Esther Groh

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• Name: Esther Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00117-7319.1
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
Lived with son-in-law John Master.

Esther — Samuel S. Stauffer. Samuel (son of Abraham Stauffer and Elizabeth Zug) was born 5 Oct 1782, Near Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; died 1 Aug 1859, Speedsville, Wellington Co., Ontario; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

1. David G. Stauffer was born , Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died , Near Dundas, Wentworth Co., Ontario.
2. Levi Stauffer was born , Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Isaac G. Stauffer was born 28 Sep 1807, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Dec 1878, Near Gaines, Michigan.
4. Susannah Stauffer was born 1808, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Jun 1868, , Kent Co., Michigan; was buried , Gaines Cemetery, Gaines Township, Kent Co., Michigan.
5. Elizabeth Stauffer was born 4 Jun 1810, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Feb 1882, East Of Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
6. Nancy Stauffer was born 4 Aug 1811, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 May 1843, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.
7. Jacob G. Stauffer was born 17 Jan 1813, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Nov 1879, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.
8. Abraham Groh Stauffer was born 21 Sep 1814, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Sep 1866, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States; was buried , Bennett Cemetery, Harrisburg, Ottawa, Michigan, United States.
9. Catherine Stauffer was born 1 Nov 1816, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 20 Jun 1877, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
10. Sallie Stauffer was born 13 Nov 1820, Speedsville (Waterloo Township), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Jun 1892, Kent City, Kent, Michigan, United States.
11. John Groh Stauffer was born 8 Dec 1824, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 5 Dec 1887, near Bright, Oxford County, Ontario; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.

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• Eby ID Number: 00045-3401

Notes:

Michael Groh, "the third son of old Hannes and Magdalena (Baumann) Groh, was born in 1757. In 1779 he was married to Elizabeth Witmer. In 1804 he, in company with others, came to Canada with the object of making a thorough inspection of the nature of the country. So well was Mr. Groh pleased with the appearance of the country (then all in its primeval state) that he took up a claim between Preston and Hespeler. He cleared about six acres and made it ready for fall wheat. On this clearing he erected a small log cabin into which he purposed moving on his return, with family, from Pennsylvania. In August of the same year he returned to his parental home in Montgomery County. During the first week of September (1804) he, (bidding adieu to his parents, brothers, friends and relatives, and not thinking of this being their last time of meeting here on earth) in company with his wife and family, set out on the journey for their Canadian home. They came as far as Buffalo where they crossed the Niagara River and proceeded on their journey to Mr. Boyer's who resided near the river on the Canadian side, where Mr. Groh, the father of the family, took sick and, after a few weeks suffering, died. The wife and two sons, John and Jacob, and one or two daughters, proceeded on their journey to Waterloo while the eldest daughter, Barbara, remained with her father to nurse him during his illness, and after his recovery they were to follow the family, but the mother and family had no sooner arrived at their new home when word came that the father was dead. He died about September 20th, 1804. Their family consisted of seven children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Michael married Elizabeth Witmer 1779. Elizabeth was born Abt 1760, Of, Montgomery Co. Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Groh
• Eby ID Number: 00045-3401.1
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 1 Lot 07, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 2 Lot 07, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 3 Lot 11, Waterloo County, Ontario

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• Interesting: story
• Name: Johannes Groh
• Name: John Groh
• Eby ID Number: 00045-3398

Notes:

Hannes Groh, "a native of Switzerland, came to America at a very early date. Tradition has it that he belonged to the company of emigrants whom the captain attempted to starve in order to gain possession of the supposed large sum of money held by these parties. The motive that impelled old Hannes, the ancestor of the Groh family of this county, to emigrate to Pennsylvania, was on account of religious persecutions which raged in his native country and which was the chief cause of the emigration of so many of the noble-hearted pioneers of Pennsylvania where no cruel persecutions were waged against these devout worshippers of the almighty God. Old Hannes Groh was born about the year 1708 and, if traditional report be true, came to America in 1725. He was married to Magdalena, only daughter of old Wendel Baumann, progenitor of the now numerous family scattered throughout every state of the Union and all the provinces of Canada. All efforts made to ascertain the names of their children together with their descendants proved, to a great extent, fruitless. The names of only three children have been received"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Hannes — Magdalena Bauman. Magdalena (daughter of Wendel Bauman and Annie) was born Abt 1725, Of, Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Magdalena Groh
• Eby ID Number: 00002-99

Notes:

Magdalena Baumann, "the youngest and only daughter of Wendel Baumann, was married to Jacob Groh. She was the mother of the late Abraham Groh, grandmother of John Groh, and great grandmother of Isaac Groh, near Hespeler, Ontario."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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• Occupation: Coppersmith
• Eby ID Number: 00002-2

Notes:

Wendel Baumann, "the original settler of this family, came to Pennsylvania at a very early date. He was born in Switzerland about the year 1681. When about seventeen years of age, he in company with his parents, moved to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties of southern and central Europe, by William Prince of Orange, afterwards William III of England. Here the old progenitor lived until the beginning of the seventeenth (18th!) century, when he set his face for America. He landed safely at Philadelphia but the date of the landing (1704) is not known. We find that in 1709 a number of families moved westward from Philadelphia, seeking a tract of land where they might settle in one vicinity. The choice of their location was on a tract situated north of Pequea Creek, extending to the Conestogo (Their settlement was Strasburg Tp., Chester Co., now West Lampeter Tp., Lancaster Co.) containing ten thousand acres of land. The warrant for this was recorded and the land surveyed to them on October 23rd, 1710. Among these settlers we find the name of Wendel Baumann. All efforts made to obtain the date of his death or to whom he was married proved fruitless. So much, however, has been obtained that he had a family of seven sons and one daughter. The names of the sons were Christian, Peter, John, Jacob, Michael, Benjamin, Joseph, and Magdalena, married to Jacob Groh, father of the late Abraham Groh, and grandfather of John Groh of Hespeler, Ontario."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Wendel — Annie. Annie was born CA 1670, Of, Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Annie Bauman
• Eby ID Number: 00002-2.3