Johannes Heil (1745 - 1828)

Born 26 Dec 1745 in Meddard, Plalz, Rheinland, Pfalz Germany [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Barbara (Silvius) Heil — married 1766 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 6 Jul 1828 at age 82 in Allen, Northampton Pennsylvania

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Biography

John was born 12/26/1745 to Johann Nickel Heil and Maria Marguerite Theisen. He was married Maria Barbara Silvius for 21 years and had ten children. He served in the Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania, as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company, Class 7th from 1780-1781. He had five siblings: Jonathan, Susannah, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Margaret and Catherine. He died 7/6/1828 in Allen, Northampton Pennsylvania.

Sources

• Find-A-Grave memorial #74839923 "Eve Elizabeth Heil Seese" https://www.findagrave.com

• Bernarding Family Tree https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-115024531/bernarding

• Rootsweb at Ancestry.com Family Page over the Heil and Silvius families https://www.homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marier/Catherine-Heil-Not-Best

• Pennsylvania Military Records Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Military_Records

• Pennsylvania State Archives Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File for "John Hyle" https://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archives

Y DNA Project

Hiles Y DNA Project

About us:

Our Hiles Project hopes to join our variant surnames into one big family through scientific DNA testing and grouping.

Many of us have chosen DNA testing to help connect/reconnect with our family or family history. The Y-DNA and mtDNA marker tests are STR tests. These tests do an awesome job of pointing to our larger genetic family because STRs suggest relationships1. However, "SNPs are at the very heart of genetic genealogy on family a level. SNPs define family trees."2

Test as many markers as you can to begin and plan to test SNPs as they become available! We can't wait to find new relationships and family lines!

1, 2 Link to FamilyTreeDNA references

Backgound:

Our Hiles Surname Project was created in the hope of finding links to our family line(s), and to discover how we fit together with each other.

Our surname can mean "health, happiness, prosperity 1, luck and fortune 2. " Any person who exemplified these attributes could have been surnamed "Heil ", just as the nickname '"Heil" [was used] for "Heinrich" in Dutch and North German and could have been elevated to the surname. 3

Here are some of the imaginative ways our surname has been spelled 4 and misspelled in documents thru the centuries: Diles, Haehl, Haehle, Hael, Hailman, Hales, Hayal, Hayl, Hayle, Hayles, Heel, Heell, Heellin 5, Hehl, Heil, Heile, Heiler, Heilin, Heill, Heillman(n), Heilman(n), Heilner, Heiltz, Heldner, Helen, Helin, Hell, Hellen, Heller, Helles, Hellessor, Hellin, Helyne, Heyel, Heyl, Heyle, Heylen, Heylin, Heylman(n), Heyler, Heyll, Heyly, Heylyn, Heylyne, Heyt, Hial, Hile, Hileman, Hiler, Hiles, Hilese, Hiley, Hill, Hille, Hilles, Hills, Hils, Hiltz, Hoel, Hoell, Hohl, Hoil, Hoile, Hoiles, Hoill, Hole, Holes, Holey, Holl, Holles, Hoy, Hoye, Hoyal, Hoyh, Hoyl, Hoyle, Hoyls, Hoyt, Huyler, Hyle, Hylen, Hylin, Hyline, Hyler, Hyles, Ile, Iles, Ills, Kiles, Skiles

Join Us!

1. Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker in her book "The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and His Descendants."
2. Ancient German Nordic Names
3. Ancestry.com Surname Heil
4. Please let us know if you have found your family under another imaginative spelling so that we can include it here.
5. Heelin: the ending "in" designates a female in German. So, Heelin would designate a female whose paternal or spousal surname would be "Heel"

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