Anna Barbara Stoker

Anna Barbara Romerin was the daughter of Johann Michael & Maria Charlotta Amalia (Hartwich) Romerin, and the first wife of John Michael Stoker. They were married July 1757 in the German Reformed Church of Frederick, Maryland.

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Between September 1768 when Michael and Ana were sponsors at a child's baptism and on 15 February 1769 when Michael married his second wife, Anna Barbara Romerin passed away. At this time no date or death record for Anna has been found."

DEATH: Death and burial information taken from the website Ancestry.com and is unproven thus far. James Hook, as quoted above, definitely documents, using Frederick Co., Maryland, land deeds, a time frame from 24 March 1766 where Anna Barbara is in a land deed to 12 April 1770 when Michael's second wife Elizabeth is in a deed. Also, the last twin children of Anna Barbara are born the later part of 1769 (the church record as quoted by James Hook does not give the exact month whereas the LDS Ordinance extracted record gives 11 Sep 1769.) It may have been the birth of these twins that led to Anna Barbara's proximate death.

Comments by Jolene: Unless something fishy was going on, there is no way John Michael married Elizabeth before Anna Barbara gave birth to the twins that ended up dying, as well as herself. Since the records show that many of the recordings were done at once, before moving on to the next marriage, perhaps they did like we often do when we move from December to the New Year. They may have recorded the deaths in the year they were working in, instead of the year before, which would seem more plausible.

SOURCE: Find A Grave.com