Picking up some of the earlier history of the previous note, the parents of Johann Michael Volck were Michael Volck and Margaretha Albrect (or Albrecht). The grandfathers of Johann Michael Volck were Martin Volck and Hans Georg Albrect. Johann Michael Volck was born 29 January 1663 at Wagonbach. This last piece of information is from Gary Zimmerman and Johni Cerny in the Before Germanna series.
Anna Barbara Majer's father was Hans Majer of Wolfartweyher, which has not been identified, at least to the extent that we have not been able to identify the Majer family.
In speaking of dates and calendars, the church records in Germany say that Maria Sabina Volck was christened 19 Mar 1710. John Hoffman in his family Bible said that her birthday was 29 Mar 1710. There was an eleven-day difference between the old style calendar in Virginia and the new style calendar in Germany. Is this the answer? No, it isn't. The date 19 Mar 1710 in Germany would have been 8 Mar 1709 in Virginia. (The old style calendar was running late by eleven days and the new year did not start until March 25.) This is not an unusual case and we are left wondering what the explanation of such situations are.
Zimmerman and Cerny found the birth record of Hans Jorg (Johann Georg) Utz at Haundorf (born at Seiderzell though). He was christened 12 April 1693. So Anna Barbara Majer was married to two men, born at significantly different times. Her first husband was born in 1663 and her second husband was born in 1693, a thirty-year difference. If she was 15 years of age when she married Johann Michael Volck in 1709, then she was born in 1694 and would have been about the same age as George Utz. If she was about the same age as Johann Michael Volck, then she would have been significantly older than George Utz.
For a variety of excellent reasons, several of us would like to find the history of Anna Barbara Majer, but all efforts have been frustrated so far. She apparently died about 1741, when she ceased being a sponsor for the children of John Hoffman and Maria Sabina Volck.
Let me mention briefly the children of John Hoffman by his first wife, Anna Catharine Häger. The sponsor at the birth of the first child was Agnes, the sister of his wife, Anna Catharine Häger. At the second child, the witness was John's father-in-law, Henry Häger. The third child, Anna Catherine, had the sponsor Anna Catherine Häger, the mother of his wife. For the fourth child, John, the sponsor was John Fischbach, who had married Agnes Häger and, therefore, was the brother-in-law of the mother. My point is that all of these sponsors were relatives by blood or by marriage. None of them were chosen as friends.
(27 Nov 02)
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