Michael Brey - Revision history

Liz: /* Source notes */ negative census search 1860 for Brey family

2018-08-26T19:35:38Z

‎Source notes: negative census search 1860 for Brey family

Liz: /* Source notes */ expand wording re Samuel Brey, possibly brother or young uncle of Elizabeth Brey

2015-07-05T16:09:57Z

‎Source notes: expand wording re Samuel Brey, possibly brother or young uncle of Elizabeth Brey

Liz: add mention of Emmaus Moravian church to biography, and of Samuel Brey possibly a son of Michael.

2012-08-26T21:31:56Z

add mention of Emmaus Moravian church to biography, and of Samuel Brey possibly a son of Michael.

Liz: add baptismal records Emmaus Moravian Ch. for children of Elisabeth Brey 1831 and Samuel Brey 1826

2012-08-26T21:16:17Z

add baptismal records Emmaus Moravian Ch. for children of Elisabeth Brey 1831 and Samuel Brey 1826

Liz: page link to cemetery index

2009-10-09T10:29:49Z

page link to cemetery index

Liz: wife Maria born in Germany

2008-05-23T15:23:44Z

wife Maria born in Germany

Liz: /* Children */ remove page link Shaner

2008-04-14T09:54:50Z

‎Children: remove page link Shaner

Liz: /* Conjecture */ 2 generations of Michael Brey ancestry, undocumented.

2008-01-14T03:51:41Z

‎Conjecture: 2 generations of Michael Brey ancestry, undocumented.

Liz: /* Sources */ add pg number, source 16

2007-09-23T23:19:18Z

‎Sources: add pg number, source 16

Liz: 1887 Hist. Clarion Co. Brey bio

2007-09-23T23:18:01Z

1887 Hist. Clarion Co. Brey bio

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 * The 1790 PA census was searched by the ancestry.com search engine for Macungie  Twp., Northampton Co.  No record found for Michael Brey (or spelling variants) was found. He would have been age 17; probably living with parents, or as farm hand in other household.
 * Samuel Brey appears as a witness or godparent at the birth of Elisabeth Brey Beals' son Samuel, Emmaus Moravian Church, Lehigh Co. PA in 1831.  Sallie Ann Brey apprears, daughter of Samuel Brey and wife Elisabeth Schaefer, in 1826 baptismal records of Emmaus Moravian Ch., Lehigh Co. PA.  Conjecture: Samuel is possibly a brother of Elisabeth Brey, though we have no record of him among the children of Michael Brey. Or it is possible that Samuel Brey was an uncle of [[Elizabeth Brey]], a younger brother of Michael Brey.
 =Conjecture=

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 * The 1830 PA census has been searched page by page on the ancestry.com site by E. B. Williams for the townships of Macungie, Lower Milford, Saucon and Whitehall in Lehigh County; Upper Hanover in Montgomery County; Elk, Beaver & Richland in Venango Co.   No record for a Michael Brey (or spelling variants) as head of household was found.
 * The 1790 PA census was searched by the ancestry.com search engine for Macungie  Twp., Northampton Co.  No record found for Michael Brey (or spelling variants) was found. He would have been age 17; probably living with parents, or as farm hand in other household.
-* Samuel Brey appears as a witness or godparent at the birth of Elisabeth Brey Beals' son Samuel, Emmaus Moravian Church, Lehigh Co. PA in 1831.  Sallie Ann Brey, daughter of Samuel Brey and wife Elisabeth Schaefer, in 1826 baptismal records of Emmaus Moravian Ch., Lehigh Co. PA.  We expect that Samuel is the brother of Elisabeth Brey.
+* Samuel Brey appears as a witness or godparent at the birth of Elisabeth Brey Beals' son Samuel, Emmaus Moravian Church, Lehigh Co. PA in 1831.  Sallie Ann Brey apprears, daughter of Samuel Brey and wife Elisabeth Schaefer, in 1826 baptismal records of Emmaus Moravian Ch., Lehigh Co. PA.  Conjecture: Samuel is possibly a brother of Elisabeth Brey, though we have no record of him among the children of Michael Brey. Or it is possible that Samuel Brey was an uncle of [[Elizabeth Brey]], a younger brother of Michael Brey.
 =Conjecture=
 * Posted by "Paula" on Genealogy.com's Brey Family Genealogy Forum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/brey/messages/30.html):<br>Johann Michael Brey married Maria Arnold.  He was the son of Johann Conrad Brey & Maria Magdalena Klein.  Johann Conrad Brey was the son of Hans George Brey & Maria Catharina ___.

