Joseph Risser b. Abt 1780: The Schrock-Birkey Connection

Joseph Risser[1]

Male Abt 1780 -


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  • Name Joseph Risser 
    Birth Abt 1780  [1
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I5676  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2017 

    Father Joseph Risser,   b. Abt 1752   d. 26 Nov 1817, Gros-Réderching, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Mother Anne Marie Kropf,   b. Abt 1750   d. 4 Dec 1833, Gros-Réderching, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 83 years) 
    Family ID F10133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Magdalena Farney,   b. 1783, Bistroff, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 3 Aug 1814  Gros-Réderching, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • hamlet Singling
    Children 
     1. Jean Farny (Forney),   b. 14 Jul 1824, Gros-Réderching, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Dec 1908, Graymont, Livingston Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     2. Magdalena Farny (Forney),   b. 13 Apr 1828, Gros-Réderching, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1915, Wilmot, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    Family ID F3976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2018 

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • Of Singling.

      Joseph and Magdalena (Farny, Zehr) Risser employed a servant, Marie Farny. She was a niece of Magdalena, and a daughter of her brother Joseph Farny (b.1776) and Anne Neuhauser (b. 1772). In 1824, about a year after Magdalena (Farny, Zehr) Risser’s daughter Magdalena Zehr died at age ten, Marie Farny bore an illegitimate son, named John Farny. Joseph Risser was the biological father of Marie's son, and perhaps also the father of Marie’s illegitimate daughter born two/four years later, whom she named Magdalena Farny. This is according to an account told by the son's son Aaron Forney to his children.
      Because they were raised in the Risser home, in some records these two Farny children appear as John and Magdalena Risser. [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S795] Hope Kauffman Lind, Immigrant Ancestors of Peter Zehr (1874-1960).

    2. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co., Place.

    3. [S992] Includes some of Lorraine Roth’s work, Farny/Hirschi Family , (? (to be published)).


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