The Proeger Family · The people
Generation 9 — Earl's 6th-great-grandparents
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Generation 9 — Earl's 6th-great-grandparents
12 people
David Coffman
ProbableFather of Martin Coffman · on the Hawksbill 1741 · d. before 1779
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Evidence: Two Fairfax grants of 22 and 23 March 1779 call Martin Cofman 'Heir at Law of David Cofman decd.', a 1783 deed calls him David's 'Eldest son & Heir at Law', and David's widow swore to it on 22 March 1779, all read from the images; David bought 200 acres on the Hawksbill in May 1741 and was 'of Augusta County' in 1751. A Y-37 test on Martin's male line falls in the FTDNA Kauffman project's group for the 1726 immigrant Michael Kauffman of Massanutten. Weak or missing: No single record joins the heir of David to the Martin whose 1809 will names Samuel; no will, estate or death date for David is found; no record seen names his father: that he was a son of the 1726 immigrant Michael rests on that Y-DNA, the 1749 will and bond and a 2020 secondary article not yet seen. The 'Pioneer Michael' (d. 1717) parentage is contradicted by Michael's 1737 patent and John Coffman's heirs of 1759. That he is the David Kauffman of the 1749 Massanutten will and bond is Possible, and the Y-DNA rests on one 37-marker test. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Nancy Harshbarger
ProbableWidow of David Coffman · alive 1779
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- 2
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Evidence: On 22 March 1779, read from the image, Nancy Harshbarger affirmed that Martin Cofman was the true heir of David Cofman deceased and gave up her thirds of the land; the docket calls it the widow's dower relinquished. Weak or missing: She is David's widow only by that dower release; no record calls Martin her son, so she is only possibly his mother; her maiden name, birth and death are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Frances Tandy
ProbableProbable mother of Jane Burris · wife of Thomas Burris
- Died
- Not found
- Sources
- 4
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Evidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 112604 names Frances Tandy as Thomas Burris's wife in Jane Burris's numbered line, and Thomas Burrus's 1788 will names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush. Weak or missing: Only compiled lineage books give her maiden name; the will gives no surname and does not say Frances was Jane's mother, and no original record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Lieut. John Martin
ProbableProbable father of Rachel Martin Bush
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Evidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 and the 1915 SAR supplemental on no. 27139 name John Martin as Rachel Martin Bush's father, and a FamilySearch christening index has a Rachel Martin born 1768 in St James Northam, Goochland, to John Martin and Rachel Pace. Weak or missing: All compiled or index-only; no will, deed or register names Rachel as his daughter, the 1768 christening matches her only by name, place and date, and the mother is Pierce in the books but Pace in the index. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Rachel Pace Martin
ProbableProbable mother of Rachel Martin Bush · Pace or Pierce
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Evidence: A FamilySearch christening index names Rachel Martin (born 22 August 1768, St James Northam, Goochland) as the daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace; an index of a printed register has a John Martin marrying Rachel Peace or Pace there in 1757; the Pace family book agrees. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image; the 1768 child matches our Rachel only by name, parish and date; the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Johann Caspar Pröger
ConfirmedGrandfather of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1714–1777
- Born
- 21 March 1714
- Parents
- Hans (Johann) Pröger
- Married
- Margaretha Bullinger
- Children
- Johann Michael Pröger
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- 5
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Margaretha Bullinger
ConfirmedWife of Johann Caspar Pröger · d. 1762
- Born
- Not found
- Died
- 7 September 1762
- Children
- Johann Michael Pröger
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- 4
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Georg Michael Raisig
ConfirmedFather of Anna Margaretha Raisig · 1712–1744
- Born
- 26 September 1712
- Buried
- 28 October 1744
- Parents
- Hans Raisig
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- 3
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Anna Barbara Groß
ConfirmedMother of Anna Margaretha Raisig
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- Not found
- Died
- Not found
- Parents
- Georg Caspar Groß
- Married
- Georg Michael Raisig
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- 2
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Eva Margaretha Stapf
ProbableProbable mother of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
- Born
- Not found
- Died
- Not found
- Parents
- Andreas Stapf & Wollmershausen
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- 3
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Evidence: The 1743 Gerabronn baptism of Maria Margaretha names her mother as Johann Adam Scheuermann's wife Eva Margaretha (the clerk corrected Maria to Eva), and the 1742 marriage register, with the same correction, makes Eva Margaretha the daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen; both read from the register images. Weak or missing: Johann Adam was a widower in January 1742 and the 1766 marriage names only the bride's father, so an elder Maria Margaretha by his first wife is not ruled out; the day of the 1743 baptism is on an unread leaf. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Johann Adam Scheuermann
ConfirmedFather of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
- Born
- Not found
- Died
- Not found
- Children
- Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
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- 3
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Eva Barbara (Renk)
ConfirmedMother of Georg Michael Renk
- Married
- Georg Sebastian Renk
- Children
- Georg Michael Renk
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- 3
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