♀Elisabeth (surname unknown)

Elisabeth was a villager of Goddelau-Erfelden, near the Rhine in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt^W, who married Hans Eckelmann, a lay judge and elder of its church, in 1651. She was probably the seventh great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her daughter Anna Magdalena Eckelmann (baptized 1668).

Hans married Elisabeth, apparently a stepdaughter of Niclas Horst, at Goddelau-Erfelden on 31 October 1651. Their daughter Anna Magdalena was baptized there on 14 June 1668 and confirmed in 1682, at the age of fourteen. Her own family name and the dates of her birth and death are not known.

Notes

Sources

What is known of Elisabeth comes from Henry Z. Jones Jr.’s The Palatine Families of New York (1985), volume 1, page 118, under John Jacob Caputscher. Jones abstracts, from the Goddelau-Erfelden church books, the marriage of Hans, son of Philipp Eggelman, to Elisabeth, stepdaughter of Niclas Horst, on 31 October 1651, and the baptism of Magdalena, daughter of Hans Eckelmann, on 14 June 1668. Jones marks the name Horst with a question mark.

Her name

Because the marriage entry makes Niclas Horst her stepfather, Horst was not her own surname, and her maiden name is left blank here. Some online trees call her Elisabeth Horst, and one gives her maiden name as Gessner or Horst; they give her a birth in 1623, and one a death in 1713, with no source for the name or the dates.