Maria Magdalena Friday (Dysli)

Debbie Gambrell

1/3/2023 at 3:38 PM

It looks like the Gedcom uploads threw in extra parents.

In any case, I'm trying to find more info that is correct for this Maria. Ancestry is showing:

Name Maria Magdelena Dysli Birth 1691 Muri, Aargau, Suisse Death 2 August 1750 South Carolina, South Carolina, USA Spouse Martin Fridig Mother Anna Hitz Children Gabriel Fridig

but doesn't list her father. Some trees on Ancestry have her father as Jost Dysli Birth 1663 • Wynigen, Bern, Switzerland

I'm not sure the Niklaus Dysli listed as her father is correct, in the absence of documentation, because on Ancestry his daughter of the same name is shown with a different husband:

Magdalena Dysli Marriage 21 May 1835 Grafenried, Bern, Switzerland Spouse Johann Carl Fluri Father Niklaus Dysli

As you'll notice, she was obviously born much later than the Maria Magdalena Dysli who married Martin Fridig. So I think there is some confusion among same-name folks who may be related but are clearly different.

If anyone has additional info and hopefully some documentation, please share, and I appreciate the help.

Debbie Gambrell

1/3/2023 at 3:46 PM

I added what documentation I could find under the Media tab for both Maria and Martin, but nothing I found mentions her parents.

Michael Kelly

1/3/2023 at 6:33 PM

Debbie, thank you for taking the time and doing the work to straighten out our Fridig line. When I tried to work on this line a few years ago, it was frustrating because of the lack of reliable source documents. As I recall, I think I gave up trying to figure out all the conflicting information, most of it not supported by source documents.

Debbie Gambrell

1/3/2023 at 6:48 PM

Well, I wasn't able to find much documentation but was happy that I found any at all.

Christopher Andrew Fitzpatrick, Sr. CML PRO

1/4/2023 at 8:37 AM

I'm not *sure* my dates are "absolutely" correct, but 1674 is a much more reasonable date for her father's birth, than 1595, which would make her father 98 years old at her birth. I have not yet checked the Orangeburg Book of Record yet for more info, which would probably be there, since both Giessendanners, were pretty good at keeping records. Alexander Salley's book, incorporates Gießendanner AND other sources. The Orangeburg Book of Record can be accessed through the OGSGS website. Joop Giessendanner, a 6th great grandson, has translated it into English, indexed it and put it online for descendants of the early Orangeburg settlers to research and view. It has births, deaths , baptisms, burials &etc. Here is a link to the book - https://sail.home.xs4all.nl/orange/a-index.html
This book may have more info - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001263923
This is the Salley Collection at SC dept of Archives & History -
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Sa...
These are some pretty good source materials on the Swiss that arrived in South Carolina. Just some sources I'm not sure many are aware of.

Christopher Andrew Fitzpatrick, Sr. CML PRO

1/4/2023 at 6:55 PM

Wow! I see you've uploaded a lot of source documents, can't wait to look through them. Thank you,
Chris

Debbie Gambrell

1/4/2023 at 7:53 PM

Well,actually, they're screenshots from this book that is out of print but can be browsed on Google books. So I searched the book for members of this family and added what I could to their individual profiles.

https://books.google.com/books?id=k4PuHP5vbpgC&pg=PR11&lpg=...

Debbie Gambrell

1/4/2023 at 7:54 PM

The book is on Amazon but unavailable;

https://www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Families-Switzerland-Colonial-Sout...

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