Dorothea Firestone, daughter of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher) Firestone, was born at Thal 17 February 1747. In about 1763 she married John Whale/Wall/Wahl, "an Englishman," and they had a daughter baptized at York, Pa., in 1764. She and her husband were listed among the heirs of Nicholas Firestone of Paradise Township, York County, Pa. in 1764. John Wall [signed by mark X] was among the kinsmen who approved the further inventory of Nicholas's estate, filed 6 December 1769. John Wall, stiller, was taxed in York County m 1779 for a house and lot in York Town.
Among the children of John and Dorothea (Firestone) Wall was:
i. Susanna Wall, b. 16 Oct. 1764; bp. Christ E-L Church, York Town, 22 Nov. 1764;. witnesses: Conrad and Catharina Stautzenberger.
The following Sources by GeneJunky:
Sources:
1. Title: Firestone Family of Frederick Co. Maryland, #01 Nicholas Firestone: Firestone Family of Frederick County, Maryland, Subject: #01 Nicholas Firestone, Volume: 9, No. 1, Page: 3-7
Abbrev: Russell (1993): #01 Nicholas Firestone
Author: George Ely Russell
Page: therein, "Children of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher), all born at Thal [....] except the last child," [including] "Maria Dorothea Feuerstein, b. 17 Feb. 1747," cites "Parish Registers for Evangelical Church for Berg, 1712-1794, film nos. 729847 (baptisms) and 729848 (marriages and burials), LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah: Firestone entries abstracted and translated from the German by Mrs. Trudy Schenk, A.G., Salt Lake City, 1991."
2. Title: Eighteenth Century Emigrants...: FIRESTONE: Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Northern Alsace to America, Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society : v. 26, Page: page 158, entry 139, File Reference: Feuerstein, Nickell and Nicholas, Jr. of Thal
Abbrev: 18th Century Emigrants (Alsace): FIRESTONE
Author: Burgert, Annette Kunselman
Publication: Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 1992
Note:
viewed 15 Dec 1997 at FHL, call number 974.8 B4pgp v. 26; copies extracted
Page: therein, parish records of Berg Lutheran Church call out birth/baptisms for children of "Nickel Feyerstein (also Feuerstein), carpenter at Thal," and his wife, "Anna Catharina nee Nunnemacher," including "Maria Dorothea," b. 17 Feb 1747, bap. 19 Feb 1747
3. Title: Firestone Family of Frederick Co. Maryland, #01 Nicholas Firestone: Firestone Family of Frederick County, Maryland, Subject: #01 Nicholas Firestone, Volume: 9, No. 1, Page: 3-7
Abbrev: Russell (1993): #01 Nicholas Firestone
Author: George Ely Russell
Page: therein, from page 6, "Children of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher), all born at Thal and baptized at the Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church except the last child," [including] "Maria Dorothea Feuerstein, b. 17 Feb. 1747; bp. 19 Feb. 1747; witnesses: Andreas Feuerstein (citizen and weaver in Thal), Anna Margaretha Klein (wife of Carl Klein, schoolmaster in Berg), Johann Heinrich Scheurer (single son of the late Jacob Scheurer, farmer and church clerk), and Dorothea Weidmann (single daugher of the late Peter Weidmann, farmer in Thal)," cites "Parish Registers for Evangelical Church for Berg, 1712-1794, film nos. 729847 (baptisms) and 729848 (marriages and burials), LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah: Firestone entries abstracted and translated from the German by Mrs. Trudy Schenk, A.G., Salt Lake City, 1991; citing Berg Parish Church Books; as to the baptismal sponsor Andreas Feuerstein, Russell adds, "[Johann] Andreas Feyerstein/Feuerstein, citizen and weaver of linen in Thal, d. 6 March 1753, bur. the 8th, age 47y 2m 28d; m. 20 Jan. 1728 Anna Maria Strauch (d. 20 Jan. 1786)," citing Berg Parish Church Books
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