Jacob Markley, 1701-1784, immigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in Montgomery County. He married Barbara Dodderer in 1722. After her death, he married Barbara Kausch in 1739. Descendants lived principally in Montgomery County and surrounding areas, a few moving to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and other states.

Josef Birk was born 25 March 1801 in Ottersweier, Germany. He was the son of Franz Ignaz Birk and Maria Anna Himmel. Joseph immigrated to the United States sometime prior to his marriage to Genoveva Fuss 1 October 1823. They lived in Dubois Co., Indiana and were the parents of nine children. Josef died 9 February 1865 in Jasper, Indiana. Descendants lived primarily in Indiana and elsewhere.

Leo T. Schwenk was born in 1862 at Germantown, Woodford County, Illinois. His father, Mathias Schwenk, was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven with his family. They settled at St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to Germantown, Illinois, where he married Mary Kerker, He died in 1873. He was survived by seven children, who lived in Illinois, Nebraska, and Indiana. Leo T. Schwenk married Gertrude Fandell, daughter of Nicholas...

James Schofield (1833-1896) and his brother, Samuel Schofield (b.1834), immigrated from England to Pennsylvania and then to Cincinnati, Ohio. Their widowed mother, Hannah (Echells) Schofield, and the rest of the family immigrated to join them in 1852, and the entire family moved to Henderson County, Kentucky during or before 1860. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Peter Schwenk (1690-1753), his brother, Hans Michael Schwenk (1696- 1773) and their families, immigrated from Germany or Switzerland in 1738 and settled in Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania, where they were members of the Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran congregation. Descendants of George Schwenck (1728-1803) and Nicholas Schwenck (1739-1808), two of Hans Michael's sons; and John Martin Schwenk (d. 1784), one of Peter's sons, listed lived in Pennsylvania and...

Hans Peter Hillegass was born in 1649 in Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. He married Anna Regina Triegel (1655-1708). They had six known sons, all of whom emigrated and settled in Pennsylvania and New York. Other children may also have emigrated or remained in Germany. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and California.

"Very few facts are known of the Sheerman family until they first appeared in the Burghclere Parish Registers in the early 1770's. The family was first mentioned in connection with Sarah West who married Richard Mason of Vernham, County of Southampton. From this union one daughter, Martha, was born. We have no date of her birth or place. Martha m[arried] Edward Sheerman."--P. 1. Descendant "Daniel Sheerman was b[orn] 6/24/1837 at Berkshire, England...

Johann Andreas Strassburger (b.1716) was the eldest son of Johann Ulrich Strassburger and his first wife, Maria Elizabetha Flücken. Johann Andreas emigrated in 1742 from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia, and then returned to Germany to marry Catherina Rosina Kolb in 1751. He immigrated in 1769 (without his wife) to Philadelphia, settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died after 1785. Two of his children (a son and a daughter) immigrated...

Adam Barner was born in about 1743, probably in Berne, Switzerland. He emigrated in 1758 and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Maria Euphronica "Fanny" Conrad Bunn in about 1766. They had seven known children. Adam died in 1818. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Nebraska, California, Michigan, Kansas, Montana, Washington, Georgia and elsewhere.