Tag Archive | Wippel
Edward Thomas Whipple – Large Family (of Girls) – 52 Ancestors 2015 #37
I am doing my posts for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2015 out of order; this one should have been done is September. I have been traveling back and forth, to and from Pennsylvania to look after elderly family and blogging has had to take a back seat to family responsibilities. One of the themes […]
Christopher Whipple (Wippel) – Had a Farm – 52 Ancestors 2015 #25
Christopher Wippel was my fourth great-grandfather and he was a brother of Johann Wippel, who was also my fourth great-grandfather. Yes, you have correctly deduced that my third great-grandparents, Charles (Carl) and Catharine Wippel were first cousins. Christoph Wippel was born 2 December 1802 in Bobenheim Roxheim, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Rhineland Pfalz, Germany. His older […]
Betty Jane Gaa – A Fresh Start for Betty – 52 Ancestors 2015 #1
So, with one year of posts under my belt, I have decided to include some guest bloggers this year. There are people in my family who can tell some of these stories better than I can. There were times last year when I felt inadequate as the storyteller for some of my ancestors. My first […]
Katherine “Kate” Wippel Miller – For a While, I Thought You Fell off a Turnip Cart – #52 Ancestors #32
Entry #32 I have been postponing blogging about some of my most complicated research endeavors. For week #32, I have to tackle one. After all, we only have 20 ancestors more about whom to write. For years, no single ancestor preoccupied me more than my second great-grandmother, Katherine Wippel. Katherine Wippel was my paternal grandmother’s […]
Johann Wippel – Emigrated When He Was Dead? 52 Ancestors #27
Entry #27 My four times great-grandfather, Johann Wippel, was born to Jacob Wippel and Anna Maria Eisenhauer in Roxheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, on 10 May 1796. He appears to have been the second child named Johann from this union. The first Johann was born around 1791 and died 25 Jan 1796; so, when a baby was […]
Charles Wippel – Missing – 52 Ancestors #1
January 28, 2014 Entry #1 My “most wanted” ancestor is my 3x great-grandfather Charles (Carl) Whipple (Wippel). For years, I have been searching for his whereabouts after 1857. He is one of those ancestors that seem to have vanished without a trace. Carolus Wippel was born in Roxheim, Germany on April 27, 1830, the son […]