Johanna Susanna Weiser/ Wiser, born in 1809, in Germany and possibly in Wurttemberg, married Jacob Weiss in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the mid 1830’s. She was his second wife, and all I can learn about the first wife is that she may have been from England and she was almost certainly the mother of Jacob’s first child, Mary Louisa. Mary Louisa lived ot reach adulthood, and she was called Mary. Johanna’s children with Jacob Weiss were Sarah Elizabeth, Henrietta Caroline, Mary Ann (who was born when Mary Louisa was 11 years old and also lived, and was called Mary, atleast as an adult), Barbara Anna (who didn’t live), Regina E, Jason, and possibly Alice Johanna, though I think this girl was Sarah Elizabeth’s illegitimate daughter and just happened to be living in her parents’ household during one census. The first wife may possibly have been Rebecca Elliot, because a Jacob Weiss married such a woman in 1829 in Harrisburg, not necessarily the same man. Mary Louisa named her first child Emma Rebecca – and didn’t repeat any other names that the descendants of Johanna used. Sarah Elizabeth named her first daughter Alice Johanna, and her second daughter Caroline. No boys were named Jason or Jacob. Henrietta Caroline, who was consistently called Caroline H as an adult, named her first daughter Joanna, her second daughter Caroline, her third daughter Mary, her fourth daughter Eve or else Emma, her next daughter Estella or else Anna, her next daughter Delilah or Delia, and her last daughter Alice. Regina had only sons. Mary Ann named her first daughter Eva, her next daughter Lillian, her next daughter Bessie, her next daughter Carrie, and her next daughter Annie, and I thought there was an Alice who didn’t live. “Jason” did not live to reach adulthood and did not appear in another census, so he died. Conceivably this was an Anglicized version of Jacob. No other child in the family was ever named after Jacob Weiss, though every single daughter of his had sons. Are any of the names that repeat in the family likely to help identify Johanna’s mother, or her sisters? Yours, Dora Smith