Elizabetha Ehrhardt and Elizabetha Staub

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Distinguishing Elisabetha Ehrhardt and Elisabetha Staub

The following timeline, built from the parish register records of the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (formerly St. Peter's Rock Hill) near Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, shows that Elisabetha (___) Ehrhardt and Elisabetha (____) Staub are two different people. It remains uncertain from these parish records whether either of them were the daughter of Johannes Flinner and his wife Anna.

Note that the parish records spell the parishioner names inconsistently. Ehrhardt is sometimes spelled "Ehrhard" and Staub is sometimes spelled "Stab." The name Elisabetha is sometimes spelled "Elisabeth." All parish baptism records for either couple are reflected in the table below. Also included is the record of the confirmation of Peter Staub and Elisabeth his wife, showing their marriage by Sep 1769.

DATE	EVENT	Parents	Baptism Date	Sponsors	Parish Register Page
22 Nov 1768	Johann Ehrhard born	Georg Ehrhard & Elisabeth	4 June 1768	Johann Fleuer (?) & Anna, wife	12
24 Sep 1769	Peter Staub & Elisabeth Staub, wife, confirmed				114-5
19 Oct 1770	Anna Elisabetha Ehrhardt born	Georg Ehrhardt & Elisabetha	25 Jan 1772	Johannes Flinner & Anna	15
17 May 1771	Nicolaus Staub born	Peter Staub & Elisabetha	30 Jun 1771	Nicol Flenner & Maria	14
15 Dec 1772	Adam Staub born	Peter Staub & Elisabetha	25 Apr 1773	parents	17
20 Aug 1773	Georg Jacob Ehrhardt born	Georg Ehrhardt & Elisabetha	30 Apr 1775	Joh. Georg Schenck & Maria Catharina	20
10 May 1775	Joh. Jacob Stab born	Peter Stab & Elisabetha	25 Aug 1775	Joh. Flinner & Anna	21
1 Jan 1776	Magdalena Ehrhardt born	Georg Ehrhardt & Elisabeth	26 May 1776	Burckhard Zintzer & Sibilla	22
10 Apr 1777	Christian Stab born	Peter Stab & Elisabetha	25 May 1777	Christian Schotter & Anna Maria	24
15 Mar 1778	Heinrich Ehrhardt born	Georg Ehrhardt & Elisabetha	13 Sept 1778	Burckhardt Sintzer & Sybilla	25

These records are all from the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church formerly St. Peter’s Rock Hill near Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, Parish Registers, 1767-1889. A digital copy of this publication is available on Ancestry.com as a part of the database "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013" ($ubscription required).^[1] The specific page numbers of the parish records cited are included in this table, with a link to the relevant page in the Ancesty.com database.

From these records, we know the following:

1. Elisabetha Ehrhardt/Ehrhard and Elisabetha Staub/Stab were both living at the same time, married to different men, and having children during the period from 1769-1778
2. Johannes and Anna Flinner acted as godparents for at least some children of both couples, but others also acted as godparents for both of them. Therefore, while the fact that the Flinners sometimes acted as their godparents does suggest there was some relationship between the Flinners and both Elisabethas, it does not establish that they were parents of either of them.

Sources

1. ↑ Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church formerly St. Peter’s Rock Hill near Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, Parish Registers, 1767-1889; digital images, Ancestry.com, "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013," database with images, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2451/ : accessed 6 Jun 2021),MD-All counties>Rocky Hill>Lutheran>Grace Evangelical Lutheran.