Anna Maria Kerr ²⁰³

  General Notes:

Per Arthur W Holmes

For a long time, it has been assumed that her name was Anna Maria Keller, widow of Peter Keller, but that has now been determined to be incorrect. That Anna Maria Keller lived in Lancaster County, PA. For this Johann Michael to have married her in the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County, it would have meant that Johann Michael left his brother and sister and their families and went to Lancaster Co instead of Berks/Lehigh Co. Why would he have done such a thing? And then to come to Berks/Lehigh Co a year or so after his marriage? Not possible, for his first child was born in Lynn Twp in 1736. However, Johann Michael Propst and Anna Maria Keller had four children in Lancaster, from 1734 to 1738.

We now know that Anna Maria Keller married Johan Michael Propst (b abt 1712) who did in fact move from Phila to Lancaster Co in 1733. The Probst and Propst families are not related.

History still has to tell us something about this wife of Johann Michael Probst.

The German spelling of this name was probably Kehr.

It is also noted that an Anna Maria Keller, daughter of Heinrich and Anna Catharina Keller, married Erasmus Hess, son of Heinrich and Margaretha Hess, at the Oley Hill Church, Pike Township, Berks County, on August 10, 1755. That was a different Anna Maria Keller

Anna married Johann Michael Probst, son of Christophel Probst and Eva Christina Hofmann, between 1732 and 1735 in Pennsylvania.²⁰³ (Johann Michael Probst was born on Mar 13, 1701 in Kandel, Der Pfalz, Germany and died about 1771 in Lynn Twp, Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania.)

  Marriage Notes:

Per Arthur W Holmes

Married: BET. 1732 - 1735 in PA
Note: Married in the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA, by Rev. Caspar Stoever.