Who was the wife of Johannes Peter Trachsel - Deshler or Trauthager

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An unmerged match has been in place for over three years because there is no source to confirm the maiden name of the first wife of Johannes Peter Trachsel.  

These two profiles both represent the ONE first wife of Trachsel, but each has their own set of parents.

What will it take to confirm which of them was his wife?

Seeking research help from someone familiar with this family and regions. The marriage record is hopefully findable in German records.

Many thanks.

WikiTree profile: Johannes Trachsel
in Genealogy Help by Jillaine Smith G2G6 Pilot (910k points)
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There are issues with the husband, as well as with the wife. He is said to be from two completely different places: (1) Alsace and (2) Simmental, Bern Canton, Switzerland. If they married in Europe, the theory on the wife would depend on which of these places he is thought to be from.

These are Palatine migrants. I added the husband's profile to the project. He is said to have sailed to Philadelphia on the ship Samuel in 1733. I have not looked up the ship records to find his arrival in Philadelphia and see whether the passenger record is one that listed family members in addition to adult men.

If they married in Europe and had children there before emigrating, the wife presumably came from the same area as the husband. The source for the Deshler-38 profile for the wife is a Pennsylvania county history volume that identifies her with a family whose patriarch had arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733. That suggests that somebody had a notion that they married in Pennsylvania in about 1733 -- and weren't necessarily from the same place. It is possible that this man had an earlier wife who died, and that Juliana Catharina was a younger woman whom he married after he arrived in America.

One of the arrival stories on his profile says he arrived in America with a wife and two young sons, but his profile is connected to profiles for several more children who were born in Europe between 1719 and 1733 and died in America. Not all of these "facts" can be true.

The ship list at https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniagerm03penn_2/page/106/mode/2up is exceptionally detailed. The men's list shows Peter Troksell, age 42, and also a Bernard Trossell, age 38. The women's list has Catharina Troksell, age 30, and Anna Maria Trossell, 32. Children are Peter Troksell, 9, and Daniel Troksell, 7.  There are two additional lists of the men on the ship; those additional lists call this man Peter Drachsel.

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Lenk im Simmental has not released their church records to the government at Bern, so it maybe that someone needs to contact the churches, although there is talk that the records are on CD somewhere?   and ask for someone to do a records check?  Or there maybe a village book with the genealogies in?  There appears to be some source material for a record of the Trachsel in Lenk im Simmental on Heritage but I am not a member to check out the source that is show here?  https://www.myheritage.com/names/hans_trachsel

The family has been there for centuries with some still there the name being Trachsel ie. Trachsel haus a rental accomodation for the summer.  

The birth or baptismal records of their children might also give the mothers name.
by Living L G2G6 Pilot (151k points)
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