Maria Barbara was baptized on 29 October 1754 in Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Her parents are recorded as Gerhard and Barbara Will. Sponsors were Michell and Barbara Dewald.[1]
Gerhard and Barbara Will were residing in North Carolina before July 1767 and presumably their daughter Maria Barbara (age thirteen then) was with them. If their daughter married Andrew Stockinger, he must traveled to North Carolina to do so. How would they have met? The first-known child of Stockinger and his wife Maria Barbara was born December 1770 in Pennsylvania, so perhaps the Stockinger couple married in 1769. In 1769, Gerhard Will's daughter was quite young--only age fifteen--to leave her parents in North Carolina and move to Pennsylvania. The conflict in where the Will family lived and where Andrew Stockinger lived makes one wonder if the correct wife has been attached to him.
It is unclear how Maria Barbara's death year and place was determined. She could not have died in Davidson County as that county was not created until 1822.
↑ Ancestry.com., Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Personal Register of the Rev· Daniel Schumacher page 14, baptism of Maria Barbara Will (29 October 1754); citing Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia.
K. Haddad, Maddox-Goble Family Tree, rootsweb.com WorldConnect.
Acknowledgments
Will-252 was created by Jerry Cox through the import of jcoxff.ged on Oct 15, 2013. NOTE: Imported GEDCOM includes Jerry's notes containing parts of his years of family history research.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Barbara by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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 Barbara: