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Johann Peter Voltz - Four Fultz Families in Shenandoah, VA - Let

Started by Blaine Evan Fults on Thursday, August 17, 2017
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There were 4 VOLTZ families in the Shenandoah Valley about the same time...all with similar names! Having spent years at this, I know with absolute certainty that Johann Martin VOLTZ (1721-1782) and Johann Peter VOLTZ (1730-1811) - who were 2nd cousins - came from the small towns of Boeckingen and Grossgartach, respectively, in Neckar (sort of like our county), Wuerttemberg, in what is now Germany. With equal certainty I know that Johann Georg (Hans Jurg or Joerg) VOLTZ (1729-1733) and his wife Christina Barbara JACKE b 1731 came from the towns of Griesbach and Gundershoffen, respectively, in the province of Alsace. After landing in Pennsylvania, the latter couple settled in what is now Pendleton Co., WV and was then Augusta Co., VA.

It's the Johannes VOLTZ and his wife Catherine of Rockingham (now Page) Co., VA who have always been a puzzle. There is simply no information linking them back further than 1758.

Perhaps it would help if I gave you a little something on all 4 families so you can see who belongs with whom. I never set out to do 4 genealogies when I began my husband's, but that's what I had to do in order to sort them out.

Family #1:
Johann Martin VOLTZ b Oct 1721 Boeckingen, Neckar, Wuerttemberg m Anna Margaretha (Maiden Name Unknown). Settled in Shenandoah Co., VA abt. 1750
Children:
1. Catherine b abt 1753 m1 in 1773 George LENTZ m2 Bernhard "Barney" SHIREMAN
2. Rosanna VOLTZ b abt 1754 m Christian HISEY, Jr.
3. Elizabeth VOLTZ m in 1796 Henry ROHRER
4. Margaret VOLTZ b abt 1756 d 1828/1829 m in 1808 Jacob NISWANDER
5. Johannes "John" VOLTZ b bef 1761 d 1818. Never married.
6. Daniel VOLTZ b abt 1762 b 1799 m Magdalene RUBY
7. John Martin VOLTZ b bef 1765 d abt 1728 m Susanna SHUTZER. Moved to IN.
8. Frederick VOLTZ (1765-1843) m 1792 Hannah HANGER
9. Christiana VOLTZ (1768-1837) m 1793 William PHILLIPS
10. Anna Maria "Mary Ann" VOLTZ d abt 1828 m 1788 William CRONK. Moved to IN.
11. Magdalena "Polly" VOLTZ m 1800 John HAMMON

Family #2:
Johann Peter VOLTZ b 1730 Grossgartach, Neckar, Wuerttemberg d 1811 m Maria Elisabetha MINTZIN. Settled Shenandoah Co., VA abt 1755.
Children:
1. Magdalena VOLTZ b abt 1752 m1 Emmanuel DELLINGER m2 Joshua COFFMAN
2. Mary VOLTZ b abt 1753 m John WILFANY
3. Susannah VOLTZ b abt 1754 m John Henry HOSHOUR, Jr.
4. Catharine VOLTZ b 1755 m 1772 Godrey Daniel STOUT. Moved to TN.
5. Elizabeth VOLTZ b 1756 m 1775 Jacob STICKLEY
6. Margaret VOLTZ (1756-1814) m George DELLINGER
7. Joshua VOLTZ 1760-1833) m?1 abt 1779 Betty WAGGONER (daughter of Ulrich. There is no record of a wedding, although she did bear him a son, also named Joshua b 20 Jul 1779). m2 Jan 1783 Dorothea DELLINGER.
8. Joseph VOLTZ (1763-1834) m 1781 Anna Maria ELSIN
9. Julianah VOLTZ b abt 1766 m 1783 Peter HOSHOUR
10. George Peter VOLTZ (1767-1847) m 1786 Eva Maria "Mary" Rugle, d/o Johannes ROOGHEL
11. Eva Maria "Eve" VOLTZ (1768-1850) m 1786 Christian DELLINGER, Jr.
12. Rosina VOLTZ (1770-1835) m 1788 Georg Jacob HELSLEY, Jr.
13. Anna Barbara VOLTZ b Jul 1774 m 1793 George ANDRICK