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 Brauer is the German word for a brewer. Michael Brey may have come from a family connected to the brewing arts.  When "Brauer" is pronounced with the German gutteral "uer" ending, English speaking record keepers would have heard Brier, Bry, Bryer and Brey , all variant spellings for the family name.
-Michael Brey was born 14 April, 1773 somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania. He would have lived in a German community there, and yet his family would have been aware of the news out of Philadelphia, the U.S. capitol between 1790 and 1800.  They lived through the Revolutionary War, and with no particular ties to England  may have found the cause of the Revolutionaries appealing, even though the German communities tended to live a somewhat apart because of language and customs.   At present nothing is known of Michael's parents and other family in the area. By the early 1800's there were several Brey men living in southern Northampton County, which in 1812 would become Lehigh County.
+Michael Brey was born 14 April, 1773 somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania. He would have lived in a German community there, and yet his family would have been aware of the news out of Philadelphia, the U.S. capitol between 1790 and 1800.  They lived through the Revolutionary War, and with no particular ties to England  may have found the cause of the Revolutionaries appealing, even though the German communities tended to live somewhat apart because of language and customs.  One, possibly two, of Michael Brey's children are listed as having infants baptized, in the records of Emmaus Moravian Church, Lehigh Co. PA.  The Moravians were known to avoid political involvements.   At present nothing is known of Michael's parents and other family in the area. By the early 1800's there were several Brey men living in southern Northampton County, which in 1812 would become Lehigh County.
 Michael met and married a woman named Maria, who had been born in Germany. They appear to have been married by 1789-1793.  In about 1794 they had a daughter named Hattie.  [She was apparently born with some degree of retardation.  She was still living with her aging parents in 1850 and was noted in the census to be an "idiot". ]
-In the 1800 census, Michael and wife were living in Upper Milford township, Northampton County, with two young children, a boy and a girl under age ten.  Hattie would have been about six years old. The son may have been older or younger, being born between 1790 and 1800.
+In the 1800 census, Michael and wife were living in Upper Milford township, Northampton County, with two young children, a boy and a girl under age ten.  Hattie would have been about six years old. The son may have been older or younger, being born between 1790 and 1800. (This son may be Samuel Brey of the Emmaus church records.)
 ([[Biography: Michael Brey|Click here to read the full biography of Michael Brey]])

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 | Hattie Brey        || F ||      ~1794 || Lehigh County, PA ||  -never married-  ||"idiot" per 1850 census; <br>living with parents at age 56 || <sup class="reference">[2][3][4][7]</sup>
 |-
-| son Brey   || M || 1795-1800           ||   ||   || || <sup class="reference">[2][3][4]</sup>
+| son Brey:<br>possibly Samuel Brey   || M || 1795-1800   ||expect Lehigh Co. PA||(Samuel Brey m. Elisabeth Schaefer)   || || <sup class="reference">[2][3][4][17]</sup>
 |-
 | dau Brey   || F || 1800  after census taken ||   ||   || || <sup class="reference">[3][4]</sup>
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 ! '''16'''
 | '''[[Source: History of Clarion County Pennsylvania 1887|Book: History of Clarion County PA 1887]]''', pg iii, states that ''Michael Brey/Brye/Brier'' arrived in Venango County in 1839 and died in 1859.  His daughter ''Elizabeth'' (1808-1899) married ''Jacob Beals'' (1806-1890).
+|-
 |}
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 * The 1830 PA census has been searched page by page on the ancestry.com site by E. B. Williams for the townships of Macungie, Lower Milford, Saucon and Whitehall in Lehigh County; Upper Hanover in Montgomery County; Elk, Beaver & Richland in Venango Co.   No record for a Michael Brey (or spelling variants) as head of household was found.
 * The 1790 PA census was searched by the ancestry.com search engine for Macungie  Twp., Northampton Co.  No record found for Michael Brey (or spelling variants) was found. He would have been age 17; probably living with parents, or as farm hand in other household.
+* Samuel Brey appears as a witness or godparent at the birth of Elisabeth Brey Beals' son Samuel, Emmaus Moravian Church, Lehigh Co. PA in 1831.  Sallie Ann Brey, daughter of Samuel Brey and wife Elisabeth Schaefer, in 1826 baptismal records of Emmaus Moravian Ch., Lehigh Co. PA.  We expect that Samuel is the brother of Elisabeth Brey.
 =Conjecture=
 * Posted by "Paula" on Genealogy.com's Brey Family Genealogy Forum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/brey/messages/30.html):<br>Johann Michael Brey married Maria Arnold.  He was the son of Johann Conrad Brey & Maria Magdalena Klein.  Johann Conrad Brey was the son of Hans George Brey & Maria Catharina ___.

