Mary Birkey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite

Notes:

Obit:
Sutter, Mary, was born March 14, 1870, at Tremont, Ill., to Valentine and Elizabeth Birkey; died Oct. 11, 1952, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leroy Pierson; aged 82 y. 6 m. 28 d. She was married to Christian B. Sutter on Jan. 23, 1896. The family moved to the Tiskilwa community over 40 years ago and during these years she was a member of the Willow Springs Church. She was baptized and received into the church at Tremont, Ill., in 1899. Her husband and one son (Harvey) preceded her in death. She is survived by one son (Raymond, Princeton, Ill.), 2 daughters (Mrs. Leroy Person and Mrs. Rufus Bachman, both of Tiskilwa, Ill.), 4 grandchildren, and 2 brothers (Val, Princeton, Ill., and Joseph, Walnut, Ill.). Funeral services were held at the Willow Springs Church, Tiskilwa, Ill., in charge of C. Warren Long, with burial in the church cemetery.

Died:
At the home of her daughter

Mary married Christian B. Sutter on 23 Jan 1896. Christian (son of John (Johann) Sutter and Magdalena Good) was born on 23 Dec 1869 in Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL; died on 19 Sep 1940 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 172
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: Oct 1846, NY
• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth - July 15, 1901 - Page 222, 223
BIRKY - Valentine Birky was born on Oct. 12, 1821, and died June 28, 1901, aged 79 years, 8 months and 16 days. He came to America in 1846 and settled in Tazewell Co., Ill. In 1880* he was married to Elizabeth Springer. To this union were born thirteen children, three of whom preceded him to the spirit world. The deceased leaves ten children, twenty-four grandchildren, one great grandchild, three brothers, and three sisters to mourn his death. The funeral services were conducted by Jacob Ringenberg from Tiskilwa, and Peter Hochsettler, Groveland, Ill.
(*This is no doubt a transcription error, should be 1850.)

The 1850 census shows three couples family clustered next to Christian Bechler's property on the north side of Allentown Road (just west of what is now Pleasant Grove Cemetery): Walter Burkie, 26, Germany, and Elizabeth, 20; Andrew Burkie, 22, and Catherine, 18; Joseph Burkie, 28, Barbara, 25, and laborer Christian Springer, 15. In retrospect they appear to be Valentine Birky and Elizabeth Springer; Andrew Birky and Catherine Litwiller; and Joseph Birky and Barbara Eigsti; their incorrect ages may have been taken from travel documents prepared before their immigration.

Birth:
Normal birth at 2:00 a.m. with midwife N. Gunzler in Nymphenburg.
Father Valentin Birki, born in Lutterbach, Department of Strasbourg, farmer’s son.
[later hand] the above Birki now lives in Gern, farmer, community of Nymphenburg.

Immigration:
On Ship Kilby: Joseph, 29; Catherine Augustein, 21; Barbara Augustein, 20 (Joseph’s wife-to-be); plus Valentine Burkey, 26, Joseph’s brother, and Magdalena and Elisabeth, Joseph’s sisters. Catherine Augustein later married a John Burkey.

Census:
“Walter” Burkie, 26; Elizabeth 20

Buried:
Red Oak Cemetery

Valentin married Elizabeth Springer on 4 Feb 1850 in Tazewell Co., IL. Elizabeth (daughter of David Springer and Elizabeth Guth (Good)) was born on 24 Jul 1830 in Bavaria, GR; died on 30 Aug 1921 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 179

Notes:

