Anna “Barbara” Kissel (1707-1770) was born 17 Apr 1707 in Iggelheim, Germany, and was confirmed there on 28 Feb 1720 at age 12. She came to Pennsylvania with her father, stepmother, and siblings in 1729 at age 22. On 25 Dec 1733 Barbara married Vicenz Staufer (Vincent Stauffer) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Vincent was born on 24 Aug 1693 in Germany, immigrated to Lititz on 24 Aug 1728, died in Warwick on 4 Mar 1748, and was buried in the Moravian St. James Cemetery in Lititz.[1]
Anna Barbara was named in an Administration Bond as Barbara Stowfer, widow, on 25 Jun 1748 in estate records in the holdings of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and also in the Administrator's Account dated 2 Jun 1760.[2]On 28 Jan 1760 Barbara married her second husband, George Christoph Haller of York, Pennsylvania, who was a widower. Barbara died on 1 May 1770 in York, York County, Pennsylvania.
Anna Barbara Kiesel in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
Name: Anna Barbara Kiesel
Relationship: Spouse
Birth Date: 17 Apr 1707
Marriage Date: 25 Dec 1733
Death Date: 1 May 1770
Household Members (Name) Relationship
Vincent Stauffer (Head)
Anna Barbara Stauffer (Child)
Anna Barbara Kiesel (Spouse)
John Vincent Stauffer (Child)
John George Kiesel (Father-in-law)
Frederick Stauffer (Child)
Christina Margaret (Mother-in-law)
John Stauffer (Child)
Christiana Stauffer (Child)
Daniel George Stauffer (Child)
Anna Margaret Stauffer (Child)
John Henry Stauffer (Child)
Anna Barbara Kiessel in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Anna Barbara Kiessel
Arrival Year: 1729
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Primary Immigrant: Kiessel, Anna Barbara
Source Publication Code: 1732
Annotation: Concerns the Church of the Brethren in the early 18th century. Lists passengers in the ship Allen from Rotterdam, September 11, 1729, to Pennsylvania. Includes 59 Palatine families, 126 persons in all, pp. 296-298. Other movement, four men with families,
Source Bibliography: DURNBAUGH, DONALD F., compiler and translator European Origins of the Brethren. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1958, pp. 296-302.
↑John George Kissel (1679-1762) and His Descendants, by Randy Kissell, 7/18/2022.
↑ Victor A. Young, “Stephen Weible 1741-1823 and his wife Elizabeth about 1746- post 1823 probably married 1764: immigrated 1764, migrated from Adams County, Pennsylvania to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1804,” assembled by Victor A. Young 2007, page 10, found on FamilySearch.org.
Source information: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, Provo, UT, USA. Repository information: Ancestry.com. http://www.Ancestry.com
Source Citation: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1729; Page Number: 297. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Acknowledgements
The profile Kiesel-3 was created through the import of Pioneer Stock.GED on October 31, 2010.
The profile Kiesel-11 was created through the import of Eowyn.ged on April 6, 2012 by Eowyn Langholf.
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