Johanna Frederica Henckel 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 29 Mar 1694 - Eschelbronn, Germany
    Christening: 2 Apr 1694 - Evangelical Lutheran Church, Eschelbronn
          Death: Abt 1739 - New Hanover Tsp., Montgomery Co., Pa
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Anthony Jacob Henckel (1668-1728) 2
         Mother: Maria Elizabeth Dentzer (      -1744) 3
Spouses and Children 
1. *Valentine Geiger (Abt 1685 - Dec 1762) 4 
       Marriage: Abt 1716 - Monchzell, Germany
Notes
General:
THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY:

The following is on page 21 of "The Henckel Genealogy":

2. Johanna Frederica (Fredrika) Henckel born March 29, 1694 Eschelbronn, Germany; baptized April 2, 1694 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eschelbronn; died about 1739 New Hanover Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. (See Branch I this genealogy.)

The following is a selection from page 29 of the same source. See also notes under Valentine Geiger.

1 JOHANNA FREDERICA HENCKEL the second and eldest surviving child of Reverend Anthony Jacob and Maria Elizabeth (Dentzer) Henckel was born March 29, 1694, Eschelbronn, Germany: died 1739 or 1740, New Hanover Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania; married about 1716 in Germany to Valentin Geiger, born 1685 in Baden, Germany; died in December 1762 on his estate at New Hanover. Seven (7) children were born to this marriage.

Johanna Frederica Geiger with her husband Valentine Geiger and her eldest son, Anthony, born February 8, 1717, emigrated to America in 1717 on the same ship with her parents and settled on an adjoining farm of 250 acres purchased from the Frankfort Land Co. in New Hanover Township then in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

(Reference: Halle reports, Vol. I, page 830 -- old edition.)

The date of the birth and baptism of Johanna Frederica Henckel was found in the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Eschelbronn, Germany of which her father was pastor and in his own handwriting. The following as translated:
"Johanna Frederica born at Eschelbronn at 2:30 p.m. on March 29, 1694 and baptized on April 2, 1694.
Godparents were His Highness, Christopher Frederick Heckel, the learned pfarrer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Daudenzell; also his wife Johanna Barbara, nee Sontag."
(Henckel Record No. 4, pp. 122, 127.)
Record found by Dr. Burt Brown Barker, President of Henckel Family Association, August 3, 1926.
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Sources

1 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 21, 29-30.

2 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pgs 18, 26, 882.

3 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 882.

4 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 29-30.

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