Re: Peter and Jacob Bricker, Cocalico 1700s
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In reply to:
Peter and Jacob Bricker, Cocalico 1700s
10/25/00
I am also descended from Peter Bricker
1700-1761, though through the son
Christian rather than the son David.
Peter and his wife Elizabeth came to
America at the port of Philadelphia,
in 1732, with two young daughters (Anna
Barbara and Catharine; the family included
sons after arrival in the New World), via
Zweibrucken in the Pfalz, now Germany,
then down the Rhine to Rotterdam, then
across the English Channel to the port of
Cowes in England, and finally across the
Atlantic. The ship was the Pink Plaisance,
and the ship's list has been photocopied
and is available in one of the books
devoted to the German emigrants to
Pennsylvania that is available in the
genealogical division of major public
libraries. Looking at the list, it can
be clearly seen that Peter Bricker and
wife each signed with an "X"; they were
illiterate.
There is evidence that at least one branch
of the Brickers came from Switzerland before
tarrying in the Pfalz (Zweibrucken) near
the Rhine, in what is now Germany, for a
generation or so. Although "Brucker", with
an umlaut over the "u", would be the closest
Palatinate German spelling of a name
approximating the sound of "Bricker", in
Swiss German it would be "Brugger", with
an umlaut over the "u". Both mean bridge,
just in different dialects of German.
The Peter Bricker who came to Pennsylvania
in 1732, born in the Pfalz around 1700 and
settling in Cocalico, Lancaster County,
had (by one account) a father by the name
of "Jacob Brucker" or "Jacob Bruecker"
who was born in Frutigen, Bern Canton,
Switzerland about 1674 and arrived in
Zweibrucken around the end of that
century. Mother by the name of Catharine
Mylin. There were religious persecutions
and wars in that area of Switzerland at
the time, apparently, and many members of
the Zwingli's Swiss Reformed Church fled
to the Pfalz.
My hunch is that Jacob changed his name
from Brugger to Brucker, although because
he may well have been illiterate, as were
many peasants of the time, the change was
in the pronunciation rather than in the
spelling of a written name.
If Jacob were born in 1674, he would have
been 26 when son Peter was born, not 15,
which would be the case if he had been
born in 1685. I think 1674 makes more
sense.
Going back still further, there is some
anecdotal evidence that Jacob's father
was Hans Brugger, also born in Frutigen,
and dying in the Pfalz about 1693. If
someone knowing Swiss German were to go
through the parish birth records for the
Reformed Church in Frutigen, one might
find a "Jacob Brugger" listed in 1674,
and then trace back through the father
and mother and further into the past.
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