Descendants of Johannes KINSINGER (ca 1735-1788)
Notes
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Johannes KINSINGER
Johannes KINSINGER first appeared in the Amish Mennonite community at Weisenheim am Berg in Rheinland-Pfalz (the Palatinate) in 1760. While it is estimated that Johannes was born about 1735, he could have been considerably older.
Hermann Guth in the 1995 translation of his work AMISH MENNONITES IN GERMANY, published by Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA 19543, gives this overview of the origins of the KINSINGER family: "The name KINZINGER (also KINSINGER, KENTZINGER, KINSY, and KUNTZI) is of Swiss origin and is traced back to Chuentzi (diminutive of the masculine given name Kunz, Kuno, or Konrad). The Mennonite KINZINGERs probably go back to one Peter Kuentzi, who immigrated in 1685 from Buchholterberg near Thun in Switzerland to Eppstein in the Palatinate. In 1687 he is at the Diemersteinermuhle, married to the daughter of the previous hereditary leaseholder and now leaseholder himself. His descendants appear as KENTSINGERs in Neukirchen-Mehlingen near Kaiserslautern, where subsequently KINSINGERs are named as members and elders of the Sembach congregation. From here KINSINGERs early emigrated to Hesse and Waldeck (pp. 78-79)."
Records in Neukirchen reveal a Christian KINSINGER with sons Abraham and Johannes in 1724; and records in Frankenstein reveal a Johannes KINSINGER in 1743 and a Jacob KINSINGER and two Johannes KINSINGERS in 1753 and 1759. These villages are located just to the west of Weisenheim am Berg, but there is no proof of the whereabouts of Johannes of Weisenheim am Berg prior to 1760.
A Daniel KINSINGER (1765-1828) married a Catherine SCHWARZENTRUBER and had the following children: Jacob KINSINGER (born 12 Sep 1807, died in Washington Co, IA); Michael KINSINGER (born 10 Oct 1814 in Hesse-Darmstadt, died 29 Jun 1895 in Woodford Co, IL). This Michael KINSINGER married 12 Nov 1837 in Butler Co, OH, to Magdalena Nafziger, and two of his sons (Peter F. KINSINGER, born 19 Dec 1839, and Daniel O. KINSINGER, born 5 Mar 1842) married and resided in Tazewell Co, IL. It seems likely that this family was related to Johannes KINSINGER, but nothing has been proved. Daniel was not listed as one of Johannes and Maria Magdalena's children in the list of heirs 11 Dec 1823.
Hermann Guth's AMISH MENNONITES IN GERMANY states that Maria Magdalena SCHWARZENTRUBER was the daughter of Johannes SCHWARZENTRUBER: "At the Amish conference in Essingen in 1759, the congregation of the Lower Palatinate was represented by Christian SCHWARZENTRUBER from Weisenheim am Berg and his father Johannes SCHWARZENTRUBER from Herxheim. Christian SCHWARZENTRUBER's sister Maria Magdalena SCHWARZENTRUBER married Johannes KINZINGER; they became the progenitors of a large family that for the most part emigrated to America. According to an assessment list of 1765, Johannes KINZINGER was counted among the most wealthy residents and had also helped the local government several times with loans. Christian SCHWARZENTRUBER moved with his son Johannes SCHWARZENTRUBER to Freinsheim." (p. 27)
THE MENNONITE ENCYCLOPEDIA corroborates as follows: "Weissenheim am Berg, in the duchy of Leiningen, Palatinate, Germany, is mentioned in the Dutch Naamlijst of 1767 as the seat of a Mennonite congregation of Swiss refugees, with Christian Jotter (Yoder) (later elder until ca 1785) and Christian SCHWARTSTRAUBEN (until ca 1785) as preachers. The Mennonites of Weissenheim, who under the counts of Leiningen worshiped undisturbed, later formed the congregation of Altleiningen."
Guth states that "Weisenheim am Berg is a wine-growing village on the slopes of the Hardt Mountains; earlier it had belonged to the County of Leiningen."
