Weatherwaxpage

Welcome to The Weatherwax Family Page, which furnishes historical detail beyond the site index, exploring four generations of Weatherwaxes in the line of Hans Wiederwachs of Ketternschwalbach, Germany.

7. Anne Weatherwax (Craver) --Anne was the wife of Zachariah Craver. Her great-grand-daughter, Anna M. Blann states that the Weatherwaxes were a prominent Dutch family who settled in the area of north Troy, N.Y. Though they were sometimes members of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church in that area of NY, our research seems to indicate that their roots were actually German. The Trinity Lutheran Church records in West Sand Lake, Rensselaer. Co., record the birth of Annatie (Weatherwax) on March 1, 1801 (christened March 15) to parents Lorentz Widerwax and Anna Milliussin (also spelled Milius in other listings). The birth of Zachariah Craver, her future husband, is listed two pages earlier in the same book. (Annatie, the 7th-born of eleven children of Larentz and Anna, also had a younger sister, b. Feb. 24, 1805, named Anna Margaretha).

8. Loren(t)z Widerwax (Laurens or Lawrence Weatherwax) --The father of Anne W. Craver, Lorentz Widerwax (Wederwaks) was born in 1764 (Christened May 13 in the First Lutheran Church of Albany) to Andries & Catherina Wiederwacks. In 1784, he married Anna Milliussin (b. 1763 in W. Sand Lake, NY; parents unknown) and had eleven children. The names of the children, according to LDS, were: Catherina (b.1785), Elizabetha (b.1787), Andreas (Jr.)-b.1788, Jacob (b.1790) and/or Sebastian or Bastian (b.1794-Trinity Lutheran records & Lorentz’s will), Georg (b.1797), Leonard (b.1799), Annatie (b.1801), Maria (b.1803), Anna Margaretha (b.1805), Magdelena (b. 1808), and Abraham (b.1810). Lorentz died in 1820 or 21.

9. Andries (Andrew) Wiederwacks (Weatherwax)--Lorenz’s father, Andries (Andreas), was born in 1737 in Red hook, Dutchess Co. NY. to Johann Andreas Weatherwax and Anna Barbara Loescher. On Dec.17, 1762, Andries married Catharina Riesdorp at the First Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, NY. He died May 16, 1824 in Greenbush, Rens. Co., NY. Andreas Weatherwax is listed among the prominent first settlers of Sand Lake, NY. in a book called History of the Towns of Rensselaer County. He is also listed as one of two elected trustees who was involved in the starting of a Lutheran congregation in 1790, on land donated by Stephen Van Rensselaer, a church called Zion at Rensselaerwick, later to become the First Lutheran Church of Rensselaer.

10. Johan(n) Andreas Widerwachs (Weatherwax)--Andreas’ father, Johann was born in Germany in 1701 to Johan Hienrich Wiederwachs & his wife Anna Dorthea. On Nov.9,1724, Johann married Anna Barbara Loescher in Kingston (Ulster Co.), NY. They had between eight and ten children together, namely: Johann Sebastian (b.1725), Anna Margaretha (b.1727), Anna Barbara (Dorothea)- b.1729, Barbara (b.1730), Henrich (b.1732), Anna (b.1735), Catharine (b. 1736) and Andries (b.1737 or 39). After Anna Barbara’s death (sometime after 1739), Johann Andreas remarried (Jo)anna Edeli and had 10 more children (1741-52). Johann Andreas died May 10, 1784 in Tamhandrick Co., NY.

11. Johan Heinrich Christophel Wiederwachs--The father of Johann Andries, Johan Heinrich was born in 1674, apparently in Germany, and (around 1700?) married Anna Dorthea (last name unknown), also of Germany. Anna was born in 1678 and according to LDS records, died aboard ship in around May 1710, during the family’s voyage to America. Henrich remarried Ana Sybilla and had 5 more children after the death of his first wife Anna Dorothea, with whom he had six children in Germany. They were: Andreas, Johann Jost (b.1705), Catherina, Johann Georg (b.1711), Maria Barbara and Martinus. Henrich Widerwachs of Queensbury is listed as a soldier in 1711 (Palatine Volunteers to Canada). Johan Heinrich passed away sometime before 1720 in Rhinebeck, NY. His widow, Ana Sybilla, remarried Johann Georg Muller.

12. Alexander Wiederwachs--Johan Heinrich’s father, Alexander was born in 1650 in Ketternschwalbach, in the Taunus Region of Germany (Preussen). He was a shepherd by trade. On Jan 14, 1673, he married Maria Olemacherin (b.ca 1650-2 in Panrod, Germany). Maria’s father, Henrich Olemacher was born (ca. 1630?) in (Panrod,) Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, Germany. He died in 1675. Neither his wife’s name nor the names of his German parents have come down to us.

13. Hans Wiederwachs--Alexander’s father, Hans, is the earliest recorded (LDS) ancestor in our Weatherwax line. He lived from 1630 to 1667 in Ketternschwalbach, Germany. The name of his wife, also born in 1630, is unknown, as is the identity of his parents.