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Catherine Rothermal 1745 – 1802
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Margaret Elizabeth Pontius 1780-1860
Susanna Brouse
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Mary Cordelia Smith 1850-1906
Dora Edna GEISE (1879-1939)
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Lucian Hardine Sulouff
THE BRAUS FAMILY IN GERMANY
The Braus family was found early in the area known as the Northern Kraichgau, rolling cultivated upland of Baden, Wurtemburg. Land between the Rhine and Neckar Rivers of Germany.
Although the area did not f a l l s t r i c t l y within the Palatinate, the inhabitants were considered as Palatines. The small community of Asbach i s located about 15 miles east of the City of Heidelburg and just a few miles west of the Neckar River andthe Landkries capital of Mosbach.
They are listed in the Asbach Reformed Church records, Asbach, Baden Germany according to the book Eighteenth Century Emigrants Vol. 1 The Northern Kraichgau by Annette Kunselman Burgert. A combined Reformed and Lutheran congregation, the records s t a r t at the beginning of the church register which is dated 1709.
P- Hans Peter Braus was born about 1675 and was called Peter as was the custom with German names. He married first Anna Catharina and they had eight children. He was a schoolteacher at Asbach Their children:
P1- Anna born §1703 died 9 Aug.1725 age 22
P2- Maria Catharina born §1704
P3- Marcus Adam born §1706
P4- Hans Adam born §1707
P5- Maria Barbara born §1709
P6- Johann Ludwig bapt. Asbach 27 Dec. 1711
P7- Georg Adam bapt. Asbach 13 June 1714 died 6 April 1716
P8- Maria Margaretha bapt. Asbach 31 Jan. 1717
Anna Catharina died 4 Feb. 1720. Peter married second Anna Maria Gassert born about 1695, daughter of Hans Gasse r t . She died 14 May 1730 at age 35 i n Asbach, Baden.
Their children, all baptized at Asbach:
P9- Margaretha Barbara bapt. 6 May 1723 died 21 March 1725
P10- Margaretha Barbara bapt. 5 Sept. 1725 died 1 July 1735
P11- Johannes bapt. 22 Dec. 1726
P12- Johann Nichel bapt. 24 Jan. 1729 died 17 May 1734
Peter was listed as a widower with three children in the 1736 church census of Lutheran and Reformed families in Asbach. (SLC microfilm #1189.294) It is not known whether he tried to come to America with his two sons, Marcus Adam and Hans Adam i n 1738, or made the trip at a later date. He was called "late on the high seas deceased" in the administration of the estate of Helen Yerger, daughter of his deceased brother Jacob Braus.
22 Dec. 1789 (Berks Co. deed book 11 page 346)
P3- Marcus Adam the oldest son of Peter and Catharina Braus was born about 1706 in Asbach, Baden Germany. He married 1 May 1727 Anna Maria Kuch, daughter of Hans Georg and Barbara Kuch.
She is listed in the original church index of 1709, so she was probably born about 1708. Their children:
P31- Joh. Philipp born 21 May 1728
P32 Joanna born 1 Aug. 1729
P33- Barbara Joanna born 14 Aug. 1731
born 26 July 1734
born 11 Sept. 1736 ( a l l baptized i n Asbach)
P34- Anna Magdalena
P35- Bernhard
P4- Hans Adam, the second oldest son of Hans Peter Braus and his first wife Anna Catharina married 18 Nov. 1732 Anna Catharina Kuch daughter of the late Hans Georg Kuch. Their
children:
PA1- Maria Margaretha born 18 Nov. 1733
PA2- Maria Barbara born 2 Feb. 1737
The rest of the children born i n America.
The wives of the brothers were sisters . Their parents were Hans Georg Kuch (Reformed) and wife Barbara (Lutheran) and had these children:
1- Maria Barbara married Bernhard Wannemacher
2- Anna Maria married Marx Adam Braus
3- Anna Magdalena
4- Anna Catharina married Hans Adam Braus
Hans Georg Kuch, Judge and Church Elder died 30 Sept. 1727 aged 53 years.
The second leg of the journey was to Cowes, England on the Isle of Wight. Here they were cleared by English custom officials as the ship took on final water and supplies for the long
ocean voyage to Philadelphia, Pa. The normal crossing took seven to twelve weeks depending on the winds.
