Michael STOCKER Jr Jr (c. 1731-1771)

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Hans Michael STOCKER, son of Hans Michael STOCKER and Maria REMP, was born on 24 Nov 1701 in Preuschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. He was christened on 27 Nov 1701 in Preuschdorf. He married Anna Margaretha STEPHAN c. 1724. He died on 17 Feb 1749 in Old Zionsville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. He was buried on 18 Feb 1749 in Old Zionsville United Church Of Christ Cemetery, Zionsville, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America.

Name: Hans Michael Stocker

Birth: 21 Mar 1669, Prechdorf Alsace Germany

Death: 27 Mar 1749, Hereford Township. Lehigh Co. PA

Religion: Reformed Lutheran

Father: Hans Jacob Stocker

Mother: Margaretha SCHINBEIN (1643-)Misc. Notes

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Hans Michael Stocker was the only son born to Michael Stocker and Maria Remp on November 24, 1701, in Mitschdorf, Alsace, Germany. This location is now located at the very easternmost point of France. Hans, who went by his middle name, Michael, was the 4th of 7 children, having 3 older sisters and 3 younger sisters. Michael was christened in the Reformed Lutheran faith on November 27, 1701.

Michael was attracted to a girl from the nearby town of Preuschdorf, not even a mile southwest of Mitschdorf. Michael (23) married Anna Margretha Stephan (17) on January 30, 1725. Anna’s exact birth date is not known but she was probably born in1708 since she was also christened in the Reformed Lutheran faith on May 30, 1708.

Five years after their marriage, in June of 1730, two of Michael’s married sisters (one older, one younger) departed for what would later become America on the Thistle of Glasgow under Captain Colin Dunlop. The ship left Rotterdam and arrived inDover England on June 19, 1730. The ship then arrived in Philadelphia on August 29, 1730, after 71 days at sea. These sisters were Anna Maria (Stocker) Schramm, Michael’s oldest sister, and Maria Catharina (Stocker) Stiefel, Michael’s next younger sister.

It is likely that Michael and Anna received a favorable report from his sisters and brothers in-law about the new world across the Atlantic Ocean. Michael’s young family decided to join with 105 other families in following their minister, John Bartholomew Rieger , in boarding the Britannia of London departing from Rotterdam via Cowes, England in 1731. The ship arrived in Philadelphia on September 21, 1731, with Michael (31) and Margretha (23), and their 3 small children: Michael (4), Anna Maria (2), and Maria Barbara (1).

Michael may have come to the New World as an indentured servant . It was common for young heads of households to finance their family’s passage to the New World by entering into an agreement to work as a servant for a number of years upon arrival, usually 3-5 years. The merchant/mariners sold these indentured work agreements upon arrival to more wealthy colonists in the English Colony. Michael’s first five years were spent in Frederick Maryland and two of his children were born in Frederick. Then, possibly after his indenture work agreement was fulfilled, Michael relocated his family to Hereford Township in Berks County Pennsylvania where the rest of his children were born.

Michaels and Anna’s firstborn son on American soil was Hans Michael Stoker born in Frederick Maryland. Hans was their fifth child and 2nd son and was born sometime between September 21, 1731 and March 26, 1732. Hans [Jr.] is our family’s progenitor.

Michael Stocker, the German immigrant, died at only 48 years of age in 1749 and is buried in Hereford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Michael had spent only 18 years on American soil.

Michael’s untimely death left Anna pregnant and with 11 children ranging from 22 down to 3 years of age as follows:

1. Michael (22), born August 31, 1727 in Germany

2. Anna Maria (21), born December 7, 1728 in Germany

3. Maria Barbara (19), born September 20, 1730 in Germany

4. Hans Michael (18), our progenitor, born 1731-1732 in Frederick Maryland

5. Nancy Catherine (17), born 1733 in Frederick Maryland

6. Adam (13), born February 15, 1736, in Hereford, Berks County, Pennsylvania

7. George (11), born about 1738 in Hereford, Berks County, Pennsylvania

8. John (10), born about 1739 in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

9. Henry (7), born about 1742 in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

10. Jacob (5), born about 1744 in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

11. Andreas (3), born May 1746 in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

12. Anna delivered Eva Christine the same year as her father’s death. She was born on November 14, 1749 in Moore Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Probably out of necessity, following Michael’s death, 41-year old Anna remarried Hans Adam Gramlich in the St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1750. In 1751, Anna bore a son, her 13th child, Francis, to Hans Gramlich.

Michael and Anna’s last son, Andreas, who never changed the spelling of his last name, as a 28-year-old young man, relocated to an area of Northampton County Pennsylvania along Bushkill and Little Bushkill Creeks. This community has been known asStockertown Pennsylvania ever since Andreas Stocker settled there.

