Her birth family is on page 138 of the Illerich Family Book. She was the sister of Peter Pauli who married her husband’s sister Elisabeth on the same date as Anna Katharine and Anton’s wedding. She may have been a baptismal sponsor in 1788 for Anna Katharine, daughtr of Johann Peter Achatius Hammes and Maria Kathrine Weyler. Her future husband Anton Moentenich was a second cousin of the baby’s father.