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Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Michael LANDIS family in 1820CR
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 14:20:28 EST


Diana,

Have you expanded your search to the neighboring counties? There were Landis
families in neighboring counties in the late 18th century and younger
generations did move between counties - check out
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/chester/bios/landis-gw.txt
for a George W. Landis whose father was contemporaneous to your Daniel (7
months younger) and moved from Berks county to Chester in the 1850's.

John

> For the past few years I have been searching for the parents of my Daniel
> LANDIS born 10/27/1803 and died 4/7/1878 in N Coventry, buried in St
> Peter's UCC Cemetery, Knauertown, with these dates.
>
> I have found Census for 1820 showing a Michael LANDIS with a son between
> age of 10-16 living in Coventry.
> He lived next door to John ORMY, Christian FUNK and Valentine GEIST and
> Peter SINK. Since my Daniel was born in 1803, this family seems a good
> possibility!
>
> This 1820 census also shows that Michael also had a male bet. age 16-18, 4
> males bet. 16-26 and he was over age 45. There were also these females: 1
> female bet 10-16, and one female over 45. There were 3 foreigners not
> naturalized and one person in the h/h engaged in commerce - probably him!
>
> Can anyone help me find who the children of Michael LANDIS were in 1820 CR?
> Any church records for this area or any wills/admins later in 1800's for a
> Michael LANDIS, born abt 1775?
>
> Thanks so much to anyone,
> Diana in AL
> looking for LANDIS, SAVAGE, JONES, DUGAN in Nantmeal and Coventry areas.
>
>


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