Family #3:
Johann Georg VOLTZ b Jan 1729 Griesbach, Alsace (son of Hans Jurg VOLTZ & Anna Maria AMMAN) m 1750 in Gundershoffen, Alsace to Catharina Barbara JACKE b 1731 to Kilian JACKE and his wife Anna Margaretha WEYL of Gundershoffen.
Children:
1. Anna Barbara "Hanna" VOLTZ b 1752
2. Maria Eva "Eve" VOLTZ b aft 1750.
3. Georg VOLTZ b 1753
4. John Philip VOLTZ (1754-1824) m 1778 Elizabeth COIL/COYLE (1762-1836). Moved to Ohio.
5. Susanna VOLTZ b abt 1763

Family #4:
Johannes VOLTZ b? d 1806 Rockingham (now Page) Co., VA m Catherine (Maiden Name Unknown). Settled in Rockingham (now Page) Co., Va aft 1758.
Children:
1. Johann Georg "George" VOLTZ b 1755 Rockingham/Page Co., VA d 1830 in TN m bef 1777 Catherine KITE
a1. Elizabeth b abt 1777 m Daniel HARSHMAN
a2. John b abt 1778-1780 d 1815 m Christina KITE
a3. Catherine/Katherine b abt 1781-1784 m Henry MONGER
a4. Elias Joseph b 1784
a5. George b abt 1785 m Catherine FAWLEY
a6. Christian b abt 1787 m Susan FAWLEY
a7. Ephraim b abt 1789-1791 m Ruth MEYERS
a8. Daniel b 1791 m Philadelphia THOMPSON
a9. Adam b 1793 m _________ NUNLEY
2. John VOLTZ (1757-1810) m Margaret KISER
3. Sebastian VOLTZ (1759-1803) m Barbara KISER
4. John Philip VOLTZ (1761-1847) m Mary Ann PERKEPINE
5. David VOLTZ (1765-1831) m1 Madeline PENCE m2 Elizabeth HUFFMAN
6. Catherine VOLTZ (1767-aft Mar 1814) m Joerg "George" BOWERS
7. Elizabeth "Betty" VOLTZ m 1791 Ludwig "Lewis" BOWERS
8. Margaret VOLTZ (1770-1819) m 1790 Henry HUFFMAN
9. Jacob VOLTZ b 1772 m1 Catherine Maiden Name Unknown m2 Christina WALTERS
10. Christina (called "Tina" or "Dinah") VOLTZ (1774-1873) m 1800 Jeremiah HUFFMAN

This research was done by Arlene Inscoe Fultz, who is obviously an expert on the Fultz/s families of Shenandoah Valley.

I know for sure that I am connected to Family #4 listed above, Johannes and Catharine Voltz/Fults of Rockingham, Virginia. I'd love to know where they came from, but... as you see above, it is IMPOSSIBLE for my family to be descended from Family #2 I am clearly descended from George Voltz b. 1755 in Rockimham and his son Ephraim Fults who married Ruth Meyers and moved to Tennessee. So how do we fix this? How can I disconnect from Johann Peter Voltz of Family #2?

I'll start working on this, but it's going to take a little time to work out to make sure I have everyone in the correct place.

Blaine Evan Fults I've separated Johannes Philip (Voltz) Fultz from Johann Peter Voltz. Should look better now.

Wow! Jeff, that must've been a lot of work! Thanks so much! You're the best!

Now, me and 30,000 descendants want to find where our Johannes and Catherine really came from!

This profile seems to still be a mess. Most of the information in the about-field, including the Familysearch links, are wrong for this profile. There is a lot of records on Familysearch, but the profiles for the families are also a mess of mixups. I am not even going to try to sort this out without any good knowledge of the families.

Karianne,
Thanks for reaching out. The best info I have is listed above. Yes, its a mess, and I wish I had a way to make a separate tree that disconnects from those who are in a hurry to connect the dots, even if they aren't verified. Is there a way to do that? Maybe only offline? or start a new one and don't accept any merge requests? It's a big tangled ball of yarn and I don't know where to even begin to unravel it. :)

Blaine Evan Fults Sorry, I didn't see your answer before now.
Making a new branch is just going to make the problems worse. There are not supposed to be "separate" or "private" trees on Geni, and the goal is one instance of each profile/person.

My approach would be to find a starting point and go through each profile and enter the correct data, make sure the correct connections are made and wrong connections disconnected. Add sources with references or links to confirm the information.
This is already a master profile, so make sure a few central profiles in the family are made masters also, and lock the confirmed correct fields.

For your own sake, it might help for you to make a tree in a private app/program first, to have full control of the information, and then restructure Geni when you have the correct information gathered.

Karianne,
Thank you for your suggestions and ideas. Maybe someday I or someone else will find the time to unravel this tangled mess. :)

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