I have a number of families with Berks connections. Here is one that I have worked on with land records (patents and surveys) and probates without success: REDENBAUGH or perhaps Radebach. I can't connect Henry Redenbaugh or his wife Margaret with families.
Henry Redenbaugh was born 1734 (Berks or Germany?) and married Margaret (perhaps Barnhart?). They raised a large family in the area. Some children's births were recorded at Trinity Lutheran in Reading, Berks.
Somewhere I have a record of a purchase of land in Northumberland Co (formerly Berks?) by Henry and Margaret and growing family. They improved the property probably with the aid of their growing boys and, when ready to migrate to SW OH, sold it back to the original owner for a profit. I believe this financed the purchase of land for their large family in the Hamilton Co OH area. Henry and Margaret settled near Abraham VOORHEES about 1795 and reportedly influenced him to name the community Reading. Their graves, both dying around 1828, are located in Reading, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Children settled in Jefferson, Montgomery, and Fountain counties in IN, Shelby and Miami Cos OH, and some remained in the Hamilton Co OH area. Son Solomon died as a young adult. John, Frederick (married Anna Margaret HENNE/HEINE), Ann, Andreas, Margaret, Barbara, Philip, and Adam.
Any advice or help appreciated by a large group of family researchers in this line.
Sharon Mills
