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Anna Martha is no longer "UNKNOWN"! Her birth name was Köller, from Bieber Evangelisch church baptism records. Please change her 'surname at birth' to Köller (and/or the other variations), and remove "UNKNOWN".
Record of Anna Martha's baptism has been found at Bieber Evangelisch Parish.
Caution: Family files that name her Steigerwalt were made from a long-standing error caused by conflating Johan George Reitz and Johan Friedrich Reitz (who was long thought to be George's brother). [This serves as an example of the need for consistent means of incorporating saint names.] They are often named in family files as Johan G. and Johan F., rather than George and Friedrich, which made it easy to conflate them and assign an incorrect surname to Anna Martha.
Background Anna Margaretha Steigerwalt is documented to have been Johan Friedrich Reitz's wife, her surname was conflated to George's wife Anna Martha, in error. Some family files say Anna Margaretha's DOB is the same as that of Anna Martha. Some had supposed they were sisters, but the German researcher, Dr. Volker Jarren, who located and translated Anna Martha's marriage record to [johann] Georg Reitz, also researched for all daughters of Melchior Steigerwalt at Flörsbach and found none named Anna Martha.
[Johann] Georg Henrich Reitz, who was Anna Martha Koller's husband was the son of different parents than Johan Friedrich Reitz, of Lohrhaupten, and so Is not his brother, as was long thought.
However, a 7th generation direct-line male descendant of each, George and Friedrich, compared Y-DNA and were found to match. This match resulted in the creation of a new 'twig' on the human male tree, confirmed Haplogroup R-BY7749.
https://www.archion.de/en/viewer/?no_cache=1&type=churchRegister&uid=169643
BAPTISM Feb. 13, 1720 (Birth date not given) Image: Kurhessen-Waldeck: Landeskirliches Archiv Kassel > Gelnhausen > Bieber > KB 1709-1744, Bild 2056, via Archion.de
The following source may have assigned her an incorrect surname, as several thousand Ancestry family trees have done.
<<Note: above source returns "We’re sorry, this page is no longer available." (Nov 24 2021)>>
Instead, refer to her personal record at: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/68309103/person/190106451850/facts
or: https://tinyurl.com/43ktv53t
Most other Ancestry Family Trees still assign the wrong surname.
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All family trees based on the older source have no data for the surname they give. Any with a source cite another similarly-unsourced Ancestry family tree.
Thank you to Jeff Kline for creating WikiTree profile Martha-168 through the import of Schaffner_Branch.GED on Dec 5, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jeff and others.
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In January 2021 Anna Martha's marriage record to Johan George Reitz, and her baptism record were found at Bieber Evanglisch Parish; baptized Sept 13, 1720, birth date not specified, and m. Apr 16, 1744.
One with power and authority should removed "Unknown" from her surname, and replace with Koller/Köhler/Koeller. (I have tried, but cannot make the change.)