Obit:
Birkey.-Elizabeth Birkey died Aug. 30, 1921, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. B. Sutter, Tiskilwa, Ill.; aged 91 y. 1 m. 8 d. She was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 22, 1830. She came to America with her parents at the age of nineteen. The family made their new home near Pekin, Ill. She was married to Valentine Birkey, Feb. 2, 1850, and lived on a farm near Tremont, Ill., for forty-three years, after which they moved to Tiskilwa for four years then to Ohio, where they made their home with their daughter, Mrs. Kathrine Albrecht. After the death of her husband, she made her home with her children. Early in life she united with the Mennonite Church and was a faithful member all her life. To them were born 13 children, 3 of whom died in infancy. She leaves 6 daughters (Mrs. Elizabeth Albrecht, Mrs. Magdalena Ioder, Mrs. Mary Sutter, Mrs. Fannie Schantz, Mrs. Katherine Albrecht, and Mrs. Anna Tschantz), 4 sons (John B., Valentine, David, and Joseph), 33 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, besides other relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted by C. A. Hartzler at the Evangelical Church, near Ohio, Ill., after which she was buried in the adjoining cemetery. Text, Psa. 90:2.

Her family sailed with the Birkys on the Minnesota. The 1880 census of Tremont lists their household as farmer Valentine Burkey, 59; Elisabeth Burkey, 48; and 7 children. Every member of the household is erroneously listed as a native of Berne with parents from Berne.

Birth:
near Munich

Died:
at the home of her daughter

Buried:
Red Oak 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: 21 Jun 1849, Solln To NY
• Naturalization: 11 Jan 1855, Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1857, Minier, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

The only child of Catherine and Johannes to have migrated to America. David lived at Solln, a southwestern Munich suburb, and sailed with his wife Elizabeth Guth on the Minnesota in 1849.

On 1 Apr 1844, Elisabeth Springer authorized her husband in Solln to realize the real estate.

Immigration:
via Liverpool, on ship Minnesota, with members of his family

Residence:
(David)

Buried:
Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery

David + Elizabeth Guth (Good). Elizabeth (daughter of Christian Guth and Barbara Güngerich) was born on 31 Jan 1803 in Busenberg, Palatinate, GR; died on 10 Sep 1849 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 133
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Birth:
Weissenb

Died:
Died shortly after arriving in Tremont

Buried:
Hirstein Cemetery

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 + Barbara Bircki. Barbara was born in 1748; died on 24 Jan 1826 in Perlach, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist
• USR1: Paralysis of the lungs

Notes:

Died:
At 78 years old

+ Magdalena Nafziger. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Mennonite

Notes:

Wife and five children (and one Domestique) receive passports on 16 Feb 1820. They are coming from Struth (with all Zehrs) near Strasbourg. He is born in Asweiler.

Birth:
Near Asswiller

Johannes married Katharina Zehr on 27 Jan 1798 in Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR. Katharina (daughter of Daniel Zehr and Catherine Zehr) was born on 15 Apr 1778 in Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 10 Sep 1849 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer’s Daughter
• Residence: 1819, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

Residence:
Solln, near Munich

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: To America
• Reference Number: 44
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: Palatinate, GR
• Residence: 1802, Augsburg, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

Christian, from Mehlingen, married into the Gingrich family and thus lived at the Gingrich family home of Bärenbrunnerhof for some time. This farm is still owned by the Guth family (in 1984 and yet in 2020).
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BÄRENBRUNNERHOF, PALATINATE, Germany

Christian Guth, Sr. (b. 1771) from Mehlingen, Germany, married into the Gingrich family that lived in their family home, Bärenbrunnerhof, in the Palatinate.

After Christian married Barbara Gingrich they moved in 1802 to Bavaria, near Augsburg, and from there they immigrated to the U.S. They had five children, two of whom were Christian and Elizabeth. These two, at least, emigrated to America and the immigrant Christian is Del's great great grandfather.

Residence:
Barrenbrunnenhof--after marriage into the Gingrich family

Residence:
Schweinbach and Burgwalden near Augsburg, after marriage to Barbara Gingerich.

Christian married Barbara Güngerich on 11 Dec 1801 in Busenberg, Palatinate, GR. Barbara (daughter of Christian Güngerich and Elizabeth Roggi) was born in 1780 in Mehlingen, Palatinate, GR; died in 1837. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 45
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Barbara was from the Bärenbrunnerhof. Moved to Burgwalden near Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1802 from Mehlingen in the Palatinate.

Birth:
Bärenbrunnerhof

Notes:

Marriage record found in village of Niederschettenbach, Palatinate, Germany.