AMISH MENNONITES IN GERMANY, by Hermann Guth, Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogical Society, Metamora, Illinois, 1995:
p. 79:
THE ZWEIBRUCKEN CONGREGATION
"About 1764 a Johannes KINSINGER in Weisenheim am Berg is married to Marie Magdalena SCHWARZENTRUBER, daughter of Christian SCHWARZENTRUBER. Two of their children marry Hauters from the Ixheimermuhle near Zweibrucken. A little later two grandson of Johannnes KINSINGER at Weisenheim am Berg, namely Johannes and Christian KINSINGER, marry two SCHRAG sisters from the Heckenaschbacherhof. There are still KINSINGERs ion Zweibrucken, although a large number of KINSINGER descendants emigrated to the USA."
Weisenheim am Berg, Pfalz, GERMANY, Records:
[from Karl Rings, translated by Herta Rink]
Johannes KINSINGER paid 2 Gulden tax in 1760. Nothing was paid by him in years prior to 1760.
In 1788, an acre was measured for Johannes KINSINGER's widow.
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Mennonite Register:
1765:
Johannes KINSINGER
Johannes SCHWARTZETRUB wittib (Witwe) von Herxheim am Berg
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Records:
[from K. Rings, records in Archives at Freinsheim]
Speyer Archives, 522, Voucher NR. 71:
19 Aug 1818, in Speyer
1135 Guilders (gold pieces) and 50 Kreuzers due the estate of the deceased farmer Johannes KINSINGER and his widow Magdaleine, born SCHWARTZENTRAUB, from legally owed community debt:
A. Johannes KINSINGER, son, farmed & lived in Weisenheim am Berg.
B. Jakob KINSINGER, son, farmer, also living.
C. Jakobina KINSINGER, daughter, wife of Christian IMHOFF, farmer, living at Wilensteinerhof, by Trippstadt, Kanton Kaiserslautern.
D. Andreas KINSINGER, Jakob, Elisabeth, Peter and Katharina KINSINGER of Blumenauermhule, Neuhornbach by Zweibrucken, children of deceased father Peter KINSINGER, represented in attached inheritance by the son Johannes KINSINGER.
E. Joseph Hauter, farmer, lived at Heckenashbacherhoff by Zweibrucken, and Katharina Hauter, in Zweibrucken, wife, miller Joseph Hauter, grandson, her mother Susanna KINSINGER was previous wife from (disappeared) farmer Johannes Hauter from Fimmingen by Saarbrucken.
F. Johannes Maurer, farmer, from Obermehlingen, Peter Maurer, farmer, Christian Maurer, Joseph Maurer, Catharina Maurer, Magdalena Maurer, miller from farmer Johannes Nafzinger, all six representatives are dead. Mother Katharina KINSINGER daughter of above named person and descedent creditor and farmer widow from Samuel Maurer from Gerweilerhof by Kaiserslautern.
G. Katharina IMHOFF, Susanna and Johannes IMHOFF, all living grandchildren representing deceased grandmother Magdalena KINSINGER, former wife of deceased farmer Joseph IMHOFF.
To these are named:
a. son Johannes KINSINGER
b. his brother Jakob
c. the grandchild Johannes Mauer and the children of his sister Magdalena [Jacobina?] who married Christian IMHOFF.
also:
a. brother/sister Joseph & Katharina Hauter,
b. the miller, Johannes KINSINGER and his mother-in-law Maria Hauter, and widow of named Peter KINSINGER and guardian of their minor children,
c. Jakobina KINSINGER
d. Peter Maurer, widow Nafzinger and farmer Valentin Nafziger, at Illsbach named guardian of minor children Christian Maurer, Joseph & Katharina Maurer
Presented 11 Dec 1823, Johannes KINSINGER, Jakob KINSINGER, and others
Magdalena SCHWARTZENTRUBER, widow of Johannes KINSINGER, Weisenheim am Berg near Durkehim, for congregation Weisenheim to receive 1300 Guilden to close the account and find a different way to pay the church.
Came in person Mrs. Magdalena KINSINGER, nee Hauther, widow of deceased Peter KINSINGER, Miller, from Blumenauer Muhle where she and her five minor children are living. She is the guardian of Andreas, Jakob, Elisabeth, Peter & Katharina, all living with their mother. Johannes KINSINGER, miller, her oldest and of age son, living also at Blumenauer Muhle. The children of Peter KINSINGER have given power of attorney to demand 1300 guilden from community of Weisenheim am Berg. Money was from claim of deceased Magdalena SCHWARTZENTRUBER, widow of Johannes KINSINGER, and she was also their grandmother.
