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Samuel Mettauer

Male Abt 1690 - Aft 1723  (~ 34 years)


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  • Name Samuel Mettauer 
    Born Abt 1690  of Keskastel, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 1723  of Keskastel, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3649  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Anna Magdalena or Madlen Wampfler,   b. 1692, Sparsbach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1725, Keskastel, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Married Abt 1714  Keskastel, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F779  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Per sources noted below, had at least 7 children. Last name may also be known as Methauwer.

      2. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 88-91 notes that the ship Lydia arrived in Philadelphia carrying passengers identified as being from the Palatine (the present German state of Rhineland-Palatinate or Rheinland Pfalz in German. The book "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, as cited above, points out that vertually all German speaking people coming to America during this era were identified as Palatines. Part of the passengers could be Palatines and the remaining passengers could be German speaking people from adjacent areas to the Palatinate. This was the case for the passengers aboard the ship Lydia. The following Wampflers were listed on the ship:
      Hans Peter Wampfler, 40 years of age.
      Hans Peter Wampfler, 18 years of age.
      Hans Michel Wampfler, 16 years of age.
      There were assuredly more of the family aboard but only the males age 16 and older were listed. Considering the list was made by the captain prior to the departure of a voyage that took about 3 months, the ages work out exactly. Also on the list of arriving passengers was a Johannes Mettauer (age listed as 25) who was the son of Samuel Mettauer and Anna Magdalena Wampfler and a nephew to Hans Peter Wampfler, Sr.

      3. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999, p. 6, notes the following about Samuel's son who emigrated to America: "I believe F. B. Wampler may have erred in transcribing the data on the deaths of five of the Mettauer Children. Whereas he showed (p. 64) that Johannes (bapt. 1717) died on 1 Jun 1717, I suspect that the child who died in 1717 was actually the eldest son, Hans Jacob, and that the second son, Johannes, grew to maturity and emigrated to America in 1741. From my understanding of the customs of German-speaking people in their use of names in the 18th century, it would appear highly unusual for someone named Hans Jacob to drop the name Jacob and use simply the name Johannes. Burgert [Annette Kunselman Burgert, "18th Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America," Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1992] also includes information on Johannes Mettauer found in records of Lancaster County, PA, where he had two sons baptized in 1761. On his death (abt. 1785) he left everything to his sister, Maria Eva, wife of Johannes Krebs of Keskatel."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Noted as married in probate of father-in-law quoted with wife's notes.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D.

      2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":480580" 22 Feb 2003.

      3. The book, FHL 929.273 w181wf, "A Wampler Family History," by Roy H. Wampler, Chevy Chase, MD, 1999.