Gerberick, Appollonia^[1]

Abt 1741 - Bef 1789  (47 years)

• Name	Gerberick, Appollonia
  Born	Abt 1741	, , Pennsylvania
  Gender	Female
  Died	Bef 1789
  Buried	Fissel's Cemetery, Shrewsburg Township, York, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I3368	Taylor
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2004

  
  

  Family	Kleinfelter, Johannes Michael,   b. 10 Jun 1736, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany ,   d. 17 Jul 1807, Shrewsbury Township, York, Pennsylvania  (Age 71 years)
  Married	Abt 1762	,, Pennsylvania
  Children	1. Klinefelter, Anna Barbara,   b. May 1761, , York, Pennsylvania ,   d. Aft 1832  (Age 69 years)  [Birth] + 2. Kleinfelter, Elizabeth Christina,   b. 18 Feb 1763, St Jacob, Brodbeck's, York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 28 Mar 1815, Warrington, York, Pennsylvania  (Age 52 years)  [Birth]   3. Klinefelter, Christina,   b. 13 Jan 1765, , York, Pennsylvania ,   d. Bef 1807  (Age 41 years)  [Birth]   4. Kleinfelter, Eva Elizabeth,   b. 21 Nov 1766, Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania ,   d. Bef 1832, , Indiana, Pennsylvania  (Age 65 years)   5. Klinefelter, Catherine,   b. 13 Nov 1768, Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania ,   d. , York, Pennsylvania  [Birth]   6. Klinefelter, Johann Michael,   b. 20 Feb 1770, Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 20 Sep 1850, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland  (Age 80 years)  [Birth]   7. Klinefelter, Jacob,   b. 1772, , York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1830  (Age 58 years)  [Birth]   8. Klinefelter, Margaret,   b. 1774, , York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1809  (Age 35 years)  [Birth]   9. Klinefelter, Eva,   b. 1776, , York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1832  (Age 56 years)  [Birth]   10. Klinefelter, John Adam,   b. 1778, , York, Pennsylvania  [Birth]   11. Klinefelter, Jean,   b. Abt 1780, , , Pennsylvania ,   d. Bef 1832, , , Pennsylvania  (Age 51 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	18 Jun 2004
  Family ID	F1304	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  Gerberick, Appollonia KLEINFELTER Apollonia GERBERICK no date no date Johannes Michael

  
  

  Histories

  Johan Hynurich Kunchel (1750-1827) a.k.a. John Henry kunkel was a Hessian soldier, but not for long!

  
  

• Notes

  No record has been found confirming her date of death but most sources agree it was 1780 or earlier. (Source: Keith A Dull, Early Families of York County, Pa., (1995), pg 69.) Notes for Apollonia GERBERICH: Arrived in America with her father aboard the ship "Phoenix" on Nov. 11, 1752. According to Kiesecker's declaration, one Gerberich of Altfeld turned back again [from the jouney to Rotterdam] Boatman Selig asserts having heard from him that in Bingen, every boatman is paying fifty kreuzer the head. Perhaps he returned to fetch his daughter Apollonia, of whom it is reported in the Fruedenberg Govermental Protocols of 16 May 1754: Apollonia Gerberich, who already two years ago was bought off by her father and through an unfortunate event was brought into misery, asks for freedom from vassalage. Her property still amounts to 123 florins. [pennsylvania german pioneers/the fruedenberg governmental protocols] There are some who state Apollonia was an "Indian princess" No documentation has been shown to date to confirm this nor how an Indian came to be in a Gerberich household. (Notation of her being a "princess" has root in European basis of heirarchy. There was no such distinction made in most native American tribes.) Based on the above as well as an Apollonia being noted in the Freudenberg tax rolls as a child of Hans at the time he petitioned to leave Altfeld, no documentation of her baptism in York County as an infant, as was the custom, which would have been necessary since she married a baptised Lutheran, had her children baptised and is buried in a Lutheran cemetery and no notation in census or tax rolls of Hans Michael, patriarch of the York County Gerberichs, having slaves as an unrelated member of the household would probably show, Apollonia was in all probability the daughter of Hans and his first wife and baptised in Altfeld. It is possible that upon arrival to Philadelphia, Hans, being recently widowed again and probably penniless, was unable to care for some of his children. His brother Michael was established already in York and took in Apollonia and possibly her half sister Barbara. These two women are consistantly noted with the "Gerberich" spelling - of which the children known to be of Hans for the most part retained - instead of the variations taken by the York county ones. ====================== One source lists this information: Birth: About 1736 Of, Michelrieth, Unterfranken, Bayern Parents: JOHANNES GERBERICK / CHRISTINA SCHUCH OR SCHUG

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] Pennsylvania German Pioneers , Ralph B. Strassburger and William J. Hinke, (Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA. 1934) (Reliability: 3), 1934.