Cleo writes that the Michael Holt who witnessed the will of George Clore was probably the son of the immigrant Michael Holt. She goes on to say that he married, first, Elizabeth Margaret O'Neill. The immigrant Michael Clore had a daughter Agnes who married Michael O'Neill, or O'Neal. Assuming Elizabeth Margaret O'Neill was a daughter of Agnes, then Michael Holt who witnessed the will of George Clore was a nephew (by marriage) of George. We saw there was another relative who witnessed the will of George and that was John Clore, his brother. We are left with Michael Russell, or Rossel.
Michael Russell left a will in 1777 which names a wife Maria, sons Elijah, John, and William, and daughters Hanna Rice, Elizabeth Russell, Frances Lakey, and Millie.
Hanna Rice and her husband Benjamin had a child, namely Franke, baptized in 1777 at the German church. The sponsors were Michael Schneider and his wife Mary Delph. Michael Schneider was an executor of the will of Conrad Delph who had married Anna Magdalena Castler.
Back to the will of Michael Russell, it was witnessed by George Hume, Michael Delph, and Geo. Resor. I believe that George Hume married a Crigler girl, so the witnesses have the look of Germans which tends to make Michael Rossel look more German. Michael Delph, witness to Michael Rossel's will, was a brother to Mary who married Michael Schneider.
Out of all of this, these names tend to occur together: Rossel, Delph, Castler, Klug (Rev. Klug married a daughter of Castler), Schneider, and perhaps the Resors and the Deers. There was another way in which the Klugs and the Rossels were associated. Ephraim Klug was the father of Sara by an unspecified Rossel girl (Elizabeth or Millie?). At the baptism of this child by Rev. Frank, one of the sponsors was Maria Rossel, which would appear to be the mother of the girl. Another sponsor was Johannes Frey who might be related to the Mary Frey who married Peter Clore, a son of George Clore with whom we started above.
It is obvious that we have a complex of families where we do not understand the relationships which seem to exist.
I was hoping to have more of a response on the guardianship of Peter Weaver. There is still time to send your comments.
(01 Apr 03)
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