NameAntone Jungclas
Birth25 Aug 1774, Illerich, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death7 Oct 1836, Illerich, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
BurialIllerich, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
His baptismal sponsors were Anton Moentenich and Anna Maria Kraemer, both of whom were unmarried and were from Illerich. Anton Moentenich was the son of Anton Moentenich and Maria Elisabeth Claas who was born in 1753. He was the first cousin of the other Moentenichs who were (possible) sponsors for other children of Nikolaus Jungclas and Katharine Fuhrmann.
Anton and Maria Gertrud’s family included ten children and is listed on page 220 of the Illerich Family Book. Sons of Anton and Maria immigrated to Ohio before their daughter Anna Maria did, according to the "Family Record of Joseph Myers" (August 17, 1969). They lived on Stoney Ridge Rd. near the Avon-Ridgeville township line in Lorain County.
The Minnich web Site on MyHeritage.com--MyHeritage Family trees gives his date of death as November 7, 1836.
Source: Ancestry.com—New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Roll > M237, 1820-1897 > Roll 068; Mary Ann Biscorner-Dick’s website
http://users.dundee.net/mabd; and MyHeritage.com--MyHeritage Family Trees: Minnich Web Site.
Her baptismal sponsors were her uncle, Jakob Etzkorn, who was unmarried and a shepherd in Illerich, her uncle Conrad Puenger, a single man from Illerich, and Maria Gertrud Keess of Stiltzhausen. Maria Gertrud Keess was the thirteen-year-old daughter of Anton Keess and Sophie Jungclas of Stiltzhausen; she may have been related to the child’s father.
Gertrude and her sons Nicholas, Johann, Anton and Wilhelm sailed from Le Havre, France on the ship “Waverly,” arriving in New York, New York on August 28, 1847. In 1850 Maria Gertrud Etzkorn Jungclas lived in Avon, Lorain County, Ohio with five of her children--Nicholas, Anton, Wilhelm, John and Margaret.