Anna Catharina "Catharine" Salling was born 29 August 1729 in Struth, Alsace Lorraine and baptized at the Lutheran church in Waldhambach.[1][2] She was the first born child of Johann Peter Saling and Anna Maria Vollmer.
Catharine came to the American colonies with her parents and sisters, immigrating to Philadelphia from Rotterdam on September 18 1733, aboard the ship, Pennsylvania Merchant.[1]
Her family first settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and later migrated to Augusta County, Virginia Colony. It was here that Catharine met and married her husband, Henry Fuller. The couple wed 15 April 1751.[3]
By 1761, Catharine and her husband moved their family to Orange County, North Carolina. They settled on Storey's Creek (now in Caswell County).
Catharine was the mother of at least 12 children.
Henry was the father of 14 proven children. Some researchers believe Henry's eldest two daughters, Sarah (Fuller) Majors and Keziah (Fuller) Reynolds were born before his marriage to Catharine.
The following 12 children were definitely born by Catharine:
Catharine's death date is unknown. She was still alive in 1796, but missing in the 1800 and subsequent US Census records.
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Burgert, Annette K., "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America", (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992), pp. 416-418
↑ Bas-Rhin Archives, Waldhambach Parish Register, Baptism of Anna Catharina Saling on September 1, 1729. Link to Source Birth on August 29, 1729.
↑ Vogt, John and Kethley, William T., "Augusta County Marriages, 1748-1850", (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co., 1986)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catharine by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Catharine:
Salling-9 and Salling-6 appear to represent the same person because: Same woman. Imported with her father and family in 1737, unmarried and likely young.