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ROTHEACHTA. Parents: ROS.

Children were: FEARARD.

ROTHEACHTACH . Parents: MAIN.

Children were: DEIN.

35TH MONARCH OF IRELAND ROTHEACTA died in 1023 BC.⁽³⁾ Parents: RONNACH.

Children were: EIOLOMH , 36TH MONARCH OF IRELAND OLLFHIONACH.

ROTRUDE was born about 700.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: CARLOMAN.

Children were: BEGUE.

DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA ROTRUDE was born about 690 in Austrasia, France.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ She died about 724.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: BISHOP OF TREVES LEUTWINUS.

Children were: PEPIN THE , KING OF FRANKS SHORT, CARLOMAN.

EVE OF ROUSSILLON was born about 820.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: GERARD and BERTHA OF TOURS.

Children were: BERTHA OF MORVOIS.

Mary Rowland.

She was married to Edward McDonald on 19 Feb 1788 in Botetourt County, Virginia. Children were: Rebecca McDonald, Jane McDonald, William McDonald.

ROIGHEN RUADH Parents: ASSAMAN EAMHNA.

Children were: FIONNLOGH.

I , DUKE OF BURGUNDY RUDOLPH was born about 847 in Burgundy, France.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died on 6 Oct 911.⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: II , DUKE OF BURGUNDY CONRAD and ERMENTRUDE.

Children were: II , KING OF BURGUNDY RUDOLPH.

II , KING OF BURGUNDY RUDOLPH was born about 902 in Burgundy, France.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died on 11 Aug 937.⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: I , DUKE OF BURGUNDY RUDOLPH and WILLA VON SWABIA.

Children were: I , KING OF BURGUNDY CONRAD.

ENEIUS OCTAVIUS RUFUS was born in Living in 330 BC.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: CAIUS I OCTAVIUS .

GRAND DUKE OF KIEV RURIK was born about 845.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died in 879.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: GRAND DUKE OF KIEV IGOR.

KING OF LETHRA RURIK was born about 629 in Denmark.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died in Denmark.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: HAROLD , KING OF LETHRA HILDITONN .

RUTH .

Children were: OBED.

Anna R. was born in Neckar, Germany.

Children were: Anna Maerklin .

SABINA . Parents: CONN OF THE 100 BATTLES.

Children were: OWEN MOR.

SAINT CLODOULE was born about 596.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: SAINT ARNOUL OF METZ and CLOTHILDE.

Children were: KUNZA.

Janet Marie Saiz was born on 15 Apr 1965 in Pueblo, Colorado.

She was married to Barry Scott McDonald Sr. on 28 May 1983 in Denver, Colorado. Children were: Barry McDonald Jr., Brandi Bernadette McDonald.

SALAH Parents: ARPHAXAD.

Children were: EBER.

SALMON . Parents: NAASSON.

Children were: BOAZ.

SARAH .

Children were: ISAAC.

KING OF BRITAIN SAWYL. Parents: KING OF BRITAIN RHYDDERCH .

Children were: KING OF BRITAIN PYRR.

SIWARD THE , EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND SAXON was born about 978 in Scotland.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: BIORN.

Children were: SIBYL , OF SCOTLAND FITZSIWARD, II , EARL OF HUNTINGTON WALTHEOF.

ARNOLDUS OF SAXONY was born about 562 in Old Saxony.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died in 601.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: AUSBERT OF MOSELLE and BLITHILDES.

Children were: SAINT ARNOUL OF METZ.

EDITH OF SAXONY was born about 780.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: PRINCESS OF BAVARIA JUDITH, I , DUKE OF BURGUNDY CONRAD, EMMA OF ERITGAU.

ODA OF SAXONY was born about 562.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: SAINT ARNOUL OF METZ.

OTTO OF , COUNT IN SOUTH THURINGIA SAXONY was born about 851 in Saxony, Germany.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ He died on 30 Nov 912.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: DUKE OF SAXONY LUDOLPH and DUCHESS OF SAXONY HEDWIGE.

Children were: I , DUKE OF SAXONY HENRY.

SCEALDEA . Parents: HEREMOD.

Children were: BEOWA.

