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  • Name: Henry WANNER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 12 May 1749 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 12 Feb 1835 in Hespeler, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada d
  • Burial: Wanner Cemetery, Hespeler, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Johannes WANNER Birth: Abt 1720 in Ittlingen, Germany Death: 18 Aug 1795 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  • Mother:
  • Mary K WEBER Birth: Abt 1726 in Blue Bell, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: Abt 1780 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:
  • Anna MUSSER on 1774 .m1
  • Anna MUSSER Birth: 18 Aug 1751 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 8 May 1823 in Hespeler, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada
Children:
  1. Mary WANNER Birth: 13 Apr 1774 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  2. John M WANNER Birth: 27 Sep 1775 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1 Feb 1848 in Hespeler, Waterlo Co, Ontario, Canada
  3. Anna K WANNER Birth: 9 Nov 1776 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 2 Jan 1814 in Hespeler, Waterlo Co, Ontario, Canada
  4. Veronica WANNER Birth: 18 Mar 1778 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  5. Barbara WANNER Birth: 4 Jan 1780 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  6. Elizabeth WANNER Birth: 25 Apr 1781 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 22 Nov 1858
  7. Christina WANNER Birth: 5 Oct 1782 in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 31 Jan 1835 in West Pensborough Twp, Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania
  8. Magdalena WANNER Birth: 1784 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1865
  9. Christian WANNER Birth: 1786 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: Abt 1809
  10. Henry WANNER Birth: 27 Feb 1788 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 12 May 1872 in Canada
  11. Tobias WANNER Birth: 16 Mar 1790 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 28 Jun 1845
  12. Susan WANNER Birth: 29 Nov 1791 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1888 in Preston, Ontario, Canada
  13. Esther WANNER Birth: 9 Jun 1796 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1864 in Canada

Bibliography
  1. Landis, Ira D, Early Lancaster County Mennonite Mussers, in Mennonite Research Journal vol 17 No 2, Apr 1976. LMHS. Available (for purchase) at https://www.lmhs.org/research/lmhs-publications/research-journal/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p[0-9]*].
  2. Musser, Edgar A, John Musser's Plantation in Southeast Lancaster, in Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol 83, no 3, Trinity 1979. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p[0-9]*].
  3. Musser, Edgar A, Musser Genealogy. Lancaster, PA: author, 1980. LMHS CS71.M9892 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p.*].
  4. Recker, Charles, People of the Marsh, Newsletter of the Musser Family 1972-75. Grenada Hills, CA: author, 1972-5. NYPL APV (Moser) 87-2041. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh [IVX]*#[0-9]p[0-9]].
  5. Stoltzfus, Irma Hess, Wanners - An Early Lancaster County Mennonite Family, Coatesville, PA: author, 1992. NYPL APV (Wanner) 93-3216. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p[0-9]*].
  6. Wenger, Samuel S, The Wenger Book, Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania German Heritage, 1978. NYPL APV (Wenger) 86-601. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]
1749 [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p12],
place:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p25],
parents:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p12]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p25],
place:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p25]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p25]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anna MUSSER
date:
[Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20],
names:
[Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14, MusserEA MUSSER p12, Stoltzfus WANNER p183, WengerSS WENGER p1087]
___ WANNER & Anna MUSSER [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p183],
child:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p16, MusserEA MUSSER p17, MusserEA MUSSER p19A, Recker PeopleMarsh III#5p2, Stoltzfus WANNER p25, Stoltzfus WANNER p38]
Research Notes:
1774: purchased 44 acres of land in Warwick Twp from Daniel and Esther Hollinger, recorded in Deed N-622 [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]

1774: purchased 100 acres of land in Warwick Twp from Henry and Catharina Sneider, recorded in Deed N-624 [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]

1780: living in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co, PA [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]

1782: paid 15 pounds 11 shillings taxes on 150 acres of land in Lancaster County [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]

