Immigrants – Styer Stories

Styer Stories Episode 13: The Crossley Connection Part 3:

The Friendly Wilson’s: Reuben and Martha (Wilson) Crossley

Meet the Family: Episode 11- The Crossley Connection Part 1

This study of the Styer genealogy has turned up Revolutionary Patriots (in the form of families like the Spares, or as we are about to see, the Crossleys), Mennonite conscientious objectors (like the Styers), and even a rogue Hessian deserter-turned-Patriot (i.e. John Lutsey). In today’s post it will become clear that we have Tories in our ancestry as well- in the form of the Thomas family.

Meet the Family: Episode 2- Leonard and Elizabeth Spare

In the year 1746, John Stephan and Gertrude Steiger’s son Jacob married Christiana Spare, daughter of Leonard (1692-1770) and Elizabeth Spare (1690-1776), Germans who came to America in approximately 1722.[1] Like the Steigers, they settled in Worcester Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County. The Spares were of the German Reformed[2] faith and took part in theContinue reading “Meet the Family: Episode 2- Leonard and Elizabeth Spare”

Meet the Family: Episode 1- Johan Stephan and Gertrude Steiger

Origins For the first blog, I will touch on our immigrant Styer ancestors, John Stephan (or Johann Stephanus) and Gertrude Steiger (Or Styger). John Stephen is thought to have been born in the year 1688, probably in Bohemia, in Central Europe. His birth certificate was preserved by a cousin of ours, Freas Styer, who livedContinue reading “Meet the Family: Episode 1- Johan Stephan and Gertrude Steiger”