John Schmidt was born in 1725 in Germany.⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾

Children were: Jacob Smith.

Anna Schonthalmaier was born about 1427 in Murr, Germany. Parents: Jacob Schonthalmaier.

Children were: Nicolaus Maerklin .

Jacob Schonthalmaier.

Children were: Anna Schonthalmaier .

Barbara Schonwalter was born about 1497 in Waiblingen, Germany. She died after 1563. Parents: R. Schonwalter and Anna Romer.

Children were: Michael Wolfharten .

R. Schonwalter .

Children were: Barbara Schonwalter.

Anna Margareta Schwab was born on 27 May 1695 in Heidelberg, Germany.⁽¹⁰⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ She died on 25 Jan 1778 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.⁽¹⁰⁾ ⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: Jost Schwab and Anna Katharina Wolfhardt.

She was married to Ludwig Christoper Franciscus about 1718 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.⁽¹⁰⁾ Children were: Johann Lodowick Francisco.

George Schwab died before 1689.⁽¹⁰⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany
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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany[Ed Davis.FTW]

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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany
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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany[Ed&Cindy.FTW]

Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany
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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany[Ed Davis.FTW]

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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany
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Banker and Advisory Burgomaster of Sinscheim, Germany

Children were: Jost Schwab.

Jost Schwab was born in 1656 in Sinscheim, Germany.⁽¹⁰⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died on 29 Jan 1726/27 in Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.⁽¹⁰⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died about 1727 in Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

A History of the Origins of the First Schwab, Schwob, Swope Families
in Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
and
Some of Their Descendants

During the early part of the seventeenth century, Germany was devastatedby the horrors of th e Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Actually this was aseries of wars which began as a civil wa r between the Protestants and theRoman catholics in the German states. When it ended, most o f Europe wasinvolved and the war had become a struggle for territory and politicalpower.

The Treaty of Augsburg (1555) recognized only Lutherans and Catholics;not Calvinists or othe r Protestant sects. German Protestants and GermanCatholics disagreed about their interpretati on of this treaty; thisdisagreemant was the underlying cause of the war.

Civil War began in Bohemia in 1618 after the Archbishop of Prague orderedthe destruction o f a Protestant church. When the Emperor Matthias ignoredthe protests of the Protestant people , they rose in revolt. TheProtestant rebels put into action an old Bohemian custom by throwin g outof the window two of their ruler's ministers. This action was called theDefenestration o f Prague (from the latin word fenestra meaning window)and the war spread rapidly throughout W estern Europe.

The Bohemian Protestants chose the Protestant elector of Palatine,Frederick, to be their empe ror, but the Catholic king, Ferdinand, whomthe Protestants had removed from the throne, was c hosen Holy RomanEmperor by the German Imperial Electorate which was controlled by theHause o f Hapsburg. This gave Ferdinand great power. The Bohemians weredefeated in 1620 by Ferdinand' s general, the Count of Tilly, at theBattle of the White Mountain. The Protestant rebellion w as stamped out,the Bohemians lost their independence, and Catholicism again became thestate r eligion.

In 1623 the Protestant king of Denmark, Christian IV, was aided byseveral other countries i n opposing Ferdinand's forces in Saxony. Theemperor, Ferdinand, with the assistance of the fa mous general AlbrechtEusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein and his army of hired soldiers andadvent urers, together with the army of Count Tilly, defeated the Danishking, Christian IV, again an d again. After the Treaty of Luebeck (1629),Ferdinand issued the Edict of Restitution which o rdered all churchpossessions the Protestants had acquired be restored to the Catholics.This c aused more friction between Protestants and Catholics.

Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, the devoted Protestant king ofSweden who believed t hat if Emperor Ferdinand became too powerful Swedenwould be endangered, set sail from Swede n in 1630 with 13,000 men torelieve the city of Magdeburg which Tilly was besieging.

He arrived too late to save Magdeburg, but in 1631 Gustavus Adolphus andthe Swedish army defe ated Tilly at the Battle of Breitenfeld. Hecontinued to defeat Tilly but in 1632, although th e Swedes won at theBattle of Luetzen, Gustavus Adalphus was killed in battle. The Swedesconti nued to win until 1634 when their army was destroyed at the Battleof Nordlingen.

