Burgert documents that she was the daughter of Peter of Hangviller and that she came to America with her husband and children on the same ship as John David Mertz.

IMMIGRANT. Abraham and Anna Margaretha Votrin came to America with their four children on the ship Richard and Elizabeth in 1733. Once in America, Abraham and Anna Margaretha Votrin settled near the Egypt Reformed Church in Lehigh County.

A family history entitled “Vautrin, Wotrin, Wotring Family from Alsace-Lorraine to Pennsylvania 1632-1987” compiled by a descendant identified the Votrin family as French Huguenots which caused me to look up exactly what that means. Huguenots were the French followers of Calvin’s Reformed movement, so while I don’t think the term applies to our Swiss-Alsace ancestors, once in Alsace, our ancestors were closely associated with them geographically and of a similar religious mindset.

According to the records of Egypt Reformed Church, Johannes and Anna Margaretha had sixteen children in total. We know from ships records that Hans Peter age 9, Anna Margaretha age 7, Maria Magdalena age 5 and Anna Elisabetha age 2 came to America in 1733 with their parents.

Their daughter Anna Margaretha married Johannes Schneider and they were the victims of a fatal Indian attack in 1763.