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Who is Credliss Barry?

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Exploring the name "Credlelass" One of the remaining unanswered questions about my early Lingle ancestors is the name and identity of Paul Lingle's wife or wives. One possibility is that she is the daughter and step-daughter of immigrant couple Susanna and Johannes Artz, identified on the passenger manifest of the Adventure in 1732 as "Credlelass Bennech". Credlelass is certainly an unusual name - should we assume it was a mistake and that her actual name was something more common, perhaps Catharine? Or was this an actually name or nickname (vorname or rufname, spelled phonetically on the list) used in the community where this family originated, the Palatinate and Alsace, specifically Bruchmühlbach-Miesau? While paging through the transcribed records church records of Heidelberg Township, Berks county, I came across a possible clue - another Credliss! Credliss Barry as recorded in the transcribed St Daniel's Church Record is Margareth Elisabeth Mauntz, daugh...
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Time and distance are out of place here

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  In March of 2018, the Paul family gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate the marriage of Alli, a 9th generation descendant of Georg and Barbara Paul, our first Paul's in America. While the festivities took place in suburbia, we also had some time to visit historic Philadelphia, including picturesque Elfreth's Alley.  Elfreth's Alley is a historic street in Philadelphia, dating back to 1703. The 32 quaint houses that line the street were built between 1703 and 1836, and have been restored or preserved in all their early-American charm. Elfreth's is a National Historic Landmark, and a visit is often on the agenda of any Old City tourist, along with the nearby Betsy Ross House and Christ Church burial ground.   We did not know that day that we were walking in the very footsteps of our ancestors. In late colonial Philadelphia, the area around Elfreth's was the heart of a thriving German-speaking community. Bounded by the dock yards on the Delaware to the east and 5th s...
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J ohan Daniel Schlappich, my 6G-Grandfather Today I took a look at some of my grandmother Alma's matches on MyHeritage. I feel fortunate that she allowed me to swab her cheeks for a DNA test last year, as her matches are essentially two generations closer than my own would be to the same people. Alma was born a Lingle, and I've followed the Lingle line backwards, but I haven't spent as much time on her other lines, including her Schlappich/Schlabbig line,  3G-grandmother Elizabeth Schlabbig Seaman, born in Upper Bern Township, Berks County, in 1754.  A small match of  25.8 cM in a cluster with a known Seaman descendant caught my eye as I reviewed matches. This match had a medium size tree with 80 people on MyHeritage, and I immediately saw the name Schlappich, a variation of the same spelling, and a hard name to forget. This match clearly didn't match further down their tree, so the shared ancestor had to be further up- earlier in time. Here is where that two ge...
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Farewell Nana: Alma Virginia Lingle Paul

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This past week, we celebrated the life of my Grandmother, Alma Lingle Paul, who lived an extraordinary 99 1/2 years. While there is sadness at saying good bye to one family member, funerals are also a time to reminisce and reconnect with far-flung relatives, and to share good memories of our loved ones in common. My dad's cousin, Sylvia Fisher, brought along some amazing family pictures to share. This one is a keeper. My Dad,  Gary Paul , along with his sister Tommie, his mother Alma, his Grandmother Mary Care Lingle, and his Great-grandmother Sadie Strohm Care. Sadie was born in 1871, just a few years after the end of the Civil War, so this one photo, represents 150 years of family history. Farewell, Nana, you will be missed.
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