Terflinger
You and I corresponded back in July briefly. At that time I was just beginning my research of the Taflingers/Terflingers and you sent me some interesting information on Christopher, Daniel Terflinger et al in Wyandot and Seneca Counties.
I have now done a lot more research, and have definitely traced back my line which I will provide to you below. I have also tried to connect your Terflinger line with my Taflinger line, and although I definitely think we are related, I still am not sure how.
Two notes just to add to your research. Daniel Terflinger and Anne Elizabeth Wininger had another child you did not have on your list - Barbara Jane Terflinger b. 3/12/1835 d. 11/10/1871 m. William Corfman 10/22/1857.
I think Christopher Terflinger, Daniel's father also had a wife prior to Elizabeth Heckelthorne. Her name was Barbara, and they married in 1798 in VA and she apparently died in childbirth young.
My family line is as follows:
Friederich Dörflinger (eldest brother about age 30) who came over on the ship Patience to Philadelphia in 1749 probably with his younger brothers Jacob and Henry and his sister Gertrude. (The Dorflingers came from Blondenloch in Baden Germany. The father's name was Friederich too as far as we can tell.) I say probably because only the abjuration list survived from this ship, and only males over 21 could sign it, so Friederich was the only one to sign. All of these people can be found together in the Tohickon Lutheran Church records in the 1750's and 1760's in Bucks County, PA. Friederich is definitely not the father of the group because he married and left a will naming his wife and only two children neither of whom are these. Friederich and family stayed in Bucks County and died there.
Jacob and Henry (apparently younger and more adventuresome) went off to Loudoun County, VA - most all of their children were baptized by a circuit rider from a Lutheran Church in Frederick, MD. Jacob's oldest son Johannes was born and baptized in the Tohickon church in PA before they left.
My ancestor is Jacob Dörflinger who married Magdalena. We know this from all the baptism records. Jacob had several children including Philip Derflinger in NW Virginia. Most of the family stayed in Virginia except for Philip's son Jacob E. who also went to Ohio, but much later. The name tended to stay Derflinger in most cases.
I am descended however, from Jacob's oldest son Johannes who was born and baptized in Pa. He was later confirmed in Frederick County Va at the age of 13 and married Elizabeth Parrot (not the same Elizabeth Parrot as the George you referred to) in Shenandoah County, and they moved immediately to Rockingham County. Hence begins my line of Terflingers/Tarflingers and ultimately Taflingers, all of whom lived in Rockingham County, VA.
Johannes Terflinger/Tarflinger's oldest son was Henry who in 1800 married Catharine Miller. I am sure of this lineage because of a land deed from John and Elizabeth to son Henry and then part of the same land is deeded in 1860 from Henry and Catharine to their son John Henry b. in 1834 and married to Mary Jane Moyers in 1855. After Catharine died, Henry went with John Henry and Mary Jane to Allen County, OH in abt. 1870-1872, where Henry died in 1875. John Henry and Mary Jane's daughter Virginia Margaret is my Great Grandmother.
The line you gave me:
You gave me, and it is correct as far as I know, that Daniel descended from Christopher and Elizabeth Heckathorne, and that Christopher was the son of Jacob Terflinger and Elizabeth.
The History of Seneca County, Vol.1 1886, Warner Beers & Co. Heritage Books, Bowie Md. 1994 reprint pp. 670-671 says:
"Christopher and Elizabeth Terflinger, natives of VA, parents of Lewis Terflinger, came to this county from Wyandot County, with his parents Jacob and Elizabeth, in 1830 and lived on the farm where Lewis Terflinger now resides. Here Mrs Terflinger died in 1865 and Mr. Terflinger in 1866."
My Jacob Dorflinger/Derflinger and Magdalena, had a son named Johann Jacob Tarflinger, but he married a Barbara Kline and took off for Indiana directly where he and Barbara lived, raised a huge family of Taflingers and are buried in Clark County. So your Jacob who married Elizabeth is not the son of my Jacob. The Philip Derflinger who married Elizabeth Barrow is the son of my Jacob so he is not the brother of your Jacob.
I agree that George Terflinger was probably a brother of Christopher, but probably not Philip, unless there are two Phillips.
Henry, the other brother of my Jacob had a bunch of children as well in NW Va: Friederich (the one you mentioned in your e-mail), Thomas and Daniel. We know Heinrich's family from his will as well as baptism records - no Jacobs here of the right age.
So where did the Jacob who married Elizabeth come from? Here are some possibilities:
1) He was the son of a Johann Dörflinger who came to Philadelphia in 1753 from a village right next to Blankenloch (they even shared the same Lutheran church records) and was probably a cousin to Friederich who came in 1749. Johann also went to Bucks County and is buried in the same Tohickon church cemetery as Friederich. Perhaps this Johann married and is the father of
the Jacob who married Elizabeth.
2) You mentioned a George Derflinger who was born in 1777 in Germany and who married Mariah Elizabeth Parret in Rockingham County. The Parrots certainly lived in Rockingham County, but I have found no reference to a George Derflinger there. Do you know for sure he was born in Germany? Sometimes the families just said that because they knew the ancestors were from Germany and the Dorflingers certainly were. My Johann Derflinger/Tarflinger moved to Rockingham County abt. 1794 when he married Elizabeth Parrot daughter of Jacob Parrot who also lived in Rockingham County. They all lived near each other for years.
It seems to me more likely that George was born in PA and may also be a son of Johann listed in No. 1, although it seems weird that these children would not have been recorded in the Tohickon church, and that perhaps he moved to Rockingham or NW Virginia in the 1790's and joined up with his cousins?
You listed George's children, but there is no Jacob, so I am not quite sure how he is attached to the Terflinger family.
So what do we know:
1. Jacob and Elizabeth are not the same as Jacob and Magdalena.
2. We do not know how the two Jacobs are related, but they probably are.
3. The Heckathorns came through Bucks County, PA and Frederick County, VA and also ended up in OH
4. I am sure that the Terflinger name is a derivitive of Dörflinger and that the spelling which was not in concrete in those days as it is now, was Dörflinger (the umlat is pronounced Der in English) so the English spelling was usually Doerflinger and Derflinger. Apparently a lot of people also heard the D as a T and hence we got Turflinger and Terflinger. In one of the deeds I mentioned above, Henry's name is spelled Tarflinger, Terflinger and Turflinger all in the same deed! The name seemed to move to Tarflinger in Rockingham County and stayed Terflinger in other areas of VA. From Tarflinger the r was dropped and went to Taflinger.
5. I am almost sure that your Jacob and my Jacob were descended from the Dörflingers from the same 2 villages in Germany and that the migration pattern was from Baden to Philadelphia, to Bucks County, to NW VA to Ohio.
One of these days we might find a clue which will tie us together. Meanwhile, I thought I would bring youup to date and see if you have found any more clues since we last corresponded.
Julie Noble
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