Mary Albrecht

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald - Vol. XXXIII, No 44 - January 30, 1941 page 943

Good, Mary, daughter of Peter and Catharine Albrecht, was born March 4, 1860, at Granville, Ill.; died at her home in Tiskilwa, Ill., Jan 3, 1941; aged 80 y. 9 m. 30 d. Sept. 4, 1894, she was united in marriage with Daniel Nafzinger of Bromfield, Neb. After spending the greater part of their married life on a farm near Buda, Ill., they moved to Tiskilwa where her husband passed away in 1927. June 8, 1937, she was married to Joseph C. Good of Washington, Ill., who died May 20, 1938. She leaves 1 brother (Joseph J. Albrecht of Princeton, Ill.) and many relatives and friends. Her father, mother, 2 brothers and 3 sisters preceded her in death. At an early age she united with the Willow Springs Mennonite Church near Tiskilwa, of which she was a faithful member at the time of her death. Funeral services were conducted at the Willow Springs Church by the local pastor with burial in the adjoining cemetery.

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

Mary married Joseph C. Good on 8 Jun 1937. Joseph (son of Christian Guth (Good) and Jacobina Ehresman) was born on 6 Sep 1860 in Minier, Tazewell Co., IL; died on 20 May 1938; was buried in Gridley, McLean Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Immigration: 20 Apr 1836, Bremen to New York
• Naturalization: 29 Apr 1853

Notes:

Lived for many years in Putnam Co. on a farm near the village of Lombardville.

Can be found on the 1880 census of Macon, Bureau County.

Birth:
Grand Duchy of Baden

Naturalization:
Gave up allegiance to the Duke of Bavaria

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

Peter married Catharina Bircky (Burkey)IL. Catharina (daughter of Johannes Bircki (Burkey) and Veronica (Freni) Zwalter) was born on 4 Feb 1819 in Hemau, Bavaria, GR; died on 4 Mar 1895 in Macon, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1835

Notes:

Birth:
Maierhofen. Catharina Birki on birth entry

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver
• USR1: Pneumonia
• Immigration: 29 Apr 1836, NY

Notes:

Lived in a large community house at Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Germany in the early 19th century.
The family knew John Burkey, who had come to America several years earlier and were living in Illinois at Hennepin on the Illinois River.

See source no. for description of the journey to Illinois, began June 1836 from Bavaria. Landed in New York, boarded a boat and traveled by the Hudson River to Albany and the Erie canal to Buffalo. From there by the way of the Great Lakes, and landed Fort Dearborn (now Chicago). There they obtained a team and wagon they traveled overland to Hennepin in Bureau County. They walked that distance as a family of father, mother, twelve children and about that many grandchildren. The trip took over three weeks.

The first winter four of their children erected a one room log cabin in which the four families lived the next winter, having only the large old fashioned chimney fire place to cook with and keep them warm.

Birth:
Hermersbergerhof

Immigration:
18 Jun 1836 on the Orion from Bremen. In order to escape the military draft for his sons.

Buried:
Albrecht Family cemetery on the home farm

Christian married Elisabeth Engel on 2 Aug 1802 in Hochspeyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Jakob Engel and Anna Imhoff) was born on 23 Jul 1780 in Dermerstein, GR; died on 24 Nov 1842 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Pneumonia

Notes:

Birth:
near Kaiserslaughtern

Buried:
Albrecht Family Cemetery on home farm
Source 1292 says she is buried in Willow Springs Cemetery , Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL

Notes:

Married:
Near Kaiserslautern

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 192
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: Nassau-Weilburg, GR
• Residence: 1817, Riedenburg, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 1836, Hennepin, Putnam Co., IL

Notes:

Willow Springs Mennonite Church (Tiskilwa, Illinois, USA)

Willow Springs Mennonite Church, 1946
Scan courtesy Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen X-31.1, Box 17/28

Willow Springs Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located 4 miles south of Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, a mem­ber of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, was organized in 1836 as an Amish Mennonite congregation, the settlers having come mostly from Bavaria, Germany, plus a few from Butler County, Ohio. The Bavarians had first settled in 1835 in the Hennepin and Gran­ville neighborhood in Putnam County. After meet­ing in homes for 35 years the congregation built its first meetinghouse in 1873. This was destroyed by lightning in 1896, but was immediately rebuilt, and later enlarged several times.

