Catharina (Vanderveer) Johnson (1715 - aft. 1738)

Born Nov 1715 in Övre Åsen, Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden

Ancestors

Wife of Simon Johnson Jr — married 1738 in Cecil County Maryland

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Biography

Catharina was christened on November 6, 1715 in Falu Kristine parish in Kopparbergs län, Sweden. She was the daughter of Johan Wandivier ifrån America och Penssyllvanien.^[1]

Copied from her father's Find-a-grave page:

"Swedish Colonial News"

Volume 3, Number 10, Spring 2009, Pages 2 - 7

"Jacob & Catharina Van der Veer and their Vandever Descendants

"By Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig

John Corneliusson Vandever (c.1689-c.1718) was married on 14 January 1714 to Maria Stalcop, daughter of Peter and Catharina Stalcop. On 29 June 1714, they sailed to Sweden with Pastor Ericus Björk, who had married Maria's elder sister, Christina. John died in Sweden, after which his widow married Hans Georgen Schmidt. They returned to Delaware in 1720. Maria Stalcop Vandever Schmidt died 19 November 1750 at the age of 53. Her only child by her first marriage was Catharine Vandever, born in Sweden in 1715, who married Simon Johnson in Cecil County, Maryland, 4 November 1738.

Research notes

On Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/109206428/person/362515595945/facts?_phsrc=QyT4&_phstart=successSource

Sources

1. ↑ Catharina Wandivier parish christening record in Sweden 1715: Falu Kristine kyrkoarkiv, Födelse- och dopböcker, huvudserie, SE/ULA/11441/C I/3 (1707-1716), bildid: C0012373_00172, sida 151 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0012373_00172:

   1715. Nov 6. Johan Wandiviers ifrån America och Penssyllvanien Högehrad H[er]r Probstens Swågers lilla dotter är född på Öfwre Åhsen och Christ[nade]s Catharina. Faddrarna: Högehrad Probsten och Probstinnan Booksäl?, P. Johan Muncktill och hu, Mons. Andreas Engman Mårtensson och Jungf. Anna Biörck.

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