Christian M. Allebach (abt. 1686 - abt. 1746)

Born about 5 Jul 1686 in Dühren, Sinsheim, Baden, Germany

Husband of Margaret (Landes) Allebach — married 1710 in Duhern, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about 6 Aug 1746 at about age 60 in Salford, Upper Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Found in the online Mennonite Heritage Center under _Our Immigrant Heritage_ Allebach_ Written by Forrest Moyer on June 21, 2017

"Christian Allebach, a weaver, had three stepchildren when he and wife Margaret immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1719. The family came from Dühren, Germany, near Sinsheim in the Kraichgau, and likely settled at Great Swamp in Bucks County.

Within a few years, Margaret died and Christian remarried to a woman named Elizabeth. This may have been the reason for Allebach’s move to Lower Salford, where he purchased 150 acres in 1730. He and Elizabeth had nine children of their own, but they must have also treated his orphaned stepchildren as their own — Jacob, Martin and Barbara Grater. The Grater’s received shares equal to the Allebach children in Christian’s will of 1746. One of the executors appointed by Allebach was “my trusty and well-beloved step son Jacob Greder”.

Christian directed that his property be sold to pay debts. His widow Elizabeth, with several young children and one in the womb, was to receive back the dowry funds she had brought into the marriage, and to be supported in things she “finds needful” for several years while the children were young. In the detailed estate settlement, some items were mentioned — amounts “to Christopher Dock for schooling” in 1747-1749, “to Christopher Dickenshied for shoes for the small children”, “to Jacob Clemens rent for ye sd. widow & children”, and “to Henry Doenig for a coffin for one of the children that died” along with other sundries.

Christian and Elizabeth were certainly buried at the Salford Mennonite Cemetery, though no gravestones survive for them." It then goes on to talk about some of his descendants including great grandson David G. Allebach (1802-1888).

Sources

• *Found in the online Mennonite Heritage Center under _Our Immigrant Heritage_ Allebach_ Written by Forrest Moyer on June 21, 2017

Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Genealogical Card File. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

• Notes: Christian Allebach in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-F73C : 13 December 2015), Christian Allebach, ; Burial, , , ,, ; citing record ID 74879430, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.