In 1635 Cardinal Richelieu of France, although a Catholic, decided thatthe Hapsburg emperor w as becoming too powerful and sent a French armyinto Germany to join a new Swedish army agains t Ferdinand and theCatholics. Under the leadership of the French Vicomte de Turenne andLoui s II, Prince of Conde, they won a long series of victories. TheProtestants now gained new hop e for peace and in 1644 the Europeancountries sent representatives to a peace conference in W estphalia. TheCatholics met in one city; the Protestants in another. It took four yearsof neg otiation before the Peace of Westphalia was finally signed in 1648.The terms of the treaty ga ve Alsace and Lorraine to France, to Swedencontrol of the mouths of the Oder, Elbe, and Wese r rivers, and toCalvinism an equal footing with Catholicism and Lutheranium. This treatylef t Gernany nearly helpless, open to the attack of tyrants at home androbber kings from abroad.

At the end of the Thirty Years War Germany was in ruins. More than halfof the German populati on had been killed. Some authorities estimate thepopulation of the German states prior to th e Thirty Years War at betweensixteen and seventeen million and at not quite four million at t he end ofthe war. Two thirds of the property had been destroyed; whole cities,villages, and f arms had disappeared. The Rhineland continued to beplagued by Louis XIV of France because h e wanted more of this territory.Some areas were left in vacant devastation for twenty years b efore peoplefrom more populated areas of Germany and Europe began to migrate there tobuild ne w homes. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Huguenotspersecuted in France migrate d into these areas in Southern Germany, Swissfrom overpopulated areas of Switzerland migrate d to the Rhineland andBaden-Wuertemburg, and Germans moved from their home villages to thesel ess-populated areas. Many of the paarish records, both Protestant andCatholic, which provid e the most information for the genealogist, weredestroyed during this period, and it is ofte n very difficult, if notimpossible, to trace a family back beyond the middle of the seventeen thcentury Because of this destruction and because of the movement offamilies from one place t o another. Even so, a great deal of research isbeing done by both Germans and Americans in th e German archives to learnmore about this period of history and the origins of the families w homigrated to southern Germany in the late sixteen hundreds.

During the Thirty Years War, Switzerland was almost untouched by itshorrors and thrived vit h peace and prosperity. Foreigners, who came toSwitzerland to escape the horrors of the battl efields, brought with themmoney and valuable property. Switzerland had a good market for herp roducts. When peace finally came to Germany in 1648, Switzerlandsuffered a severe economic cr ash. Prices dropped and many persons wereunemployed.

Overpopulation was a problem in Switzerland. Germany bad been depopulatedin the mass killin g during the war. Areas of Germany neighboring onSwitzerland, such as Baden, the Palatinate , and Alsace were completelydesolate. Many Swiss from the areas of Bern, Basel, and Zurich mi gratedinto these areas in Germany. A large number of those emigrating wereAnabaptists (Mennon ite groups) who were persecuted severely inSwitzerland, but many were Swiss citizens who wer e members of theReformed church and sought better economic conditions in Germany now thatCalv inists (Reformed) had obtained equal rights with Lutherans andCatholics through the Peace o f Westphalia.

The earliest information we have about Jost Schwab (Yost Swope) is hismarriage to Anna Kathar ina Wolfhardt in Duehren bei Sinsheim nearHeidelberg, 27 May 1661 (17 May 1661 - see page 128 8). George Schwab wasthe father of Jost. He was a citizen and councilman in Sinsheim in 1681w hich is another village near Heidelberg. Jost Schwab's age was forty-sixwhen he transferred h is citizenship from Duehren to Leimen in 1702. Thisindicates that he was born about 1656. Gil bert E. Swope's History of theSwope Family and Their Connections states that Yost (Jost) wa s born in1678. If he were married in 1681 this would be impossible.

Many of the parish records of this area were destroyed during the ThirtyYears War, and agai n in 1689 bythe armies of Loui XIV of France. It wasin 1689 that the parish register of Sinsh eim was destroyed, and so therecord of birth of Jost Schwab and bis brothers and sisters is l ost to us.

