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: Ulrich WITMER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 24 Dec 1702 b
  • Death: 1768 in Rapho 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. Catherine WITMER Birth: Abt 1735 Death: Before 1791
  2. Peter WITMER Birth: Abt 1737
  3. John WITMER Birth: Abt 1739
  4. Jacob WITMER Birth: Abt 1742 Death: 1774 in Donegal, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  5. Christian WITMER Birth: Abt 1744
  6. Barbara WITMER Birth: Abt 1746
  7. Abraham WITMER Birth: Abt 1748
  8. Joseph WITMER Birth: Abt 1750
  9. Anna WITMER Birth: Abt 1752

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]*].
  4. Spaetzel, Roy C, History and genealogy of the Witmer family. Kitchener, Ontario: author, 1977. FHL JSMB 929.271 W781s. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Spaetzel WITMER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
1702 [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
abt 1702 [Ref: Best KENDIG p17],
parents:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003],
father:
[Ref: Best KENDIG p17, KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
brother:
Michael WITMER #96183 [Ref: Spaetzel WITMER p80]
Sources for death Information
date:
1769 [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]
Dec 1768 or Jan 1769 [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
will pro 1768 [Ref: Best KENDIG p17],
place:
[Ref: Best KENDIG p17, Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]
Research Notes:
emigrated on ship "Hope" in 1733 with father [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]

emigrated on "Hope" in 1733 with two brothers, Michael and Peter [Ref: Spaetzel WITMER p80]

settled in Rapho Twp, Lancaster Co, PA [Ref: KaufmanCF KAUFMAN p256]

1751: taxed at Rapho [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]

will dated 20 Dec 1768, pro 16 Jan 1769 [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]

heirs are listed on a deed dated 18 May 1791, Lancaster Co 3Y-552 [Ref: Jed Taylor 2/16/2003]



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



Descendants of Ulrich WITMER
1. Ulrich WITMER m.

2nd generation

5. Jacob WITMER m.
6. Christian WITMER m. Mary (WITMER)
m. Mary (WITMER)