Anna Catherina (Zeller) Batdorf (abt. 1680 - aft. 1712)

Born about 1680 in Near Helmershausen Germany [uncertain]

Wife of Peter Batdorf — married about 1703 (to 1709) in Helmershausen, Helmershausen, Hesse, Heiliges Römisches Reich [uncertain]

Died after 1712 after about age 32 in New York

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Biography

NOTE: This profile represents a person most often known as Anna Battorfin--i.e., the widow of a Peter Batdorf. She is #18 on the Governor Hunter Sustenance Lists. A duplicate profile for Anna Catherina Batdorf for this person currently exists on Wikitree, but disagreements among the profile managers remain and perhaps it is best to not merge if/until agreement has been reached.

Jim Baucom concluded the following from his study of the Governor Hunter Sustenance lists and John Vallentine's 2012 book, The Tulpehocken Zellers and Their Descendants, and The Helmershausen church records found by the Hank Jones Team.

The Widow Anna Batdorf , maybe a Zeller or Maybe Not. NY Gov Hunter's subsistence records show Widow Anna Batdorf and her two stepchildren, Johannes Martin Batdorf and his sister Elizabeth Catherina living with Johannes Zeller and his father Johann George Zeller for the two years it was given. Kin always provide assistance and protection to a widow after her husband. dies. Kin are also named as executors of person's estate in their will. Immigrant Johannes Zeller's coexecutors were his his son Johann Henrich, Johannes Martin Batdorf and his sister's Husband Christian Weyland identified in his 1737 will. They had come with Johannes or a bit later to Tulpehocken PA. Widow Anna could have been a Zeller or Johannes Zeller's mother was Batdorf. They were obviously related.

Anna could have been anyone, not even related to the Zeller clan and the Zeller men would have still been welcome if Johannes's mother had been a sister of Peter Batdorf. The Batdorf children, would have been first cousins to Johannes and Henrich. The children would have grown up together at Helmershausen and maybe their mother started the journey to America with the group but died somewhere along the way.

Anna Catherina was probably born near Helmershausen Germany. She died after 1717, probably at New York .

Sources

• John F, Valentine Zeller Book

The Hank Jones Team discovery of Helmershausen church records