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From: "George & Shiela. Irwin" <>
Subject: Re: [PABERKS] Re: Johann Peter Knepper/ Albany Twp
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 15:03:25 -0600
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Saw your inquiry on Knepper, and have a little that may be helpful. My
database includes the name Johann Peter Knepper, born abt 1765, and wife
Maria Elizabeth Klingeman, but no information on the prior generation.

According to what I have, they had two daughters, Magdalena and Salome, both
of whom married men in my Hagenbuch ancestry. In fact, Magdalena Knepper
was the 2nd wife of Jacob Hagenbuch (son of Michael, grandson of Andreas),
and bore him two sons and two daughters. Salome Knepper was some 13 years
younger, and married Isaac Hagenbuch, a nephew of Jacob (son of Jacob's
brother, Henry).

My ancestry is through Jacob's first wife, Magdalena Wolf, so I have not
verified any of the Knepper side with direct information. The information
above is mostly from a family history written in the 1880s by Enoch
Hagenbuch, the eighth of Jacob's ten children with this first wife. (My
line is through Amos Hagenbuch, a brother of Enoch.)

I believe both the LDS site and the DAR site may have copies of this Enoch
Hagenbuch record of lineage. It is associated with New Bethel Union Church,
west of Kempton toward Eckville and the Hawk Mountain bird sanctuary, where
4 generations of Hagenbuchs farmed from sometime after 1737 to about 1860.

I have also seen copies of some church records at the Berks County
Genealogical and Historical Society in Reading, PA. I have not gotten any
response from letters to the church asking for information, and I have found
only locked doors on two visits to the site.

Hope some of this gives you a lead or two!



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