Anna Cathrina (Unknown) Gray (1670 - 1734)

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Anna was born in 1670. Anna Cathrina ... She passed away in 1734. ^[1]

The winter of 1708-1709 was very long and cold in the Rhineland. It was a very bleak period. People huddled around their fires as they considered quitting their homes and farms forever. By early April, the land was still frozen and most of the Palatines'.

Anna Catharina Grau age 40 arrived in New York City in 1710 on the ship Wijnhaven which left Rotterdam 12 Aug 1709. The fare to America was 100 Florins [approx $48.00] each. There was no discount for the children. - Per George J Gray .

From the Compilations of Barbara Gray Smith.

1 Graw, Gerlach's (widow) 4 "adults", 2 children 1710 2 "adults", 2 children 1712 Ledger adds Catherina Grawin

2 Grawsin Anna Maria 1 "adult" 2 children 1710 1 "adult" 2 children 1712

Note" sin or in ending denotes unmarried or a widow

Both appear on "New York Subsistence List compiled from the "journal of Palatine debtors to the British Government for subsistence given either in N.Y. City or in the Hudson River settlements, from their landing in 1710 to Sept. 1712. "Adults" all over 10 years of age. the first date 1710, was usually the first entry - 1712 was normally the last entry.

The N.Y. Substance list includes widows, orphans and elderly who were unable to leave N.Y.C. for various settlement because of health.

Ref. Walter Allen Knittle, "Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration", Dorrance & Co. Phila. (1937)

death date from Records of burials of the Dutch Church N.Y.C. from the Holland Soc. yearbook 1899

Grau, Anna Catherina, age 40, is listed in I. D. Rupp, "Thirty Thousand names of Germans, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in PA. (1726-1776) One thousand ger. & Fr. names in N.Y. prior to 1712 - Appendix V)

Anna Cathreina ... ^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Jeff Gray, Aug 8, 2012
2. ↑ Entered by Jeff Gray, Aug 8, 2012

• Compilations of Barbara Gray Smith with reference to Walter Allen Knittle, "Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration", Dorrance & Co. Phila. (1937)

• Holland Soc. Year Book 1899

• I. D. Rupp, "Thirty Thousand names of Germans, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in PA. (1726-1776) One thousand ger. & Fr. names in N.Y. prior to 1712 - Appendix V)

• Pedigree Resource File", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGN5-MR3 : This is a probable to possible tree

• Jeff Gray, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Jeff and others.