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Note: This is not a complete listing of the children of Ludwig and Sybilla. The source for the marriage of Ludwig David Ripley and Maria Sybilla and this incomplete family is from two sources.
From Miscellaneous Bethlehem Church Catalogues we read the following:
(1790 Catalogue): Anna Ribly, daughter of Ludwig & Maria Ribly, b. 8 Jul.1773, Bedford, PA.
(1800 Catalogue): Anna (Ribly) Ludwig, b. 8 Jul.1773, Cumberland Co., PA, joined church at Bethlehem in 1791, 3 sons, 5 daughters.
The two entries disagree re: the birthplace of Anna Ripley. As Bedford County was created out of Cumberland County in 1771 and Anna was born in 1773, it would not be uncommon to refer to either place name. I have listed her birthplace as Bedford township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Another source for the marriage of Ludwig Davis and Maria Sybilla is '1763-1769, Early Baptisms and Marriages by Rev John C. Bucher. Carlisle - Middletown - Fredericktown - and other places. (Indexed)"
The original gives the following information in columns:
Falling Spring
Baptism 1765 Sept 9th
Parentes Ludwig David Riple [sp], Maria Sybilla
Infantes Johanes
Testes Johanes New, Anna Dorothea (Illegible last name starting with a U or V)
When Born August 26th 1765
Ludwig (Ludwick) Ripley (transcribed on Ancestry as Qudwick Ripley) is found on the 1800 census. Source Citation: Year: 1800; Census Place: Bedford and St Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania; Series: M32; Roll: 36; Page: 454; Image: 80; Family History Library Film: 363339. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1800 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Name: Qudwick
[Qudwick Ripley]
[Ludwick]
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Bedford and St Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 8
There are many other children listed in this family on various online family trees and genealogies. Sadly, none of them have primary source documentation for the Pennsylvania births or locations of the children. Some of the children listed in order are Edward, Heinrich, Jacob, Elisabeth, Valentine, Matthias, Anna Maria, Henry, Ludwig or Lewis, and John. The birth dates locations for some of the children are very specific and appear like they may have originated with an old Family Bible or previous knowledge whose source was not recorded. In light of no documentation I only include the two children for whom I have support.
These online genealogies claim that both Ludwig David and Maria Sybilla were born in Germany. I copy and paste one of the paragraphs from the notes of Robin Ruth Alexander:
"Dear Anna,
I am writing to correct my two emails of yesterday. Ludwig David Ripley was born about 1732 and died aft 1788. He came to America from the Palatinates to Philadelphia on the "Two Brothers" which landed in Philadelphia. There are undocumented rumors that he served in the Revolutionary War as a blacksmith. He married Sybilla Maria [Surname Unknown] who was born in Germany in about 1737; the marriage probably took place in York Co., Pennsylvania. His grandson John married Eunice "Unity" McBride b in Delaware.
Ludwig and Sybilla Maria had five male children: Jacob 1756;
Valentine 1758; Henry 1762; Lewis/Ludwig Jr. 1768; and John Sr. b. 15 Feb 1764 who married Elizabeth Sheets b. 18 Feb 1769. There were also two daughters.
Some of these children remained in Pennsylvania in various counties along the Southern tier of counties which was heavily populated by Germans. Others migrated to Ohio. Freeport Twp., Harrison Co. was the original stopping place of John Sr. and perhaps Jacob. Jacob and John Sr. eventually moved on to Tuscarawas Co. that was only one mile West. John Jr. moved to Washington Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio. All three of these locations abut at one corner and are not more than two or three miles from one another. I have all the deeds that I collected at the Family History Library in October.
Among John Sr's children was John Jr. who married Eunice "Unity" McBride from Delaware. This John was born in Bedford Co., PA and died in Washington Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio.
I hope this helps. I would be happy to correspond with you offline by email.
Best Regards,
Robin Ruth Alexander"
The online family trees and genealogies unanimously claim that the maiden name of Sybilla Maria was Kraemer. Only one tree gives support for this. There is a 1746 Rhineland marriage record for a Ludwig David Ripple and Sybilla Maria Kraemer. As the unusual names conform exactly, and the time period and location matches the family trees, I HAVE elected to enter this marriage record.
"Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929," database, <i>FamilySearch</i>(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JHK8-DJ3 : 11 February 2018), Ludwig David Rippel and Sybilla Maria Kraemers, 08 Nov 1746; citing Evangelisch, Manubach, Rheinland, Prussia; FHL microfilm 493,329.
Name: Ludwig David Rippel
Spouse's Name: Sybilla Maria Kraemers
Event Date: 08 Nov 1746
Event Place: Evangelisch, Manubach, Rheinland, Prussia
Father's Name: Matthiae Rippel
Spouse's Father's Name: Johann Caspar Kraemers
The 'bef. 1728' birth years are based on the assumption that they were both at least eighteen years of age for a 1746 wedding.
The following excerpts come from an essay written by Muriel Ripley Schulz on David Ludwig Ripley. It is without date, but invaluable for research as it is highly and carefully sourced. The following excerpts contain about 30% of the document, particularly records of baptisms of other children from this family. There is much more history that is tremendously interesting but too long to include here. The full document is in possession of Neil Rutman (2019):
<u><b>LUDWIG DAVID RÜPPEL
</u>Muriel Ripley Schulz
</b>
Ludwig David Rüppel, who immigrated from Germany in 1748, was the progenitor of a line of descendants whose surnames eventually became Ripley. In his family's German church records and in Colonia records, the Rüppel surname is variously recorded as <i>Rippel, Ripfel, Ripffel,</i> and <i>Rüppel</i>, depending upon the spelling conventions of the person recording the birth, marriage, death, or tax status of the family member. He was probably the father of the Lewis Ripley who was one of the early settlers of Tyler County. In the mid-eighteenth century, Ludwig's descendant, Isaiah Ripley, wrote the following brief biography of his great-grandfather:
Ludwig Ripley came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century. While he was on the voyage the ship was becalmed and a famine threatened. The passengers were put on short rations, their allowance being only one bisquit per day. Soon after his arrival here he establishedhimself as a blacksmith, a trade he had learned in his native country. During the Revolutionary War he was employed by the Government in his trade, and did thorough work for it in many perilous times. All through the dread winter of Valley Forge he was kept busy repairing the different implements of war. His children were John, Jacob and Lewis. After a long and well‑spent life he passed away and was buried in Pennsylvania.[i]
Isaiah's history gives his immigrant great-grandfather's name (Ludwig), a date for his arrival in the Colonies (middle of the 18th century) and names of three of his sons (John, Jacob, and Lewis). These facts correspond closely with the recorded history of Ludwig David Rüppel, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1748, and who later had several children baptized in Pennsylvania, including a John and a Lewis.[ii] [COMMENT1]
Ludwig David Ripffel was the youngest of at least eight children born to Johann Matthias and Anna Margaretha Seckler Ripffel, in Manubach, in the Rheinland-Pfalz area of Prussia. By the time of his birth on November 8, 1723, his father, a stonemason, seems to have prospered. He was the Mayor of Manubach, and the sponsors at his baptism on November 14 were a magistrate from Manubach and mayor of nearby Steeg.[iii]
Both of Ludwig's parents were from Manubach. His father, Johann Matthias, born November 6, 1690, was the son of Andreas Rippel, also a stonemason, and his wife was Anna Catharina Grassman.[iv] Ludwig's mother was born February 16, 1690, to Frantz Seckler and an unnamed mother.[v] Ludwig's father, Johann Matthias, died on April 7, 1724, less than six months after Ludwig's birth, and Anna Margaretha remarried in February 1725, when she became the second wife of Johann Henrich Otto, a widower living in Manubach. They had at least one child together, but it is not clear how long she lived or who raised Ludwig and his siblings.[vi]
Ludwig David married Sybilla Maria Krämer on his 23rd birthday, November 8, 1746.[vii] She was born January 25, 1730, the oldest ofeight children of Johann Casper Krämer, Jr. and Maria Christina Hemp. Although she was presumably born in Manubach, she was baptized January 29 of that year in Bacharach, a few kilometers.[viii] Sybilla's mother was the daughter of Johann Bernard and Christine Elisabeth Hemp, for whom no birth or marriage records have been found. On the other hand, seven generations of Krämers on her father's side left church records in Manubach and Bacharach, and, as is unusual in the eighteenth century, two generations of grandmothers' surnames survive.[ix]
[i]. "A History of the Ripleys,"written in the mid-nineteenth century by Ludwig Rüppel's great-grandson, Isaiah Ripley. The booklet was printed privately in 1891. Linda Villines copied this passage from a version of the booklet still in the family.
