Ina Katherine Birkey

Notes:

Buried:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Family/Spouse: Paul Henry Bartel. Paul was born on 19 Jul 1904; died on 25 Jun 2001; was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Bartel was born on 10 Nov 1931 in China; died on 20 Sep 2018 in Carol Stream, DuPage Co., IL.
2. Joan Bartel

Notes:

Buried:
Pleasant View Cemetery

John + Amelia Mary Burkey. Amelia (daughter of Christian Bircky (Burkey) and Catherine Klopfenstein) was born on 13 Feb 1869 in Eureka, Woodford Co., IL; died on 13 May 1940 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
FAG date is 16 May1940

Buried:
Pleasant View Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 185
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 21 Jun 1849, NY
• Naturalization: 18 Jan 1855, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Immigration:
via Liverpool, on ship Minnesota

Naturalization:
Declaration of Intent: Record #1-184

Buried:
Evangelical Mennonite Cemetery

Johann married Jacobina Hochstettler on 15 Mar 1858 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. Jacobina (daughter of Joseph Hochstettler and Jacobina (Phoebe) Gingerich) was born on 7 Nov 1835 in Meringerau/Siebernbrunn, Bavaria, GR; died on 30 Apr 1896 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 188

Notes:

Birth:
21 Jul 1830 in Berkey Book

Died:
6 Dec 1906 in Berkey Book

Notes:

Son of Christian Harry Burkey and Mary Marie (Stalter) Burkey
Husband of Catherine (Klopfenstein) Burkey 
(married 1866-1917)
Parents of Samuel D., Amelia Mary, Moses K., William Andrew, Daniel, Emma, Joseph, Katherine A. "Katie", John, Lydia S. and Benjamin Edward Burkey

Birth:
on the way from New Orleans to Illinois (1844?)

Died:
FAG date is 4 Mar 1929

Buried:
Pleasant View Cemetery

Christian married Catherine Klopfenstein in 1866. Catherine was born on 9 Jan 1843 in Belfort, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died on 5 Mar 1917 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Pleasant View Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: In Europe A Bauer (Farmer), In US A Farmer
• Reference Number: 36
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: Bef 1803, Völlerdingen, Alsace, FR
• Residence: ? 1803, Riedenburg, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1813, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 1825, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1815 - 1828, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 31 May 1828, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1830, Pellheim, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 8 Mar 1833, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 15 Apr 1841, Ludwigsfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Death: 12 Aug 1848, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1831-1849, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 21 Jun 1849, NY
• Census: 1850, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1860, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Valentine, father of thirteen children, all of whom emigrated to America, although not all at the same time, lived in Gern, Bavaria, when his children were born. The year after his wife died, Valentine, with some of his family came to America. He left Gern near Munich, Bavaria with five children, and with 10,000 fl., one of the larger amounts taken out of the country--much more than most immigrants. His brother Christian took the same amount. Valentine was of the "Little Red" Birky's. The family’s emigration is documented in Friedrich Blendinger’s material (the emigration to North America from the governmental district Upper Bavaria in the years 1846-1852, in: ZBLG (magazine for Bavarian national history) 27 (1964), p. 431-487. The magazine is on line with full text.

Birth:
Probably born at either Lutterbacherhof or Buscherhof (both near Sarre-Union and Rimsdorf). Lutterbacherhof is now a part of the Cultural Heritage Inventory Department Palais du Rhin. See https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA67006033

Residence:
Lutterbacherhof, near Saar-Union/Saarbrücken, FR

Residence:
Lived on rented farms with brother Andreas (Country court Riedenburg [Flugelsberg]), and with Christian (in County Court Munich.
Google translation :
Gern and Riedenburg
lt. deed of citizenship of
In 1828 he stayed until about 1815
with his brother on the
Wing mountain.

Residence:
Unterweilbach tenant, of Court Spreti, near Dachau.

PURC:
Purchased an estate in Arzbach from his brother Christian.

Residence:
Tenant at Unterweilbach.

Immigration:
Received France to Bavaria immigration permit. ”Here appears Valentin Bircky from Lutterbach in Alsace, 34 years old, father of seven children, five boys, and two girls, the oldest 13 years of age, the youngest two years of age, asking for permission to emigrate.”

Residence:
Arzbach estate (about 2 miles north of the center of Pellheim) called Schloss Pellheim.

PURC:
Purchased Kandler farm estate, house No 3 from Joseph Stalter, Elisabeth’s step-father.

PURC:
Mayerrhof, house No. 8, called “Wurzer estate in Ludwigsfeld near Munich, and Dachau.

