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Bible Records: John Wigard Levering Family

Levering Family Bible

Geburth Register Meiner Wigard Levering Kinder," i.e., Family Register Of Wigard Levering.

Children.

I, Wigard Levering, was born in Germany, in the Principality of Westphalia, in the District of Munster, and town of Gemen. My father's name was Rosier Levering, and my mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Van de Walle, who was born in Wesel. In the twenty-third year of my age, I, Wigard Levering, was married to my beloved wife, Magdalena Boker. Her father's name was William Boker, and her mother's maiden name was Sidonia Williams Braviers, of the city of Leyden, in Holland. The above said Magdalena, my wife, was also born in Leyden, and God hath blessed us with the following children, to wit :

The first born, Joanna Sophia, born in Gemen, in the year of our Lord 1672, in March, and died in the third week.

The second, Anna Catharine, born in Mulheim on the Rhur, in March, 1673.

The third, Maria Elizabeth, born in July, 1676, and died in the eighteenth week of her age.

The fourth, William Levering, was born the 4th day of May, 1677.

The fifth, Amelia Anna Sophia, was born in the middle of July, 1682.

The sixth, Anna Sibella, was born in the middle of September, 1684.

The above named children were all born in Mulheim on the Rhur, in Germany, and the following six children were born in North America, in the province of Pennsylvania :

The seventh, Herman, was born the 18th of November, 1686, and died in the fourth year of his age, in May.

The eighth, Elizabeth, born the 7th of January, 1689, and died in the fourteenth year of her age, in September.

The ninth, Sidonia, born the 23d of April, 1691.

The tenth, Jacob Levering, bor n the 21st of January, 1693

The eleventh, Magdalena, born the 13th of January, 1695, and died in the third week of her age.

The twelfth, Magdalena, born the 4th of June, 1696.

The last, after the perfect number of twelve, was an untimely birth.

God, who is the father of all that are called children, in heaven and on earth, have mercy on my children who are still in the land of the living, that they, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, may be born again, and registered with their children in heaven ; that they, after they are taken from this vain world, the parents with the children, and the children with the parents, may rejoice before God in a blessed and happy eternity. Amen."

Source:

Colonel John Levering, Levering Family: History and Genealogy, Levering Historical Association, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1897. Page 51. View @ Google Books