Anna Barbara Binckele

Female 1722 - 1791  (68 years)


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  • Name Anna Barbara Binckele 
    Birth 1 Jun 1722  Solbach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • date of birth in Rothau records given as 19 May 1722
    Gender Female 
    Death 6 Jan 1791  Stokes County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I41805  South Central Pennsylvania Families
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2024 

    Father Johannes Binckele,   b. Bef 25 Mar 1694, Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 11 Oct 1770, Cumru Township, Berks County, Province of Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margaretha Weissenbach,   b. Bef 7 Nov 1697, Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. alive at writing of husband's will 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F14809  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Valentin Frey,   b. 9 May 1721, Wingen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1798, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage May 1742  Muddy Creek Lutheran Church Register, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Michael Frey,   b. 8 Jan 1745   d. same child as other Michael?  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Peter Frey,   b. 23 Sep 1746  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Valentin Frey,   b. 18 Mar 1748  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Anna Maria Frey,   b. 27 Oct 1749  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Henrich Frey,   b. 14 Jan 1751  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Johannes Frey,   b. 25 Dec 1753  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Maria Margaretha Frey,   b. 18 Sep 1755, Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Anna Rosina Frey,   b. 27 Aug 1757  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. Christina Frey,   b. 22 Nov 1759  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     10. Unnamed Frey,   b. 23 Aug 1762   d. 23 Aug 1762 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     11. Tobias Frey,   b. 10 Jan 1764  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     12. Anna Barbara Frey,   b. 6 Mar 1743  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     13. Michael Frey,   b. Bef 28 Apr 1744  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F2380  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2024 

    Family 2 Mathias Meyer   d. Bef 1743, Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Anna Catharina Meyer,   b. Sep 1739  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Elisabeth Meyer,   b. Jan 1741  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F2381  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Jun 1722 - Solbach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Jan 1791 - Stokes County, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Waldersbach Reformed KB:

      Jean Binkely (or Pinckeli) and his wife Marguerite Weisbach (also Weissenbach) of Solbach had baptized:
      1. Jean, born 3 Sep 1718, baptized 4 Sep 1718
      2. Marie, born 24 Jan 1721, baptized 26 Jan 1721-died 8 Feb 1721
      3. Oudille (daughter; presumably Odile), born 7 May 1724
      4. Anne-Marie Elisabeth, born 10 Sep 1726 (see Rothau Reformed records)
      5. Christian, born 23 Jan 1729
      6. Anne-Marie, born 26 Dec 1731, baptized 28 Dec 1731
      7. Catharine, born 2 May 1735, baptized 5 May 1735

      --At baptisms of son Christian and daughters Catharine and Anna Maria, the pastor notes that Jean Binkeli was a native of the Schwarzenburg District in Canton Bern, Switzerland. The exact village-which is difficult to read-is recorded with daughter Anna Maria’s baptism.

      Note: A gap exists in the baptismal records from October 1721 to September 1722. It is within this time period that presumed daughter Anna Maria Barbara Binckeli would have been born. In the nearby village of Rothau, a number of baptismal records during this time period pertain to persons from Solbach. One incomplete entry exists for a child named Anna Barbel of Solbach who was baptized 19 May 1722.

      The memoir of the Moravian Anna Barbara (Binckele) Frey states that she was born in 1722 in Alsace and came with her parents to America 14 years later. Presumably, then, she was among the Binckele's who arrived on the 1736 Princess Augusta. Her memoir adds that she was indentured to a family in Philadelphia, where she married her first husband. By 1741 her husband had died and she appears as a widow in the Muddy Creek Lutheran records, at which time she married Valentin Frey of that vicinity. Why did she move 100 miles to the west? I presume to rejoin her family. Johannes Binckele had settled among the upper branches of the Muddy Creek.

      Based on this circumstantial evidence, I believe the child Anna Barbel indicated in the Rothau records to be the daughter of Johannes Binckele of Solbach.

  • Sources 
    1. [S842] Salem Moravian God's Acre Cemetery, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA.
      http://findagrave.com/

    2. [S871] Edward N. Wevodau, Wevodau: Research from Original and Transcribed German, Swiss, and French Church Records.

    3. [S189] Muddy Creek Moravian KB, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.