Anna Catharina Haeger

Barb Price clarification regarding the birthdate of Anna Catharina Friesenhagen:

Anna Catharina Friesenhagen was born 24 May 1663 in Freudenberg and baptised on 31 May 1663 in the Evangelical Church, the daughter of Jacob Friesenhagen and Anna Maria Dresler. Jacob Friesenhagen was the owner and part owner of steel hammers in Plittershagen and Asdorfer, a member of the Guild of Smelterers and Hammersmiths and the Mayor of Freudenberg, so a very prominent citizen and family.

Anna Catharina Friesenhagen married Rev. Johann Henrich Haeger on 3 Dec 1678, she gave birth to twelve children, at least five of the children died young, four of them we have no further records and three of them are documented, i.e., Johann Friedrich b. 1684; Agnes b. 1697 and Anna Katharina b. 1702. Anna Catharina (Friesenhagen) Haeger was 50 years old when she, her husband and their two daughter immigrated to Virginia. We do not know when she died, only that it was after the death of her husband and the probate of his will on 28 Mar 1737 in Prince William County, Virginia.

Sources:

Gerhard Moisel, Siegerlander Geschlechterbuch, [Limburg/Lahn, Germany: C. A. Starke Verlag 1996]28.

BC Holtzclaw, Germanna Record No. 5: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, (Culpeper, Virginia, The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., 1964), 172-174.

Baptismal record on 24 May 1663 for Anna Catharina Friesenhagen from the St. Martin's church books in Freudenberg, photographed by Barb Price and Archer Martin. Church books provided by Pastor Thomas Ljewski.

Prince William County Virginia, Will Book C, pp. 108 & 117

Barbara Price, Trustee/Genealogist The Germanna Foundation

ID: I2037 Name: Anna Catherina FRIESENHAGEN Surname: Friesenhagen Given Name: Anna Catherina Sex: F Birth: 24 May 1663 in , , , Ger. Death: AFT 1733 in , , Va. _UID: C85E2F907B41D511BD9EBDC3D79617311752 Note: Barb Price says she was born in 1673. Might have been an oversight. (Continuing with John's "Germanna Notes".)Nr. 37:Trying to summarize the reasons for the emigration of the Germanna Colonists, no single reason will cover all people. Even more strongly, hardly any individual had only a single reason for coming. But it seems to me that the dominant reason for coming was a chance to improve one's economic condition. For some people, they could be the beneficiaries. For others, there would be little opportunity to improve their own position in life; instead, they could look forward to lots of hard work and few rewards. They were probably more motivated to improve the opportunities for their children and grandchildren.When we start handing out the awards, the blue ribbons go to the women. Being more oriented to family and tradition, the decision to go to America was probably harder for them than for the men. My blue ribbon to the woman in the First Colony for fortitude goes to Anna Catherine Friesenhagen, the wife of Rev. Hager (Haeger or Häger). She was fifty years old, while Rev. Hager was sixty-nine and retired because of ill health. Two daughters were sixteen and eleven. She was leaving a home with three servants in it.In the Hager family, economics was less important than for the other emigrants. Going to the New World was a step down for them on the comfort scale, though they were perhaps unaware of this. The Hager parents had one motivation that none of the other emigrants had; they had a son in New York, their only surviving child besides the two daughters. Thus the journey could result in a reunion, not a split of the family. Change Date: 5 Feb 2010 at 00:00:00

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Father: Jacob FRIESENHAGEN b: 1629 in Freudenberg,Nassau-Siegen,Ger. Mother: Anna Maria DRESLER b: ABT 1630 in Freudenberg,Nassau-Siegen,Ger.

Marriage 1 Johann Henrich HAEGAR Rev. b: 27 Aug 1644 in Antzhausen,Nassau-Siegen , Ger. Married: 3 Dec 1678 in ,Nassau-Siegen,Ger. Children Has No Children Johann Frederick HAEGAR b: ABT 1684 in Netphen, , Ger. Has No Children Elizabeth HAEGAR b: 1687 Has Children Agnes HAEGAR b: 26 Oct 1697 in Siegen, , Ger. Has Children Anna Catherine HAEGAR b: 15 May 1702 in Siegen, , Ger. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

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GEDCOM Note

Anna is a Germanna 1st colony immigrant (1714), departing from Oberfischbach. She is one of my 7g-grandmothers.

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