Born in Zuzenhausen, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Johann Casper Rieth
— married
1728 (to 1760) in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Mother of
Johann Georg Rieth, Catherine Elizabeth (Rieth) Gall, Maria Barbara (Reith) Emerich, Maria Barbara Margaretha (Reith) Bortz, Caspar Rieth Jr, Christina (Reith) Emerich and Philip Rieth
Died
at age 51
in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
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Biography
Anna Margaretha Barth was born 2 Feb 1709, in Zuzenhausen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married John Casper Read/Reith about 1728 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Anna Margaretha Read passed away 7 Oct 1760, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3]
Henry Jones, Jr speculates that Anna Margaretha Barth is in some way related to Anna Barthin (Hunter's Lists #13), who appears on the 24 Dec 1711 list with 3 persons over 10 years of age.[4]
Margaret Bart(h) was the first wife of Casper Rieth and they had 11 children.
Some records have her listed as being the sister of Anna Maria Shirmer which is not correct. [Anna Maria Shirmer married Margaret Barth's husband Caspar Rieth after Margaret died in 1760.
Burial: North Heidelberg Church Cemetery, North Heidelberg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Translation of the attached burial record, provided by Thomas J. McCullough, MA, MLIS, Assistant Archivist of the Moravian Church, Northern Province on August 21, 2020:
On page 224 of the church register of the Moravian congregation in Heidelberg, we read in the funeral entry of Margaretha Rieth, 1709-1760 (burial number XXXIV):
"Caspar Rieth’s wife. She was born in the Palatinate on the 2nd of February 1709 to Reformed parents. Was married in this land in 1728 with the now-widower, with whom she gave birth to 11 children, of which 3 preceded her into eternity. She was loved by everyone. On the 29th of July 1760 she faded blissfully into the arms and bosom of Jesus, and her tabernacle (corpse) was buried on our God’s Acre on the 31st."
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 03 February 2021), memorial page for Anna Margaretha Barth Rieth (2 Feb 1709–7 Oct 1760), Find A Grave: Memorial #62237204, citing North Heidelberg Church Cemetery, Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by gravetaker (contributor 46832389) .
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/41389538/person/220027751660/facts
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/60202174/person/38214451241/facts
- ↑ Jones, HZ, Jr.. The Palatine Families of New York (1985), p. 20.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Anna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Anna:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Anna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Anna:
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Chuck Haine
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Categories: Tulpehocken Settlers | Palatine Migrants
In an April 19, 2016 email regarding Anna Margaretha from Tom McCullough, librarian, Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, he says about Anna Margaretha: "According to her funeral entry on pg. 224 of the Heidelberg Moravian Church register, she was born on February 2, 1709. Her exact birth location is listed as Zuzenhausen. Her surname is not provided." Her surname is also not included in the family register or anywhere else that he could find.
According to Henry Jones in Palatine Families of New York, Caspar m. 1728 Anna Margaretha (Bart, per Family List dated 1745 giving them 7 ch. in Reed's); b. 2 Feb. 1709 in Zusehausen, Palatinate and d. 7 Oct. 1760 (data from compilation of material in Reed's and Heidelberg Moravian).
If her surname is not in the Family List, maybe Jones got it from another source.
In any event, I reviewed the baptism records in Zuzenhausen for the years 1708 – 1710. The only Anna Margaretha with any surname that I could find was for an Anna Margaretha Barth, born January 28, 1708, baptized January 29, 1709 to Nicholas Barth and Anna Regina Wacker (who has Wikitree profile Barth-230). Nicholas died in 1714 and Anna Regina remarried George Wildt and died in Zuzenhausen in 1754. Their daughter Anna Margaretha married Johann Conrad Seltenreich (his birthplace Lohrbach, Spouse Anna Margretha Barth b. Zuzenhausen. Married 17 Sep 1726, Evangelisch, Lohrbach, Mosbach, Baden. Father's Name: Hss. Georg Seltenreich. Spouse's Father's Name: Nicolaus Barth.) Then Johann Conrad Seltenreich and Anna Margaretha Barth disappear from the area's records.
Some speculation: a Leonard Seltenreich arrived dead on the William and Sarah on September 18, 1727 with 2 in his party (Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 by Ralph Beaver Strassburger; edited by William John Hincke, p. 9). I haven't seen the original handwriting, but could that man actually have been Conrad, misread as Leonard? A Johannes Barth was also on that ship, who, according to some unsourced family trees, was identical to the Georg Barth who was born in 1680 in nearby Tiefenbach and died 1769 Lampeter, Lancaster. It seems unlikely that Anna Margaretha was the daughter of Georg, both because there is no baptism record for her in Zuzenhausen (and his other children have baptism records), but also because, as far as I could find, there were no sponsorships at all between the two families in Pennsylvania, despite both having lots of children. Anyway, an earlier marriage and immigration for Anna Margaretha might explain how she got to Tulpehocken by 1728, in time to marry Casper Rieth, possibly as a young widow, also possibly with some sort of relative, such as Johannes (or George?) Barth. Just a thought.