Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Balzer Orth and Unknown




Husband Balzer Orth 1 2 3

            AKA: Balthaser Orth 1 2
           Born: 5 May 1703 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Oct 1788 3 4
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife Unknown

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Mar 1773 4
         Buried: 


Children
1 M Adam Orth 4 5 6 7

           Born: 10 Mar 1733 - Pennsylvania 1 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Nov 1794 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Hebron Church cemetery, near Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA
         Spouse: Anna Catharine Kucher (1719-1794) 4 5 6
           Marr: 24 May 1757 4 5


2 M Balzer Orth 1 3 4

            AKA: Balthaser Orth 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Oct 1788 - Lebanon Twp, Lancaster (later Lebanon) Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Hebron Church cemetery, near Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA
         Spouse: Rosina Kucher (1741-1814) 1
           Marr: 26 Apr 1763 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 1


3 M John Orth 4

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 




General Notes: Husband - Balzer Orth


On the right bank of the Danube, about fifteen miles east of Vienna, is the village of Orth, containing [in 1883] about three thousand inhabitants. In the year 1170, Hartneid von Orthe purchased the village and estate surrounding it, founded a church, and erected a castle. It remained in the family for several successive generations, when the proprietor, about the close of the seventeenth century, sold out and removed to Moravia, one of the northern provinces of Austria. The family cannot be traced from Moravia to the Rhine. The first of the family, Balzer or Balthaser Orth, emigrated from the Palatinate to Lancaster (later Lebanon) County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1725. There was warranted to him, on the 25th of November, 1735, three hundred acres of land in Lebanon township, "whereon he has been long settled."

He had administered to him the oath of allegiance April 11, 1755.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 370.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 383.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 371.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248, 289.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 523.

7 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 384.


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