Christian Groethausen
 Notes:
Source: Tombstone St. Michaels Church
Source: WDC GenWeb Descendants of Hermanus Groethausen
Author: Anna Herbertson, Colorado Springs, Co.
Date of birth and Death with information marriage from Pat Greathouse.
Source: Chris Bailey gives a Christian or Christiana b. abt 1729. not sure whether a son or daughter. No other information.
Source: Louise Franklin Johnson has Christian, a male son, mentioned in the will of Henry Grothaus.
Source: Louise Johnson:
Please correct or delete the death date (1824) of Henry Groethous' son, Christian. No one knows his death date or where he died. He is not buried at St. Michael's.
The death date cited is for Christianna Miller, wife of Wickard Miller, who was buried at St. Michael's Church in 1824. Her maiden name is unknown. This error has
persisted dispite there being no evidence, whatsoever, to prove that Henry's son, Christian, was a daughter named Christianna. Jack Murray Greathouse misread Henry's
will naming his children, and dubbed Christian as Christianna. Other people repeated his mistake.
Someone speculated that Henry's "supposed daughter Christianna" married Wickard Miller, based on the fact that John Adolph Groethous names Wickard Miller as his
brother-in-law. This is wrong!!!! Wickard Miller was John Adolph's brother-in-law, however it was because John Adolph's wife Amelia was a Miller, not that Wickard
Miller married John's "sister Christianna."
It was I who first obtained the original copies of Henry's and his father's wills from the register of wills in Philadelphia, PA. I sent copies of these original wills, plus
my typescript of these wills, to Chris Bailey and to many others who have circulated these. Before I ordered these wills I was told that both of the original wills were in
tatters and could not be copied. This turned out to be false information. And upon reading the original will I found that the other earlier typescripts of Henry's will, that
were circulating, were in error about a daughter named Christianna. This child was a male, named Christian.
Forgot to add that Christianna Miller, widow of Wickard, was born after Henry had died in 1744. She was born ca. 1749-1748 according to the age on her tombstone.
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