Johann Adam Forney (abt. 1690 - abt. 1752)

Born about 1690 in Wachenheim, Germany

Husband of Elizabetha Lowisa (Müllerin) Forney — married 25 Jan 1713 in Bad Duerkheim, Pfalz, Bavaria

Descendants

Died about 1 Feb 1752 at about age 62 in Hanover, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

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Biography

"Johann Adam Farni" married "Elisabeth Louisa Muellerin" on 25 January 1713 in Evangelisch-Reformierte, Bad Duerkheim, Pfalz, Bavaria, now Bad Dürkheim, Bad Dürkheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Deutschland (Germany).^[1]

From the Book: "The Descendants of Johann Adam Forney 1557 - 1963 identified as from the family bible of Johann Adam Forney:^[2]

"In the year 1721 on the 16th October, I, Johann Adam Forney and wife Louisa with four children arrived at Philadelphia in Penn., having lived at Wachenheim-on-the-Hart (Mountain) in the Palatinate. Johann Adam Forney to him belongs this Bible, and love it, and bought it for four gulden at Wachenheim-onthe-Hart (Mountain) on the 10th of May. In the year 1713, I married my dear wife Elizabeth Louisa. On the 6th of October 1713 my first child, a son, was born at 10 o'clock at night, in the sign of the Crab, and his sponsor was the Honorable Marx Oberle. On the first of July 1715 my second child, a son, was born in the night, at four o'clock in the sign of the Virgin, and his sponsor was the Honorable Nicholas Forney of Durkheim-on-the-Hart (Mountain). January 1717, my third child, a daughter, was born dead. Apriil 24th 1718 my 4th child, a daughter, was born, and her Godmother was my step sister Maria Bertha. On the 29th of September 1724 my sixth child was born in Pennsylvania - his name Frederick (Philip) Forney. On the 16th of February 1728 my seventh child was born in Pennsylvania - her name is Clara."

More from the Book:^[2]

“On Nov. 10, 1713 marx, son of Johann Adam Fornick, citizen and Tailor here, and his wife Elisabeth Louisa, was baptized. Godfather was Marx Oberle, citizen and practitioner in curing and his wife, Godmother. (The Godfather died 1714, 23 years of age).

“On July 7, 1715 Niclas, son of Johann Adam Fornick, citizen and Tailor here, and his wife Elisabeth Louisa, was baptized. Godfather: Nickl fornick, Grave-Digger at Durkheim, and his wife, Godmother.

“On April 26, 1718, Louisa Charlotte, daughter of Johann Adam Fornick, citizen and Tailor here, and his wife Louisa, was baptized. Godmothers were: the two noble Fraulein von Blarer and Geiersberg. (Compare with the Wachenheimer History Sheets, Part 1).

“Baptized on Jan. 8, 1721 was Maria Eva, daughter of Johann Adam Farnier and Elisabetha, his wife. Godmother was maria Eva, legal daughter of Matthias Hassler."

"Johann Adam Forney, a burger, lived ten miles west of Mannheim at Wachenheim-in-the-Haardt, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, in Germany.

He was settled in the neighborhood of what is now Hanover, York County, Pa., in 1734. It was then known as the "Conewago Settlements," or "Digges' Choice." The latter name it got from John Digges, who some years before had taken up some land there on a Maryland warrant' had it surveyed for him by a Maryland surveyor; and sold some of it to Forney and others, whose lives were "made miserable for years by the turmoils arising out of disputers between Digges and other settlers., which were aggravated by the conflicting claims of Penn. and Baltimore to the proprietorship. For many years the region was known as the 'disputed land,' and there naturally was uch lawlessness.".

Research notes

His grave is in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.

Sources

1. ↑ "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4B4-J2S : 23 February 2020), [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSC9-TGRM?i=144&cc=3015626 marriage Johann Adam Farni, 1713.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Howard G. Forney, The Descendants of Johann Adam Forney 1557 - 1963 Pgs 2, 19-20, 39-42.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL8-1GNT : 13 December 2015), Johann Adam Forney, 1752; Burial, Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Mount Olivet Cemetery; citing record ID 90540286, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• History of York County, Pennsylvania Ancestry.com Shot by indian page 575 (see photo) https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/10781
• Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012 Ancestry.com - Johann Adam Forney Birth 1690 Age 62 Death 1752 Military Branch Army Veteran of Which War American Indian Wars Cemetery Name Mount of Olives Cemetery https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1967