Hienrinmur Marsteller was born 1505 in Nurnburg, Germany. He married Katarina Weiss on May 10, 1529 in Germany. She was born abt. 1510.
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According to Marilyn Riley of Missouri jeriley@postnet.com: ""The Marsteller name was originally 'Marsta:llar' which means 'Hostler' or 'Groom' in a royal stable or 'Marsta:ll'. Pfungstadt was the location of the horse stables for the Princes of Hesse, Germany. Bartel and his descendants were, according to records, Blacksmiths." From Family Tree Maker: Vol 9, tree #2568.

Much more information on these descendants can be found on Marilyn's webpage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/i/l/Marilyn-L-Riley/index.html... Just click on her "Marsteller" link.
Many thanks go to Marilyn and her information on the Marsteller family!!!

My ancestors appear below and my direct line is in bold face and only my direct line is continued from that point. If you want to see more details on any other branches, please visit Mary Riley's webpage (link shown above).

Children of HIERINMUR MARSTELLER and KATARINA WEISS are:
i. CHRISTIAN2 MARSTELLER, b. 1530, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; d. Unknown.
ii. WENDLING MARSTELLER, b. 1532, Pfungstade, Germany; d. Unknown.
iii. BARTEL MARSTELLER (Sr.), b. 1534, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; died in Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below). Bartel (Sr.) married UNKNOWN CUNIGUNDE. Nothing is known about her other than the names of the following children:

Children of BARTEL MARSTELLER (Sr.) and UNKNOWN CUNIGUNDE are:
i. BARTEL3 MARSTELLER (Jr.), b. WFT Est. 1548-1554, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; died in Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany. He married ANNA UNKNOWN January 28, 1564/65. She died Unknown. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below)
ii. JOHANN MARSTELLER, b. January 10, 1552/53; d. Unknown.
iii. ANTON MARSTELLER, b. 1555, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; d. 1609.
iv. NICLAS MARSTELLER, b. February 07, 1558/59; d. Unknown.

Children of BARTEL3 MARSTELLER (Jr.) and ANNA UNKNOWN are:
i. HANS4 MARSTELLER, b. 1565, Pfungstadt, Hesse, Germany; d. 1618, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany. He married ANNA UNKNOWN Abt. 1585 in Pfungstadt, Germany. She died Unknown. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below)
ii. CATHERINA MARSTELLER, b. July 29, 1576; d. Unknown.
iii. NICHOLAS MARSTELLER, b. February 07, 1578/79, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; d. 1621.
iv. ANNA MARSTELLER, b. July 02, 1582; d. Unknown.

Children of HANS4 MARSTELLER and ANNA UNKNOWN are:
i. HANS5 MARSTELLER, b. 1592; d. Unknown.
ii. CATHERINE MARSTELLER, b. 1592; d. Unknown; mar. NICHOLAS JUNKHER, July 22, 1621, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; d. Unknown.
iii. QUIRIN MARSTELLER, b. April 30, 1581; d. Unknown.
iv. EWALT MARSTELLER, b. March 28, 1602; d. Unknown.
v. MARGARETE MARSTELLER, b. September 16, 1604; d. Unknown.
vi. ANNA MARSTELLER, b. August 02, 1607; d. Unknown.
vii. JOHANN PETER MARSTELLER, b. November 27, 1608, Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hess, Germany; d. January 02, 1678/79.
viii. ELIZABETHA MARSTELLER, b. October 06, 1611; d. Unknown.
ix. CHRISTOPHER SR. MARSTELLER, b. December 27, 1618; d. November 10, 1693, Pfungstadt, Germany. He married URSULA UNKNOWN Abt. 1650. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below)

Children of CHRISTOPHER MARSTELLER and URSULA UNKNOWN are:
i. MARGARETHA6 MARSTELLER, b. 1652; d. 1737.
ii. PETER MARSTELLER, b. 1654; d. 1654.
iii. JON THOMAS MARSTELLER, b. 1655; d. 1656.
iv. AGNES MARSTELLER, b. 1657; d. Unknown; m. MARTIN HASENZAHL; d. Unknown.
v. JOHANNES MARSTELLER, b. 1659; d. 1739; m. ANNA MARGARETHE UNKNOWN; d. Unknown.
vi. JOHANN THOMAS MARSTELLER, b. 1662; d. Unknown; m. ANNA MARIA UNKNOWN; d. Unknown.
vii. JOHANN VALENTIN MARSTELLER, b. 1665; d. Unknown.
viii. HEINRICH MARSTELLER, b. 1668; d. 1721; m. MARGARETHE UNKNOWN; d. Unknown.
ix. ANNA CATHERINA MARSTELLER, b. 1671; d. 1678.
15. x. CHRISTOPHER JR. MARSTELLER, b. December 09, 1673, Pfungstadt, Germany; d. January 24, 1724/25, Pfungstadt, Germany. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below)

CHRISTOPHER 6 MARSTELLER (CHRISTOPHER SR.5, HANS4, BARTEL3, BARTEL2, HIERINMUR1) was born December 09, 1673 in Pfungstadt, Germany, and died January 24, 1724/25 in Pfungstadt, Germany. He married ANNA CATHERINA HAMANN January 11, 1701/02 in Pfungstadt, Germany, daughter of JOHANN JACOB HAMANN. She was born January 11, 1674/75, and died January 24, 1725/26.

Note: Gail Wapiennik (gnik@megsinet.net) has is that Johann Peter came over on the Ship Harle Sept. 01, 1736.
Check it out and see what you think: March 2000 - http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/shplst38.htm
According to Mary Riley, "Christopher was a smith (ironworker) who had achieved the status of Mastersmith in the Smith’s Guild.) The day was May 8, 1705--during the War of Spanish Succession--and the location was the small town of Pfungstadt, Germany. Four days later, infant Johan Peter was baptized at Pfungstadt’s Lutheran Church.
The Marstellers lived during troubled times, one war after another. Johan Peter saw his youngest sister Elizabeth (b1711) and his youngest brother Johann Nicolaus (b1709) die before they were even a year old. Nothing is known about the family or their whereabouts after the Churchbook’s last mention of them in 1711. We understand that Christopher died at age 52 on January 24, 1726--when Johan Peter was 20 years old.
Meanwhile, enterprising ship captains were taking full advantage of William Penn’s desire to fill his new lands in Pennsylvania with disgruntled Germans by promising them freedom, religious tolerance, and cheap land. It is clear that economic hope brought our Marstellers to America. Some of the other Marstellers began fleeing to America during the next few years. In the spring of 1737, 32-year-old Johan Peter Marsteller deserted his homeland of Pfungstadt. At that time, it was tradition for the oldest son to inherit the family land, so he must have been very disenchanted with life in Germany. He cruised up the Rhine River to Amsterdam--a trip that took three to four weeks. At some point afterwards, he found an English ship captain named Thomas Thompson who took Johan Peter aboard his single-masted bilander-type merchant vessel "Townsend" to Philadelphia. Voyages across the ocean were disgusting with nausea, diseases and deaths. The Townsend finally docked in Philadelphia on October 5, 1737--roughly six months after Johan Peter left his home in Pfungstadt. By then, intolerance and discrimination toward German immigrants had become blatant. There is no record of Johan Peter’s activities during his first five years in Pennsylvania. Perhaps he was an indentured servant. Sometime between 1737 and 1740, he married Eva Elizabeth (we believe her surname was Sachs but have no proof). Johan Peter first became a land owner in December of 1743 --50-acre tract #136 in the Upper Saucon Township near the present town of Coopersburg. The family farm consisted of greens, turnips, onions, cabbage, cows--enough for their survival. On February 11, 1745, he bought another 86 acres about five miles from his first purchase. During this period, he was a member of a group of 14 men who founded a Lutheran congregation in a log church building (later to be known as St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church as well as the "Blue Church"). "

Children of CHRISTOPHER MARSTELLER and ANNA HAMANN are:
i. MARIA CATHERINA7 MARSTELLER, d. Unknown.
ii. AGNES MARIA MARSTELLER, b. April 15, 1704, Pfungstadt, Germany; d. Unknown.
iii. JOHANN PETER MARSTELLER, b. May 08, 1705; d. 1772, Philadelphia, PA. (see http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/shplst38.htm)
iv. JOHANN SAMUEL MARSTELLER, b. 1709; d. Unknown.
v. JOHANN NICHOLAS MARSTELLER, b. January 03, 1708/09; d. January 04, 1708/09.
vi. MARIA MARGARETTA MARSTELLER, b. 1710; d. 1746. (My ancestor - see continuation of this line below)
vii. ELISABETH MARSTELLER, b. July 20, 1711; d. November 15, 1711.

MARIA MARGARETTA7 MARSTELLAR (CHRISTOPHER JR.6, CHRISTOPHER SR.5, HANS4, BARTEL3, BARTEL2, HIERINMUR1) was born 1710, and died 1746. She married JOHANN DANIEL WARLICK, son of MARTIN WARLICK and KATHERINE KLORE. She was his first wife and they were married abt. 1737 at Trappe Section, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. She died abt. 1746 at Oley Township, Berks Co., PA.

Children of MARIA MARSTELLAR and JOHANN WARLICK are:
i. MARIA8 WARLICK??, b. 1735; d. 1790; m. FREDERICK WISE; d. Unknown.
ii. DANIEL JR. WARLICK, b. September 13, 1738; d. 1759, Catawba Co., NC.
iii. JOHANN NICHOLAS WARLICK, b. 1742, Berks Co., PA; d. June 20, 1780, Ramsour Mill, Lincoln Co., NC.
iv. VALENTINE WARLICK, b. 1744; d. 1787.
v. MARIA "Mary" MARGARETTA WARLICK, b. 1746; d. October 19, 1818; m. DAVID RAMSOUR; d. Unknown.

