Brief Life History of Veronica
When Veronica Brenneman was born on 29 July 1769, in Strasburg Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Brenneman, was 38 and her mother, Veronica Fannie Forrer, was 36. She married Isaac Heiney on 21 April 1789, in Providence Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 29 February 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Faranica (Frannie) Brenneman - Published information: Family Bible: birth-name: Faranica (Frannie) Brenneman
- Fanny Heiny, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
- Fanny Heiny, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Brönnimann, via its German altered form Brennemann (see below).
Americanized form of German Brennemann: probably a variant of Brenner . Compare Branaman and Breneman .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originally spelled Brönnimann. The name was first brought to the Palatinate, Germany, in the 17th century by Melchior Brönnimann, a refugee who fled from the canton of Bern, Switzerland, because of religious persecution. In the Palatinate the name was changed to German form Brennemann and then, with the arrival of the Mennonite immigrant Melchior Brenneman(n) in Lancaster County, PA, in the beginning of the 18th century, to Brenneman. Among the Mennonites and Amish in the US the name is also established in the form Breneman.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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