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Christina Römer

Female 1752 - 1808  (56 years)


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  • Name Christina Römer 
    Born 18 Jul 1752  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 10 Nov 1808  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Lutheran Church Burying Ground, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1094  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Johann Michael Römer,   b. 3 Sep 1715, Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Nov 1800, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Maria Charlotta Amalia Hartwich,   b. 24 Jun 1720, Steinbach, Michelstadt, Erbach, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1779, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 18 Jul 1736  Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F82  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Johann Michael Grosch,   b. 11 Sep 1749, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1777, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years) 
    Married 17 Jun 1771  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F750  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mathias Buckey,   b. Bef 1759, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1805, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 46 years) 
    Married 23 Apr 1780  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. "Christina Romerin, unmarried," is mentioned as the sponsor in the birth/confirmation of Michael and Anna Barbara Stocker's daughter Christina. The fact that the Romer(ins) were involved in at least four of the eight children born to Michael and Anna Barbara would lead us to the assumption that Michael Stocker's wife Anna Barbara was a Romerin. It is interesting to note that the Romer(ins) are no longer shown as sponsors/godparents to Michael's children by other wives after the death of Anna Barbara. See the following in the FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 88-97:
      "Michael Stoker, doubtless, was the son of Michael Stoker (Stocker) who settled in Frederick Co., Md. about the middle of the 18th century. No other family of the Stoker (Stocker) name was found by this writer in any of the early Frederick Co. records. The 18th century translated records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. established about 1746, show many Michael Stoker (Stocker) entries beginning with the birth, on 1 Apr 1758, of Anna Barbara, daughter of 'Mich. Stocker' and his wife 'Ana Barb.' On p. 552 of a copy of these church records, now in possession of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, will be found a recording of eight children of Michael Stocker, the youngest named George, born 13 Nov 1781... 11 gbr 1769 (two children) to Michael Stocker, namely a child Marie Barbara; godparents, Johannes Haas (and wife) Mar. Barbara, and a child Christina; godmother, Christina Romerin, ledig, meaning unmarried. Baptized 19 gbr. 1769. (Note gbr is usually an abbreviation in German for born but in this case probably means November or possibly February.)"

