Recent notes on the list have given some names and relationships which I do not believe are true. One note said that the wife of Johann Michael Willheit, early Germanna immigrant, was Mary Blankenbaker. This is definitely false. His wife was Anna Maria Hengsteller , and she was the mother of all of Michael's children.
The senior Willheit had a son John, who married Walburga Weaver. Often her name is given as Margaret, or Peggy, which is not correct. At the Hebron church she was known as Burga . This, and her nickname as a headright, suggest strongly that her formal name was Walburga, which is also sometimes spelled as Waldburga. Her birth is not recorded in the German records, yet she was living at the time of importation; so, one must assume that she was born at sea; the age of her parents, and siblings, suggests that this is the case. She had a brother, slightly older, who became known as Peter Weaver. Her father was Joseph Weaver, and her mother was Susanna Clore, who later married Jacob Crigler, and then Nicholas Yager.
Nicholas Wilhoit, the son of John and Walburga in the preceding paragraph, married Mary Margaret Fisher, not Elizabeth Fisher, or Mary Elizabeth Fisher. Nicholas and his wife are mentioned in the Hebron church records, in the Robinson River Valley, where her name appears as Mary AND as Margaret. This was not unusual, as several similar cases are known in the church records. The odds are in favor of the name sequence being Mary Margaret (as opposed to Margaret Mary) since Mary is more popular as a first name than Margaret.
It has been said here recently that Michael Souther married a Mary Fisher. I would not argue against this, but I would claim that she is not a daughter of Lewis Fisher and Anna Barbara Blankenbaker. An analysis that I have done, of the children of Lewis and Anna Barbara, clearly suggests there was no daughter Mary, except for the Mary Margaret who married Nicholas Wilhoit. (See paragraph above.)
Here is an idea to think about. In the Orange County tithe list in 1739, there were two Lewis Fishers, one of whom lived north of the Robinson River and one of whom lived south of the river. In the baptism of Zimmermann children in Sulzfeld, Germany, one set of sponsors is Ludwig and Anna Barbara Fischer (as found and reported by Margaret James Squires). While this couple would be too old to be the Lewis and Anna Barbara that we commonly know in Virginia, the Sulzfeld couple might be the parents of the Lewis Fisher. The senior Lewis may have had more children than Lewis, Jr., and the nephews and nieces of Lewis, Jr., may be confused with his own children. Nothing is proven here yet but I pass along these ideas and facts for someone who wishes to search in more detail.
Finally, a few correct spellings are Baden, Württemberg or Wuerttemberg, and Schwaigern.
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.