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Theobald Feuerstein1

Male, b. 3 August 1752, d. before 1760, #1698


Father Nicholas (Hans) Feuerstein1 b. 25 March 1712, d. before 11 January 1768
Mother Anna Catharina Nonnenmacher1 b. 2 August 1711, d. circa 1760
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Note*   He was baptized Aug 6, 1752 in Thal und Berg at Berg Lutheran Church. He was less than a year old when he came with his family to America.

From Russell's Firestone Genealogy (1993):
Johann Theobald Feuerstein, b. 3 Aug. 1752; bp. 6 Aug. 1752; witnesses: Johann Heckel (citizen and resident in Thal), Anna Margaretha Graber (wife of Johann Graber, schoolmaster in Rexingen), Johann Nickel Rutenauer (citizen and resident in Rexingen), and Maria Catharina Gosin (single daughter of Simon Gosin, citizen and resident in Petersbach district of Lutzelstein).

No further record; not named among father's surviving children.

These sources noted 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] "Johann Theobald Feuerstein, b. 3 Aug. 1752," 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: 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), [including] "Johann Theobald Feuerstein," Russell notes, "No further record; not named among father's surviving children in 1768," citing "York Co. Orphans Court Records, B: 184-185"
3. 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 "Johann Theolbald," b. 03 Aug 1752, bap. 06 Aug 1752
4. 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 7, "Children of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnenmacher), all born at Thal and baptized at the Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church except the last child," [including] "Johann Theobald2 Feuerstein, b. 3 Aug. 1752; bp. 6 Aug. 1752; witnesses: Johann Heckel (citizen and resident in Thal), Anna Margaretha Graber (wife of Johann Graber, schoolmaster in Rexingen), Johann Nickel Rutenauer (citizen and resident in Rexingen), and Maria Catharina Gosin (single daughter of Simon Gosin, citizen and resident in Petersbach district of Liitzelstein)," 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;" Russell adds, "No further record; not named among father's surviving children in 1768," citing York County Orphans Court Records, B:184-185"
1 
Birth* 3 August 1752  Thal, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France1,2 
Baptism 6 August 1752  Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church, Berg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France1,2
Death* before 1760  York Co., PA 

Last Edited 3 Apr 2016

Citations
  1. [S658] Firestone Family of Frederick Co. MD (1993), George Ely Russell.
  2. [S99] Kirchenbuch, 1712-1794.


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