HUSBAND: SCHWAB, Jost or Justus (citizen and master-baker
Born: 1656 (age 46 in 1702)
Place: Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, GERMANY
Married: 17 May 1681
Place: Duehren bei Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Died: 29 Jan 1727 L of Adm.
Place: Leacock (now Upper Leacock) township, Chester (now Lancaster)county, PA
Husband's father: Schwab, Georg
Husband's mother: Zimmerman, Margaretha (1611-1695)

WIFE: WOLFHARDT or WOHLFAHRT, Anna Katharina
Born: 9 Oct 1663
Place: Duehren bei Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Wife's Father: Wolfhardt or Wohlfahrt, Hans Jorg (1639-1712)
Wife's mother: Hagi or Haagen, Anna (abt 1643-1673)

JOST SCHWAB, THE EMIGRANT
HIS PARENTAGE, HISTORY, AND LIFE STORY

JOST or JUSTUS SCHWAB is the ancestor of most Americans bearing thesurname SWOPE and, as fa r as we have been able to ascertain, is the firstSchwab/Swope to migrate to America. Throug h research in Germany and theUnited States, a considerable amount of data has been gathered c oncerninghim, and this information gives to us the following story of his life.According to t hese facts, more than one Jost Schwab lived in the vicinityof Leimen near Heidelberg, Germany , and they were probably all related toone another. Did they come to America together? This i s also possible.

Jost Schwab, the father of Johannes Schwab (John Swope) who settled onthe Mill Creek in Uppe r Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvaniain 1720, is easily identified. This Jost Sc hwab was born in Sinsheim,Baden in 1655 or 1656, the son of Georg Schwab, citizen and counsel or inSinsheim, and Margaretin born Zimmerman. Jost had a brother Georg, bornin 1659, and anot her brother, George Albrecht, who was a baker (Jost wasalso a baker) and seminary director a t Sinsheim. He had also a sisterwhose name is unknown, who had a child, Anna Christina, bor n in 1678.Georg Schwab, father of Jost, is thought to have been the brother ofanother Jost Sc hwab, the mayor of Sandhausen, a village which was part ofthe parish of Leimen in 1700. (Se e page1303).

Jost Schwab, our American ancestor, son of Georg and Margaretha(Zimmerman) Schwab, grew up i n Sinsheim and became a baker as did hisbrother, Georg Albrecht. On the 17th of May 1681 whe n he was twenty-fiveyears old, Jost married his betrothed, the seventeen year old, AnnaCathar ina Wolfhardt, in the beautiful Choir Roorn of the Lutheran Churchat Duehren, a village nea r Sinsheim. Jost was a member of the ReformedChurch in Sinsheim. Anna Catharina, born 9 Octob er 1663, was the daughterof the Mayor of Duehren. Hans Jorg Wolfhardt/Wohlfahrt and his wife , AnnaHaagen. (See Chapter 2). Her grandfather, Georg JohannWolfhardt/Wohlfahrt, was the Mini ster of the Lutheran Church in Duehrenduring the Thirty Years War. Her father, Hans Jorg, wa s born in theSteinsberg Fort (the ruins of this fort can still be seen near Duehren(picture p age 1293) where his father, Georg Johann, had taken his familyfor protection.

Jost and Anna Catharina settled down in Duehren where he earned hisliving as a baker. For alm ost twenty-one years the family lived inDuehren and six of their children were baptized in th e Lutheran Churchthere. The 27th of March 1695, Jost's mother, Margaretha Schwab, died andwa s buried in Sinsheim. At the time of her death she was a widow; herhusband, Georg Schwab, die d sometime after Jost was married in 1681 andbefore 1689 when the church record of Sinsheim c ommences.

In 1702 Jost moved his family to Leimen (see map page 1290) where theyenrolled as citizens th e 27th of April 1702. Jost declared that he was 46years old and was born in Sinsheim on the E lsenz river, Kreis (county)Heidelberg, Baden and that he was a member of the Reformed Church . Hiswife, Anna Katerina, was 38 years old and a Lutheran. They brought withthem the followin g seven children:

Hans Jorg, 19 years
Jost Conrad, 13 years
Anna Elisabeth, 11 years
Anna Margaretha, 7 years
Anna Magdalena, 5 years
Anna Maria, 3 years
Anna Katharina, 1/2 year

On the 26th of May 1704 their son, Johannes, ancestor of many Arnericans,was born, and was ba ptized the 28th of May 1704. In 1707 another son,Hans Ulrich, was born in Leimen. The 7th o f September 1709, AnnaCatharine, gave birth to her last child; the infant was stillborn.