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 | '''Death''' || 8 Jun 1859 ||  || || <sup class="reference">[13][16]</sup>
 |-
-| '''Burial''' || || expect St. Paul's Lutheran, Clarion County, PA <br> no gravestone found || ||<sup class="reference">[13][14]</sup>
+| '''Burial''' || || expect [[Cemetery Index|St. Paul's Lutheran]], Clarion County, PA <br> no gravestone found || ||<sup class="reference">[13][14]</sup>
 |}

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 | '''Birth'''  || 14 Apr 1773 || expect Lehigh (Northampton) Co., PA or Montgomery Co. PA || || <sup class="reference">[13]</sup>
 |-
-| '''Marriage''' ||expect by 1793-1794<br>1st child b. ~1794 || || To Maria [Unknown] ||<sup class="reference">[9][11][12]</sup>
+| '''Marriage''' ||expect by 1793-1794<br>1st child b. ~1794 || || To Maria [Unknown]<br>born in Germany ||<sup class="reference">[9][11][12]</sup>
 |-
 | '''Death''' || 8 Jun 1859 ||  || || <sup class="reference">[13][16]</sup>

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 | dau Brey   || F || 1810 -1820          ||   ||   || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
 |-
-| [[Harriet Brey]]   || F || 1816  || Lehigh County, PA || [[Samuel Shaner]] || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
+| [[Harriet Brey]]   || F || 1816  || Lehigh County, PA || Samuel Shaner || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
 |}

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 =Conjecture=
 *Brey records exist in Lehigh and Montgomery counties. Relationship to these individuals not yet established.
 ([[Brey Research: No known relationship|Click here to read additional research notes]])
 * ''A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names ...''  by Israel Daniel Rupp,Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore 1965, p. 169-170<br>" Oct. 20, 1744. On the ship "Phoenix", was one Joh. Peter Breyvogel. No known relationship , but the name seems a possible precursor to shortened or Anglicized Brey or Vogele.  This is the same ship on which Johannes Klein arrived; both Johannes Klein & Michael Brey resided in Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co. PA
 =Research=
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 | '''Marriage''' ||expect by 1793-1794<br>1st child b. ~1794 || || To Maria [Unknown] ||<sup class="reference">[9][11][12]</sup>
 |-
-| '''Death''' || 8 Jun 1859 ||  || || <sup class="reference">[13]</sup>
+| '''Death''' || 8 Jun 1859 ||  || || <sup class="reference">[13][16]</sup>
 |-
 | '''Burial''' || || expect St. Paul's Lutheran, Clarion County, PA <br> no gravestone found || ||<sup class="reference">[13][14]</sup>
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 | dau Brey   || F || 1805-1810           ||   ||   || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
 |-
-| [[Elizabeth Brey]] || F || 1 Mar 1808 || Lehigh County, PA || [[Jacob Beals]]   || || <sup class="reference">[4][15]</sup>
+| [[Elizabeth Brey]] || F || 1 Mar 1808 || Lehigh County, PA || [[Jacob Beals]]   || || <sup class="reference">[4][15][16]</sup>
 |-
 | dau Brey   || F || 1810 -1820          ||   ||   || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
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 | Lower Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co., PA || 1812 - 1821 || || <sup class="reference">[4][11]</sup>
 |-
-| Venango Co., PA || arrived 1839, through 1841|| || <sup class="reference">[6][15]</sup>
+| Venango Co., PA || arrived 1839, through 1841|| || <sup class="reference">[6][15][16]</sup>
 |-
 | Clarion Co., PA || 1841 -1859 || ||<sup class="reference">[7][13][15]</sup>
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 | '''Personal correspondence''' from Nancy Beals Walls, who quotes a "blue book about the first settlers of Clarion County, which became lost/stolen from the Clarion County Library"; title not recorded.  In this book was this information (the double name spelling must be Nancy's editing; other parts of the wording make it appear to be an extraction of data rather than an exact transcript):
 <blockquote>'''Elizabeth Brye/Brier''' b. 1 Mar. 1808, daughter of '''Michael Brey/Brier''', farmer, Democrat, Lutheran, arrived Venango County 1839; resided Clarion County 1841.  Elizabeth was originally of Lehigh County</blockquote>
 |}