      2. Website http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014300/014384/html/14384bio.html accessed 22 Feb 2015, Maryland State Archives, Biographical Series:
      "2nd Lt. Michael Grosh (also Grosch) (c.1750 - October 4, 1777)
      MSA SC 3520-14384
      Soldier, Revolutionary War
      Biography:
      Born: September 11, 1749
      Died: On or about October 4, 1777 at the Battle of Germantown
      Father: John Conrad Grosh (born in Germany by 1720, died in Frederick in 1794)
      Mother: Maria Sophia Gutenburg (born in Germany, died in Frederick)
      Siblings:
      Mary Dorothea (born in 1739 in Mayence, Germany); married William Beatty
      Peter Grosh (born in Mayence, Germany probably before 1745, died in Frederick); married Mary Charlton daughter of Arthur and Eleanor Charlton;
      Catherine Kimball (born in Mayence, Germany September 10, 1745 - May 18, 1831); ran a tavern from 1797 - 1828 (renamed the the City Hotel after 1828)
      Anna Barbara Williams (born April 28, 1752 in Frederick); married by 1786 to Elie Williams (1750-1822). Elie was clerk of the Washington County Court from 1795-1796 and possibly presided on the Orphans Court by 1800.
      Adam (born June 28, 1754 in Frederick - died c.1782)
      Marriage: Married c.1770 to Christiana Roemer (later Buckey) (July 18, 1752 - November 10, 1808) of Frederick, daughter of Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer.
      Children:
      Maria Sophia Kolb (September 15, 1772 - May 12, 1819), married Michael Kolb (? - December 22, 1826) in 1796, had daughter Sophia and son Roemer (and probably Daniel, David Brosch, and Frederick)
      Charlotte Ramsberg (married Jacob Ramsberg, Jr. after April 16, 1796)
      Nieces:
      Daughters of Peter Grosh:
      Eleanor who married Thomas Hart on or about April 14, 1795, and lived in Kentucky by 1797. Portrait of Eleanor from Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture (1956, in collection of Mrs. William P. Bohan (Nell Talbot Arnold of Loiusville).
      Sophia, married Rev. Edwin Porter Clay in Kentucky c.1800 - Henry Clay's (the statesman) brother.
      Catherine, who also lived in Kentucky by 1797, probably with her sister Eleanor.
      Mary
      Sophia born March 6, 1777, daughter of Barbara and Elie Williams
      Nephews:
      Johann Michael born March 31, 1779 and Eli born January 17, 1776, sons of Mary and William Beatty
      John son of Peter Grosh
      Military Service: 2nd Lt. Michael Grosh enlisted in the Continental Army by November 29, 1775 when he first appears with Captain Haass' Company of the 1st Battalion. Also served with Colonel Baker Johnson's 4th Battalion.
      Biographical Notes:
      Michael Grosh was the first American-born child to John Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence, Germany. In 1777, he became the first in the family to die in America.
      Michael Grosh, his two brothers Peter and Adam, and father Conrad, were early supporters of the patriot movement. Both Peter and Conrad gave money in support of the local militia. By September 1775, all three brothers joined the Frederick Militia, while Conrad served on the Committee of Observation for the Middle District of Frederick County. By the end of 1775, all appeared in the Journal of the Committee of Observation of the Middle District of Frederick as Assoicators to the Oath of Fidelity.
      A definitive enlistment date for Michael Grosh has not been determined, but by November 29, 1775, he was serving as a 2nd lieutenant in Captain John Haas's Company. Before the war on March 3, 1772, Michael and wife Christiana sponsored the baptism of Johann Haas' son, Johannes. Kinship ties ran deep in the local militia. Though Michael never served alongside a member of his immediate family, he knew many of the men in his company from the Frederick Evangelical Lutheran and Monocacy Lutheran Congregations, and from friendships and a business associates in Frederick. Later in his military career, he served under his sister's brother-in-law Charles Beatty and Frederick resident Baker Johnson, brother of Maryland's first governor Thomas Johnson. After he was killed at the Battle of Germantown, Lt. Christian Weaver notified the family of Michael's death with a signed certificate from his command. Lt. Weaver began his career in Capt. Charles Beatty's Company of the Frederick County Militia.
      In more peaceful times, Michael Grosh was probably a shoemaker as his inventory lists large quantities and varieties of sole and upper leather. Grosh's inventory lists many hides, tools, and stores of leather. Bernard Steiner's Western Maryland in the Revolution quotes British officer J.D.F. Smyth's description of the Frederick Committee of Observation. Smyth, a tory, states that after he was taken prisoner, he was "dragged before a committee consisting of a tailor, a leather breeches maker, a shoemaker, … the majority were Germans."
      When 2nd Lt. Michael Grosh died intestate at the Battle Germantown, he left behind his wife, Christiana, and two young children, Sophia and Charlotte. The young couple's extended families came to their aid until Christiana remarried; and even after that Michael's father, Conrad, made certain Sophia and Charlotte received their due inheritance.
      In a case heard before the Frederick County Orphans Court on August 12, 1778, Peter Grosh applied for a pension on behalf of Christiana Grosh stating that Lt. Christian Weaver notified the family of Michael's death with a signed certificate. John Beatty and Peter Mantz testified via certificate that the widow lived in Frederick and had two small children.
      Christiana was granted a £5 per month pension for the period of Oct. 18, 1777 - Oct. 18 1778. Several years later on June 8, 1783, Michael Roemer (sic.?) re-applied on behalf of the Grosh children and received £300 for their support for the period Oct. 18, 1778 - Oct. 15, 1783. Michael Roemer was either Christiana's father or brother. Christiana married Mathias Buckey on or about April 22, 1780, and had two more children, Michael and Jacob Buckey. Michael's final legacy to his children likely came with his father's death c. 1790. John Conrad Grosh provided for his son's children in his will dated November 4, 1786."

