Catherina (Mull) Weidner (1733 - 1804)

Born 20 May 1733 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of Georg Heinrich Weidner — married about 1749 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1804 at age 71 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Name

Many researchers refer to Catherina (Catherine) as "Mary Catherine." While that may be an accurate assumption, no known record documents it.

Birth

Catharina Mull, daughter of "Christopher Moll and wife," was baptized 20 May 1733 by Reverend John Peter Miller at New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, Philadelphia County (present-day Montgomery County), Pennsylvania. Witnesses were Jacob Fischer and wife. There is a conflict between Catharina's birth stated on the christening record and her tombstone (20 May versus 24 May). Possibly Reverend Hinke, the translator, misread the christening date on the original document; if not, the tombstone inscription is incorrect. Christopher (a.k.a. Christophel, Stoffle) Moll and wife Anna Catharina witnessed the 1736 baptism of Michael Moll's child named Johann Christophel, indicating that Christopher Moll's wife (the mother of Catharina) was named Anna Catharina.^[1] Rev. Weiss listed those receiving their first Holy Communion during the years 1748-1761. His list includes "Catharina Moll" who may be the same person as Christopher Moll's daughter.^[2] She would have been age fifteen in 1748.

Marriage

About 1749 Georg Weidner and Catharina Moll married at the New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, Philadelphia County (present-day Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County), Pennsylvania. Rev. Georg Michael Weiss presided.^[3]

Death and Burial

Catherine (Mull) Whitener died 20 August 1804 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. She is buried at Weidner-Robinson Cemetery, present-day Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina.^[4] The original tombstone is preserved at the Catawba County History Museum in Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ Rev. William John Hinke, A History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge 1727-1819 (Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1920), 279, 283.
2. ↑ Ibid., 309.
3. ↑ Ibid., 283, “Marriages by Rev. George Michael Weiss, 1747-1761, Those Persons who from the year 1747 to the year 1758 have been married by me, George Michael Weiss, V.D.M.”
4. ↑ Find A Grave memorial no. 7,377,244; citing Weidner-Robinson Cemetery, in present-day Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina. The memorial text reports incorrect birth and death dates; however, the tombstone image shows the inscription.