JAN 1803 in York Co., PA. 2
Children
Elizabeth Kerchner b: 1805Sources:
Title: York County Heritage Trust
Page: Will Extract
Title: Timothy W. Terry
Publication: Tterry4888@aol.com
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
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Swedish Longacre's and Related Families
ID: I08104
Name: Jacob KERKNER
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1745 in Delaware County, PennsylvaniaMarriage 1 Sarah WICKERSHAM
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This information is provided by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission (PHMC).
While we believe the data to be reasonably correct,
neither PAB nor the PHMC takes any responsibility for its accuracy.
Kerchner, Jacob, Farm
Built: c. 1838
Address: Fissel Rd. East side, Opposite Susquehannock H.S.
Municipality: Shrewsbury Township, York CountyNational Register Status: Undetermined
Resource Category: Building
Approximate Number of Resources: 4
Building Type/Particular Use: Barn; Farm House; Summer Kitchen Smoke Hous
Historical Function: Domestic--Single Dwelling;
Agriculture/Subsistence--Animal Facility;
Agriculture/Subsistence--Horticultural Facility;
Agriculture/Subsistence--Horticultural Facility
Roof Material: Slate
Exterior Wall Materials: Stone
Other Materials: Stone, Log
Bays: 6
Stories: 2
Key Number: 094197
Inventory Identification Number: 94101
Survey Code: 133-52-49-C-H(A)------------------------------------------------------------
This information is provided by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission (PHMC).
While we believe the data to be reasonably correct,
neither PAB nor the PHMC takes any responsibility for its accuracy.
Kerchiner, John, Farm
Built: c. 1851
Address: Country Club Rd. Adjacent to Bonair Country Club
Municipality: Shrewsbury Township, York CountyNational Register Status: Undetermined
Resource Category: Building
Approximate Number of Resources: 3
Building Type/Particular Use: Farm House
Historical Function: Domestic--Single Dwelling
Roof Material: Asphalt
Exterior Wall Materials: Brick
Other Materials: Brick
Bays: 2
Stories: 3
Key Number: 094202
Inventory Identification Number: 94106
Survey Code: 133-52-163B-B-I
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Rootsweb posting:
Many families migrated from SE Pennsylvania southward into Maryland and
Virginia before 1860, with little or no thought of the political division
later symbolized by the Mason-Dixon Line. Especially farmers, whose
ancestors had immigrated at Philadelphia and lived in SE Pennsylvania for
several generations, found farmland getting crowded and priced high in SE
Pennsylvania, so they migrated southward and westward, normally along the
valleys of rivers and tributaries, to resettle on attractive farmland.Here is some additional insight into what it was like to make these trip in
the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Usually these migrating farmers
would travel alone on a first trip to secure new land, and then come back
and move their families to their new location on a second trip. On the first
trip they normally carried enough money with them to buy the land they
wanted. This gave rise to bandits who would station themselves along the
frequently travelled routes, waylay the travellers and take their cash.
Killings sometimes attended the thefts that took place along the travelled
routes, and stories are told about families back in Pennsylvania who never
heard from the head of household again after he set out to secure new land
in the inviting valleys to the south and west.
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(Baehli)
Notes from Richard Craig Bailey web site familytreemaker.genealogy.com:
born: 1783 Shrewsbury Twp., York Co., PA.
died: unknown, Shrewsbury Twp., York Co., PA.Born 2 Sep 1780 per her tombstone.
Dub's Union Cemetery, Manheim Township, York Co PA.
Email rec'd 19 & 22 Aug from Terry Wagner.NAME:
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.
MARRIAGE:
Elizabeth w/o Jacob Kerchner per her tombstone inscription.Dub's Union Cemetery, Manheim Township, York Co PA.
Email rec'd 19 & 22 Aug from Terry Wagner.
Record of the marriage of Elizabeth Bailey to Jacob Kerchner in 1803.
Index Card Files; Historical Society of York County Pa.
CENSUS:
Listed in 1830 census as female with several children.
1830; Codorus Twsp; York Co Pa; p.334; Elizabeth Kerchner with several small
children; apparently a widow. She was the 2nd wife of Jacob Kerchner who died
about 1828. Census data is a follows: males 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0, females
0-1-1-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0.
Her step-daughter, w/o Lewis Krebs, is living four households away from her.
1850; Manheim Twsp; York co PA; p.322b l.29; Elizabeth Churchner, age 80 (sic),
living in the household of Henry Shultz, 56, farmer, $600; Susan, age 33?, and
Jacob Robenstine, age 7.
DEATH:
Died 11 Sep 1858 per her tombstone inscription.
Dub's Union Cemetery, Manheim Township, York Co PA.
Email rec'd 19 & 22 Aug from Terry Wagner.
BURIAL:
Buried in Dub's Union Cemetery.
Dub's Union Cemetery, Manheim Township, York Co PA.
Email rec'd 19 & 22 Aug from Terry Wagner.