      3. From the newspaper "Frederick News-Post" of Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Sep. 10, 1980, in a genealogical article about the Ramsburg and Trail Families. Source: Website http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10025/newspaper-archive?itemId=378740882&action=showRecord accessed 22 Feb 2015:
      "...two pioneer Lutheran leaders at Frederick, Michael Roemer and Conrad Grosch and their wives. Most of the early Ramsburgs and Remsbergs of Frederick County belonged to the German Reformed Church. However, Jacob mentioned in the will above married Charlotta Amalia Grosch, granddaughter of the early Lutheran elder at Frederick, John Conrad Grosch and wife Maria Sophia Gutenberg ... Lutheran records show that Chariotte Amalia was born July to Michael and Christina Grosch, the sponsors being Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer, the parents of Christina. Michael Roemer (Raymer) was the leading elder of the early Lutheran Church at Frederick and at Monocacy Church of the Muhlenberg Articles of 1747. His worn gravestone with inlaid letters remains..."

      4. The book "History of Carrollton Manor, Frederick County, Maryland," by William Jarboe Grove, Lime Kiln, Maryland, 1928, copy in Frederick Historical Society, Frederick, Maryland, p. 383, provides significant information about Michael Römer (with variant spellings of Raymer, Romer Remer, and Reymer) by giving us his will, the name of an additional wife, some of his deeds, his civic and military service, his immigration, some of the spouses of his children, and three of his grandchildren. Michael's obituary reports he had six daughters and two sons of which both sons, three daughters, and their mother had preceded him in death; however, the will only provides us with the names of four daughters -- one of whom, Maria Barbara, had predeceased him. He does not mention the other names of his deceased children nor their children even though his obituary says he had 37 grandchildren. Additionally he makes no reference to a second wife, Catherine Kemp, who may have also predeceased him. The quote:
      "44 - Michael Raymer who loaned $1,630 was on the committee of observation and attended a meeting held at the court house Jan. 24th, 1775 and was active in the cause of independence, born 1715 died Nov. 25th, 1800, aged 85 years, 2 months, is buried in the Lutheran graveyard. His will was made Sep. 11, 1794. Signed Michael Romer. He divided his estate real and personal in four parts to his daughters, Magdalona, wife of Henry Foutz, Elizabeth, wife of James Beatty, Christona, wife of Mathias Buckey and to the children of his deceased daughter, Barbara Hass, namely, Michael Hass, Christiana, wife of George Buckey and Frederick Hass, the remaining fourth part of my estate real and personal. Tradition says Michael Raymer married Catherine Kemp, who landed in Philadelphia with her father, Conrad Kemp August 17th, 1733 and is of the well known Kemp family of the County. In connection with Michael Remer (1715-1800), in a list of foreigners 252 Palatines imported in the ship "Winter Gallery" and qualified Sep. 5, 1738 at Philadelphia there appears the name John Michael Romer (also Remer) aged 23, which age corresponds with the year of birth 1715. 'The Meadow' first granted by Lord Baltimore to John Van Meter and subsequently resurveyed Nov. 2nd, 1755, was patented June 9th, 1756 to Michael Raymer, over which he had a dispute with Daniel Dulaney who laid out Frederick in 1745 and owned Locust Level containing 3,800 acres and Taskers Chance containing 7,700 acres both of these tracts adjoined 'The Meadows.' Dulaney was a Tory, and his land was confiscated, after some litigation the title to the land was awarded to Mr. Raymer. Michael Raymer was very active during the Revolutionary period, and held a commisision in the Patriot army. Mr. Raymer deeded this land to Richard Potts in 1792. Mr. Reymer gave the land for the Lutheran Church at Church Hill north of Frederick."