[ii]. Landis, Lauren K., <i>Index to the Naturalization Records of Stark County, Ohio (1809-1852),</i> (Canton, OH: The Stark County District Library, 1994), 43, lists another set of brothers with exactly the same constellation of names--Jacob, John, and Ludwig Ripple but who immigrated from Germany to Ohio in 1809 and were naturalized there in 1852.
[iii]. Evangelisch Reformierte Kirche,Manubach, Germany, (LDS Microfilm #0493329). Ludwig was baptized November 14, 1723.
[iv]. Ibid. Little is known of Johann Matthias Rippel's origins. His marriage record in Manubach (August 12, 1679) gives his father's name and occupation. A church record survives for the marriage of his parents, Andreas and Anna Catharina Grassman, on July 16,1647, and their marriage record indicates that Andreas's father's name was Joachim and that he came from Rudratshoffen in Schwabia. Anna Catharina, was the daughter of Johann Melchior and Eva Catharina Grassman of Manubach, but nothing is known about their origins.
[v]. Ibid. There were several families of Secklers in the Manubach area, but no church records for Frantz have been located, and only his name appears in Anna Margaretha Seckler's birth record.
[vi]. Ibid. An IGI records search 5/31/2007for Anna Margaretha Seckler/Rippel/Otto turned up no death record. The son, Johann Matthaeus Otto, was born June 29, 1727, and is probably the Matthias Ott who arrived in Philadelphia on <i>Two Brothers</i>, along with Ludwig David.
[vii]. Ibid.
[viii]. Ibid. Her parents were married in Manubach April 6, 1728.
[ix]. Ibid. Her grandfather, Johann Casper Krämer, Sr. married Anna Catharina Kolb July 12, 1689, and her great-grandfather, Hans Peter Krämer married Anna Margareth Ilgas June 26, 1648.
end of first excerpt
... Ludwig's first colonial record is for the January 1749 baptism of his son J. Erhardt Rippel at the Great Swamp Reformed Church in Pennsylvania.[i] This record spells his name <i>Rippel</i>, identifies the child's mother as Sybilla Maria, and places the family in Lower Milford Township, northeast of Philadelphia, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. J. Erhardt was not the Jacob referred to in Isaiah's history of the Ripley origins. He was named for his baptismal sponsor, J. Erhardt Roos, whose birth and baptismal records in Manubach give his full name as Johann Erhardt Roos.[ii] Presumably, then, the full name of Ludwig and Sybilla's son's was also John Erhardt, but, as we will see below, like his namesake, this son was known as Erhardt throughout his life. Roos also sponsored the baptism of the son of Daniel Kober,[iii] whose name appeared immediately following Ludwig David's on the passenger lists of the <i>Two Brothers</i> in 1748. Several other entries for J. Erhardt Roos occur in the Great Swamp Church records in the early 1750s. Later he migrated to the Reading, Pennsylvania, area.[iv]
[i]. Pennsylvania German Society, <i>Pennsylvania German Church Records</i> (Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. County, 1983), III, A Church Records of the Great Swamp Reformed Congregation, Lower Milford Township, 169.
[ii]. Evangelisch Reformierte Kirche, Manubach, Germany, (LDS Microfilm #0493329). He was born September 28 and baptized October 4, 1722.
[iii]. <i>Pennsylvania German Church Records</i>, III, 171, lists the date as November 13, 1749, the child's name as A J. Erhardt Kober, and sponsors as J. Erhardt Gros and his wife, Maria Eva. A list on page 170 shows that Daniel and Eva Kober had previously served as sponsors for J. Bernhardt and Maria Eva Roos's son, J. Daniel Roos, on March 26, 1749.
