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Rosina Feuerstein1,2

Female, b. 13 March 1741 or 13 March 1742, d. after 1810, #1661


Father Nicholas (Hans) Feuerstein2 b. 25 March 1712, d. before 11 January 1768
Mother Anna Catharina Nonnenmacher2 b. 2 August 1711, d. circa 1760
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Note*   From Russell's Firestone Genealogy (1993):
Rosina Feyerstein, daughter of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher) Feyerstein, married Philip Hoff before 1 June 1768, on which date they were listed among the heirs of Nicholas Firestone of Paradise Topwnship, York County, Pa. On 31 May 1770, when her father's estate was divided, Rosina's share in the balance was £8.8.2.3. Before 1774 they moved to Frederick County, Maryland, where they had children baptized at St. Peter's or Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at Rocky Hill near Woodsborough in the period 1774-1777. At the Frederick Town Evangelical Lutheran Church Philipp and Rosina Hoff sponsored an Emig baptism on 6 February 1779, had a son baptized on 4 May 1783, and sponsored a Schuckmann baptism on 24 May 1783. In Loudoun County, Virginia, on 28 April 1784, Philip Hoff witnessed
a Becker-Hamann wedding.

Children of Philip and Rosina (Firestone) Hoff, all baptized at St. Peter's E-L Church, Rocky Hill, except the fourth child:
i. Elisabeth Hoff, b. 17 March 1773; bp. Feb. 1774; sponsors: Peter and Elisabetha Zoll.
ii. Susanna Hoff, b. 23 March 1775; bp. 25 May 1775; sponsors: Ludwig and Susanna Wert.
iii. Philip Hoff [Jr.], b. 9 March 1777; bp. 25 May 1777; sponsors: Valentin and Christina Kruger.
iv. Peter Hoff, b. 17 March 1783; bp. Frederick Town E-L Church, 4 May 1783; sponsors: Henrich and Eva Doerflinger.


The following Sources by GeneJunky:

Sources:

1. Title: Firestone Family of Frederick Co. Maryland, #01 Nicholas Firestone: Firestone Family of Frederick County, Maryland, Subject: #01 Nicholas Firestone, Volume: 9, No. 1, Page: 3-7
Abbrev: Russell (1993): #01 Nicholas Firestone
Author: George Ely Russell
Page: therein, "Children of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher), all born at Thal [....] except the last child," [including] "Rosina Feyerstein, [baptism not recorded at Berg]"
2. Title: Eighteenth Century Emigrants...: FIRESTONE: Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Northern Alsace to America, Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society : v. 26, Page: page 158, entry 139, File Reference: Feuerstein, Nickell and Nicholas, Jr. of Thal
Abbrev: 18th Century Emigrants (Alsace): FIRESTONE
Author: Burgert, Annette Kunselman
Publication: Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 1992
Note:
viewed 15 Dec 1997 at FHL, call number 974.8 B4pgp v. 26; copies extracted
Page: therein, parish records of Berg Lutheran Church call out birth/baptisms for children of "Nickel Feyerstein (also Feuerstein), carpenter at Thal," and his wife, "Anna Catharina nee Nunnemacher," including "Rosina," b. 13 May 1742, bap. 16 Mar 1742
3. Title: Firestone Family of Frederick Co. Maryland, #01 Nicholas Firestone: Firestone Family of Frederick County, Maryland, Subject: #01 Nicholas Firestone, Volume: 9, No. 1, Page: 3-7
Abbrev: Russell (1993): #01 Nicholas Firestone
Author: George Ely Russell
Page: therein, from page 6, "Children of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher), all born at Thal ...." [including] "Rosina Feyerstein," about whom Russell writes, her "baptism not recorded at Berg;" [see separately, Burgert, Eighteeth Century Emigrants from Northern Alsace....," therein, identifying also Rosina b. 13 Mar 1742, reporting her bap. at Berg 16 Mar 1742; Burgert does not include the detail about baptismal sponsors]2,3 
Birth* 13 March 1741 or 13 March 1742  Berg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France1,2,4 
Baptism 16 March 1742  Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church, Berg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, Nickel Feyerstein carpenter at Thal and Catharina his wife's legitimate daughter, she was born on 13 March and chr. the 16th in the church at Berg. Witnesses were: Catharina the wife of Joseph Nunnenmacher a farmer in Rexingen, Margaretha Scheurerin the left behind dau. of the late Daniel Scheurer who had been a tailor in Thal, Hanss Peter Giess single son of Joh. Michael Giessen at this time evangel. -lutheran Schoolmaster at Eyweiler.

(Translated by Trudy Schenk)4,2
Married Name before 1 June 1768  Hoff1 
Marriage* before 1 June 1768  MD, Principal=Phillip Hoff2 
(Sponsor) Baptism 6 February 1779  Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick Town, Frederick Co., MD, Principal=Samuel Emigh5 
Death* after 1810  Loudoun Co., VA1 

Family Phillip Hoff b. circa 1743, d. 1796
Marriage* before 1 June 1768  MD, Principal=Phillip Hoff2 
Children  1. Elizabeth Hoff b. 17 Mar 1773
  2. Heinrich "Henry" Hoff b. bt 1775 - 1780
  3. Susannah Hoff b. 23 Mar 1775 or 24 Mar 1775, d. 1 Jan 1853
  4. Phillip Huff b. 9 Mar 1777, d. 4 Sep 1852
  5. George Huff b. 28 Nov 1779, d. 15 May 1839
  6. Peter Hoff
  7. Solomon Bernhard Huff b. 17 Apr 1786, d. c 1814

Last Edited 3 May 2016

Citations
  1. [S82] Max Huff's Huff/Hough/Hoff Journal, Max Huff.
  2. [S658] Firestone Family of Frederick Co. MD (1993), George Ely Russell.
  3. [S826] Firestone Database, Gene "Junky" Preston.
  4. [S99] Kirchenbuch, 1712-1794.
  5. [S2049] MD, Frederick Evang. Ch Register V2 1762-1811, Frederick S. Weiser.


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