Three subsidiary groups have been formed from Willow Springs: Ohio Station in the north central part of the county 1840-1915, which never developed into a congregation; Sheffield in the western part of the county 1943-1950; and the Tiskilwa Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite), which was formed in 1911 when a group withdrew to join the Central Illinois Mennonite Conference.

The first minister in the Hennepin community was Jacob Burkey of Hesse, Germany, who never lived in the Tiskilwa neighborhood. The Willow Springs congregation suffered for many years from inadequate and even absentee ministerial leadership and was not established on a sound basis until 1868, when Joseph Burkey, a minister at Tremont, Illinois, moved in and was ordained bishop a year later. His successor was C. A. Hartzler, a minister from Garden City, Missouri, who came in 1913 and was or­dained bishop a year later. C. W. Long was pastor in 1957, with a membership of 142.


“Once lived at Buscherhof, near to Lutterbacherhof, in Alsace. Herbert Holly found in a document “Johannes Bircky from Busherhof, in former times baronial Nassau-Weilburgerish.” (House of Nassau-Weilburg)

“Their daughter Barbe’s “civil birth entry described her parents as farmer Jean Perky and his wife Svalter. It was signed 'Johannes Birki.”

“We found Buscherhof listed in the early 1700s as part of the parish that included Bouquenom, Harskirchen, Mittersheim, Neusarrewerden, Rimsdorf, Sarrewerden, Vibersviller, Willer, and Zollingen. This indicates that it was within 5 miles south or 11 miles west of the Lutterbacherhof. The Cassini map created in the late 1700s shows a Bouchert farm on the east side of Sarrewerden.

“We know of only one clue that might indicate their living place in Bavaria: when Christian Albrecht and Elizabeth Engel traveled directly to Hennepin, Putnam County in 1836, they were thought to be intentionally reuniting with friends John and Veronica (Solphonia). The Albrechts had lived in a large communal house at Kaiserslautern and on the Büdenhof estate at Sesslach; Sesslach is a medieval walled village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, about 200 miles east of Kaiserslautern. John and Veronica (Solphonia) had arrived at Hennepin in 1835, and hosted the Albrechts over their first year 1836-37. John is found as John Burkey Sr., 73, born in France, in the Putnam household of Peter Albrecht on the 1850 federal census; he does not appear on the 1860 census. “

“I found this text in Past and Present of Bureau County, describing the arrival of two Mennonite 'Burchey' families in Putnam County in 1835. That of John Burkey and Solphonia is mentioned second: "Mennonite Church of Indiantown: The first family of this sect came to Putnam County in 1835 or 1836, from Ohio. In the family, whose name was Burchey, were four boys, Daniel, Christian, Frederick, and Jacob, the latter being a minister of the gospel, and thus was a nucleus formed for the Mennonite church, which has been maintained up to the present time. About a year later came another family of the same name with four sturdy sons and one daughter (leaving four daughters in the mother country, Germany). Then from Germany also came Christian Albrecht with six sons and four daughters. Many others joined them from time to time. Until 1867 meetings were held in private parlors, once in three weeks, and till 1873, they met every two weeks."

“The couple farmed on La Canardière ['the farm stock yard', Ger. Entenhof or Antehof] at Gondrexange. Freni's sister Catherine Zwalter (born circa 1768), worked there as well with her husband Joseph Gascho (born circa 1773). In 1802 Johannes signed a lease contract at Steingaden, Bavaria.

“Son Andre’s civil birth entry describes his parents as Jean Perki, farmer at La Canardièr, and Fréne Svaltert. It was witnessed by Jean's brother André Perki, 21, of Bouquenom [now called Sarre-Union, adjacent to Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace]. It was signed 'Johannes Birki' and Andreas Birki. db

