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     About 1720, Wambolt family records list him as receiving an income of 11 gulden a year from two gardens.~. Johann Flohri lived at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany; His own house, purchased from his father for 175 florin on April 11, 1712. He had an honorary post checking the church's income and expenses. He was a carriage maker. He purchased his house from his father for 175 florin on April 11, 1712. He was a civil servant and carriage maker at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. Around 1720, he is listed in Wamboldt records as having an income of 11 gulden a year from two gardens. He was born on 28 September 1679 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Peter Flohri. Johann Flohri married Anna Barbara Jacob on 17 November 1711 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. Johann Flohri died on 26 January 1750/51 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, at age 71.

     Peter Flohri was Gerichtsschoffe--member of local judicial court and a carriage maker. Peter was involved in two interesting land transactions in 1712. On April 11 of that year, he sold a house to his son Johannes and his wife for 175 florin. On May 15 of that same year, he purchased another house by a millstream from Anna Jost for 121 florin.

If Johannes passed this house on to George upon his death in 1751, George would have had just about enough property to purchase a round-trip ticket to America.~. He was born in 1637. He was the son of Hans Flohri. Land Transactions. Peter Flohri died on 31 January 1719/20 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Was a carpenter called in by town to fill void. Hans Flohri emigrated from Switzerland; His family probably came from Switzerland. According to a German family tradition, Hans Flohri and his wife, Apollonia, came to the town in the late 1640's or early 1650's. Birkenau had been devastated both by disease and the effects of the Thirty Years War. Accordingly, the mayor sent out for skilled workmen, and Hans came as a carpenter.

Despite his skills, Hans is listed as a farmer in town records. That he possessed carpentry skills, though, is indicated by the fact that his descendants became the town's wagon makers. When his great grandsons Johannes and Adolph migrated to America in 1754, they both founded a long line of carpenters and farmers.

Birkenau church records list but one son, Peter, who, like his father, was born outside the town, perhaps in Switzerland. It is not known how many other children Hans had, but he was the father of at least one other son. In the town of Hohensachsen, which lies about four miles south of Birkenau, the local kirchenbuch lists a marriage there on January 1, 1664 between a Hans George Flori and an Anna Sibilla Westhofen. The couple had at least four children, Hans (Dec. 7, 1665), Hans Jacob (Jan. 12, 1668), Hans Philipp (Sept. 7, 1669), and Caspar (July 30, 1671). That this Hans George was the son of the Hans of Birkenau is indicated by the church records, which list one other contemporaneous Flori, Marcus, who may also have been Hans' son. At some point, both Hans George and Marcus left Hohensachsen for parts unknown, as their deaths are not recorded in church records.

In 1655, Birkenau records indicate that Hans was worth about 200 gulden, about average for the town, but only a little above poverty level. The relative income situation for his immediate descendants changed very little, and this may have been the primary reason for his great grandchildren, George, Johannes, and Adolph, emigrating to America.

The 1994 Birkenau town history, "1200 Jahre Birkenau. Ein Dorf und Seine Zeit," lists an earlier Flori in Birkenau, a Lorenz Flori, who was prosecuted in 1561 for stealing meat from a neighbor's wife. there is no other reference to this Lorenz, and the next municipal record to any Flori in the town is to the 1655 appearance of Hans Flori at a town meeting. A genealogist, Sabine Schleichert, who researched the Flori family in Birkenau had access to the original record of Lorenz Flori in the archives of the Baroness of Wamboldt. The reference is not very legible, but Schleichert believes that what was taken for "Flori" was really something like "Bori," so Lorenz was not a part of the family at all.~. Was Cantzlerin Hofbauer on May 23, 1655, at Birkenau City Hall. Hans Flohri was also known as Hans Flori. Historical Notes. He was born in 1610 at Switzerland. He was Cantzlerin Hofbauer on 23 May 1655 at City Hall, Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He died on 11 April 1685 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Anna Barbara Jacob was also known as Anna Barbara Jakob. Anna's father was Peter Jacob and her grandfather was Veith Jacob, who was from the town of Mumbach, a small hamlet near Birkenau. Anna had two brothers, Peter and Johann Martin, along with four sisters, Christina, Anna Margaretha, Maria Magdalina, and Anna.b. She was born on 19 April 1693 at Hornbach, Germany. She married Johann Flohri, son of Peter Flohri, on 17 November 1711 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. As of 17 November 1711,her married name was Flohri. Anna Barbara Jacob died on 23 December 1727 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, at age 34.

     Maria Magdelina Flohri was born on 25 September 1673 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. She is the daughter of Peter Flohri.

