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Johannes (Lymbach) Lÿmbach (bef. 1708 - 1769)

Johannes [uncertain] Lÿmbach [uncertain] formerly Lymbach
Born before in Hüffenhardt, Baden, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 24 Feb 1734 in Hüffenhardt, Baden, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
Descendants descendants
Died after age 61 in Berks, Pennsylvaniamap
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Biography

Johannes Lymbach (1708-1769) was a German immigrant to North America and an early settler in the Colony of Pennsylvania. He was born on or before his baptismal date of 20 June 1708 to Michel Lymbach and wife Anna Catharina in Hüffenhardt, Baden, Heiliges Römisches Reich.[1]

Johannes married Maria Margaretha Listerer on 24 Feb 1734 in Hüffenhardt.[2]

A baptismal record in the Evangelical Church of Hüffenhardt, Germany shows that on 14 October 1734, an infant named Georg Friederich Lÿmbach was baptized and that his parents were Johannes (a linen weaver) and Maria Margaretha Lÿmbach.[3]

On 26 September 1753, at the approximate age of 45, Johannes and his family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aboard the ship ‘Brothers’, captained by William Muir. The ship embarked from Rotterdam and arrived by way of Cowes. That same day Johannes and Friederich gave their oath of allegiance to the colony.[4]

From Philadelphia, the family made its way inland and settled among the German communities of what is today Eastern Pennsylvania. By 1754 they were affiliated with the Hill Church of Berks County. In 1758 George Friederich married Anna Catherine Ritter, daughter of Paul Ritter, in Colebrookedale Township in Berks County.[5]

The Journals and Papers of David Schultze, a surveyor during the colonial period in Pennsylvania, include this: “On August 12 [1769], old Johannes Limbach fell from the barn and was killed. He was 61 years old and was buried on the 14th. Mein Leben ist abgerissen als ein Weber spuhl.”[6] If the age given is correct, Johannes' birth date was approximately 1708, and he was approximately 26 when his son Georg Friederich was born.

After Johannes' death, Georg Friederich Lÿmbach and his sons carried on Johannes' pioneer spirit by moving on to parts of the U.S. that were just opening to settlers: first to the German settlements of western North Carolina, and later to Cape Girardeau in the Territory of Missouri. Today most descendants spell the name "Limbaugh".

Research Notes

Some researchers include a given/middle name of Michael for him. No sources have been found to date for this.


Source record abstracts:

1708 Baptism Johannes Lymbach[1]
Baptismal place: Hiffenhart
Baptismal date: 20 Jun 1708
Name: Johannes
Father: Michel Lymbach, resides here
Mother: Anna Catharina, his wife
1734 Marriage Johannes Lÿmbach and Maria Margareta Listerer[2]
Marriage place: Hiffenhart
Marriage date: 24 Feb 1734
Groom: Johannes Lÿmbach
Father: Michel Lymbach, linen weaver here
Bride: Maria Margareta
Father: deceased Hans Jörg Listerer, Gochsheim?
1898 Proceedings and Addresses V 7, Marriage Friedrich Leimbach and Catharine Ritter[5]
Church records: Augustus Ev. Lutheran Church, Trappe, Pa.
Groom: Friedrich Leimbach
Bride: Catharine Ritter
Marriage date: 9 Apr 1758
Marriage place: Colebrookdale Township
License date: 1 Apr 1758
2013 Farming Across America Son Georg Friederich Lÿmbach/Limbach/Limbaugh[3]
p 36 (image 44 of 512): image of Georg Friederich Lÿmbach baptismal record
Baptismal date: 14 Oct 1734
Baptismal place: Evangelical Church of Hüffenhardt
No: 39
Name: Georg Friederich
Parents: Johannes Lÿmbach, linen weaver, resident here, and wife Maria Margaretha
33 weeks after parents' marriage
Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe, Kirchenbücher Hüffenhardt, Bestand 155, Filme F 662

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," database with images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch Record: VH31-FKD, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSWC-J96D-G : accessed 28 February 2023), Hüffenhardt, Baptism Johannes Lymbach, 20 Jun 1708, image 385 of 1263, p 75, No 13; citing German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany; Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971, Digital Folder Number 102060907, Microfilm Number 1189311, Records extracted and images digitized by Ancestry.com.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database with images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch Record: QPDT-V89T, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSWC-J9DD-3 : accessed 28 February 2023), Hüffenhardt, Marriage Johannes Lÿmbach and Maria Margareta Listerer, 24 Feb 1734, image 645 of 1263, p 585, No 2; citing Marriage, Hüffenhardt, Mosbach, Baden, Deutschland, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany; Digital Folder Number 102060907, Microfilm Number 1189311, Records extracted and images digitized by Ancestry.com.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Farming Across America, Ronald H. Limbaugh (San Francisco: Hiatt & Dragon, 2013) ISBN 978-0-9792403-1-7; p 36; Internet Archive (link : accessed 1 March 2021), Farming Across America, Son Georg Friederich Lÿmbach/Limbach/Limbaugh.
  4. Rupp, Daniel; Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776: 1876, p. 311-312 (link : accessed 24 Feb 2023).
  5. 5.0 5.1 Proceedings and Addresses V 7, Pennsylvania-German Society (Lancaster, Pa., etc.: 1898); HathiTrust Digital Library (link : accessed 1 September 2020), Marriage Friedrich Leimbach and Catharine Ritter, 9 Apr 1758, image 638 of 720; citing The Trappe Records, p 500.
  6. Schultze, David; The Journals and Papers of David Schultze, Trans. and ed. by Andrew S. Berky. Vol. II: 1761-1797. New York, 1952, 1953, p. 46. (link : accessed 24 Feb 2023)




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Based on his baptismal record, I plan to change his LNAB to Lymbach.
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