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Maria Elizabetha Loesch (abt. 1728 - abt. 1773)

Maria Elizabetha Loesch
Born about in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvaniamap
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Died about at about age 45 in Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvaniamap
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Biography

Maria Elizabetha Loesch was born in 1728. She was a daughter of Johann George Loesch and Anna Christina Elizabeth (Walborn) Loesch.

When she was born, her family were a member of Reed's Lutheran Church in Tulpehocken. However, during the Tulpehocken Confusion, the family left the church and joined the Moravians.

According to a memoir she wrote just before her death, as a young girl, Maria Elizabetha Loesch struggled with her spirituality and also suffered from disease that left her partially disabled. On 10 Aug 1748, she became a full member of the Moravians, and spent the remainder of her life in service to her church, where she became the leader of the women's choir and took care of orphan children. She never married.

Near the end of her life, Maria Elizabetha visited her parents, who had by then moved to Northampton County Pennsylvania.[1]

She is buried in the Moravian Cemetery in Bethlehem. "Maria Elizabeth Loesch. ii, n. 2. Sept. 13. Daughter of John George and Christine Loesch. Born in Tulpehocken, March 11, 1728. 1748 united with Bethlehem congregation. Was appointed Superintendent of the older girls. Later was received as an acolyte. [2]

Research Notes

The following relatives of Maria Elizabetha Loesch are also buried at the Moravian Cemetery in Bethlehem. Christina A Loesch, Maria Catharine (Loesch) Lischer, Anna Margaret (Heinsch) Loesch, Geoge Loesch, Jacob Loesch. [3]

Sources

  1. An original image of her memoir can be found online at the Moravian Archives, but the church asks for permission for it to be transcribed and translated. An electronic transcription, in German, made by historian and linguist Katie Faull can be found on her website
  2. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1904). p. 104
  3. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1904), p. 203

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.




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I created new wife for Felix Arner at Unknown-457967 and transferred text and children to that profile.

Please add details of her life memoir to bio.

posted by Dave Rutherford
Not only should she be de-linked from Felix Arner, her biography as written pertains to another person and requires a re-write. Or, do we preserve this person as the wife of Felix Arner and create a new profile for Maria Elizabetha Loesch, daughter of Johnann George Loesch and Anna Christina Elizabetha Walborn?
posted by Michael Schell
Her life memoir says that she died age 45 years, 6 months and 1 day. Since she was born 12 Feb 1728, that means she died about 1773 or 1774. She could not have remarried (and died) in 1778.
posted by Michael Schell
This person joined the Moravians and apparently did not marry. As is Moravian tradition, she wrote a description of her life, which is in the Moravian Archive. A historian named Katie Faull transcribed the Old German script into an electronic (German language) version. Maria Elizabetha was disabled as a girl, and she spent most of her life in service to the Moravian church. She visited her father's family near the end of her life. No indication of a marriage or children.
posted by Michael Schell
Relinked this profile and changed birth place to Tulpehocken. Jones seems to think family still in New York, but church book has family in Pennsylvania by this point.

Does anyone have any evidence for mariage to Arner? If not, I will detach her. Think this may be wrong person.

posted by Dave Rutherford
If she if re-linked to her probable parents, her birth location should be changed to Shoharie NY and he spouse Felix Arner should be de-linked.
posted by Michael Schell
This person should be de-linked from her parents. The data don't fit.
posted by Michael Schell
Unknown-137622 and Loesch-34 appear to represent the same person because: Same person, please merge
Maria Elisabetha Loesch's entry on Find a Grave says that she died in 1773, and there is no mention of Felix Arner. Felix's wife outlived him and married Peter Anthony. There is a petition to Orphan's Court in Whitehall Twp. by Peter Anthony and his wife late Elizabeth Arner widow of Felix Arner. Elizabeth could not have died in 1773, so she was not Maria Elisabetha Loesch.
posted by Linda Cook
Johann Georg "Lesch" and wife Christina Walborn are listed in Henry Z. Jones' The Palatine Families of New York 1710 Vol I. From the info there, it appears that Maria Elisabetha was born in Schoharie, NY, before the move to PA, even though her baptismal record is in the Reed's Churchbook. Is there proof that she was wife of Felix Arner?
posted by Linda Cook

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