Johanna Fischer

Note about parents

Sebastian Fischer came from near Kaiserslautern. He married at least twice - once in Hesse, as we now know, and again later in 1711 in New York State. The New York State marriage was to Susanna Ulrich, a fellow Palatinate flotilla member. Most of Sebastian's children were hers.

However, before that there was another marriage, to a woman named Johanna, who was the mother of Ludwig (Lewis) Fischer, and of another child who died aboard ship in 1709-1710. It has always been assumed that this other woman married Sebastian near his hometown, but this turns out not to be true, because we now know she was an Emmerich, and the Emmerichs came from Hesse, near Delkenheim. So it appears that Johann Sebastian either did not come from Alsenborn, and came instead from Hesse, or he moved at least five years before taking ship to America.

DNA evidence

A particular DNA overlap is shared among many proven Emmerich descendants, and several Fischer descendant. These are some of the people with this overlap:

1. Karl David Wright
2. Private
3. Private
4. Private
5. Oleah Elizabeth Rupert (descendant of Sebastian Fischer)
6. Private (descendant of Sebastian Fischer)
7. Oleah Elizabeth Rupert (descendant of Sebastian Fischer)