Anna Catharina (Merckel) Volck (1681 - 1762)

Born 1681 in Dirmstein bei Worms, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Wife of Andreas Volck Sr — married 1702 in Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1762 at about age 81 in Pennsylvania

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Biography

Anna Catharina (Anne Catherine) Merckel was born about 1681 in Dirmstein near Worms.^[1] Dirmstein records for this period are not available. In more recent records and publications, her surname appears as both Meckel and Merckel; the spelling Merckel is deemed more likely to be correct.^[2]

She married Andreas Volck in Germany by 1703.^[3]

Anna Catharina MERKEL / MERCKEL was dau of a Winzer or wine grower. She was 27 when immigr with husband to Hudson R Valley with Kocherthal group, and is shown on the London list June 28, 1708, arr. 31 Dec 1708.

17 Apr 1710 Anna Catharina VOLCK and Georg WEIGAND sponsored bapt of Georgius, b. Feb. 1 to Georg and Elisabetha LOOCKSTAD.

Other MERCKELs on the Kocherthal list may have included her parents or sibs: Anna Barbara, Eva, Elisabetha, Fridrich, Joh. Adam, Joh. Fridrich, Joh. Jacob, Maria Elisabetha all appear in the ritual records by Rev. ‘Kocherthal’. Many MERKELs show in Montgomery Co by 1734.

By 1735, Andreas and Catharina settled in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The family became Moravian.^[4]

See Moravian records. Two daughters and one son died.

Volck, Catherine Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society; p 394

Married Andreas Volck ca. 1698 in Germany.^[5]

She died on 2 January 1762, Allemangel, Berks County, Pennsylvania. She is listed as a member of the Allemangel, Pennsylvania Moravian Church^[6]

Alternate Death Place: Northampton, Northampton, Pennsylvania^[7]

Research Notes

The following baptismal record is NOT for Anna Catharina (Merckel) Volck. The child was baptized on 5 April 1680 and also died in 1680.

Name: Anna Catharina Merckhle^[8]

Gender: Female

Christening Date: 05 Apr 1680

Christening Place: Beinstein, Württemberg, Germany

Death Date: 1680

Name Note: Twin

Father's Name: Hannß. Wilhelm Merckhle

Mother's Name: Barbara

Sources

1. ↑ Dirmstein is a different place from Durnstein. The name was given as "Durnstein" in an old genealogy that circulated widely among Volck researchers, and it appears that way in most family trees, but it is wrong. -- Elizabeth Harris, October 25, 2014.
2. ↑ The 1708 Palatines, page 184, footnote 161.
3. ↑ The 1708 Palatines, page 184.
4. ↑ The 1708 Palatines, page 184, citing Charles Rhoades Roberts, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (Allentown: Lehigh Valley Publishing Company, 1924), 3:1339, 1642
5. ↑ Moravian Historical Society., . (1876). Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society. Nazareth, Pa. [etc.]: [s.n.]; page 394.
6. ↑ Lovell, Rosemary (Faulk). Owen County Cousins (J. G. Hauser, Inc., 1977) For repository information see: WorldCat, p. 1
7. ↑ :Does anyone have documentation on whether she died in Berks or Northampton County, Pennsylvania? "Hampshire" is incorrect in any case. It's not in Pennsylvania. -- Elizabeth Harris, October 25, 2014
8. ↑ "Deutschland, Geburten und Taufen 1558-1898," index, FamilySearch, Anna Catharina Merckhle, 05 Apr 1680 : accessed 19 Jan 2014; citing [REFERENCE-ERROR]; FHL microfilm 1056989. This is a different Anna Catharina

• Baptism: "U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989"
  Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; New York City Lutheran, Vol I, Book 85
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6961 #177480 (accessed 9 June 2022)
  Anna Catharina Volck baptism on 21 Jun 1719 (born 21 Nov 1718), daughter of Andreas Volck & Anna Catharina, in New York City, All Boroughs, New York, USA.

• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree: #42198024

See also:

• Graybill, Sylvia, "Moravian Church Records at th Allemengel," Jul of th Berks County Genealogical Society, vol. 20, nr. 1, Fall 1999, "Moravian Settlers in Kistler Valley," Jnl of the Berks County Genealogical Society, vol. 20, nr. 2, Winter 1999.

• MacWethy, Lou, The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley [Book], 1933 & reprints

• "The 1708 Palatines of Ulster County," compiled by Terri Bradshaw O’Neill and Patricia Law Hatcher. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 139 (2008). Page 165-185.

• The Volck Family on Ancestry.com