Re: to Sandy/ Bertsch
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Re: to Sandy/ Bertsch
LOU DALY 9/04/08
Hi Lou,
I agree-there are just too mny coincidences. I know that the John Bertsch who married Caroline Harley was my ggg uncle (I'm through his brother Daniel Bertsch).Daniel and John were two of the 11 known children of Christopher Bertsch (1810-1865) and Magdalena Russell (1812-1902), who emigrated from Baden to Pennsylvania in 1831 or so, and settled in Crawford Co., OH shortly afterward. I have much information on the Bertsches of that line, but unfortunately don't know any previous generations. I'd like to prove that Margaret Bertsch Harley was related (I think she has to be) but can't.
I also have copies of pages from a book by a Ted Snediker who researched the Lemberger family. He identified a Johann Lemberger m. Katharina Bertsch, and they were also from Baden, and also immigrated to the US around 1831. He identified that Katharina Bertsch was the daughter of Matthias Bertsch. I've wondered if Matthias Bertsch and Margaret Bertsch Harley were siblings, and if Matthias was Christopher Bertsch's father as well. I believe Matthias died in Columbus, OH, so he's in the right neighborhood. But I can't prove any of that.
Ed