Death:
Death of wife Elisabeth Unzicker

Residence:
Valentin moved with his family to his father-in-law living in Gern near Munich

Immigration:
Via Liverpool on ship Minnesota. Evidently the family was originally booked to depart with ship agent Karl Dick from Augsburg via Mannheim-LaHavre-New York. Plans must have changed since they ultimately arrived on the ship Minnesota, via Liverpool to New York.

Census:
Age 67, living with son Joseph and Barbara (Eigsti) Birky; also living there was Christian Springer, laborer.

Residence:
Year of his death

Buried:
Birky-Landes Cemetery, personal visit, Plot #36 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Valentin married Elisabeth Unzicker (Hunsiker) in 1812 in Munich, Bavaria, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Unzicker (Hunsicker) and Magdalena Nafziger) was born in 1796 in Breimthal, Heidelberg, Bavaria, GR; died on 12 Aug 1848 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR; was buried on 15 Aug 1848 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 37
• Religion: Mennonite
• USR1: Stroke

Notes:

Unzicker, originally Hunzicker= from Hunzicken, Canton Bern. The initial H was probably lost during a stay in France where an H is not pronounced at the beginning of a word.

















More likely, Elizabeth could have been a sister to Daniel b. 1798 who married Magdalena Kahn.}

Birth:
Near Wieslock and Heidelberg

Died:
Farmer’s wife, at age 54, on her father’s farm

Buried:
Gern Mennonite Cemetery

Notes:

Settlement of Valentine’s estate lists Joseph first and Jacob seond--the rest in the same order as here.

Married:
about 1812-1813 - 2,500 Guilders given to the bride and groom on the occasion of their marriage by the bride’s family.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Aft 1844, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Buried:
Landes Mennonite Cemetery (Birky/Landes), Plot #22 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Joseph + Jacobina (Phoebe) Gingerich. Jacobina was born about 15 Jun 1803 in Lauterbacherhof, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died on 7 Dec 1856; was buried in Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Landes Mennonite Cemetery, Plot #31 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farming and stock raiser
• Reference Number: 173
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 1842 or 1843, New Orleans, LA
• Census: 23 Jul 1860, Boynton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 4 Aug 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1881, Seward Co., NE

Notes:

Obit:
BURKEY. On the 6th of Nov. 1890, near Milford, Seward Co., Neb., Christian Burkey, aged 71 Y., 2M., 2 D. He lived in matrimony 51 years and leaves a wife, 11 children, 46 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren to mourn their loss. He was a member of the A. Mennonite church. Services were conducted by Jos. Schlegel from John 11:25, 26, and Jos. Gasho from 2 Cor. 5:1.


Following is an excerpt from 1878 History of Woodford County, Past and Present: “Burky, Christian. farmer and stock raiser; sec. 15; P.O. Metamora; was born in Bavaria, Germany Sept. 4, 1819; he was raised a farmer and came to this country in 1842, landing at New Orleans and proceeding up the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Peoria, where he remained a couple of weeks and then came to Woodford County; at the end of one year, however, he removed to Tazawell [sic] County, and resided there until 1875, when he returned to Woodford County. He was married in Germany in 1839 to Miss Mary Stalter, who was born in Bavaria in 1821. They have eleven children - Mary, Joseph, Christian, Phebe, Valentine, Elizabeth, Henry, Katie, Fannie, John and Barbara. He owns 80 acres of land valued at $4,800.”

Immigration:
Made their way up the Mississippi River toward Illinois.

Census:
Morton Twp. p. 181 Listed as head of household, with wife Mary and 10 children:
Joseph 19 b. Germany, Christian 16 b. Germany; Jacobine 15, Elizabeth 13, Valentine 12, Henry 10, Kate 8, John 6, Francis 4(F), Barbara 2--all born in IL.

Census:
Listed as Christian Burky, age 50, farmer, born Bavaria; wife Maria, age 48, keeping house, born Bavaria; Valentine age 21, farmer born Illinois; Henry age 19, farmer; Catharine age 18; John age 16; Veronika age 14; Barbara age 11, all born in Illinois

Residence:
Farm near Milford

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Christian married Maria (Mary) Stalter in 1838 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR. Maria (daughter of Heinrich Stalter and Jakobine Stalter) was born on 5 Mar 1820 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR; died on 3 Jan 1916 in Raymond, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 178
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Obituary: Jan 27, 1916 Gospel Herald
Burkey. - Mary Burkey (nee Stalter) was born Mar. 5, 1820, at Munich, Bavaria, Germany; died Jan. 3, 1916, at the home of her son at Raymond, Nebr.; aged 95 y. 9 m. 29 d. Married to Christian Burkey in 1838, came with him to America in 1843. To them were born 12 children, 1 died at birth, 1 in later years and 10 remain to mourn her departure. She also leaves 49 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She has always lived a beautiful Christian life and has enjoyed good health until the last 10 days when she was taken with lagrippe.

Died:
At home of son

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery