Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld.
His baptismal sponsors were Peter Etzkorn of Moerz and Apollonia Huerter of Neuhof, Burg Eltz, [the step-mother of the child’s mother].
He was a baptismal sponsor in 1773 for Maria Anna, the daughter of his wife’s half-sister Agnes Suesterhenn and Johann Heinrich Huerter of Muenstermaifeld.
The wedding notice in 1769 gave Johann as his first name.
In 1781 he witnessed the marriage of his brother Jacob.

Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld. Source of her parents’ names and her date and place of birth: Manfred Ruettgers.
Her baptismal sponsors were Maria Weber and Johann Bernardel, [possibly the son of Melchior Joseph Bernardel and Maria Magdalene Deusen].
She was a baptismal sponsor in 1759 for Johann Joseph, the son of her sister Anna Margarete Suesterhenn and Franz Schlinck of Muenstermaifeld, and in 1773 for Anna Maria, the daughter of her half-brother Johann Anton Suesterhenn and Anna Maria Botsch of Muenstermaifeld.
She may have been a baptismal sponsor in 1776 for Anna Maria, the daughter of her half-sister Agnes Suesterhenn and Johann Heinrich Huerter of Muenstermaifeld.
Johann Jacob Huerter, who was married to Anna Maria’s half-sister Agnes Suesterhenn, witnessed Anna Maria’s wedding in 1769, as did ... Gerdum.

Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld.
Her baptismal sponsors were Anna Margarete Reiss of Metternich and Johann Bleser of ....
She was a baptismal sponsor in 1751 for Anna Margarete, the daughter of her brother Nikolaus Simonis and Anna Maria Seibert of Metternich, and in 1762 for Joseph, the son of her sister Barbara Simonis and Jacob Kalter of Muenstermaifeld.