Reverend Christian K. Herr

4/27/2022 at 2:27 PM

Geni has Christian's middle initial as "K." and Wikitree has his middle name as isaace. How can we tell which one is correct?

Private

4/27/2022 at 3:38 PM

Thanks for pointing it out. Perhaps someone put the K. as a middle name to go with his mother's maiden name, Kendig. I see many people trying to do that as a notation, but not an "official name".

I don't automatically associate Isaac with him either. There actually were a couple of distinctly different early Herr family groups who get mixed up a lot.

He's my 7th Great Grandfather and I have a number of articles about the early immigration. Let me look through the Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage site.

Private

4/27/2022 at 7:27 PM

Now that I think about this, I think Hans Herr's (his father) parents and Hans wife (Christian/Christen;s mother) were uncovered a couple of years ago and it wasn't what the "standard" genealogy had... which seems to be what is in Geni now.

I can call the Mennonite Society early next week and see what the most current info is on him. The Hans Herr House built by Christian I think has the updated info.

Jim Wile C

4/27/2022 at 8:02 PM

Yes, the Hans Herr House was owned and built by Christian Herr. His middle name was not Isaac. In fact, documents do not contain any middle name. I do think Dean is correct that the "K" was added by someone to distinguish him from other Christian's by including his mother's maiden name. - K(endig)..

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