Andrew Garr has been discussed in these notes before and a search on the name may be made by the use of the RootsWeb capabilities. Twelve children were born to Andreas Gar and Eva Seidelmann, but only four of these survived. Three of the children died in July of 1727, in Bavaria, where the family originated. The six surviving members arrived on the ship Loyal Judith at Philadelphia on 25 Sept 1732 (Rupp, " Thirty Thousand Names "). The family lived for a while in Germantown outside Philadelphia, but moved within a short time to the Robinson River Valley in Virginia. Their reasons for this move are unknown.
The four surviving children were:
John Adam married Elizabeth Kaifer, several years younger than he, and she was the daughter of Anna Maria Blankenbaker and Michael Kaifer (see the will of Michael Kaifer). Anna Maria was the widow of John Thomas, who died perhaps about 1720. John Adam and Elizabeth were the parents of six children:
Elizabeth Wilhoit was the daughter of Adam Wilhoit and Catherine Broyles.
Catherine Weaver was the daughter of Peter Weaver and his wife Elizabeth ?.
Margaret Crigler was the daughter of Nicholas Crigler and Margaret Kaifer.
Adam Fisher and Stephen Fisher were the sons of Lewis Fisher and Anna Barbara Blankenbaker.
I know very little about the Dickens family and perhaps others could add some information about Benjamin Dickens. I do not even know if the Dickens family was German or English.
The Gar/Garr/Gaar family and the Blankenbaker family shared a number of ancestors at this early time, as three of the four children of Andrew Gar and Eva Seidelmann married individuals who had a Blankenbaker ancestor. Since all of the descendants in America who are named Gar/Gaar/Garr have either John Adam or Lorenz (Lawrence) as an ancestor, they also have a Blankenbaker ancestor. Those Garr descendants, through the Fishers, have two Blankenbaker ancestors, Balthasar and Anna Maria.
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