Johann remarried abt. 1747, after Maria Marstellar's death, to Maria Barbara Schindler and had the following children:
vi. MARY ELIZABETH WARLICK, b. 1746; d. 1800; m. HENRY HILDEBRAND; d. Unknown.
vii. PHILLIP WARLICK, b. 1748; d. July 20, 1780.
viii. EVE CATHERINE WARLICK, b. February 20, 1748/49; d. January 24, 1822; m. MARTIN SHUFORD; d. Unknown.
ix. BARBARA ELIZABETH WARLICK, b. 1754; d. June 17, 1806; m. CHRISTIAN REINHARDT; d. Unknown.
x. MARIA BARBARA WARLICK, b. 1756; d. February 14, 1826.
xi. LEWIS B. WARLICK, b. July 12, 1763, Lincoln Co., NC; d. April 14, 1834, Newton, NC; m. MARY HOYLE; b. April 05, 1767, Lincoln Co., NC; d. Unknown.
According to Rachel Warlick-Dunn's book: "Second wife, Maria Barbara Schindler, ...On the death of Johann Daniel, a deed in Lincoln Co., NC for land sold by Lewis (youngest son) that he inherited from his full brother Phillip. Her claim is that Daniel II, Nicholas and Valentine were half-brothers of Lewis. Under the law at that time, half brothers did not inherit any share of Phillip's estate, nor sister whether half or full blood."

My direct line of ancestors from this point are as follows:

1 Maria Margaretta Marstellar b: 1710 d: 1746
. +Johann Daniel Warlick b: 1710 in Stuttgart, Witenburg, Germany d: 1772 in N.C.
...2 Johann "Nicholas" Warlick b: Abt. 1736 in Oley Twp., Berks Co., PA d: June 20, 1780 in Lincoln Co., N.C. (died at Battle of Ramsour's Mill and is buried on that battleground.)
.......+Anna Barbara Eaker b: December 23, 1749 in Lehigh Co., PA (baptized 23 Dec. 1749) d: Aft. 1800 in Lincoln Co., N.C.
........3 Daniel Warlick b: August 17, 1771 in Lincoln Co., N.C. d: August 14, 1816 in Lincoln Co., N.C.
............ +Margaret Ramsour b: October 16, 1777 in Lincoln Co., N.C. d: January 31, 1872 in Lincoln Co., N.C.
.............4 Philip Warlick b: November 30, 1794 in Lincoln Co., N.C. d: February 4, 1842 in Jackson, Madison Co. TN (Old Salem Cem.)
................. +Nancy Norris b: October 11, 1799 in Loudoun Co., Virginia d: December 25, 1877 in Carroll Co., TN (buried Old Salem Cem. Madison Co., TN)
...................5 John Norris Warlick b: October 1832 in Madison Co., TN d: 1888 in Lavinia, Carroll Co., TN
...................... +Nancy Norris "Nannie" Loretz b: 1836 in N.C. d: 1900 in Lavinia, Carroll Co., TN (Methodist Cemetery)
........................6 Norris Rhinehardt Warlick b: October 17, 1860 in Tenn. d: August 1, 1910 in Lavinia, Tennessee (Methodist Cemetery)
............................ +Katie W. May b: December 7, 1859 in Tenn. d: November 1, 1902 in Lavinia, Tennessee (Methodist Cemetery)

My branch of the Marstellar family (beware of the many spelling variations: (Marstellar/Marsteller/etc.) went from Germany to Pennsylvania and eventually to Lincoln Co., N.C. (before the Revolutionary War).
There are many references for this family: Among them are:

(1) Marsteller Family Page: http://www.marsteller.org/

(2) Marilyn Riley's Marsteller webpage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/i/l/Marilyn-L-Riley/index.html

(3) "The Shoe Cobblers Kin" (there are two volumes) by Lorena Shell Eaker.

(4) "German Speaking People West of the Catawba River 1750-1800" by Lorena Shell Eaker rena7@juno.com.
. This books lists several pages of info. on the Mosteller/Marsteller/Marstellar families that resided in Lincoln/Catawba Counties NC and their land entries dated 1751+ including the marriage to Johann Daniel Warlick on page 338 as follows: "David Ramsour b. 1733 Berks Co. PA married 1759 Lincoln Co. NC to Maria Magdalina Warlick b. 1746, PA, daughter of Johann Daniel and Maria Margaretha Marstellar Warlick."

(5) "Daniel Warlick of Lincoln Co. NC and his Descendants" by Rachel Warlick Dunn. Mentions the marriage of Johann "Daniel Warlick" to Maria Margaretha/Margaretta Marstellar abt. 1736 in Trappe Section, Philadelphia Co., PA. Very limited amount of information on Maria Margaretta Marstellar on pages 2-3.
If you wish to purchase this book, you can reach Rachel and via e-mail: JimRachelDunn@webtv.net

(6) "Annals of Lincoln Co. NC" by Wm. L. Sherrill (originally published in 1937) - several references to "Mosteller" families of the area...

(7) "Stumbling Toward Zion, a Mosteller Chronicle" by James Lawton Haney, Jr.

(8) Dianne Faucette's Home Page http://home.adelphia.net/~frauleindi/INDEX.htm has info. on Marsteller families...

More to come... Marsteller/Marstellar Marriage Records in Lincoln/Catawba Co. NC area.

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