Maria Elizabetha Heyd (1708 - bef. 1711)

Born 2 Jan 1708 in Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Wurttemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Elizabetha Heyd died young.

"Maria Elisabetha, daughter of Hans Jost Heyd and his wife, Anna Maria, from Bonfeldt, was baptized January 2, 1708. The sponsors were Maria Agatha, wife of Andreas Berger at Bonfeldt; Anna Barbara, daughter of Stoffel Schwinden at Bonfeldt; and Maria Elisabetha, daughter of the late Ludwig Helmstatter at Bonfeldt."

According to German custom this child would have been called "Elisabetha" not Maria, which was only a prefix name, given to several other daughters of Jost Heid. Maria Elisabetha probably died as a child, possibly on the voyage and definitely by 1711 when Jost and Anna Maria had another daughter, they named "Elisabetha" and are listed in a 1712 "Subsistence list" as having only one child. Maria Elisabetha is almost certainly not "Mary" wife of George Bowman, whose wife's name was in fact, "Anna Maria."

Sources

• Kirchenbucher, Evangelische Kirche Bonfeld (Bonfeld Lutheran Church Register) 1607-1878, LDS microfilm #1860469. Cited in:
• Henry Z. Jones, Jr. The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Universal City, CA (1985), pp. 353-4, and
• Henry Z. Jones, Jr., Ralph Connor and Klaus Wust, German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer 1685-1761, Shenandoah History; Edinburg VA; (1979), p. 33.
• Richard Hite, "The Birth Order of Jost Hite's Children," Hite Family Association Newsletter, Spring, 2006.