Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Birth23 September 1724, Gau Heppenheim, Germany1641
Memo(church baptism record plus age 24 at 1748 immigration)
Death1806, Montgomery Co, PA
Memo(Paul Burdick)
FatherJohann Martin Hambscher
Parent-Proof notes for Anton Hamscher
This is a case of matching up what is known about someone from the perspective of research done in Germany and research done in America -- presumably with no feedback from one to the other.
In Germany, there is record of the family of Martin Hambscher who had a son born in 1724 named Anton and who purportedly went to America. In America, the arrival of Anton Hamscher was recorded in 1748, age 24.
In Germany, there is record of the family of Martin Hambscher who had a son born in 1724 named Anton and who purportedly went to America. In America, the arrival of Anton Hamscher was recorded in 1748, age 24.
Relocated notes for Anton Hamscher
IMMIGRANT. Ship Patience and Margaret 25 Oct 1748. On the Captain’s list, he was Anthony Hampire age 24. The other lists had him as Anton Hamscher.
Discrepant Facts notes for Anton Hamscher
“The House of Waltman” tells a wild story about a Count von Furstenberg of Bavaria who adopted the son of a Spanish Prince after the Prince was murdered by Louis XIV of France. He named the son Valentine Waltman and he grew up and married the Count’s daughter. Their son Conrad Waltman emigrated and his daughter Katherine (apparently a wild child who ran away from home at the age of 15) married Barnet Hampshire in 1753. Barnet was the son of Anton Hampshire and his wife Mary Barnett, thought to have been the daughter of John and Janet Barnett. Anton arrived Philadelphia in 1748 and settled soon thereafter in Lancaster County.
Barnet Hampshire and Katherine Waltman had nine sons according to this book including Adam, Barnett, Daniel, Hiram, Conrad, John, Valentine, Anthony and Jacob. It is said that John was living in 1790 in York County near his uncle Ludwig Waltman. ”At that time he had a wife, two sons under 16 years of age and two daughters.”
When I first read this book, I began to think I had solved the mystery of our John Hamsher of York County -- that our ancestor was none other than John, son of Anton. But the whole story has come tumbling down like a house of cards.
Some of what the book said about the Hampshires can be verified. Anton's arrival in 1748, for example and the interesting use of the name Barnet as a given name in this family. Some of what it says is simply wrong -- there was no John Hampshire in the 1790 Census in York County, though we know a John Hamsphire died there in 1785. His son George, though, was listed in York County in the 1790 Census and there is a vague resemblance between the enumeration of his household then and what it says was the case for John. There was only this one John Hampshire of York County and it is also clear he was far too old to have been the son of Barnet and Katherine who married in 1753.
There is also a vague resemblance between what the book says about Anton and what we know about Daniel Hamsher of the Montgomery County family -- the names of his children and his marriage to Catherine Waltman.
But it turns out, most of what this book says about the Hampshires is at best totally scrambled -- and that calls into question whether anything in the book about the Count von Furstenberg has any merit either. In the final analysis, I found the book fun to read and do not believe a word of the wild tale.
I believe that the Anton Hampire (Hamsher) who immigrated in 1748, at age 24, settled in Montgomery County and died there in 1806. There was no Anton Hamsher who married Mary Barnet of Lancaster County as “The House of Waltman” claims. That book in my opinion has also been totally debunked by Paul Burdick.
Barnet Hampshire and Katherine Waltman had nine sons according to this book including Adam, Barnett, Daniel, Hiram, Conrad, John, Valentine, Anthony and Jacob. It is said that John was living in 1790 in York County near his uncle Ludwig Waltman. ”At that time he had a wife, two sons under 16 years of age and two daughters.”
When I first read this book, I began to think I had solved the mystery of our John Hamsher of York County -- that our ancestor was none other than John, son of Anton. But the whole story has come tumbling down like a house of cards.
Some of what the book said about the Hampshires can be verified. Anton's arrival in 1748, for example and the interesting use of the name Barnet as a given name in this family. Some of what it says is simply wrong -- there was no John Hampshire in the 1790 Census in York County, though we know a John Hamsphire died there in 1785. His son George, though, was listed in York County in the 1790 Census and there is a vague resemblance between the enumeration of his household then and what it says was the case for John. There was only this one John Hampshire of York County and it is also clear he was far too old to have been the son of Barnet and Katherine who married in 1753.
There is also a vague resemblance between what the book says about Anton and what we know about Daniel Hamsher of the Montgomery County family -- the names of his children and his marriage to Catherine Waltman.
But it turns out, most of what this book says about the Hampshires is at best totally scrambled -- and that calls into question whether anything in the book about the Count von Furstenberg has any merit either. In the final analysis, I found the book fun to read and do not believe a word of the wild tale.
I believe that the Anton Hampire (Hamsher) who immigrated in 1748, at age 24, settled in Montgomery County and died there in 1806. There was no Anton Hamsher who married Mary Barnet of Lancaster County as “The House of Waltman” claims. That book in my opinion has also been totally debunked by Paul Burdick.
My Comments notes for Anton Hamscher
Paul Burdick, author of “Some Hamshers-Homshers of 18th Century PA” has very thoroughly researched the family of Anton Hamsher who arrived America in 1748 on the ship Patience and Margaret and settled in Montgomery County, PA where he died in 1806. Most of his children stayed in Montgomery County.