Anna was born in 1720.[1] She married Wilhelm Wentzel. They arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the ship MURDOCK in September of 1751 with their children. They were among the first settlers in Lunenburg in 1753. Following her husband's death, Anna Maria remarried on March 3, 1766 to John Young.[2][3]
↑FamilySearch Marriage records of St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg - By Rev. J. B. E. Moreau. 1766. March 3,-John Young, to Anna Maria Wencell [Image 1259]
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I have found according to Winthrop Bell's notes that her husband apparently died and she remarried in 1766 to a John Young. I have found nothing in any death records for an Anna Maria Young so it is unknown where that year came from. It was entered in 2018 apparently from a merge.
The only thing I can see is that in the online Lunenburg Church Records at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~canns/lunenburg/church.html burials start in 1773. So presumably, someone thought that if she wasn't in there, she must have died before this. But I hardly think this is definitive. We should probably just leave her death date unknow,
Dave, that makes sense. I've removed the death date but I've left the birth date and locations which also were added by contributors in 2018. I have no access to German records so no idea where anybody found that. I didn't want to remove all dates so the Palatine Migration group can decide if they want to change that.
Zion Lutheran burials start in 1773 because the church was just built in 1772. Before that there was just the St. John's Anglican and she is not in their listings.
Incidentally Zion Lutheran's original German records used to be available online at FamilySearch up to 1825 and were a very good resource although the handwriting was next to impossible to read. Fortunately one of our German Wikitreers was very good at deciphering and translating them for me. However FamilySearch took down that microfilm sometime in 2023 which is now only available at their Salt Lake City office (useless to genealogists.) I have just learned from another other reliable source what happened. Seems that an unknown number of years ago, someone local (against church protocols) transferred the old records to the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod archives in St. Louis. No idea why as the LC-MS had no affiliation whatsoever to the Lutheran Churches in Nova Scotia who belonged to the Canada division of the Lutheran Church in America, and later became the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Any archives should have gone to the office in Kitchener, Ontario. Apparently the LC-MS reached an agreement with some other genealogical organization in 2022 and this unknown organization was given exclusive rights to make the records available to the public "for a fee". My source didn't know which one but my guess is either Ancestry or a similar group. So FamilySearch probably was forced to remove the free access on their web site. Sad that these valuable historical records get locked up by businesses looking to make money off what should be freely available.
Zion Lutheran burials start in 1773 because the church was just built in 1772. Before that there was just the St. John's Anglican and she is not in their listings.
Incidentally Zion Lutheran's original German records used to be available online at FamilySearch up to 1825 and were a very good resource although the handwriting was next to impossible to read. Fortunately one of our German Wikitreers was very good at deciphering and translating them for me. However FamilySearch took down that microfilm sometime in 2023 which is now only available at their Salt Lake City office (useless to genealogists.) I have just learned from another other reliable source what happened. Seems that an unknown number of years ago, someone local (against church protocols) transferred the old records to the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod archives in St. Louis. No idea why as the LC-MS had no affiliation whatsoever to the Lutheran Churches in Nova Scotia who belonged to the Canada division of the Lutheran Church in America, and later became the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Any archives should have gone to the office in Kitchener, Ontario. Apparently the LC-MS reached an agreement with some other genealogical organization in 2022 and this unknown organization was given exclusive rights to make the records available to the public "for a fee". My source didn't know which one but my guess is either Ancestry or a similar group. So FamilySearch probably was forced to remove the free access on their web site. Sad that these valuable historical records get locked up by businesses looking to make money off what should be freely available.