Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John WITMER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 22 May 1713 b
  • Death: 1782 in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Michael WITMER Birth: 14 Feb 1668 Death: Abt 1746 in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Anna ROTH Death: Before 1733

Family:
Children:
  1. Jacob WITMER Death: 1807
  2. Catherine WITMER
  3. Barbara WITMER
  4. Magdalena WITMER

Bibliography
  1. Best, Jane Evans, Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Jan 1992. pp 2-18. LMHS Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Best KENDIG p[0-9]*].
  2. Taylor, Jed, Whitmer genealogy, private email, 2/16/2003. Author address: jtaylr2 at uiuc dot edu Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003].
  3. Kaufman, Charles Fahs, A Genealogy and History of the Kaufman-Coffman Families. York, PA: author, 1940. LHMS CS71.K212 1940. Available at http://books.google.com/books/?id=iBlWAAAAMAAJ. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
1713 [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
abt 1713 [Ref: Best KENDIG p17],
parents:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003],
father:
[Ref: Best KENDIG p17, KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
will pro 1782 [Ref: Best KENDIG p17],
place:
[Ref: Best KENDIG p17, Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
Research Notes:
1733: arrived Philadelphia with father, did not sign ship list [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]

1760: received a land grant in Manor Twp; likely the warrant was c1735 [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]



Pedigree of John WITMER
                   /-----Heini WITMER
          /-----Uri WITMER
         |         \-----Margareth BENTZ
 /-----Michael WITMER
John WITMER
|         /-----Ulrich ROTH
 \-----Anna ROTH



Descendants of John WITMER
1. John WITMER m.

2nd generation

2. Jacob WITMER m. Veronica KAUFFMAN
m. Veronica KAUFFMAN father: Johan Andreas KAUFFMAN mother: Elizabeth KNEISSLE