Catherine (Bargy) Frank (1787 - 1870)

Born 17 Aug 1787 in Germantown, Herkimer, Montgomery, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Andries Frank — married 1812 in German Flatts, Herkimer,NY

Descendants

Died 10 Jun 1870 at age 82 in Ashford, Cattaraugus, New York, United States

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Biography

Catherine was born 17 Aug 1787, the daughter of Jacob Bircki and Anna Lentz.^[1] The Bargy homestead was in what is now East Schuyler, but was then known as Germantown or New Petersburg. Although the family name had been Bircki in Alsace and for a number of years after their arrival in America in 1765,^[2] by 1800 they had adopted the surname Bargy.

Catherine married Andreas ("Andrew") Frank in about 1811. They removed to Ashford (then part of Ellicottville) in Cattaraugus County in 1816, along with Andrew's father Henry Frank (often considered the founder of Ashford),^[3] his brother Jacob, and soon afterwards many of his neighbors from the Mohawk valley.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch ([1]: 21 January 2020), Catharina Bierkij, 1787.
2. ↑ I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, (Phildelphia: Ig. Kohler, 1876), p. 372; Johan Jacob Birki ([2] : 30 Jun 2022).
3. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Ashford, New York," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, ([3]: 9 Nov 2022).
4. ↑ Of particular note, Catherine's cousin, Jacob P Bargy, married Henry Frank's daughter Dorothy and moved to Ashford about 1823. He was the progenitor of the Bargy family in and around Cattaraugus County.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sharon Atkins for creating Bargy-16 on 4 Sep 13.