Posted on: Davidson County, NCGenWeb Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Davidson/1688 Surname: ------------------------- O.K. Here we go !!!!! The Kimmel family I have, came from sources found at RootsWeb & Family-Tree-Maker. I actually stumbled across them by mistake. I was looking for Boeckel decendants and this is what I found. Johann Jacob Kimmel b-1710 in Germany Johann "Georg" Kimmel b- 1732 in Germany "Records from Lower Bermudian Lutheran, Pennsylvania do not include documentation of Georg and Catharina Kuemmel's marriage, only that they took communion as husband and wife in 1768." Married- Catharina "Caty" b-1732 d-1813? Catharina signed her will in 1809. She later married Daniel Evans by 1773 and in 1813, she went by the name of "Caty Myers" Catharina had 4 more children after the death of her first husband, Georg Kimmel. 1- Daniel Evans Jr. and three more Myers. Bernhard Kimmel b-1770 d- 05/18/1837 in Friedberg, NC. Married- Catharina Weaver b-1771. All information gathered from: www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/o/l/Karen-Foley/ My input: I believe that Johann "Georg" Kimmel is Bernhard's father because of the following. 1- Georg Kimmel "took communion" as husband to Catharina in 1768. I believe that Georg and Catharina were already married and had most of their children before arriving in America around "1768", or this was Georg and/or Catharina's second marriage. 2- I don't agree with Bernhard's birth. I have Moravian records showing Bernhard at the age of 88 upon death. This would make Bernhard's birth around 1759, not 1770. I also think that Catharina Weaver was his second wife. Last child born to Bernhard & Catharina was Sallie Kimel b-1811. Bernhard's age=52 & Catharina's age=40. Just a guess !!!!!!! It might do everybody some good to check the York County records or Adams County now, in Pennsylvania. May-be Bernhard served in the Continental Army under George Washington. May-be he migrated to NC with the Romingers, Rothrocks, who came from PA also. Anyway, BEST OF LUCK TO YOU ALL, oh and by-the-way, Karen Foley also had this information on the free RootsWeb pages. The name of her page was "The Collignon-Foley Family Tree" GOOD LUCK, Carol