Brinkey Report

Bringia • Brinkey

Wolschwiller is near Basel, just inside the French border, in upper Alsace. According to Mme Huvyler of Wolschiller, the Bringia family came to that village from Italy in the 1600's, a couple hundred years before Jacob Bringia emigrated to America with his five motherless children.


First Generation


1. Jacob Bringia. Jacob married Magdalina Bigenwald.
       
  They had the following children (and very probably more):
       
  2. i. Jacques (Jacob) (about 1781-)
       
    ii. Joseph
       



Baltimore harbor, where Jacques Bringia and his five children entered America

Second Generation


2. Jacob Bringia (Brinkey). Born about 1781 in Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, Alsace, he became a farmer. On 27 Jul 1807, when Jacob was about 26, he married Susanna Stehlin, daughter of Jacob Stehlin & Susanna Weber, in Wolschwiller,where Susanna was also born. She died there on 22 Aug 1822. Nearly 10 years later, Jacob emigrated to the United States with his five children, ranging in age from 11 to 20 at the time. By 1840, he had settled in Columbiana County, Ohio. He died between 1850 and 1860.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Aloysius (Lewis) (1812-1886)
       
    ii. Anna Maria. Born on 28 Jan 1816 in Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, Alsace, Anna Maria died in E. Birmingham, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania in 1862; she was 45. Anna Maria married Casper Wehner, in Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio. They had one child, Joseph, who was brought up by Anna Maria's brother Lewis and Lewis's wife Walburga after the deaths of Anna Maria and her husband. Young Joseph raised a large family in Columbiana County, Ohio.
       
    iii. Catherina. Born on 17 Nov 1817 in Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, Alsace.
       
    iv. Francis Joseph. Born on 5 Jul 1819 in Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, Alsace. On December 5, 1848, Joseph married Charlotte Marie Statler, daughter of John Statler and Catherine Michaels of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. they had the following children: Emma Catherine, Ann E., Charles A., Gasper C., and Elmer J. The family lived on a farm in Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. In December of 1863 and January of 1864, Joseph and his four oldest children died of typhoid, and they are all buried in the cemetery at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Baltimore, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Charlotte moved with her two surviving children, Gaspar and Elmer, to Stoystown, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where they lived until April, 1879, when they moved to Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Gaspar became first a teacher and then a physician. Charlotte died on May 11, 1885 in Johnstown. Both of her sons perished in the famous Johnstown Flood on May 31. 1889.
       
    v. Maurice (Morris). Born on 29 Jul 1821 in Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, Alsace. Morris died in the infamous Confederate Prison at Andersonville, Georgia, on 23 Jun 1864; he was 42. He was buried in the National Cemetery at Andersonville. Click here for more about him.
       

Third Generation


3. Aloysius Bringia (Lewis Brinkey). Born on 9 May 1812 in Upper Rhine, Alsace, Lewis died in Hanover Twp., Columbiana County, Ohio on 3 Jun 1886; he was 74. Buried in St. Paul Cemetery, Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio. On 19 Apr 1838 when Lewis was 25, he married Margareta Walburga Pfeffer, daughter of Andreas Pfeffer & Maria Magdalina Sell, in St. Philip Neri Church, Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio. Born in 1818 in Bierlingen, Schwarzwaldkreis, Würtemburg, Germany, Walburga died in Franklin Twp., Columbiana County, Ohio on 21 Feb 1896; she was 78.
       
  They had the following children:
       
  4. i. John Joseph (died as a child). Born on 29 May 1839 in Hanover Twp., Columbiana County, Ohio, John Joseph also died there. Buried in St. Paul Cemetery, Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio.
       
    ii. Adam (1841-1902)
       
    iii. James (Jacob) (died as infant). Born and died in Hanover Twp., Columbiana County, Ohio. Buried in St. Paul Cemetery, Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio.
       

Fourth Generation


4. Adam Brinkey. Born on 25 Apr 1841 in Hanover Twp., Columbiana County, Ohio, Adam died there on 11 Aug 1902; he was 61. Buried in St. Paul Cemetery, Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio. On 28 Jun 1881 when Adam was 40, he married Catherine Elizabeth Hagan, daughter of James Hagan & Elizabeth Donnelly, in Dungannon, Ohio, St. Philip Neri Church. Born on 9 May 1851 in Columbiana County, Ohio, Kate died in Dungannon, Columbiana County, Ohio on 14 Feb 1932; she was 80.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Bertha Elizabeth (1882-1969). She was the only one of Adam's and Kate's children to marry. All of the others lived together on the family farm virtually all of their lives.



Bertha Elizabeth Brinkey
Our Grandmother

       
    ii. Lewis Vincent (Twin) (1883-1907) He died as a young man of complications of typhoid.
       
    iii. James Francis (Twin) (1883-1959)
       
    iv. Mary Walburga (1885-1981)
       
    v. William Herman (1887-1974)
       
    vi. Agnes Catherine (1889-1960)
       




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