Another warrant and survey also shows the name of Tivall,
This is a third item to mention the name Tivall. We have had Christian, Henry, and an unspecified one. The last one quoted seems to say that they could have been residents of the Robinson River Valley.
Aside from the references in the last note and this one, I am not aware of any other reference to the name. We do note that Christian Tival, who was the owner for at least a short period of time of two separate warrants for land, always assigned the warrant or survey to Theobald Christler. He seems never to have pursued or taken a grant on the lands. (Looking for a grant to Crisler in this time frame, I do not find one to him either.)
Recently, I was looking through German records for the village of Neuenbürg, where the Blankenbakers, Fleshmans, and Thomases were from. There was one name that struck me, especially because the German pastors were having a lot of trouble spelling the name. Then as I thought about the name, I remembered there was a later association between that name and some of the Germanna names. There were only a few references, but the compiler of the information, a German, lumped together Debelt, Debold, and Debolt. In a nearby village there were some more variations such as Diebold.
I then remembered that Michael Crisler, the son of Theobald Crisler and Rosina Gaar, had married the widow Mary Ann (Thomas) Debolt. Mary Ann Thomas was the daughter of Michael Thomas, the son of John Thomas and Anna Maria Blankenbaker, both of Neuenbuerg. It seems to me that a connection had been carried from Neuenbuerg to America.
Next, remembering that the Germans even had trouble spelling the name, I begin wondering about the confusing between "t" and "d" and between "b" and "v". In the soundex system these are equivalent sounds. So could Tivall have been derived from Diebold? In America, a connection between the Diebold and Gaar families was established by the marriage of Christian Tivall to the unnamed daughter of Andreas Gaar. When Mary Ann Thomas Debolt was left a widow, Michael Crisler stepped to the plate and married her.
I believe the only place so far that I have encountered the Debolt name has been in southwest Pennsylvania. In the 1770s, this area around Red Stone Fort was thought to be a part of Virginia. Many members of the Thomas family had moved there at this time.
Aren't warrants and surveys a lot of fun? [See you at the Germanna Reunion.]
(18 Jul 02)
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