      5. FHL book "In and Out of Frederick Town, Colonial Occupations," by Amy Lee Huffman Reed and Marie LaForge Burns, microfilmed July 15, 1991 (FHL film 6088329). It is interesting to note that Michael Roemer was a tanner, his son-in-law Michael Stocker a saddle and harness maker, and Roemer's son-in-law Michael Grosh a leather worker. Other sources indicate that Stocker's second father-in-law Jacob Pfau was also a saddle maker. I believe also another Roemer son-in-law may have also been involved with leather. The transcript:
      P. 38: 90, Michael Raymer, Tanner, B:576, 1752.
      P. 39: 118, Michael Stogar [Stocker], Saddler, K:432, 1765
      Pp. 58-59: "Harness has remained virtually unchanged in appearance and function since the eighteenth century. Selection of the proper leather, perfect cutting, and thorough stitching were essential in making the best quality harness. Harness could also be tooled or studded with brass if the customer was willing to pay the price. Plain harness for four horses cost about sixteen pounds, equivalent to the price of eight mahogany chairs upholstered and trimmed with brass nails. It is not surprising that saddlers in colonial towns were often among the most successful of all the craftsmen. High demand for their products and the high prices charged for them made many saddlers moderately wealthy men.
      Some saddlers combined leathercraft, blacksmithing, and wainwrighting to make wagons. Jacob Baer, a saddler, and Christian Berger, a blacksmith, on the same North Market Street lot in 1764, may well have been in the wagon-making business, though only briefly. Berger sold his blacksmith tools and a wagon to John Shellman and moved on within two years. Michael Stogar [Stocker] was a saddler on West Second Street who paid his store bill by making harness. Thomas Schley, Jr. had a saddlery on South Market Street in the 1770's…
      Leather was tanned in Frederick Town during the colonial years at Michael Raymer's [Roemer] tanyard, located downwind from town on the easternmost Patrick Street lot. A few years later he was joined by Mathias Need, another tanner. Either or both of these men may have been curriers who finished leather for local craftsmen.
      Michael Grosh, a leather worker, married Michael Raymer's daughter Christina. Young Grosh probably was in business with his father-in-law, for in 1772 he was buying hides in the countryside around Frederick Town. From Joseph Doll he bought the following: (Doll's Ledger)
      2 calf skins - 3-1/2 pence per lb. 11/3
      1 sheep skin 0/9
      2 cow skins - 3-1/2 pence per lb. 2/1/2
      3 calf skins and "one cow skin of Beatty's old cow" 17/6
      Michael, the son of innholder Conrad Grosh, lost his life in the American Revolution serving with troops from Frederick County under the command of Colonel Baker Johnson. Young Grosh was a casualty in the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. He was survived by his widow Christina and two small daughters, Sophia, aged six, and Charlotte, three years old. (Maryland Hall of Records. Orphans Court Minutes Liber GM1:11-12.)"