The ocean voyage was described in a book by Gottlieb Mittelberger Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and return to Germany in the Year 1754:
"The terrors of disease, brought about by poor food and lack of good drinking water, were much aggravated by frequent storms through which ships and passengers had to pass. The misery reaches the climax when a gale rages for two or three nights and days, so everyone believes the ship will go to the bottom with all aboard. In such visitation the people cry and pray most piteously. When i n such a gale the sea rages and surges, so that the waves rise like mountains one above the other, and tumble over the ship. The ship i s constantly tossed
side to side so that one can neither walk or sit or lie . The closely packed passengers in the berths are thereby tumbled over each other sick or well. It can be understood why many did not survive."
The final leg up the Delaware River to the Port of Philadelphia was not always the end of the journey. Health officers visited the ship before any passengers could disembark. I f any
persons with infectious diseases were discovered on the ship it was ordered to remove one mile from the city and kept i n quarantine . Only those passengers given a certificate of good health could be landed. (An excerpt from Rupp's German Swiss and Other Immigrants page 127)
The voyage which ended i n Philadelphia on the 27th of October 1738 must have been particularly rigorous, for on that date two physicians, Lloyd Zachary and Theodore Bond,
certified to the Colonial Council;
"We have carefully examined the state of health of the marines and passengers on board the
ship, "St. Andrew", Captain Stedman from Rotterdam, and found a great number laboring under a malignant eruptive fever, and are of the opinion they cannot for some time be landed in town without the danger of infecting the inhabitants."
Adam's brother Marcus was on the sick list but there i s no record of the wife and children.
Hans Adam Braus, his wife and two daughters arrived on this ship also, ending a five months arduous journey from Asbach, Baden Germany.
The Palatines were considered foreigners i n the English Colonies. Immediately upon disembarkation, they were taken to the courthouse in Philadelphia to sign the "Oath of Adjuration" swearing allegiance to the King of England. These signers were on the L i s t :
Adam i s listed as Hans Adam Braus. Marcus was on the Pa. Archives list of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance, as Merck Adams Brouns. The oath could have been signed aboard the ship. He was on Rupp's sick list of passengers held aboard the ship in Philadelphia. There have been no further records found for him, so it could be assumed that he died on the ship.
Carl Lucion Sulouff
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married
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Below are excerpts from:
BRAUS-BROUSE FAMILY HISTORY, compiled partially by Helen Brous and completed by Betty (Bird) Brungard, 373 pages.
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The Braus family was found early in the area known as the Northern Kraichgau, rolling cultivated upland of Baden, Wurtemburg. Land between the Rhine and Neckar Rivers of Germany.
Although the area did not f a l l s t r i c t l y within the Palatinate, the inhabitants were considered as Palatines. The small community of Asbach i s located about 15 miles east of the City of Heidelburg and just a few miles west of the Neckar River andthe Landkries capital of Mosbach.
They are listed in the Asbach Reformed Church records, Asbach, Baden Germany according to the book Eighteenth Century Emigrants Vol. 1 The Northern Kraichgau by Annette Kunselman Burgert. A combined Reformed and Lutheran congregation, the records s t a r t at the beginning of the church register which is dated 1709.
P- Hans Peter Braus was born about 1675 and was called Peter as was the custom with German names. He married first Anna Catharina and they had eight children. He was a schoolteacher at Asbach Their children:
P1- Anna born §1703 died 9 Aug.1725 age 22
P2- Maria Catharina born §1704
P3- Marcus Adam born §1706
P4- Hans Adam born §1707
P5- Maria Barbara born §1709
P6- Johann Ludwig bapt. Asbach 27 Dec. 1711
P7- Georg Adam bapt. Asbach 13 June 1714 died 6 April 1716
P8- Maria Margaretha bapt. Asbach 31 Jan. 1717
Anna Catharina died 4 Feb. 1720. Peter married second Anna Maria Gassert born about 1695, daughter of Hans Gasse r t . She died 14 May 1730 at age 35 i n Asbach, Baden.
Their children, all baptized at Asbach:
P9- Margaretha Barbara bapt. 6 May 1723 died 21 March 1725
P10- Margaretha Barbara bapt. 5 Sept. 1725 died 1 July 1735
P11- Johannes bapt. 22 Dec. 1726
P12- Johann Nichel bapt. 24 Jan. 1729 died 17 May 1734
Peter was listed as a widower with three children in the 1736 church census of Lutheran and Reformed families in Asbach. (SLC microfilm #1189.294) It is not known whether he tried to come to America with his two sons, Marcus Adam and Hans Adam i n 1738, or made the trip at a later date. He was called "late on the high seas deceased" in the administration of the estate of Helen Yerger, daughter of his deceased brother Jacob Braus.
22 Dec. 1789 (Berks Co. deed book 11 page 346)
P3- Marcus Adam the oldest son of Peter and Catharina Braus was born about 1706 in Asbach, Baden Germany. He married 1 May 1727 Anna Maria Kuch, daughter of Hans Georg and Barbara Kuch.
She is listed in the original church index of 1709, so she was probably born about 1708. Their children:
P31- Joh. Philipp born 21 May 1728
P32 Joanna born 1 Aug. 1729
P33- Barbara Joanna born 14 Aug. 1731
born 26 July 1734
born 11 Sept. 1736 ( a l l baptized i n Asbach)
P34- Anna Magdalena
P35- Bernhard
P4- Hans Adam, the second oldest son of Hans Peter Braus and his first wife Anna Catharina married 18 Nov. 1732 Anna Catharina Kuch daughter of the late Hans Georg Kuch. Their
children:
PA1- Maria Margaretha born 18 Nov. 1733
PA2- Maria Barbara born 2 Feb. 1737
The rest of the children born i n America.
The wives of the brothers were sisters . Their parents were Hans Georg Kuch (Reformed) and wife Barbara (Lutheran) and had these children:
1- Maria Barbara married Bernhard Wannemacher
2- Anna Maria married Marx Adam Braus
3- Anna Magdalena
4- Anna Catharina married Hans Adam Braus
Hans Georg Kuch, Judge and Church Elder died 30 Sept. 1727 aged 53 years.
THE VOYAGE
The offer of free farm land i n Pennsylvania enticed many palatinates to make the long journey. The trip to Rotterdam via the Rhine River took six months. There were more than twenty custom houses where t h e i r boat was required to stop for inspection. In Rotterdam they finally boarded the "St. Andrew" a sailing vessel which would take them to America.The second leg of the journey was to Cowes, England on the Isle of Wight. Here they were cleared by English custom officials as the ship took on final water and supplies for the long
ocean voyage to Philadelphia, Pa. The normal crossing took seven to twelve weeks depending on the winds.
The ocean voyage was described in a book by Gottlieb Mittelberger Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and return to Germany in the Year 1754:
"The terrors of disease, brought about by poor food and lack of good drinking water, were much aggravated by frequent storms through which ships and passengers had to pass. The misery reaches the climax when a gale rages for two or three nights and days, so everyone believes the ship will go to the bottom with all aboard. In such visitation the people cry and pray most piteously. When i n such a gale the sea rages and surges, so that the waves rise like mountains one above the other, and tumble over the ship. The ship i s constantly tossed
side to side so that one can neither walk or sit or lie . The closely packed passengers in the berths are thereby tumbled over each other sick or well. It can be understood why many did not survive."
The final leg up the Delaware River to the Port of Philadelphia was not always the end of the journey. Health officers visited the ship before any passengers could disembark. I f any
persons with infectious diseases were discovered on the ship it was ordered to remove one mile from the city and kept i n quarantine . Only those passengers given a certificate of good health could be landed. (An excerpt from Rupp's German Swiss and Other Immigrants page 127)
The voyage which ended i n Philadelphia on the 27th of October 1738 must have been particularly rigorous, for on that date two physicians, Lloyd Zachary and Theodore Bond,
certified to the Colonial Council;
"We have carefully examined the state of health of the marines and passengers on board the
ship, "St. Andrew", Captain Stedman from Rotterdam, and found a great number laboring under a malignant eruptive fever, and are of the opinion they cannot for some time be landed in town without the danger of infecting the inhabitants."
Adam's brother Marcus was on the sick list but there i s no record of the wife and children.
Hans Adam Braus, his wife and two daughters arrived on this ship also, ending a five months arduous journey from Asbach, Baden Germany.
The Palatines were considered foreigners i n the English Colonies. Immediately upon disembarkation, they were taken to the courthouse in Philadelphia to sign the "Oath of Adjuration" swearing allegiance to the King of England. These signers were on the L i s t :
Adam i s listed as Hans Adam Braus. Marcus was on the Pa. Archives list of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance, as Merck Adams Brouns. The oath could have been signed aboard the ship. He was on Rupp's sick list of passengers held aboard the ship in Philadelphia. There have been no further records found for him, so it could be assumed that he died on the ship.
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Research:
BRAUS-BROUSE FAMILY HISTORY, compiled partially by Helen Brous and completed by Betty (Bird) Brungard, 373 pages.
Historical Reflections of a Family from Germany, Brauss--Brous--Brouse, written by Rolland Lee Brous
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