Family History - Person Sheet
Family History - Person Sheet
Spouses
DeathJanuary 21, 1865, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania339
BurialJanuary 23, 1865, Lafayette Cemetery (defunct), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania339
FatherThomas Lloyd (1753-1820)
MotherMary Evans (1754-1781)
Marriageby 1806, probably Philadelphia
Notes for Catharina Oblinger
Catharina was presumably born at the Lehigh, Northampton County home of her parents. Various listings of her parents’ children with her last suggest that she was the youngest, putting her birth at 1778 or so on the early side. Her father died in 1784,344,1429 so she must have been born before then. Her execution of a legal agreement in 1803360 (see below) indicates that she was at least 21 by then. The 1800 census345 indicates that she was born 1775-85. This gives us a probable window of 1778-1780, fitting the reported 1779 birth of Thomas Lloyd.339
“In 1803 Catharina Oblinger signed, with a mark, an agreement with her brother Nicholas, and in 1810 she was listed as such as one of the daughters of Samuel Oblinger. From a letter dated 1806, from her sister Elizabeth to their mother, it appears that the two sisters were living in Philadelphia at that time.”344,1541 Indeed, church records show that Elizabeth was married in 1807 in Germantown, on the north side of Philadelphia,1542 near the locations where Thomas and Joshua Lloyd’s presence was recorded a few years later. Thomas’s family had continuing involvement with the German-American community northwest of Philadelphia for several decades afterwards.
Thomas Lloyd came to Pennsylvania several years before 1810,357 possibly as early as 1801.1543 The Lloyd children were born in 1806 (Mary Ann), 1808 (Samuel, apparently named after her father), and 1810 (Joseph).202
In 1818, Catharina’s mother’s will refers to her as “Catherine Loyd,”1544 the first clear documentation of her marriage. In the same year, Catharina took Mary Ann, Samuel and Joseph Lloyd to be baptized,202 all of them born some years earlier. This would be consistent with her family’s apparent Mennonite/Anabaptist practice of christening the children once they had grown up enough to have some understanding of religion and morality.1437
Census records for 1830212 and those following do not seem to show her presence in Thomas Lloyd’s household. In that year, she was clearly still alive, signing with a mark a deed of her deceased father’s property.346 I have found no traces of her after that.
One report360 gives the roots of Catherine’s father are in Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein (Germany), ten to fifteen miles away from the origins of her mother’s mother, Magdalena Dreisbach, in Oberndorf, Wittgenstein.1545 This would leave me wondering if others in the family were from that area, and if they knew each other before emigration. However, more recent research1437 finds Swiss origins for the Oblingers. That investigation is very nicely documented, and I am following it here.
“In 1803 Catharina Oblinger signed, with a mark, an agreement with her brother Nicholas, and in 1810 she was listed as such as one of the daughters of Samuel Oblinger. From a letter dated 1806, from her sister Elizabeth to their mother, it appears that the two sisters were living in Philadelphia at that time.”344,1541 Indeed, church records show that Elizabeth was married in 1807 in Germantown, on the north side of Philadelphia,1542 near the locations where Thomas and Joshua Lloyd’s presence was recorded a few years later. Thomas’s family had continuing involvement with the German-American community northwest of Philadelphia for several decades afterwards.
Thomas Lloyd came to Pennsylvania several years before 1810,357 possibly as early as 1801.1543 The Lloyd children were born in 1806 (Mary Ann), 1808 (Samuel, apparently named after her father), and 1810 (Joseph).202
In 1818, Catharina’s mother’s will refers to her as “Catherine Loyd,”1544 the first clear documentation of her marriage. In the same year, Catharina took Mary Ann, Samuel and Joseph Lloyd to be baptized,202 all of them born some years earlier. This would be consistent with her family’s apparent Mennonite/Anabaptist practice of christening the children once they had grown up enough to have some understanding of religion and morality.1437
Census records for 1830212 and those following do not seem to show her presence in Thomas Lloyd’s household. In that year, she was clearly still alive, signing with a mark a deed of her deceased father’s property.346 I have found no traces of her after that.
One report360 gives the roots of Catherine’s father are in Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein (Germany), ten to fifteen miles away from the origins of her mother’s mother, Magdalena Dreisbach, in Oberndorf, Wittgenstein.1545 This would leave me wondering if others in the family were from that area, and if they knew each other before emigration. However, more recent research1437 finds Swiss origins for the Oblingers. That investigation is very nicely documented, and I am following it here.