Brief Life History of Magdalena
When Magdalena Burkhalter was born on 10 January 1788, in Egypt, Whitehall Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johan Peter Burkhalter Jr, was 27 and her mother, Dorothea Anna Maria Stoeckel, was 23. She married Henrich Mickley about 1803, in Egypt, Whitehall Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 23 May 1867, in Waterloo, Seneca, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Waterloo, Seneca, New York, United States.
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- Magdalena Burghalder, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Mary M. Burkhalter Mickley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Magdalena Mueckly in entry for Anna Mueckly, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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World Events (8)
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
1804
Historical Boundaries 1804: Seneca, New York, United States
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Swiss German: from Middle High German elements burc ‘castle’ (originally also ‘protection’) + halter from halde ‘slope’, hence a topographic name for someone living by a castle or fortified town. Compare Borkholder , Burckhalter , and Burkholder .
History: This is the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originating from the canton of Bern, Switzerland, which in the 17th century, because of religious persecution, spread to the Palatinate, Germany, where it was altered to Burkholder and Borkholder . To North America it was brought, mostly in the form Burkholder, in the 18th and 19th centuries by several Mennonite immigrants from the Palatinate and Switzerland. One of the earliest immigrants was Hans Burkhalter or Burkholder, from Bern canton, Switzerland, who settled in Lancaster County, PA, in 1717.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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