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From: "sam" <>
Subject: [MDWashin] Re Felker inquiry
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:19:15 -0400
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Lauren,

Thank you for this information. I just came across emails you and I had
exchanged about this subject a couple years ago, but will go ahead and leave
all information in this message in case someone else may see it and have
pertinent info. It hadn't occurred to me before this week to check if
Eleanor Felker was a member of this Lutheran church. Now we know she
apparently wasn't, I'm thinking she may been from Pa. and perhaps was a
widow because I can't link her with any northern Maryland families. She was
known in the Bartlett family as a "Pennsylvania Dutch lady" with brothers
George and Christopher and a sister Barbara.

Also looks as though the Bartlett children baptized in the Lutheran Church
at the time of John's marriage in 1817 were his children because he was
Anglican. He and his first wife were married in an Anglican church in
London, and she died in 1797, a year after they arrived in Baltimore where
their daughter was christened in the Episcopal church. (That daughter was
returned to England and grew up there.) I have documented that John stayed
in Maryland and I think he probably remarried and had the children. Or maybe
the children were Eleanor's who were never baptized? It's an interesting
puzzle, one of several surrounding the Bartletts and related Felker,
Pheasant and Roberts families. Now I don't know if I'm an English Bartlett
or a German Felker. I'm willing to take more trips to England and Germany in
order to research this further!

Many thanks for your help

Shelby Ruch

Researching BARTLETT, (Md & Ohio) FELKER (Md, Pa & Ohio), CLARK, MCCARL,
> SANDERS, RUTAN, (NJ, Pa &
> Ohio), SKEEN, ROBERTS, ALLEN, BARROWS, MILLER, (Ohio & WVa)
> JOHNSON,(Ohio),
> PLACE, WALKER,(Vermont & Ohio) CODY,(Mass., NY & Ohio) ALLARD, BICKFORD,
> (New Hampshire & Ohio), WILCOXON (Va. & Ohio), CUTLIP, MCDANIEL, FRYE,
> HICKMAN,
> COE, RAWSON, MOREHEAD, OWENS, JETT (Va/WVa), RUCH,BRAUN, SCHAAD,CRESSMAN,
> TRISBACH, SCHNEIDER/SNYDER (eastern Pa.)


>
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Lauren Brantner <>
> Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Looking for Eleanor Felker
> To:
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> Shelby,
> If I had to guess since this is a German church that Eleanor Felker (a
> German surname) chose her church to be married in. I have their records
> (vol. 13 of Maryland German Church Records) 1770-1819, and her marriage is
> the only entry for FELKER in their records. The volume contains baptisms,
> confirmations, and marriages. There are these Bartlett entries:
>
> Elizabeth, dau of John and Eleanor Bartlett b. 7 April 1804 bp.April 1817
> sponsor, parents
> William, son of John and Eleanor Bartlett b. 30 May 1807 bp. April 1817
> sponsor, mother
> The marriage of Eleanor Felker and John Bartlett is listed as April 1817
> also in church records. The marriage license index indicates a date of
> 4/12/1817. I did not see an earlier marriage for John in the index. That
> does not preclude Elenor Felker as a second wife with the same first
> name - it just means I didn't find anything earlier for him. I don't know
> if these folks match anything in your Bible records.
>
> In Morrow & Morrow's Estate Distributions there is this estate;
>
> FELKER(s) Henry. Adm. Abraham 3/5/1830; widow, John, Jacob, Ezra.
>
> In Morrow & Morrow's Will and Estate Document Index:
>
> FELKER, Henry f 1828
> , Jno. f w 1846
>
> f = estate document
> w = will
> If you got John's will you could at least identify his heirs.
>
>
> There are no FELKER entries in the obit locator. The only other Bartlett
> I found was a Richard who apparently died in 1822 (will index) . A Mrs.
> Mary Bartlett married Theodore Malott in 1823. Richard married a Mary
> McMechen in 1812. The only other female FELKER I could spot was a
> Catherine who married Josiah Gabriel, Jan. 1, 1822.
>
> I would assume these folks moved to another geographical location.
>
> Lauren Brantner
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: sam <>
> To:
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:18:09 AM
> Subject: [MDWashin] Looking for Eleanor Felker
>
> I'm looking for information about an ancestor, Eleanor Felker, who was
> married to John Bartlett in 1817 in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
> in Hagerstown. I've found their marriage record, but wonder if she was a
> member of this church. Does anyone know if early 1800s membership lists
> for
> this church are available? I've never been able to find any other record
> of
> Eleanor Felker except notation of her death in the Bartlett family Bible.
>
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> Shelby Miller Ruch
>
> Researching BARTLETT, (Md & Ohio) FELKER (Md, Pa & Ohio), CLARK, MCCARL,
> SANDERS, RUTAN, (NJ, Pa &
> Ohio), SKEEN, ROBERTS, ALLEN, BARROWS, MILLER, (Ohio & WVa)
> JOHNSON,(Ohio),
> PLACE, WALKER,(Vermont & Ohio) CODY,(Mass., NY & Ohio) ALLARD, BICKFORD,
> (New Hampshire & Ohio), WILCOXON (Va. & Ohio), CUTLIP, MCDANIEL, FRYE,
> HICKMAN,
> COE, RAWSON, MOREHEAD, OWENS, JETT (Va/WVa), RUCH,BRAUN, SCHAAD,CRESSMAN,
> TRISBACH, SCHNEIDER/SNYDER (eastern Pa.)
>
>
>
>


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