Anna died in 1775 at Northampton Pennsylvania at the age of 67 years. Anna was witness to the events leading up to the birth of a new nation in 1776. She had borne and nurtured 13 children (9 sons and 4 daughters) and had left a great heritage and contribution toward the strong foundation of what would become America

Cared by Reformed Church in Dordt, Holland in 1731. Michel arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 21, 1731. Took the oath of Allegiance that date. He and wife Anna Margaret were passengers on theship Brittania, which sailed from Rotterdam. The colony of 800 persons was entertained at Dort, Holland by the synod of the Reformed church,given medicine, provisions, and council, and assurance that the synod would see them through their difficulties in the new land. Michael tooklandnear the Berks, Lehigh, Bucks County lines in what is now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania near Zionsville. He owned 150 acres in 1738. Died between February 1749 and October 1750. Place of burial is unknown. He worshipped at Blue church near Coopersburg, and at Zionsville. The latterchurch was established 1734, one of the first in that community. It wasburned 1800, so most of our early records were destroyed with it. However, we do have some of the records from there, and from Blue church.The family also worshipped at Dillingersville church. Anna Margaret known as Margaret born 1707. Death date not known, but she was living in 1773. Communed as widow in 1750 (church record) and married October 23, 1750 to Hans John Adam Gramlich(Blue church record). Had one child, a son Francis in this second marriage. Margaret, her second husband, and the younger children appeared in Northampton County, Pennsylvania about 1771. The will of H. John Adam Gramlich 1773, mentions Francis,his son with second wife Margaret. Also children with former wife, and Margaret's children in her Stocker marriage. (Gramlich also spelled Cromley).

Took out a patent for about 150 acres of public land in what wa then Upper Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The location is near the present village of Zionsville, Milford Township, Lehigh County. After Michael's early death, it appears that this land went back to the state or, rather, the colony.

from Kerry Simi; editor@credible.com

Christened 11-27-1701 Mitschdorf, Alsace, Germany. He was born on the border between Germany and Switzerland. Those from this area were known as Palatines. He came from Schauffhausen, Germany. In Rotterdam, Holland he boarded the ship Brittania (while on board Master Franklin changed his name from Hans Michel Stockar to Michael Stocker) to Philadelphia, PA, USA arriving 9-21-1731. Also shown as died 2-1749 or 2-1750 in Zionsville, Berks Co., PA, USA. Essie pg 10: daughter Eve Christine Stocker b.11-15-1649 and Michael d. between 2-1749 and 11-1749. Margaret communed as Widow Stocker in 1750 and m.10-1750 Johannes Adam Gramlich.

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Spouses

1 Maria REMP

Birth: 21 Mar 1669, Prechdorf Alsace Germany

Death: 6 Mar 1750, Mitschdorf Germany

Father: Johann Jacob REMP (1645-)

Mother: Maria STEPHAN (1649-)

Marriage: 25 Nov 1692, Mitschdorf Germany

Children: Hans Michael (1701-1749) Anna Maria (1693-) Catharina (1696-1697) Maria Elizabeth (1697-1724) Maria Catharina (1704-) Anna Margretha (1707-) Maria Barbara (1713-).

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Anna Margaretha STEPHAN was born on 30 Mar 1708 in Palatinate, Germany. She was christened on 30 May 1708. She died in 1775 in Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA. She and Hans Michael STOCKER had the following children:

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Hans Michael STOCKER, son of Hans Jacob STOCKER and Margaretha SCHIMBEIN, was born on 21 Mar 1669 in Prechdorf, Alsace, Germany. He was christened on 28 Mar 1669 in Feldberg, Müllheim, Lörrach, Baden, Germany. He died on 27 Mar 1739 in Mitschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. He was buried in 1739. He married Maria REMP.

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Maria REMP, daughter of Hans Jacob REMP, was born on 21 Mar 1669 in Preuschdorf, Alsace Germany. She died on 6 Mar 1750 in Mitschdorf, Alsace, Germany. She and Hans Michael STOCKER had the following children:

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Hans Jacob STOCKER, son of Hans STOCKER, married Margaretha SCHIMBEIN.

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Margaretha SCHIMBEIN was born on 17 Sep 1643 in Feldberg, Müllheim, Baden, Germany. She was christened in Sep 1643 in Feldberg, Müllheim, Lörrach, Baden, Germany. She died aft 1669 in Feldberg, Lorrach, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany. She and Hans Jacob STOCKER had the following children:

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Hans Jacob REMP lived in Mitschdorf, Département du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.

Hans Jacob REMP had the following children:

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Hans STOCKER has few details recorded about him.

Hans STOCKER had the following children: