INTRODUCTION

This blog has been created for the sole purpose of finding out my ancestor Sarah Walton's family. It's a place to sort through my info and have access to it as I am researching away from home. If you have stumbled across this blog because you are looking for information, or better yet, if you have information, :) please contact me at denianek@gmail.com to share.

MY CONNECTION: William Decatur Kartchner>Prudence Wilcox Kartchner>John Wilcox (m. Sarah Walton)

For more on the Willcox Family see www.thomaswillcox.blogspot.com


Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Why I am researching Peter Wallover

Peter Wallover appears to be married to Sarah's sister Margaretha or Margaret.  If Peter came to the U.S. on a ship  when he was about 12 (1784 according to Elizabeth Drinker's journal), that means he was born about 1772.

Peter's son William is supposedly the person whom John Christopher Kartchner went into business with, a cousin of Prudence Wilcox*. This seems right, doesn't it, for the ages?  That would put Peter Wallover about the same age as Christopher's father.

Therefore.. when Wm D. Kartchner says "a boy of ten summers" came from Germany ... couldn't it be plausible that he ("Adam Kirchner" we think) came to the U.S. the same way Peter Wallover did?   And that Peter and Adam could have been friends? And now... what about Sarah's and Margaret's family? Could these Walton's be from Germany?)

*He would be a cousin because Sarah Walton married John Wilcox and Sarah's sister Margaret married Peter Wallover. My brain's diagram:

Christopher Kartchner<Adam Kirchner + Sarah Weber?
Prudence Wilcox<Sarah Walton + John Wilcox

William Wallover<Margaret Walton + Peter Wallover

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