1810: moved to a farm one mile north of modern-day Hespeler, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, along with three sons and five daughters and each of their families [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p20]

1837: Mennonites from the Hespeler area chose the Wanner farm as the location for a new Mennonite meetinghouse [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p21]



Pedigree of Henry WANNER
          /-----Jacob WANNER
 /-----Johannes WANNER
|        |                           /-----Jacob FUNK
|        |                  /-----Heini FUNK
|        |                 |         \-----Anna NAF
|        |         /-----Heinrich FUNK
|        |        |        |                  /-----Jacob MEILI
|        |        |        |         /-----Hans MEILI
|        |        |         \-----Katherine MEILI
|        |        |                  \-----Elsbeth HOCHSTRASSER
|         \-----Veronica FUNK
|                  \-----Veronica (FUNK)
Henry WANNER
|                                    /-----George WABER
|                           /-----Heinrich WABER
|                  /-----Hans WABER
|                 |        |         /-----Uli RUGGIN
|                 |         \-----Elsbeth RUGGIN
|         /-----Henry WEBER
 \-----Mary K WEBER
         |                                    /-----Peter KUNDIG
         |                           /-----Jorg KUNDIG
         |                  /-----Hans Heinrich KUNDIG
         |                 |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
         |         /-----Hans Jacob KUNDIG
         |        |         \-----Dorothea SCHARER
          \-----Maudlin KENDIG
                   \-----Susanna WYMANN



Descendants of Henry WANNER
1. Henry WANNER m. Anna MUSSER
m. Anna MUSSER father: Jacob MUSSER mother: Maria HERSHEY

2nd generation

3. John M WANNER m. Elizabeth WECKLIN
m. Elizabeth WECKLIN
4. Anna K WANNER m. Rudolph DETWEILER
m. Rudolph DETWEILER father: Rudolph DETWEILER
7. Elizabeth WANNER m. Peter MUSSER
m. Peter MUSSER
8. Christina WANNER m. Henry REIDENBACH
m. Henry REIDENBACH
9. Magdalena WANNER m. Christian WITMER
m. Christian WITMER father: Abraham WITMER mother: Anna STEINMAN
12. Tobias WANNER m. Catharine STRYCKER
m. Catharine STRYCKER father: Arnold STRYCKER
13. Susan WANNER m. John GROH
m. John GROH father: Michael GROH mother: Elizabeth WITMER
14. Esther WANNER m. Christian MILLER
m. Christian MILLER

3rd generation

31. Jacob MUSSER m. Anna GROH
m. Anna GROH father: John GROH mother: Susan WANNER
35. Henry MUSSER m. Maria REIST
m. Maria REIST father: John REIST mother: Susanna HUBER
37. Peter MUSSER m1. Susanna BEAR m2. Anna FORDNAY
m. Susanna BEAR
m. Anna FORDNAY
59. Elizabeth GROH m. Daniel REICHARD
m. Daniel REICHARD
61. Anna GROH m. Jacob MUSSER
m. Jacob MUSSER father: Peter MUSSER mother: Elizabeth WANNER
63. Mary GROH m. Jacob COBER
m. Jacob COBER

4th generation

102. Susannah REICHARD m. John LIVERGOOD
m. John LIVERGOOD
103. Christian REICHARD m. Matilda MARSCHAN
m. Matilda MARSCHAN
104. Barbara REICHARD m. John F BECKER
m. John F BECKER
105. Hannah REICHARD m. Moses MARTIN
m. Moses MARTIN
106. Levi REICHARD m. Mena SPREMAN
m. Mena SPREMAN
107. George REICHARD m. Julia Ann FOREMAN
m. Julia Ann FOREMAN
108. Mary REICHARD m. Abraham SHENK
m. Abraham SHENK
109. Elizabeth REICHARD m. Charles BAUMLER
m. Charles BAUMLER
110. Judith REICHARD m. Henry MAIN
m. Henry MAIN