Johann Peter Laux (1726 - 1799)

Born 19 Apr 1726 in Muenster, Hesse, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Catharine (Haines) Loux — married about 1752 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 16 Feb 1799 at age 72 in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Johan Peter Laux was born in 1726 in Germany ( his ancestor settled there after being exiled from France because of the family's devotion to the murdered King Henry IV).^[1]

Johan Peter Laux came to America on the ship called Patience, information on voyage can be found on pg 551 in "The Loux Family of Bucks County."^[2]. To pay for his transportation he bound himself as an indentured servant to John Haines who 4 years later would become his father-in-law.

Johan Peter Laux married Catherine Hains and had children Barbara (1754-1829 , married Jacob Salade), John , John Jacob (1759-1825), John Peter (1760-1825), Catharine (1763-1785, married Lawrence Kramer), Andrew , Elizabeth(born 1769 married Henry Bryan), John Adam (1771-1859), and Maria Magdalena( born June 1775 married Michael Lutz).^[3]

Johan Peter Laux died in February of 1799 he and wife Catharine were buried at the Tohickon Reformed Church. ^[3]

• Laux was original spelling; it was changed to Loux around Civil war. But Loux is what my family used, so that's why some of same family may have different spelling)

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Sources

1. ↑ Johan Peter Loux and Catharine (Henzs) Haines Laux Family History. Immigrant Ancestors of the Laux, Loux, Loucks Families of Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1724-1996 Researched and Compiled by Edna Mae (Lewis) Loux; contributed by Alice Marshall Hunsberger-154
2. ↑ A Collection of papers read before the Bucks County Historical Society Published by the Fackenthat Publication Fund 1926 Volume V The Loux Family of Bucks County by Hon. James B Loux pages 550-597 - https://archive.org/stream/collectionofpape05buck#page/n7/mode/2up The Loux pages are here https://archive.org/stream/collectionofpape05buck#page/550/mode/2up/search/Loux
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Also Family Records of John Peter Loux (John Peter Laux Peter Loux) donated by Hunsberger-154 a descendant of Catharine and Peter Loux, These notes had references of : Bucks Co. Historical Society "Laux Collection, LeHozier or D'Hozier Collection in Bibliothique Nationale in Paris, Tohickan Church records, Mennonite Historians E. PA, Bucks County records office, and Edmand and Alice Field

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
  Place: New York, New York; Year: 1710; Page Number: 531
  Ancestry Record 7486 #1861002 (accessed 6 April 2022)
  Name: Johann Peter Laux; Arrival Year: 1710; Arrival Place: New York, New York; Primary Immigrant: Laux, Johann Jost; Source Publication Code: 3620.1; Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. A few are date of intent to emigrate. Number on the Hunter Lists, birth dates, family relationships, and places of origin may also be provided. Exhaustive information on more than 500; Source Bibliography: JONES, HENRY Z., JR. The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Volume I. Universal City, CA: Author, PO Box 8341, Universal City, CA, 1985. 624p.;
  Household Members:
  Johann Jost Laux
  Johann Peter Laux
  Johannes Laux
  Maria Margaretha Laux.

• Burial: "U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current", Ancestry Record 60525 #46790226 (accessed 21 March 2022)
  Johann Peter Laux burial (died on 16 Feb 1799) in Bedminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.