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Author: KesslerWV
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I do have your son-in-law's Mother Lenora and her sister Margaret Alice in my files as
daughters of Alice Shipley and Frank King and the information back to Johann Jakob
Beck/Peck 1678-1737 who was married three times and had twelve children. Anna Marie Hummel
was his third wife. He lived in Ebingen, Germany and was Burger of that town.
The information you have back to Michael Beck 1567-1635 is most likely from a posting of
mine on the internet around 1997 with sources cited as:
Peck Pioneers, Feb 1995 Vol XIII pg. 27. Taken from Genealogy of Joseph Peck and some
Related Families, including the Bordens, the Carpers, the McClures, the Fowles, the Clays,
the Meeks, the Winters, the Chapmans, the Molletts, the Grovers, the Staffords, the
Osbornes, by George Braden Roberts, Washington, DC, 1955.
From the Peck Family, Descendants of Jacob and Lydia (Borden) Peck,
published by Jesse William Peck Sr. P.O. Box 83, Clifton Forge, VA in 1958From the history
that has been published on the Beck/Peck family stems from the research done by Dr. J. A.
Kelly who in 1938 visited Ebington, Germany and copied these resords from a church there.
Hans Jakob Peck 1723-1801 was the son of Johann Jakob Beck and Anna Marie Hummel. Hans
Jakob Peck m. 1743 Lydia Borden 1728-1800 and were the parents of 8 children.
In 1936 when Dr John A Kelly visited Ebingen and went to search the records of the
Evangelical Church (protestant) in Ebingen, Germany telling the Kirchenpfleger that he was
seeking the birth records from the first years of the eighteenth century, of one Johann
Jakob Beck, whose parents were conjecturally Jacob and Mary (?). The books were remarkably
comprehensive and were well preserved. The records went back to about the time of the
Protestant reformation beginning in southern Germany by Martin Luther.
Beside the names were frequently notations as to the emigration of their bearers. The very
first of these Auswanderereintrage stands beside the name Hans Jakob Beck, and reads:
"Gieng nach Amerika und war in Maryland sesshaft" (Went to America and was
domiciled in Maryland.) Herr Maute, the Kirchenpfleger, conjectured that this entry was
made some thirty years after the birth was recorded. This is the only reference in the
books to a Maryland emigration. All others were to Pennsylvania.
Karen Kessler Cottrill
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