“The bann announcement announcing their intention to marry described them as Jean Perki, 22, and Freine Stavalter, 21. The couple farmed on La Canardière ['the farm stock yard', Ger. Entenhof or Antehof] at Gondrexange. Freni's sister Catherine Zwalter (born circa 1768), worked there as well with her husband Joseph Gascho (born circa 1773). In 1802 Johannes signed a lease contract at Steingaden, Bavaria. The name Christian Bürcky also appears on that document; this individual could not be identified with certainty.313 Another document signed there in 1804 describes only Johannes of Buscherhof, the German name of his family's prior home in Lower Alsace. An additional document names Johannes Birki and 'cousin' Friedrich Hage.314 Johannes and Freni also lived at Obersanding (15 miles south of Regensburg), then purchased the Hellerhof estate there in 1826. It was put up for auction in 1836, the same year that Johannes and Freni emigrated from Europe, and sold in 1839. The packet ship Charles Carroll sailed from Le Havre, and arrived at New York May 12, 1836. Its passenger list shows farmer John Berkie, 52; Fenica, 56; farmer Andrew, 30; Madeline, 17 [this may have been Magdalena Albrecht, who married Andrew in 1838; her name is marked with an 'x' and a note that she delivered a female child May 7]; John, 21; Catherine, 16; and Nicholas [actually Joseph], 20. They settled at Hennepin, Putnam County (adjacent to Granville), and hosted the Albrechts over their first year 1836-37.”

The index to the civil records of Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace indicates an entry for the birth of Johannes Birki Sept. 17, 1801. Note that the next listed child Andreas/Andrew was born nine months later, substantially lessening the likelihood that Johannes belongs with this family. However, the actual entry is omitted from the online archives, so the parents cannot be identified with certainty.

Residence:
Busherhof (Lorraine), in former times baronial Nassau-Weilburgerish. (House of Nassau-Weilburg)

Residence:
The family moved from Schildschwaig to Maierhofen, at Hemau near Riedenburg. His brother Andreas and family were living nearby on Flugelsberg near Prunn/Brunn.

Immigration:
Request to emigrate. Left with children and son-in-law Peter Roggy.

Buried:
Probably Putnam Co., IL

Johannes married Veronica (Freni) Zwalter on 27 Feb 1798 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR. Veronica (daughter of Christian Zwalter and Marie Risser) was born in 1780; died before 1850 in Putnam Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1835

Notes:

From Gondrexange, Moselle, FR.

Notes:

according to civil status acts:?1798-02-27 Gondrexange Marriage : Perki Jean marie à Frene zwalter le 9 ventose to 6?[ 02.27.1798 ] , according to Otto , Jean son of Jean Perky senior & Elizabeth Ruby, witness Schwager?Gascho

Married:
in the Dieuze Ponds area. A witness was his brother-in-law Gascho.

Johannes married Magdalena Gingerich about 1776. Magdalena (daughter of Valentin Gungerich and Anna Nafziger) was born about 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver

Jakob + Anna Imhoff. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite
• Residence: late 1700s, Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace, FR
• Residence: Abt 1803, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 11 Jun 1803, Dehlingen, Völlerdingen, Alsace, FR
• Immigration: 1804, Dehlingen, Völlerdingen, Alsace, FR

Notes:

An entry from a document in Bern, Switzerland of emigrant families

Jan 1700
Benedikt Bürcky from Trimstein, Switzerland (abt 30 miles SE of Bern) moved to Griesbach, Alsace (Hanau-Lichtenberg)

3 Jun 1710
Christen Bürcky moving out from Switzerland

3 Apr 1727
Niclaus Bürcky from Höchststetten, Germany (Near Karlsruhe and Heidelberg) moved out with his children

19 Sep 1748 (This could be our Johannes)
Johannes Bürcky from Herblingen, Germany, moved to Zweibrücken/Palatinate/Germany.

Birth:
an estimation derived only from the birth year of his second wife

Residence:
Buscherhof, also near Saarewerden

Immigration:
Permission for emigration to Bavaria granted - from Lutterbacherhof

Immigration:
Buscherhof in Alsace to Steingaden, Bavaria

Johannes married Elisabeth Rubi about 1776. Elisabeth died about 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Died:
Witnessed by Christiane Neyhauser, 29, and Jean Rechely, 27. The Tables Decennale index of death entries describes him as Christianne Zvalteur, 60, husband of M. Richard.

Christian married Marie Risser in 1768. Marie was born in 1736; died on 4 Oct 1800 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Réchicourt le Château - Marie's civil death entry describes her as Marie Riseur, 65, wife of Christianne Zvalteur. It was reported by her son-in-law, Jean Perquy [Birki], 23. Christian Neyhouser [1767-1809] was a witness.