Christina Elisabetha
(Christina)
Van de Merk
formerly Loesch
Born in Tulpehocken Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Daughter of Johannes Georg Loesch
and Anna Christina Elisabetha (Walborn) Loesch
Sister of
Johannes Jacob Loesch, Susanna Philippa (Loesch) Weinland, Hermanus Walborn Loesch, Maria Elizabetha Loesch, Johann Balthazar Balthazar Loesch, Maria Catherina (Loesch) Lischer, Margaret Elizabeth (Loesch) Fuehrer, Johann Georg Loesch and Maria Barbara (Loesch) Smith
Wife of
Jacobus von der Merk
— married
1759 in Nazareth, Northampton, Pennsylvania
[children unknown]
Died
at age 74
in Nazareth, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Nov 2016
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Biography
Married one Jacobus Vonder Merk around 1759.[1][2][3]Jacobus died in 1772
She died in 1806
Buried: Pennsylvania[4]
Sources
- ↑ Pennsylvania, Church Marriages, 1682-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DR79-5P3?cc=2466360&wc=QVHX-S5H%3A1589973303 : accessed 15 August 2021), 004034497 > image 495 of 861; Various churches and archives, Pennsylvania.
- ↑ Their marriage appears in the records of the Bethlehem Moravian Congregation (PA Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 9)
- ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYF-5P1K : 13 January 2021), Jacobus Van De Merk, 1759.
- ↑ "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z1MN-6DT2 : 16 July 2021), Christina Elizabeth Loesch Fritz, .
- "1983 Pennsylvania Heritage. A Charted Genealogical History of Harold Edmund Graham and Elfie Ruth Coble" Compiled by David H Gill.
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYD8-MZT
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christina:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christina:
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~0.78%
Julia (Bell) Lansberry
:
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A539725 [compare], Ancestry member julia_cybele
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~0.78%
Doug Allen :
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~0.78%
Russell Matchett :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SV4467395 [compare], Ancestry member rmatchett56
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~0.78%
George Robinson :
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Max Tarlton :
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