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Subject: [EBY] Ebys in Brenschelbach, Pfalz (Germany)?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:38:07 -0500

On December 29, 1760, Peter Bricker (born "Bruecker" or "Brucker",
with an umlaut, or two little dots, above the letter "u") dictated
his last will and testament in West Cocalico Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. He did so in the presence of one of his sons-
in-law, Christian Eby, married to Catharine Bricker, who served as
a witness. Peter Bricker, also a Mennonite, arrived in America in
1732 with his family on the ship "Pink Plaisance".

Peter's father and mother originally came from the town of Frutigen
in Bern Canton, Switzerland, but is reputed to have left sometime
after 1686 due to the prevailing climate of religious persecution
against Mennonites in that time and place. The family may have
spent almost fifty years in Alsace and/or the Palatinate, and
there's an unconfirmed tradition that Peter was born in 1700 either
in the city of Zweibruecken, or somewhere in the surrounding Duchy
of Zweibruecken.

With the old saying that birds of a feather flock together in mind,
I wonder if the Brueckers came from the same village in the Pfalz
(Germany) that the Ebys were said to have lived in during the end
of the seventeenth century and beginning of the eighteenth century
before travelling on to America? Brenschelbach, that village, isn't
far from the city of Zweibruecken, and might have even been within
the Duchy. Has anyone any details about that period the Ebys spent
in Brenschelbach? Are there any available records?

Thanks for any assistance!

Dale Bricker

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