Mrs. Jakobina IMHOFF, nee KINSINGER, wife of Christian IMHOFF, gives permission to Johannes Maurer to obtain her share from the estate of her mother Magdalena SCHWARTZENTRUBER, widow of Weiland (village?) Johannes KINSINGER.
AMISH MENNONITES IN GERMANY, by Hermann Guth, Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogical Society, Metamora, Illinois, 1995:
pp. 197-199:
Genealogy 17: THE KINZINGERS
"0 Johannes, is in Weisenheim am Berg in the Palatinate after 1750, married to Maria Magdalena Schwarzentruber, daughter of Johannes Schwarzentruber. Children: 1 - 8.
1 Johannes, born in 1758. Died on 15 May 1828 in Weisenheim am Berg. First marriage to Veronika Imhof of the Wilensteinerhof; she died in 1806. Second marriage to Marie Grub. Children: 11 - 17.
2 Jakobine, born in 1766 in Weisenheim. Married Christian Imhof of the Wilensteinerhof
3 Jakob, born in 1767 in Weisenheim. Married Elisabeth Roggy, daughter of Christian Roggy in Neidenfels. They lived in Weisenheim am Berg. Daughter: 31.
4 Peter, born in 1774 in Weisenheim. In 1798 in Weisenheim marries Magdalena Hauter, daughter of Andreas Hamer and Kathafina Imhof of the Ixbeimermuhle. They lived at the Blumenauermuhle, then at the Walshausermuhle. Children: 41 - 46.
5 Katharina, married to Samuel Maurer, Gersweilerhof in the Palatinate.
6 Susanna, born in 1779 in Weisenheim. There on 18 Mar. 1800 married Johannes Hauter, son of Andreas Hauter and Katharina Imhof of the lxheimermuhle.
7 Anna Barbara, died unmarried on 7 Feb. 1799 in Weisenheim.
8 Magdalena, married to Josef Imhof, Espensteig."
Maria Magdalena SCHWARZENTRUBER
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Mennonite Register:
9 Apr 1788:
Johannes KINSINGER's widow, 6 Gulden [Karl Rings says an acre measured for Johannes KINSINGER]
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Records:
[from K. Rings, records in Archives at Freinsheim]
Inventory (Stock) C 26, Number 677:
14 Dec 1791
Legally obtained guardian for this time of Johannes KINSINGER and his remaining widow Maria Magdalena, born SCHWARTZENTRAUBER, their minor aged children left behind are 5: Maria Magdalena, Maria Elisabetha, Johann Peter, Maria Susanna, and Barbara.
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Register [Freinsheim Archives]:
1810, Nr. 10:
Death record of Madeleine SCHWARTRAUB KINSINGER, 30 December 1810
Jean Kinsing (Johannes KINSINGER), farmer, 53 years old, inhabitant of Weisenheim, son of deceased, and Guillaime (Wilhelm) Bopp, 37 years old, neighbor, declared that Madeleine SCHWARTZTRAUB, widow of deceased Jean KINSINGER, was a farmer in Weisenheim, age 73
7.
Maria Elisabetha KINSINGER
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Records:
[from K. Rings, records in Archives at Freinsheim]
Inventory (Stock) C 26, Number 677:
14 Dec 1791
Legally obtained guardian for this time of Johannes KINSINGER and his remaining widow Maria Magdalena, born SCHWARTZENTRAUBER, their minor aged children left behind are 5: Maria Magdalena, Maria Elisabetha, Johann Peter, Maria Susanna, and Barbara.
10.
Anna Barbara KINSINGER
Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Records:
[from K. Rings, records in Archives at Freinsheim]
Inventory (Stock) C 26, Number 677:
14 Dec 1791
Legally obtained guardian for this time of Johannes KINSINGER and his remaining widow Maria Magdalena, born SCHWARTZENTRAUBER, their minor aged children left behind are 5: Maria Magdalena, Maria Elisabetha, Johann Peter, Maria Susanna, and Barbara. Weisenheim am Berg, GERMANY, Register [Freinsheim Archives]:
Anna Barbara KINSINGER, died 7 Feb 1799
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