Family: Johann Egli / Katharina Muller Gerber (F47)

• Male Johann Egli

  
  

  Birth	16 Jun 1781	Freistett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  Death	28 Feb 1852	Strasbourg, Alsace, France
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  Marriage	4 Jan 1806  [1]	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France  [1]
  Other Spouse	Maria Geissert | F48
  Marriage	21 Jan 1815	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France
  Father	Christian Egli | F49 Group Sheet
  Mother	Veronica Ernst | F49 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Katharina Muller Gerber

  
  

  Birth	1785
  Death	21 May 1814
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  Male Jacob Egli

  
  

  Birth	27 Mar 1810	Strasbourg, Alsace, France
  Death	9 Jul 1879	Lockridge, Jefferson, Iowa, United States
  Burial
  Spouse	Barbara Roes | F50
  Marriage	10 Apr 1838	Alsace, France

  
  

• Sources

  [S158] Amish Mennonites in Tazewell County, Illinois, Volume 3, page 196. Recalling footnotes from STAKER: Johannes/Jean Egli was born at Friestett, Baden June 16, 1781. On Jan. 4, 1806 at Eckbolsheim, Lower Alsace he married Catharina Müller, a daughter of Christian Müller and Maria Reis of Friestett. Their civil marriage entry gave their ages as 29 and 21. Catharina died at Eckbolsheim May 21, 1814. On Jan. 21, 1815 at Eckbolsheim Johannes/Jean remarried to Maria Geisert (found on the entry as 'Marie Geissert'). Their civil marriage entry described the groom as a cultivator living at Eckbolsheim, the widower of Catherine Miller, and a son of the deceased Chrétien Egli and Véronique Ernst. The bride was born at Friestett, Baden Jan. 27, 1782, a daughter of the deceased Georges Geissert who had died at Freistett Jan. 20, 1811, and Marie Bernert, who was present and consenting According to Dominique Dreyer's Emigrants Haut-Rhinois en Amérique 1800-1870, 36-year-old shop owner [Fr. proprietaire] Jacques Egli applied for a passport for himself, his wife, two brothers, and a servant at Colmar March 4, 1847. He came from Eckbolsheim and Wintzenheim, and gave his intended destination as New York. Jacob/Jacques Egli and his two half-brothers Johannes/Jean/John and Benjamin sailed from Le Havre on the Caspian, and arrived at New York April 3, 1847.