Family: Nicholas Erb/Magdalena Widmer (F6276)

• Father | Male Nicholas Erb

  
  

  Born
  Christened	19 Sep 1680	Rˆthenbach im Emmental, Canton Bern, Switzerland
  Died	Aft Apr 1752
  Buried
  Married
  Other Spouse	Catherine | F6274
  Married		Canton Bern, Switzerland  [1, 2]
  Father	Hans Erb | F6305 Group Sheet
  Mother	Anna Haldiman | F6305 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Magdalena Widmer

  
  

  Born	Abt 1680
  Died
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Johannes Erb

  
  

  Born	13 Mar 1713	Canton Bern, Switzerland
  Died	13 Jan 1778	Manheim Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Buried	1778	Erb Farm Cemetery (Fahnestock Farm), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Spouse	Barbara Shantz | F6275
  Married	Abt 1744	Erbdale Meeting House, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Anna Erb

  
  

  Born	Dec 1716	Rˆthenbach im Emmental, Canton Bern, Switzerland
  Died		Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Magdalena Erb

  
  

  Born	Abt 1718	Canton Bern, Switzerland
  Died
  Buried		Sprogell Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Spouse	Jacob Schantz | F6280
  Married	Abt 1737

  
  

• Notes

  Married: From Janet Bjorndahl: Nicholas' first wife might or might not have been Magdalena Widmer. One source of this possible marriage is that Anna's birth record lists her mother as Magdalena Widmer (Richard Davis). Donna Basinger also lists Nicholas' first wife and the mother of his first child as Magdalena Widmer (without quoting a source), but curiously, lists Anna as his second wife's daughter. If Magdalena was Nicholas' first wife, it is not certain which children beyond the first two (Hans and Anna) were hers. Larkins has suggested that if Magdalena was Nicholas' first wife, then the third child (Magdalena) was probably hers because of the name being the same (although her paternal great-grandmother was also a Magdalena). Given the slightly larger gap in birth dates between Magdalena and the next child (Nicholas), it is not unreasonable to suggest that the first 3 children were Magdalena's and the rest were Catherine's, but this is pure conjecture. It could as easily be argued that the first 5 were Magdalena's, because of the even larger gap between Jacob and Catharina.

  
  

• Sources

  [S69] Mennosearch.com, Richard W. Davis online [www.mennosearch.com], He notes that the mother of Nicholas's second child (Anna) was recorded a, s Magdalena Widmer.. [S105] RootsWeb submission from Donna Basinger, online [worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database dbasinger], last updated 6 May 2005, accessed Sep 2005.