      6. FHL book 975.287/F1 K28we "Maryland German Church Records," vol. 3, "Baptismal records of the Monocacy Lutheran Congregation, and its successor, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1742-1779," translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser; (the initials in [brackets] probably refer to the minister who made the record) mentions of Johann Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer's children:
      - Johan Michel Römer, a daughter [not named], b. 25 Jul 1747, bp. [not given], sponsors: Michel Jesrang and his wife Lisabet.
      - Johan Michel Römer, a son Johann Conrad, b. 8 Sep 1750, bp. 14 Sep 1750, sponsors: Conrad Grosch and wife Sophia. [K]
      - Georg Jacob Trautwein and wife Elisabetha, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 22 Feb 1755, bp. four days after a week from the birth of the daughter 1755 [Hausihl sometimes expresses dates in confusing Latin and uses symbols for days.] [i.e. bp. March 5], sponsors: Johanna Magdalena, Michael Roemer's single daughter. [H]
      - Joh. Ludwig Jung and his wife Magdalena, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 28 Mar 1756, bp. 1756 Palm Sun. [H] [Kerry note: Apr. 11], sponsors: Joh. Adam Mang and Michael Römer's daughter Johanna Magdalena.
      - Matthia Kint and his wife Eva Cath., a dau. Maria Barbara, b. 12 Apr 1758, bp. 1758 Jubilate, sponsors: Maria Barbara, Michael Römer's daughter and Adam Mantel, single. [H][Kerry's note: bp. Apr 16.]
      - Mich. Stocker and wife Anna Barb., a dau. Anna Barba., b. 1 Apr 1858, bp. 1758 Pentecost, sponsors: Maria Barbara, single daughter of Mich. Römer. [Kerry's note: bp. May 15.]
      - Johannes Haass and Maria Barbara, a little dau. Christina, b. 13 Feb 1770, bp. 11 Mar 1770, sponsor: Christina Romerin.
      - All recorded at once:
      - Maria Barbara, dau. of Michael Stocker, b . 1 Apr 1758 (+), bp. 15 May. Sponsors: Mar. Barb. Römerin [now] deceased.
      - Johanna Magdalina, dau. of [parents names not given] b. 1 Jan 1760, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Heinrich and Magdalena Fauth.
      - Elisabetha, dau. of Michael Stocker b. 26 Aug. 1764, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Elisabetha Romerin.
      - Maria Barbara, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Johannes and Maria Barbara Haass.
      - Christina, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Christina Römerin, single.
      - Christina, dau. of Friederich and Elisabetha Riehl, b. 12 Jun. 1770, bp. 1 Jul 1770, Sponsors: Johannes Huber and Christina Römerin, both single.
      - Eleonora, dau. of Joh. Mich. And Eleonora Wittmeyer, b. 24 July 1773, bp. 10 Oct 1773. Sponsors: Michael and Christina Grosch.
      - Maria Barbara, dau. of Joh. Michael and Elisabeth Stocker, b. 23 Dec. 1774, bp. 16 Apr. 1775. Sponsors: Johannes and Maria Barbara Haass.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. FHL Typescript 975.287/F1 K2wf v.1 "Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick, Maryland. Parish Records, Books I and II, 1743-1811":
      - [Marriage] Michael Grosch and Christina Roemerin by license. June 17, 1771.

      2. FHL book 975.287 V2p "Frederick County Maryland Marriages References and Family Relationships 1748-1800," by Henry C. Peden, Jr. & Veronica Clarke Peden, (Colonial Roots, Lewes, Delaware, 2012). This volume is a "comprehensive compilation of marriage references, actual and implied, in early Frederick County, Maryland from its formation in 1748 through 1800. Marriages were gleaned from published license books, land records, probate records (wills and administration accounts), court records (judgments and indentures), military pension records, church records (marriages, births and baptism), bible records, newspapers, some family histories and other documented secondary sources." P. 105:
      "Grosh, Michael (also shown as Michael Grosch and Michael Gross), m. Christina Roemer on 11 Jun 1771; dau. Sophia Grosch b. 15 Sep 1772 {ref: Monocacy Church and Lutheran Congregation (see "Frederick, Maryland Lutheran Marriages and Burials, 1743-1811, translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser (published by the National Genealogical Society, 1982); ref: Monocacy Lutheran Congregation of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, MD (see "Maryland German Church Records," Vol. 3, translated by Frederick S. Weiser, published by Noodle-Doosey Press, 1987)}"

      3. FHL book 975.287 K2w "Records of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, Maryland 1743-1811," translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser, Special Publication No. 38, The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., 1972:
      June 11, 1771 Michael Grosch and Christina Roemerin by license.

      BURIAL:
      1. "National Genealogical Society Quarterly," volumes 7, Jan. 1919, p. 20, "Tombstone Inscriptions, Frederick, MD," by Michael Alvin Gruber, Lutheran Church Burial Ground [not the same as the Reformed Church Burial Ground] located in the rear of the Lutheran Church on Church Street and the oldest cemetery in Frederick:
      "Buckey, Christina (Luth.) (w. of Mathias Buckey), b. July 18, 1752; d. Nov. 10, 1808."