♂Joseph Benich

Joseph Benich (dates unknown) was the father of Anne Catherine Benich, a colonist of the German Coast^W, the settlements on the Mississippi above New Orleans in colonial Louisiana. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Anne Catherine Benich.

Joseph Benich and Magdelaine Seiler are named as Anne Catherine’s parents in the entry of her second marriage, to Christof Huber, at St. Charles Borromeo^W on 31 January 1747, when she was the widow of Jacques Foltz. The entry calls her a native of Burcken, probably the village of Bürchen in the Valais, in Switzerland. It gives no dates or places for her parents, and the records do not say whether they ever came to Louisiana.

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The record

The couple is known from a single entry, their daughter’s marriage of 1747, in Woods’s printed abstracts of the St. Charles Borromeo register, the Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, volume 1: “BENICH Catherine (Joseph and Magdelaine SEILER), native of Burcken, widow of Jacob FOLTZ, dec. in this parish”. The register gives only the name Burcken; its reading as Bürchen, in the Valais, comes from a family tree on WikiTree. Anne Catherine’s other entries write the surname Benick and Binnies.