Christoph Demuth (abt. 1654)

Born about 1654 in Šanov, Moravia

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Biography

Christoph Demuth is the oldest known ancestor from whom rose most of the American Demuth lines. He was , purportedly a magistrate in Karlov (Karsdorf), Bohemia, a province of today's Czech Republic. Originally, howerev, he came from Sanov, Moravia, where his two oldest children were also born. It is not known exactly when Christoph was born or when he actually died. The information about his wife is equally scanty.

What we know are the names of his five children, i.e., Tobias, justina, Christoph, Gotthard and Maria Magdalena. The family was nominally Catholic, of the "Hidden Seed", who for conscience sake and personal persecution, chose to flee their homeland to seek refuge in Herrnhut (Ochranov), a newly organized Bohemian Brethren haven in Upper Lusatia on the estate of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf.

Sources

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., Demuth Family Tree. A Moravian-Brethren Family from Moravia, Czech Republic, in: RootsWebb. See - https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mila&idhttps://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mila&id

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., "The Demuth Genealogy Revisited. Moravian Brethren Family from Czechoslovakia," Journal of Lancaster County Historical Society, 92, No. 2 (1989), pp. 55-68.

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., "Another Visit to Moravian Demuths," Demuth / DeMuth / Damuth Newsletter (Summer 1997), pp. 206-209.

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., The Demuth Genealogy: A Moravian Brethren Family from Czechoslovakia," in "Czechs and Slovaks in America. Boulder, CO: East European Monogaphs, and New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. 149-150.

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., "Moravskobratrsti Demuthove z Karlova a jejich poromci v Americe," in: Sborbik IV. Konference Moravian v roce 2006. Edice Moravan, svazek 7, Suchdol nad Odrou: Moravian, 2009, pp. 48-67.