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From: "Cecilia Jensen" <>
Subject: Re: [WVBERKEL-L] WHITNAH; WHITENACK; WHITENACH; WHITNACH; WEIDNKNECHT; WEYKNECHT
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:21:01 +0100


In your search for all the families listed, did you ever come across the
name SWAIM (Swim, Swimm)?
Mathias, Mathias, Jr., and Lazarus (Lasler) show up in the 1782-84 County
Tax Lists. There are also listings for John and Jesse Swim. My
grandfather always said his family was Dutch. There was an early family in
New Jersey (actually some of them on Staten Island) named Swaim. The first
one in this country was Tys Barentson Swaim. By the time they got to
Berkeley and Hampshire Counties, some of them spelled the name Swim. There
is also a Swim family from England that came to America about the same
time, ca 1735-1750. I am still trying to prove which family is mine.

One of the above people must be the father of Alexander Swim, b. ca 1769
and living in Montgomery County, KY in the 1790's. His wife was Margaret
Trumbo, don't know her father, or whether Margaret and Alexander were
married in WVA (thenVA) or in Kentucky. Has anyone out there seen these
names in their research. I'm going to WVA in June to look for records--and
need all the information I can get before I go.

Thanks.

Cecilia (Cece) Jensen, Arlington WA

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> From: C. Higgins <>
> To:
> Subject: [WVBERKEL-L] WHITNAH; WHITENACK; WHITENACH; WHITNACH;
WEIDNKNECHT; WEYKNECHT
> Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 2:48 AM
>
> Is this a record you have access to? I did see a name I am interested
in,
> Whitnak, as it is spelled on the page you referenced.
>
> My grandfather is Carroll whitnah; his own father, Charles, was born in
> OHIO, but came from a long line of Martinsburg, Berkely county Whitnahs.
The
> earliest anscestor is a direct line from Gramps to Martin Weidknecht -
Wide
> Neck, if you will. He was born and died in Bahden, GE, His own son,
Andreas
> did as well. However, Andreas is the father of Johannes Georg
Weidknecht,
> who came to the NJ area (Then New Amsterdam) in the early or mid 1600's.
The
> famiily cell divided once or twice, and almost all moved into Martinsburg
> Berkeley County WV. Why they all moved from New Amsterdam is almost
> certainly a policitcal story. They were very closely associated with the
> families Burns (scots) and VanMetre (dutch) who all apparently moved to
WV
> with them. THese family names aare all intermingled - First generations
of
> them married each other and their children then married each other, and
even
> my Grandfather had an Aunt Anne Van Metre, so there. There Johannes was
> Widknecht, and his son, Heindrick was Wiedknach. His sons were Whitnach,
and
> then some then became Whitenack, and others (my John G. and his bro.
Joseph
> and William) metamorphosized into Whitnah. John G. Whitnahs' Son was
Eli
> Carroll, his son Charles, and his son Carroll, my Gramps. Then mom. Then
> Me.
>
> Heindrick had nearly 12 children. Before the Rev War - 1730-40 or so, the
WV
> Family, Heindrick at the head, moved to Livingston County NY, where they
> proliferated, and many can still be found as Whithach or Whitenack in
some
> way. Some, apparently, stayed in WV, including John G. who was born anad
> died in WV. Some of his contemporaries were in Jefferson County, WV. The
> county then was Frederick county, VA, what might be now called "Old
> Frederick County" from what I have read - either the Martinsburg ones or
the
> Jefferson County ones. Land was dealt out to several in Iron County MO,
(by
> Burnses, no doubt) and some can still be found there. Too, land was
> inherited by some (Hendrick's kids, I think) in WI (had to have been Van
> Metres' hand in those) and there are the traces there. The Martinsburg
> Whitnahs moved to OHIO and were there only a generation (Eli's) before
Eli
> moved to Illinois, where other Whitnahs awaited him - I wonder if they
might
> have been quakers, because Eli married a Quaker woman, Sophia Evans, and
her
> Evans people moved to OHIO from South Carolina around the same time Eli
> moved to the same part of OHIO to a Meeting that adheared to "no slavery"
> sentimients. Supposedly, Hendrick and the kin who went to Livingston Co
NY
> left WV because of anit-slavery sentiment. I wonder if that meant that
my
> people stayed because of a difference in opionion. So far, most info has
> this as family rumor.
>
> I would love to find info about any Whitnahs, on this list. Charlene, if
> you are able to do any lookups, I did see a Whitenack or so on the list
of
> the page you referenced. I would be most interested in anything you might
> find about anyone of the surnames in the subject field. I am hoping to
find
> specific history on these family memebers and any relatives and
hopefullY,
> through this list, some places and associations they might have had.
Also,
> service records.
>
> Thanks, Charlene, and anyone else with any interest or information.
>
> Cheryl L. Higgins
>
>
> >
>
>
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