Mary Jane (Elwood) Rowe Direct Descendant of Hans Lauck

1 Hans LAUCK b. Abt. 1611, Buried: (aged 55 years) November 1666: Wallau, Germany Church Cemetery
.... Married: Catharine ??? born: Abt. 1603, died: (widow of Hans Lauck) July 20, 1683 Buried: Wallau, Germany Church Cemetery

.... 2 Johann Valentin LAUCK b: Abt. 1659 in (Confirmed: as son of Joh. Lauck in 1672 aged 13 years, Wallau, Germany)
........... Married Anna Catharina RUHL Confirmed: 1670, m: November 8, 1681 in Wallau, Germany, Father: Heinrich Ruhl (son of Best Ruhl, an inhabitant and widower at Wallau, married Elisabeth, daughter of Lorentz Schneider at Medenbach, 1 July 1656. Henrich Ruhl was buried 4 Jan. 1689, aged 62 years and Elisabetha, wife of Henrich Ruhl, was buried 9 June 1686, aged 49 years and 11 months after she was ill 9 days. Catarina, wife of Best Ruhl, was buried 18 Feb. 1665, aged 79 years, and called the mother of Henrich Ruhl in her obituary. A note in the Wallau Churchbook mentions that Valten Lauck with his wife and four children went to Ireland in 1708, because they couldn't go to the New Land. The mother of Anna Catharina Ruhl was Elisabetha Schneider.) Data from: (The Palatine Families Of New York 1910, Henry Z. Jones, Universal City, CA, 1985, vol. I, p. 522)

.........3 Johann Abraham LAUCK of Commune of Epstein in Darmstadt, born: 1691, Baptized: Dom. Invocavit.: 1691, sponsored by Abraham Nies, Bleydenstattischer Hofmann, and Paul Wiekenhofer. He was confirmed at Wallau in 1702, aged 15 (sic) years (Henry Z. Jones), died: August 10, 1771 in Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA
........... Married: Anna Catharina BECKER (daughter of Johann Henrich BECKER of Weerheim in the Commune of Dillenburg m. September 27, 1710 in West Camp Lutheran Church, Ulster Co., NY
Abraham Lauck made his initial appearance on the Hunter Lists 4 October 1710 with 2 persons over 10 years of age and 1 person under 10 years. The family size increased to 2 over 10 and 2 under 10 on 31 December 1710. The entry read 4 persons over 10 years on 24 June 1711, 4 over 10 and 1 under 10 on 29 September 1711, 5 over 10 on 24 December 1711, 3 persons over 10 years and 1 under on 25 March 1712, and 4 over 10 and 1 under 10 on 24 June 1712. Abraham Lauck was naturalized 31 January 1715/16 (Albany Naturalizations). Abraham Lauck with wife and children was at Heessberg about 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). Abram Luyke was a freeholder of the Northpart Livingston in 1720 (Albany County Freeholders). Abrah: Luyk was a Palatine Debtor in 1718, 1719, and 1722 (Livingston Debt Lists). Abraham (1) first came to the Tulpehocken region after 13 May 1723, but prior to 10 January 1725, when the first tax list for the section was compiled, and about 1732 owned a tract of land about 3 miles north of the old Ried's Lutheran Church (1723 - 1973 Anniversary Magazine of the Tulpehocken, p. 52). Abraham Lauck deeded land to St. Daniel's (Eck) Lutheran Church congregation 31 May 1751; this was part of a tract of 94 1/4 acres granted to Abraham Luke by deed dated 29 October 1746 by William Allen and his wife (Letter to Henry Jones from Annette Burgert). Abraham Lauk, son of Valentine Lauck, was born in 1686 in the Electorate of Mayns and buried 10 August 1771, aged 88 years (Tulpehocken Churchbook). The will of Abraham Louck of Heidelberg Township was dated 28 January 1771 and files 15 August 1722 (Berks County Will Book 2, p. 115).

............... 4 Anna Catharina LAUCK born October 1721 at Tarr boss, sponsored by Johann Friederick Propert and Anna Cath. Simons (NY City Lutheran Churchbook). She married Lazarus Wenger 10November 1738 (Christ Little Tulpehocken Churchbook).
....................... Married: Lazarus (WENGER) WINGERT/WINGARD born November 10, 1715 (Father: Hans (Wenger) Mother: Anna Ulrich) married: November 10, 1738 in Host Church, Lazarus died December 16, 1796 in PA Burial: St. Daniel's Cemetery, Robesonia, PA

....................... 5 Margaret Elisabeth (WENGER) WINGARD born: March 15, 1749 in Heidelberg Twp., Berks Co., PA (moved to Lykens Valley with her family in 1796) died: March 29, 1818 in Millersburg, Upper Paxton Twp., Dauphin Co., PA, Burial: St. David's Reformed Church Cemetery, Killinger, Dauphin Co., PA
....................... Married: Adam WEISS/WISE (born: December 23, 1751 in New Goshenhoppen, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co., PA) February 2, 1772 in Lebanon Co., PA, Adam died: October 5, 1833 in Millersburg, Upper Paxton Twp., Dauphin Co., PA, (moved to Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD in 1773, Upper Paxton Twp., Dauphin Co., PA in 1782, and Bethel Twp., Berks Co., PA in 1788) Burial: St. David's Reformed Church Cemetery, Killinger, Dauphin Co., PA Military service: Revolutionary War, 111th Battalion, Father: Johannes George Weiss Mother: Anna Eva ???

.......................... 6 Johann Adam WEISS/WISE born: January 24, 1780 in Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD, died: January 28, 1854 in Mifflin Twp., Dauphin Co., PA Burial: St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin Co., PA
............................... Married: Eva BORDNER June 07, 1801, Eva was the daughter of Peter BORDNER of Upper Paxtang, Dauphin County, PA

................................... 7 John George WEISS born: February 04, 1814 in Dauphin Co. PA, died: April 15, 1874 in Ringold, PA .......................................Married: 1838 Anna Mary HELLER (Eva born: October 06, 1807 in Hellerstown, Cumberland Co., PA)

.......................................... 8 John WEISS born: April 27, 1840 in Daulphin Co., PA, died: December 03, 1921 in Ringold, PA ............................................... Married: August 29, 1865 Mary J. HARL born: March 10, 1843 Coolspring, PA, died: April 29, 1929 in Punxsetauney, PA

....................................................... 9 Flora Melsenia WEISS born: August 27, 1869 ........................................................ Married: August 09, 1888 in Ringgold, PA George Clark MCDOWELL

........................................................... 10 Alta Mae MCDOWELL born: April 06, 1895 .............................................................. Married: June 01, 1922 Price Alonzo ELWOOD born October 10, 1895

............................................................... 11 Mary Jane ELWOOD

.................................................................... Married: Robert Allen ROWE