Heinrich Schramm1

#5257, (say 1670 - )

Family

Anna Margaretha _____ b. s 1673
Children 1.Fredrich Schramm+3 (s 1695 - )
 2.Catharina Schramm6 (s 1699 - )
Church records give their origin as "Woellensdorf, duchy of Siegen." Certainly from the Palatinate, the name may refer to Wallendorf, a municipality in the modern German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the Sauer river. The name Schram is included in the list of West Camp (which included Elizabeth Town, George Town and New Town) refugees from Palatine who settled in 1710.2 
Birth*say 1670He was born say 1670 at GermanyG.3,2 
Marriage*say 1693He married Anna Margaretha _____ say 1693.4 
Baptism18 March 1730He sponsored the baptism of Henrich Schramm on 18 March 1730 at Kiskatom (now Town of Catskill), Greene (then Ulster) Co., New YorkG.5 

Citations

  1. [S580] Henry R. Kelly, Imprints on the Sands of Time, third edition (n.p.: n.pub., 1972), online Ancestry.com, p. 216 "Fridrich Schramm son of Heinrich Schramm, formerly a citizen of Woellensdorf, duchy of Siegen..."
  2. [S580] Henry R. Kelly, Imprints on the Sands of Time, p. 216, citing Kocherthal Records. "Fridrich Schramm son of Heinrich Schramm, formerly a citizen of Woellensdorf, duchy of Siegen... and Anna Maria Kuester, daughter of Johann Wilhelm Kuester, formerly a citizen of Langen-Goens— Hestein, duchy of Darmstadt" with the explanation that the spelling of Kieffer as Kuester is an error, and that the baptisms of their children gives the correct "Kiever."
  3. [S1561] Rev. Christian Krahmer, "The Kocherthal Records", Olde Ulster III-IV (1907-1908): II (Feb. 1908):58. "No. 87. Febr. 12. Fridrich Schramm, son of Henrich Schramm of Wollensdorf in the district of Sieg,
    and Anna Maria, daughter of Johann Wilhelm Küster of Langen-Göns in Hessen Darmstadt." [See Imprints citation for explanation of the spelling Küster].
  4. [S1562] Walter Allen Knittle, Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1937), p. 289. Henrich Schramm; year 1710, 4 adults and children age 10 or greater, 1 child under 10; 1712, 5 adults and children age 10 or greater. New York Subsistence List, "of Palatine debtors to the British government for subsistence given either in New York City or in the Hudson River settlements, from their landing in 1710 to September, 1712." Citing Public Record Office, C. O. 5 12.30, corrected from the accompanying "ledger," C. O. 5 12.31."
    p. 298. The Simmendinger Register. Prepared by Ulrich Simmendinger, one of the migrants, who made the list about 1717, giving an account of the migration and listing the families and their settlement locations. Listed as living in "Becksmanland" (the West Camp settlements of Elizabeth Town, George Town and New Town, collectively referred to as West Camp (on the west side of the Hudson River) is Heinrich Schram with wife Anna Margaretha and five children. The date of the census would be shortly before Simmendinger returned to Germany in 1717.
  5. [S1560] William J. Hoffman, "Baptismal Records of Zion Lutheran Church, Loonenburg, Now Athens, Greene County, New York", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Volumes 82-85 (1951-1954): 82 (Jan. 1951):21. Henrich, son of Fridrich Schram and Anna Maria, b. 16 Feb 1730, bapt. Kiskatom 18 Mar 1730; sponsors Henrich Schram and Anna Margreta [his wife]. [Also baptized at the same place on that day was Elisabeth, dau. of Catarina Susanna Kieffer and Pieter Mey]
  6. [S520] VWH, witness at bap. of Fredrich Schramm's first son, William, along with Balthasar Kieffer.