Shortly after the move to Leimen, their eldest son, Hans J©œrg or Georg,married Anna Eva (som e researchers say her maiden name was Schaeffner,but do not give the source of this informati on). They named their firstchild, Johann Georg, at his baptism, 9 January 1706. The sponsor a t thebaptism was Johan Georg Wohlfarth (or Wolfhardt) of "Duehren beiSinsheim", the grandfath er of Hans Georg Schwab and the great grandfatherof the child.

On the 5th of April 1712 Jost and Anna Catharina Schwab's eldestdaughter, Anna Elisabetha, no w nineteen years old, married JohannEberhard Riehm. Both are listed as of the Reformed religi on. Their firstchild was christened Johann Jacob Riehm at Leimen 14 June 1713. JostSchwab wro te in his records, ,,My daughter, Anna Eliss' child born 1Brachmond (June) 1713." (See page 1 304) Another child, Anna Katharina,daughter of Johan Eberhard and Anna Elisabetha Riehm, wa s christened, 19January 1716. In 1717 the Riehms (spelled Ream in America) left forPennsylvan ia. Their third child, Abraham Riehm, was born in Philadelphia(according to the records of th e Ream Family Association),

Jost and Anna Catharina Schwab and the rest of the family must not haveleft Leimen in 1717, b ecause their daughter, Anna Maria, married thewidower, Andreas Meixel, 19 Septenter 1719. Th e marriage record statesthat ,,Anna Maria is the legitimate, single daughter of Jost Schwab,c itizen and baker at Leimen" as though he were still living here.

Jost Schwab, his family, and possibly other relatives are believed tohave departed from Leime n for the trip down the Rhine to the sea in May1720. We do not know how many of the childre n came to America with Jost.The parish registers of Leimen infer that all of them left Leime n in 1720except Hans Georg, who made the trip in 1727. Parents: George Schwab and Margaretha Zimmerman.

He was married to Anna Katharina Wolfhardt on 27 May 1681.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He was married to Anna Katharina Wolfhardt.⁽¹⁰⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Children were: Anna Margareta Schwab.

SCOTA Parents: PHARAOH CINCRIS.

Children were: GOADHAL.

PRINCESS OF EGYPT SCOTA. Parents: PHARAOH OF EGYPT NECTONIBUS .

Children were: IST MILESIAN MONARCH OF IRELAND 1699BC HEREMON, HEBER , IST MONARCH OF IRELAND FIONN .

HEBER SCUT. Parents: SRUTH.

Children were: BEOUMAN.

SEDEQETELEBAB .

Children were: ARPHAXAD.

KING OF BRITAIN SEISYLL. Parents: KING OF BRITAIN OWAIN .

Children were: KING OF BRITAIN ARTHMAEL.

KING OF BRITAIN SEISYLL. Parents: KING OF BRTAIN CYHELYN .

Children were: KING OF BRITAIN DAN.

COUNTESS OF SENLIS was born about 890 in Bretagne, France.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: ESPRIOTA DE BRETAGNE .

SERUG . Parents: REU.

Children were: NAHOR.

SETH . Parents: ADAM and EVE .

Children were: ENOS.

SHEALTIEL . Parents: NERI.

Children were: RHESA.

SHEM . Parents: NOAH and EMZARA .

Children were: ARPHAXAD.

PEPIN THE , KING OF FRANKS SHORT was born in 714 in Austrasia.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ He died on 24 Sep 768 in Paris, France.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ Parents: CHARLES MARTEL OF AUSTRASIA and DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA ROTRUDE.

Children were: HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE , KING OF FRANKS CHARLEMAGNE.

SIAGREE was born about 600.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: WARINUS.

SIDA was born about 825.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾⁽³⁾

Children were: HAROLD PARCUS.

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