Catharina (Dieffenbach) Rieth (1698 - 1745)

Born 1698 in Wiesloch, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

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Died 1745 at about age 47 in South Branch of Potomac, Virginia

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Biography

Catharina Margaretha Dieffenbach was born in Germany in 1698, in or near the village of Wiesloch, which is close to Heidelberg. Catharina, along with her older brother Jacob, were the two oldest children of Johan Conrad Dieffenbach by his first wife who died about 1701. The name of her mother is Unknown.

About 1702, Catharina Margaretha's father remarried to Maria Barbara Christler. Son Johann Ludwig is born and dies in infancy. Daughters Maria Elizabetha (1705) and Anna Elizabetha (1708) are born prior to departure for the New World.

Event: Arrival 1710 Schoharie, New York. Catharina Margaretha is about 12 years old. She is accompanied by her father, age 50, her step-mother, and two younger half-sisters. An older woman named Anna, age 74 also travels with the family. Anna is believed to be the mother or step-mother of Conrad Dieffenbach.

Catharine married Johan Georg Rieth/Rith, son of Hans Georg Riedt and Anna Catharina Bern. They had 7 children:

• Leonard
• Catharine Barbara m Henry Shepler of Tulpehocken
• John Casper
• Mary Elizabeth
• Johannes
• John Jacob ( -1778)
• George Peter

Following the death of her husband Georg Riet in 1753, Catharine sold her property in Berks County Pennsylvania and migrated to the South Branch of the Potomac River, where she joined her half-sister Elisabetha, who had married Michael Ernest Herner, and her older brother Johan Jacob Dieffenbach.

Research Notes

There is no record of her brother Jacob Dieffenbach traveling with his family to the America--yet Jacob is named in his father's 1738 Tulpehocken will. Jacob may have remained in Europe and arrived later, in 1731 via Philadelphia--before joining Palatine migrants who settled in Virginia, on the South Branch of the Potomac, near what it today Morefield.

A Jacob Diffebach, along with Johannes Gohr, Johannes Daner, Jacob Kuntz, and Samuel Schwachhammer, were signers of a famous letter written to Rev Michael Weiss in Philadelphia. This letter reports crimes committed by Captain Lobb/Labb against Palatine migrants, during a 24 week passage on the ship Love and Unity.

The Love and Unity was bound for Philadelphia, emergency landed instead in Martha's Vineyard. In total about 100 of the 150 Palatines died before reaching Philadelphia.

Name

Name: Catharina Margaretha /Dieffenbach/^[1]

Event

Event:

Type: Arrival

Date: 1710

Place: New York, NY^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-2113920400 Page: Place: New York, NY; Year: 1710; Page Number: 157. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1829285&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Arrival date: 1710 Arrival place: New York, NY APID: 1,7486::1829285
2. ↑ Source: #S-2113920400 Page: Place: New York, NY; Year: 1710; Page Number: 157. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1829285&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Arrival date: 1710 Arrival place: New York, NY APID: 1,7486::1829285

• Source: S-2113920400 Repository: #R-2145025786 Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Gale Research Publication: - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900 Note: APID: 1,7486::0

• Repository: R-2145025786 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:

• Source: S-2123128525 Repository: #R-2145025786 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006 Data: Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/1231806/family

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Dieffenbach-4 created through the import of Callahan, Wiley, Plotner, Powell Family Tree - 2009.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Ron Callahan.
• WikiTree profile Dieffenbach-9 created through the import of Callahan, Wiley, Plotner, Powell Family Tree - 2009.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Ron Callahan.