Catherine (Weimer) Levan (1706 - 1768)

Born 10 Feb 1706 in Mannheim, Baden, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died 29 Sep 1768 at age 62 in Oley, Berks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Catherine was born on 10 FEB 1706.^[1]

Catherine is the daughter of Anna Maria le Fevre and Peter Weimer^[2].

Catherine was accepted or adopted by Isaac DeTurk as his child, equal in status to his own children with Anna Maria. This included the details of his will, which treated Catherine as an equal with his other children^[3].

Catherine m. Abraham LeVAN, son of another early Huguenot immigrant;^[2] both are buried in Oley Tp in the LeVAN Cemetery on Bertolet Mill Rd at Mud Run Rd. A 1725 map shows this cemetery is on the land belonging to Katarina WEIMER. The map for 1750 shows the tract as belonging to Abraham LEVAN. In 1775 it shows as belonging to Abraham and Catharine’s son Daniel LEVAN. Children listed by Coon: Daniel, Isaac, Ester m. Abraham BERTOLET, Susan m. a MOWRY, Elisabeth m. a REESER, and Catharine. Jim KISTLER 1999 says add Dorothea as one of the younger children.

Catharine LeVAN appeared before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on 26 Sept 1761 and asked for naturalization.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

She died on 29 Sep 1768 in Oley, Berks, Pennsylvania. She was buried in Levan Burial Ground, Bertolet Mill Rd, Oley Tp, Berks Co, PA. Note: at west end of barn, original LeVan homestead. ^[10][11]

Notes

• There were WEYMERs in the Hunspach Reformed Church, near Soultz-sous-Foréts, in Lower Alsace, France, around the time of Catharine’s birth. Catherine WEIMAR was 2 years old when she and her mother (Anne Marie LE FEVRE, the widow of Peter WEIMER) emigrated with the Kocherthal group to the Palatine settlements on the Hudson River NY in late 1708. Anne Marie remarried there in Esopus to fellow immigrant Isaac DeTURK. By 1711, when Catharine WEIMAR was 5 years old, the DeTURK family moved south to the Oley Valley in Pennsylvania, settling on land in what became Oley Tp of Berks Co PA. A map of properties recorded by 1725 shows Isaac DeTURK’s land on the High Road from Oley to Philadelphia. A short distance to the NE is a smaller tract under the name of Catharine WEIMAR which had evidently been bought by her mother and given to Catharine -- she’d have been 19 years old that year, and must have recently been married, as her first child was born in June of 1725.

See spouse for list of children.

Sources

1. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP67-B1XM : 26 August 2023), Caterine Wemar, 14 Feb 1706; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Bezirksamt Mannheim, Kreis Mannheim, Großherzogtum Baden, Deutsches Reich, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} DeTurk, Eugene Peter,History and genealogy of the DeTurk DeTurck family; descendants of Isaac DeTurk and Maria DeHarcourt, DeTurck Family Association, 1934, page 50
3. ↑ DeTurk, Eugene Peter, History and genealogy of the DeTurk DeTurck family; descendants of Isaac DeTurk and Maria DeHarcourt, DeTurck Family Association, 1934, pages 48-49
4. ↑ Source: #S254 p. 192-193
5. ↑ Source: #S254 p. 192-193
6. ↑ Source: #S251 p. 25
7. ↑ Source: #S254 p. 198-199
8. ↑ Source: #S254 p. 204-205
9. ↑ Source: #S108
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 January 2021), memorial page for Catherine Weimer Levan (22 Feb 1706–29 Sep 1768), Find A Grave: Memorial #75670715, citing Levan Burial Ground, Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Military Mom (contributor 47125975) .
11. ↑ #S109 pp. 151-152

• FamilySearch profile.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75670715/catherine-levan: accessed 08 January 2023), memorial page for Catherine Weimer Levan (22 Feb 1706–29 Sep 1768), Find a Grave Memorial ID 75670715, citing Levan Burial Ground, Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Military Mom (contributor 47125975).

• Source: S107 Book Roberts, Charles R. et al. Periodical: History of Lehigh County Publication: Allentown, PA: 1914
• Source: S109 Book Nein, Jacqueline et al. Periodical: Epitaphs: Handbook of Historic Family Graveyards, Berks Co PA Publication: Berks Co Assn for Graveyard Preservation 1999

• Source: S4 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• http://bergergirls.com/getperson.php?personID=I007523&tree=Strausstown

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Lee Posey for creating WikiTree profile Von Weimer-5 through the import of Lee Posey Family Tree_2013-03-27.ged on Mar 27, 2013.
• WikiTree profile Weimer-59 created through the import of WORCESTER_2012-07-31.ged on Jul 31, 2012 by Bob Worcester. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Bob and others.

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