Kyger/Geiger Family of PA and MD

Johann Valentine Geiger Jr. arrived in America in 1717 aboard the same ship as his father-in-law, Anton Jacob Henckel and his future sister-in-law, Maria Catherine Henckel. He was the son of Johann Valentin Geiger and Maria Barbara Bauer of Ittlingen, Kraichgau, Germany.

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First Generation

Children of Johann Valentin Geiger and Maria Barbara Bauer
Johann Valentine Geiger Jr. (1685-1762) m. Johanna Frederica Henckel (1694-1740 , PA),
d/o Anton Jacob Henckel); 2) Maria Elizabeth Schmidt, d/o Rev. John George Schmidt
Andreas Geiger (abt. 1687)
Maria Catharine Geiger (1689)
Maria Elisabetha Geiger (died young)
Johann Wilhelm Geiger (1692-1761)
Johann Jacob Geiger (1694-1772) m. Anna Elisabetha
Maria Barbara Geiger (abt. 1697)
Maria Barbara Geiger (abt. 1699)
Anna Margaretha Geiger (1701)
Johann Georg Geiger (1702-1739) m. Maria Catherine Henckel (1711-1785),
(1728, Johann Georg Geiger, Hanover Township. Believed to have arrived in America in 1727)
Anna Maria Geiger (1705)
Johannes Geiger (1707-1708)
Johann Martin Geiger (1711)

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Second Generation:

Children of Johann Valentine Geiger Jr.and 1) Johanna Frederica Henckel
Anthony Geiger (abt. 1716-1753) m. 1) Mary Barbara Geiger (1724-1774), d/o Jacob Geiger and Anna Maria Mais
Valentine Geiger III (1718-1777) m. (Widow) Sarah Venato (1724-1764)
Maria Barbara Geiger (1719) m. Johann Nicholas Seidle
Christopher Geiger (abt. 1720-1805) m. 1) Mary Barbara Geiger (1724-1774), d/o Jacob Geiger and Anna Maria Mais
Mary Margaretha Geiger (1721-1794) m. Benjamin Lindler
Susanna Catherine Geiger (1724) m. John Stoneburner
Anna Barbara Geiger (1737-1766) m. George Kast/Caust

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Children of Johann Valentine Geiger Jr. and 2) Maria Elizabeth Schmidt
Johannes Dietrich Geiger (1742-1782) m. Elizabeth Linsenbucker, d/o Paul Linsenbucker
Johann Heinrich Geiger (1744-?) m. Elizabeth
Benjamin Geiger (abt. 1747) m. Elizabeth
Charles (Carl) Geiger (1749-1828) m. Anna Maria Dilbon

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Children of Joh. Georg Geiger and Maria Catherine Henckle
(after George's death, Catherine married Johann Peter Apple in 1740)
Georg Geiger/Kyger m. Mary Beeler, d/o Christopher Beeler & his second wife Elizabeth Sheely/Schule (widow)
Johann Valentine Geiger m. Hannah Miller, d/o Michael Miller
Catherine Geiger m. Bernhard Renn
Maria Eliesabetha Kyger (bap. June 16 1737) m. John Coppersmith/Kupperschmidt
Johann Jacob Kyger (bap.) March 4, 1739

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Third Generation

Children of Maria Catherine Henckle Geiger and Johann Peter Apple (d. 1779)
Eva Rosine Apple (bap. 1742) m. House/Horse
Johann Peter Apple (bap. 1744 -d. 1775) m. Elizabeth (their dau. was Susannah Apple)
Maria Charlotta Apple (bap. 1750) m. Sebastian Moyer
Maria Catherine Apple m. Conrad Matthias/Matthews
Anna Magdalena Apple m. Michael Birely/Byerly

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Contacts and Homepages:

Descendants of Valentine Geiger by Peggy Loos

If you have descendants from this family in your records, or if you can help me connect this Geiger family with the Geiger/Kigers of NC, please contact me, Faye Moran, at: fmoran@erols.com

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Sources:

Pioneers of Old Monocacy, The Early Settlement of Frederick County, MD, 1721-1743, Grace L. Tracey & John P. Dern

©, 2001-2007 Faye Jarvis Moran
faye@fmoran.com

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