     Adam Flohri was born on 1 October 1682 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Peter Flohri. Adam Flohri died in October 1697 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Anna Margaretha Jost was also known as Anna Margaretha Jost. She died on 23 April 1737 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Johann Adam Flohri was born on 31 May 1721 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Anna Margaretha Jost. Johann Adam Flohri died on 9 February 1724/25 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, at age 3.

     Eva Maria Flohri was also known as Eva Maria Flohri. She was born on 29 December 1718 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. She is the daughter of Anna Margaretha Jost.

     Gertraut Flohri was born on 21 December 1686 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. She was the daughter of Peter Flohri. Gertraut Flohri died on 4 March 1686/87 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Johann Nicolaus Weber married an unknown person on 20 July 1737 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     The figure of Eva? is somewhat sketchy. She was Catholic as were her children, and her husband was Protestant. Therefore, no record of this marriage or her children appears in the Birkenau Lutheran records where her husband's family is recorded. Yet a German researcher of this family has found records of a marriage between this Eva and Peter, along with indications that they had at least 3 children (Anna Margaretha, Simon, and Johan, born approximately 1739-1741, when the Protestant Church records appear to indicate that he was married to Eva Catharina Weber). Peter Flohri did have two wives in the Protestant records, Anna Margaretha Jost, whom he married on Feb. 1, 1717/18 and who died in 1737. He then married Eva Catharina Weber in July of 1737, and had a child by her (Johan Peter) in 1745. Her death death is unknown.

If Peter did marry a Catholic Eva (not Eva Catharina Weber, who was definitely Protestant), it is difficult to see when he did so, for, based on the birth dates of his children, he would have had to have been a bigamist. Either that, or the estimated birth dates of his Catholic children by Eva are incorrect.

I did check out the Catholic church records in Birkenau. Unfortunately, they do not begin until 1800. The Flohri name does not appear at all in these records, but the name Simon Flohr does as the father of a Leonard Flohr. This is the same person as the Simon Flohri that the German researcher listed as the son of Peter Flohri.

There are several problems with the supposed marriage between Peter Flohri, Protestant of Birkenau, with the Catholic Eva. As already indicated, there does not seem to be a period of time in which he could have legally married her, his two recorded marriages with Anna Margaretha Jost and the Protestant Eva Catharina Weber overlapping so closely.

The other problem is that the Catholic records concerning Simon and his relatives spell the name as "Flohr," not "Flohri." While records both here and abroad do show an occasional Flory showing up as a Flor and vice versa, in general the two families are separate and distinct. In other words, the Flohr families (the modern spelling is generally "Flower") and the Flohri families, despite the similarity of names, are not related. While it is conceivable that Peter Flohri, uncle to the three brothers from Birkenau who emigrated to America in 1754, is the same person as the Peter Flohr, husband of Eva? and father of Simon Flohr, it is not likely. More probably we are dealing with two separate individuals with similar names.

I have left the information about Eva? and Simon (and some of his descendants) on this genealogy for informational purposes.
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     Widow of Michael Schuch. Anna Christina was born in February 1744/45. She married an unknown person on 11 October 1795 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. She died in July 1796 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, at age 51.

     Johannes Hoffmann married an unknown person on 13 June 1775 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Christina Hahn married an unknown person on 7 April 1760 at Philadelphia, PA, USA.

     Johann Jacob Schab married an unknown person on 17 February 1801 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Anna Margaretha Flohri was born circa 1739. She was the daughter of Eva (?) Anna Margaretha Flohri died on 6 June 1800 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

     Simon Flohri was born after 1739 at Birkenau, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Eva (?)

     Johan Flohri was born after 1741. He was the son of Eva (?)

     Baptized Catholic-Had Two Illegitimate Children. Margaretha Flohri was born on 9 January 1751/52.

     Wilhelm Flohri was born circa 1769. He was the son of Simon Flohri and Maria Wilhelmina (?) Wilhelm Flohri died on 27 July 1771.

     Johan Heinrich Flohri was born in 1771. He was the son of Simon Flohri and Maria Wilhelmina (?) Johan Heinrich Flohri died on 4 August 1772.

     He was baptized Catholic. Johan George Flohri was born on 3 March 1773. He was the son of Simon Flohri and Maria Wilhelmina (?)

     Anna Elisabeth Flohri was born on 26 September 1777. She was the daughter of Simon Flohri and Maria Wilhelmina (?) Anna Elisabeth Flohri died on 3 October 1777.

     Johan Leonhard Flohri was born on 30 November 1778. He was the son of Simon Flohri and Maria Wilhelmina (?)