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: Abraham BURKHOLDER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 27 Dec 1768 b
  • Death: 15 Jun 1840 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Christian BURKHOLDER Birth: 1 Jun 1746 in Switzerland Death: 13 May 1809 in Farmersville, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Anna Mary GROFF Birth: Before 1739 Death: 13 Nov 1795 in Earl Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Christian BURKHOLDER Birth: 1793 Death: 1872
  2. Catherine BURKHOLDER Birth: 1795 Death: 1865
  3. Abraham BURKHOLDER Birth: 1798 Death: 1880
  4. Elizabeth BURKHOLDER Birth: 1800 Death: 1823
  5. Jonas BURKHOLDER Birth: 1803 Death: 1871
  6. Anna BURKHOLDER Birth: 1805 Death: 1874
  7. John BURKHOLDER Birth: 1807 Death: 1862
  8. Maria BURKHOLDER Birth: 1810 Death: 1891
  9. Susanna BURKHOLDER Birth: 1812 Death: 1852
  10. Samuel BURKHOLDER Birth: 1815 Death: 1858

Bibliography
  1. Groff, Christian Franz, Hans Groff Chart, 1864. Paradise, PA: Samuel S Wenger, 1979. Available at Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCF GROFF Chart].
  2. Groff, Clyde L, Walter B Groff, Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, Ronks, PA: Groff History Associates, 1985. NYPL APV (Groff) 86-1589 v1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p[0-9]*].
  3. 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: GroffCL GROFF p63],
parents:
[Ref: GroffCF GROFF Chart, GroffCL GROFF p63, WengerSS WENGER p1064]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p63]
Sources with Information about marriage to Catharine EBY
names:
[Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1064],
child:
[Ref: GroffCF GROFF Chart, GroffCL GROFF p60, GroffCL GROFF p63, GroffCL GROFF p64]
Research Notes:
Mennonite deacon [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p63]



Pedigree of Abraham BURKHOLDER
 /-----Christian BURKHOLDER
Abraham BURKHOLDER
|                                             /-----Hans GRAF
|                                    /-----Jakob GRAF
|                                   |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
|                           /-----Marx GRAF
|                          |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
|                          |         \-----Anna SPORRI
|                  /-----Hans GROFF
|         /-----Daniel GROFF
|        |        |                           /-----Peter KUNDIG
|        |        |                  /-----Jorg KUNDIG
|        |        |         /-----Hans Jagli KUNDIG
|        |        |        |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
|        |         \-----Susanna KENDIG
|        |                 |         /-----Martin MEILI
|        |                  \-----Elsbeth MEILI
|        |                           \-----Barbara BAR
 \-----Anna Mary GROFF
          \-----Ann Maria (GROFF)



Descendants of Abraham BURKHOLDER
1. Abraham BURKHOLDER m. Catharine EBY
m. Catharine EBY father: Christian EBY mother: Catharine BRICKER

2nd generation

2. Christian BURKHOLDER m. Veronica GROFF
m. Veronica GROFF father: John Myers GROFF mother: Christina SOUNDER

3rd generation

12. Seth BURKHOLDER m. Magdalena GROFF
m. Magdalena GROFF father: David M GROFF mother: Elizabeth FRANZ