Magdalena Jordy
1779 - 1816 (37 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Magdalena Jordy was born in 1779 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR (daughter of Johannes (Jean) Jordy and Barbara Esch (Oesch, Eschem)); died on 12 Dec 1816 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR. Notes:
Died:
Her death was reported by Jacques Kuntz and Louis Epigage and her parents were identified as Jean Jordy and Barbara “Eschen.”
2. Johannes (Jean) Jordy was born in 1750 in Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, GR (son of Johannes Jordi and Verena Lang); died in 1803 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Farmer
- Residence: Trippstadt, Palatinate, GR
- Residence: Bef 1803, Windstein, Wissembourg, Alsace, FR
Notes:
“The family moved from the Trippstadt, Germany area, to Windstein, Alsace, France, some 50 miles to the south. The timing of this move is uncertain. It is clear that their children were born on the Wilensteinerhof hear Trippstadt, and that the family was in Winstein, France before Johannes died in 1803.”
Birth:
Probably on Lichtenbrunnerhof near KaiserslauternJohannes + Barbara Esch (Oesch, Eschem). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Barbara Esch (Oesch, Eschem) Notes:
Ancestry unknown.
Children:
- Jakob Jordy was born about 1778.
- 1. Magdalena Jordy was born in 1779 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 12 Dec 1816 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR.
- Catharina Jordy was born about 1781 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 9 Jun 1817 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR.
Generation: 3
4. Johannes Jordi (son of Jakob Jordi). Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1752
- Residence: 1753, Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, GR
- Residence: 1765, Eselsfurth, Kaiserslautern, GR
Notes:
“In 1753 Johannes was on the Lichtenbrunnerhof near Kaiserslautern with a wife, two children and one farmhand. According to the census data, he had lived there for 18 years. By 1759 Johannes was a temporary tenant with Franz Dellmuth on the Bremerhof estate (on the south edge of Kaiserslautern). With him was his wife, Verena Lang, two sons (jean 8 1/2, and Jakob, 1 1/2, and two daughters Anne 12, and Verena 5. By 1765 Johannes and family had relocated to Eselsfurth on the northeast edge of Kaiserslautern where their fifth child, Magdalena was born.”
Residence:
administrative district of Hoheneken
Residence:
Lichtenbrunnerhof (Lichtenbergerhof?) Lived there 18 years.
Residence:
northeast edge of KaiserslauternJohannes + Verena Lang. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Verena Lang Children:
- Anna Jordy was born in 1747 in Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, GR.
- 2. Johannes (Jean) Jordy was born in 1750 in Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, GR; died in 1803 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, FR.
- Verena Jordi was born in 1752 in Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, GR.
- Jakob Jordy was born about Jan 1758 in Eselsfurth, Kaiserslautern, GR; died in 1794 in Trippstadt, Palatinate, GR.
- Magdalena Jordi was born in 1764 in Eselsfurth, Kaiserslautern, GR; died on 24 Jul 1814 in Mittelbach-Hengstbach, Palatinate, GR.
Generation: 4
8. Jakob Jordi Other Events and Attributes:
- EARL: Y
- Religion: Amish
- Residence: 1715, Belfort, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR
Notes:
The Jordi family shares nearly identical Y-DNA with the families Joder, Zimmerman, Martin, and Ernst. The DNA evidence implied that these five families share a common ancestor, born ca. 1000 AD. . . . The Jordi and Joders may have indirectly taken their names from Theodor of Graymont, the first bishop of Octodorum (now Martigny in Canton Valais).
Jakob Jordi did not initially go far from Ste. Marie-aux-Mines. In 1715, he is identified as a member of the Amish congregation in Belfort, France, some 75 miles south of Ste. Marie-aux-Mines. Jakob Jordi of Belfort and his wife (identity unknown) had at least three sons.
Residence:
Identified as member of the congregation there.Children:
- C. Jordi
- Hans Jakob Jordi was born in 1708.
- 4. Johannes Jordi