I've never seen the surname Zerricus before... i'm wondering if the Zurick Gieger b. 1854 got his name from there? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger around Edgefield S.C. > They married at some point after Dec 1751 (when Herman Geiger's will was > probated) and before Aug 1752. SC Deed Book S-5, 23-26, 17 & 18 Apr 1774, > cites a purchase from John Zerricus (Seracous, Circus, etc.) dated 24 & 25 > Aug 1752 by "John Gallman and Elizabeth his wife, executors of Herman Geiger > decd in behalf of John Conrad Geiger." Since John Gallman and Elizabeth > Hablüzel Geiger were both executors of the Herman Geiger will, this > Elizabeth Gallman is necessarily the widow of Herman. I agree that Herman's > youngest sister Margaret is the "most-likely" first wife of John Gallman, > although there is no documentation to prove that. His third wife was > definitely a Margaret (and expecting the youngest Gallman son, Henry), per > John Gallman's 1758 will. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren A. Smith" <tsgator@earthlink.net> > To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:03 AM > Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger around Edgefield S.C. > > > Harriet: Please help me understand your (the popular) belief that John > Gallman married Elizabeth Hablüzel, widow of Herman Geiger. I have John > Gallman married to Herman's sister, Margaretha (c. 24 Apr 1724), and per his > will he was married to a Margaret when he died. She later married Jacob > Faust. I know this has been an ongoing puzzlement based, I believe, on the > fact that in his will he also calls John Conrad Geiger his stepson (which I > cannot explain); however, Herman did not die until after 1751, so when would > John Gallman have had time to marry Elizabeth? > > Thanks, > Warren > > Three of the four unmarried sisters of Herman Geiger survived the voyage in > 1736-7, and married the three Gallman brothers who had arrived in Saxegotha > in Feb 1735. The youngest Gallman brother, John, second-married Herman > Geiger's widow Elizabeth Hablüzel. > > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Visit the GEIGER mailing list archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEIGER/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Zerricus isn't an actual name, just one of the many ways that English-speaking clerks in SC chose to interpret the surname of a man who signed himself as "Johannes Serecouse." His wife Verena (nicknamed Vronegg) wound up in a deed as "Chronica Zurkus", making it a bit difficult to follow her land around. If I saw a document filed under the Christian-name Zurick, I'd suspect that it had started out as Zurcher (as in, "the guy from Zürich"), but it might possibly be yet another clerk-transcription of George (Jorg, Jurg, Jerig, alas-poor-Yorick, etc.). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Burton" <bzb@houston.rr.com> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger around Edgefield S.C. I've never seen the surname Zerricus before... i'm wondering if the Zurick Gieger b. 1854 got his name from there? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> > To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:32 AM > Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger around Edgefield S.C. They married at some point after Dec 1751 (when Herman Geiger's will was probated) and before Aug 1752. SC Deed Book S-5, 23-26, 17 & 18 Apr 1774, cites a purchase from John Zerricus (Seracous, Circus, etc.) dated 24 & 25 Aug 1752 by "John Gallman and Elizabeth his wife, executors of Herman Geiger decd in behalf of John Conrad Geiger."