Elisabetha Catharina Heÿl was born at Hundsbach on January 4, 1733. She was the daughter of Peter Heÿl, citizen at Hundsbach, and his wife Susanna Catharina (Müller) Heÿl. The pastor later added a note in the margin of the Taufbuch: "this child's father has gone to Pennsylvania."[1]
Notes
In 1938 Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker mistakenly published that the wife of North Carolina's pioneer Peter Heÿl was Catherine Dales born 10 April 1714 and died 7 April 1787.[2] Catherine Dales, however, was the wife of "Peiter Heyl," who was the son of Adam Heyel. Peiter Heyl and Catherine Dales were different people than Peter and Susanna (Müller) Heÿl of North Carolina; see Peter Heyl.
Children
Mrs. Rucker published that Katrina Hoyl and Bostian Bess had thirteen children.[3]
John Bess born 1751. Married 1780 Katie Slinkard and moved to southeastern Missouri in Bollinger County.[4]
Thomas Bess born 1752
Jonathan Bess born 1754. Moved at an early date to Alabama or Mississippi. We have meager information of his descendants, some in Alabama, some in Mississippi, and some in Arkansas.[5]
Peter Bess born 1755
Daniel Bess born 1757
Christian Bess born 1758
Jacob Bess born 1759
Martin Bess born 1760
Frederick Bess born 1761
Marie Elizabeth Bess born 1762
Sarah Bess born 1764
Hannah Bess born 17 July 1766
Bostian Bess Jr. born 1768
Sources
↑ Hundsbach Evangelical Reformed Church Register, p. 8; Miles S. Philbeck and Robert C. Carpenter, 2008–2010 research and translation of the Evangelisch-Reformiert Kirche [Evangelical Reformed Church] at Hundsbach (present-day Bad Kreuznach, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany); Family History Library microfilm 493320.
↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938), p. 28; digital edition, HathiTrust.
↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938), p. 37.
↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938), p. 41.
↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938), p. 42.
Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families (1915; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 1984), pp. 351-352; digital edition, Ancestry (https://ancestry.com).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catharina by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
The family tree document by my great grandfather James Lee Love replicates the "Catherine Dales" error, so he was likely working from the same mistaken source.
Heyl-216 and Heyl-Hoyle-2 appear to represent the same person because: these two appear to be the same person....same husband...similar birth places...