Johannes Nicholas Feuerstein, Sr.

According to Feuerstein family legend, the Alsatian Feuersteins descend from three brothers who emigrated from Austria in the 1400s. Many Feuerstein families lived in the Alsace area in the 1600s and it's unknown if they are all distantly related or not. The ones in the near vicinity of Berg and Thal are very likely closely related. But, a Feuerstein Y-DNA project shows that the tested Feuersteins have a large number of unrelated ancestors.

References

• 1684 Birth Name: Joannes Feuerstein Gender: Male Baptism Date: 10 Jun 1684 Baptism Place: Berg (OA. Ravensburg), Württemberg, Germany Residence Place: Berg (OA. Ravensburg), Württemberg, Germany Father: Joannes Feuerstein Mother: N N FHL Film Number: 1047641[1]
• Original data: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. < AncestryImage >
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Feuerstein-210
• https://firestone1753.weebly.com/
• GEDCOM Note - Lieu de décès complété le 25/12/2016 depuis la publication en ligne de maxime990
• http://h1.heredis-online.com/fr/maxime990/roeser_veronique/individu... Date de naissance et date de décès complétées le 10/06/2017 depuis la publication en ligne de jcllebosse
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It is said that the Firestone family in Thal came originally from the Bregenz Forest, Province of Vorarlberg, in the Austrian Tyrol. There are family stories about three brothers who moved from Austria during the 15th century: Nicholas, Johann and Theobold Feuerstein. These families are said to have eventually settled in Alsace.

The first record known of the family in Alsace is from Dehlingen, where in 1660, George Feuerstein was a master mason. A son of George moved to Thal in 1686. In 1719 more than one Feyerstein family lived in Thal, and in neighboring Berg. These towns shared church and municipal functions and were originally erected to house early Huguenot refugees from France. Church records of the times report the village names together as "Berg und Thal."

There are records of six early Feuerstein immigrants believed to have come from the villages of Thal and Berg in Alsace. Leonard Feyersteen attempted passage with his family in 1711; Lorentz Feyersteen, son of Johannes/Hans Feuerstein of Thal, attempted passage in about 1740; Johann Feuerstein, apparently the first of the family to gain passage, arrived Philadelphia o the ship "Edinburgh" on Aug. 13, 1750; Hans Nicholas Feuerstein of Thal, said to be the son of Hans Feuerstein, with his family, arrived Philadlphia on Sept 24, 1753 about the ship "Peggy." George Philip Firestone, who arrived in Pennsylvania on the ship "Eastern Branch" oct Oct, 1753; and finally Conrad Feuerstein, who served in the Pennsylvania Navy in 1777.

Traces of the family history from Berg and Thal have been collected about what appear to be stories and relations of these six pioneers, the first two of whom are Leonard Feyersteen and Lorenz Feyerstein - neither was successful in their attempted passage.