[iv]. The baptism of daughter Elisabeth Margaretha Roos, January 20, 1754, in Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, is listed in John T. Humphrey, ed., <i>Pennsylvania Births, Berks County</i>, <i>1710-1800</i> (Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1997), 287. He was still in Reading when his daughter Barbara, identified as the daughter of Ehrhardt Rose, of Reading Pa., was married on August 7, 1770 [C. Z. Weiser, <i>The New Goschenhoppen and Great Swamp Reformed Charge, 1731, 1811</i> (Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1882), 66].
end of second excerpt
... The first evidence of Ludwig and Sylbilla's move to York County is in the German Reformed Church records kept by Jacob Lischy. Their daughter Maria Elisabeth was baptized in York County on May 30, 1757.[i] They also served as sponsors for the baptism of David Schederon, son of Leonhardt and Maria Scheder on on April 15, 1759.[ii] And their daughter Anna Maria was baptized on May 17, 1761.[iii] Ludwig and Sybilla left court records, as well. They were involved in at least two lawsuits in York County during the late 1750s, as defendants in 1758 [iv] and as plaintiffs in 1760. [v] Evidence that Ludwig owned property in York County also survives. A 1761 deed describes the lands owned by Martin Wigle as adjoining lands of Ludwick Ripple,[vi] and in 1762 Ludwig paid taxes in York County.[vii]
[i]. Ibid, 241. This record also appears in John T. Humphrey, <i>Pennsylvania Births, York County, 1730-1800</i> (Washington D.C.: Larjon & Co., 1998), 339.
[ii]. Bates and Wright, <i>York County, Pennsylvania, Church Records of the 18th Century,</i> 248.
[iii]. Ibid., 259. This record also appears in Humphrey, <i>Pennsylvania Births, York County, 1730-1800</i>, 339.
[iv]. Case 23, October Term 1758: Adam Fockler vs. Lodowig Ripple & Sibilla Margaret, his wife. A good photocopy of pages 131-132 of the Common Pleas Docket for York County Pennsylvania shows a note to the right of this entry, "Ended each officer paid 30th October 1758." However, it is not clear whether the note belongs with the Fockler vs Ripple suit or the one preceding it.
[v]. Case 34, October Term 1760: Ludwig Ripel vs. William Bennet. A good photocopy of page 220 of the Common Pleas Docket for York County Pennsylvania indicates that the case was repeatedly continued through April 1764, after which there is a notation July Ended. M Smith for fees. This is followed by a notation: ACepi Cor[pus] in custody.
[vi]. John L. Alguire, compiler, <i>York County Pennsylvania Deeds 1758-1761</i> (S. Holland, Il.: Alguire Abstracts,1982), II, 87. The abstract of a deed of sale of property lying in Manchester and Dover Townships, York County, Pennsylvania, from the heirs of Martin Wigle Sr. to Martin Wigle Jr., dated August 29, 1761. Neighbors include Valentine Ham, John Bens, Martin Bower, Philip Hase, and John Bensit.
[vii]. Ludwig's name appears in Dull's <i>Early German Settlers of York County, Pennsylvania</i>, 157, a book based on the York County 1762 Tax List. He also is included in the <i>Alphabetical Listing of Assessed Inhabitants of York County Pennsylvania for the Year 1762</i>, (York Co., PA: The Society, [1978-1979]), I,13, where he is listed as Ludwig Ribble, dr, [Dover Township].
end of third excerpt
... After 1762, Ludwig and Sybilladisappeared from York County records and began to appear in those of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John Conrad Bucher's baptismal register shows them as sponsors for the baptism on April 17, 1763, in the First United Brethren Church, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, of Ludwig's namesake, Ludwig David Goodling, son of Jacob and Anna Margaretha Goodling.[i] A month later their own son Ludwig, Jr. was baptized there on May 19, 1763.[ii] The record does not give Ludwig Jr's birth date, but he must have been born between April 17 and May 19; otherwise, Ludwig and Sybilla would surely have had him baptized on April 17, 1763, when they were present as sponsors for the baptism of the Goodling baby. In January, 1764, Sybilla was a sponsor for Johannes Jacob Bucher, son of The Reverend John Conrad and Maria Magdalena Bucher, and in February of the same year, Ludwig served as a sponsor for Johannes Philip Ludwig Stehl, son of John Henry and Anna Elisabeth Stehl (or Kehl).[iii]
[i]. F. Edward Wright, <i>CumberlandCounty Church Records of the 18th Century,</i> 71.
[ii] 36. Ibid, p. 71. The child's name was recorded as Ludwig David Ripple. The sponsor was Ludwig Senzer.
[iii]. Ibid, p. 71.
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