RELATIONSHIP:
Pedigree Chart for David Lewis Bailey received 29 Apr 1995.
Kerchner family research recs; David L. Bailey; Hernando FL.
Grave at St. Pauls (Dubs)
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born died row grave
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Kerchner | Elizabetg | | 9/2/1780 | 9/14/1858 | 4 | 20 | Married Jacob KerchnerBurried, Abt Sept 14, 1858 Dub's Union Cemetary, Manheim Twp., York County, PA
Charles Kerchner Research:
Attached is what I have on the Jacob Baehli family which was originally in the Albany Township area of Berks Co PA. Most I got from research with Mr. David Bailey of Hernando FL when we worked on the Baehli-Kerchner connection in 1995. But some I dug up like you on the internet and is not proven.
Albany Township, Berks Co PA, aka "Allemangel area" is in the n.e. section of Berks County just south of the Blue Mountain and was very much the wild and wooly "frontier" territory during the French and Indian Wars. Indians came over the mountain and raided that area frequently. And the settlers militia did likewise to the indians north of the Blue Mountain.
Many people left that area and went further south in PA and to MD to get away from hostile indians during that 1750-1780 time period and the time period leading up to the Rev. War. Many went even further south to North Carolina in what was known to those in this area that stayed behind as the "Carolina Fever". It is certain that the Baehli's were in Berks County PA from the Rev. Schumacher records and that they moved to York County PA area from records down there. We also know there were several Kerchner families in Berks Co PA from my decades of research into the various Kerchner families. And the Baehli and Kerchner families intermarried from York Co PA data.
Jacob Kerchner, Sr., married to two "Bailey" descendants of Jacob Baehli ... a daughter Susanna and then later a much younger bride via a granddaughter of Jacob Baehli named Elizabeth. This connection to a Berks County PA family is the reason why Donald Kerchner of Lenhartsville, Berks County PA, I, and a Mr. David Baehli of Hernando FL corresponded and had speculated back in 1995 a possible connection between the Jacob Kerchner line of York Co PA and the Berks County PA Kerchner line of Andreas Kerchner of Rockland and Greenwich Township Berks Co PA area. Andreas had a son and grandson named Jacob and descendants named Jacob. But they were all accounted for by other records ... or so we surmised at the time. We could never find anything concrete to point to. Hopefully your father's Y-DNA test will be that concrete connection.
Attached is what I have on the Jacob Baehli. Consider this a worksheet and work in process and not for further circulation until we prove were you fit in. I show your Sarah Bohlinger connected in with the George Kerchner, born 1804, linked in to this worksheet to show you how nicely it fits. The 1860 census I found of George Kerchaner born in PA and wife Sarah born in MD living in Manchester, Carroll Co MD, and George W. Kershner and wife Rachel both born in MD and living in New Windsor, Carroll Co MD, is a strong geographical clue that your line is a Kerchner line without the S and belongs to the Jacob Kerchner family of York Co PA. The 1880 census for George W. Kershner says he was born in MD, father born in PA and mother born in MD. And it looks like some of the Baehli family also ended up in OH too. So it all fits. The task is to conclusively link your George to the George, born 1804, s/o Jacob Kerchner and the orphans of Codorus Township, York Co PA. I believe that is where your line fits. But we need to prove it.
Date of birth is theory/best estimate of David Bailey.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
NAME:
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
Born about 1807.
Date of birth is theory/best estimate of David Bailey.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
NAME:
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
Date of birth is theory/best estimate.
Order of birth assumed as listed in orphan's court document P-245.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Was under age 14 in the year 1828 as per orphan's court document P-260.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-260; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
NAME:
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
Possible census records for her with her widowed mother.
1830; Codorus Twsp; York Co Pa; p.334; Elizabeth Kerchner with several small
children; apparently a widow. She was the 2nd wife of Jacob Kerchner who died
about 1828. Census data is a follows: males 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0, females
0-1-1-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0.
Her 1/2 sister, w/o Lewis Krebs, is living four households away from her.
1850; Manheim Twsp; York co PA; p.322b l.29; Elizabeth Churchner, age 80?(sic),
living in the household of Henry Shultz, 56, farmer, $600; Susan, age 33?, and
Jacob Robenstine, age 7.
RELATIONSHIP:
One Conrad Stroh was appointed the guardian for her by Orphan's Court in 1828.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-260; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Date of birth is theory/best estimate.
Order of birth assumed as listed in orphan's court document P-245.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Was under age 14 in the year 1828 as per orphan's court document P-260.
Was over age 14 in the year 1835 as per orphan's court document P-583.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
NAME:
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-245; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Kerchner family research recs; David Bailey; Hernando FL; ltr rec'd 30 Jun 95.
RELATIONSHIP:
One Conrad Stroh was appointed the guardian for her by Orphan's Court in 1828.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-260; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.
Conrad Stroh resigned in 1835 and one John Bortner was appointed her guardian.
Orphan Court Document (OCD) P-583; Hist Soc of York Co; York Co PA.