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- We recently found Catharina Laumann and Bernhard Zentmeyer identified as baptismal sponsors for Anna Margaretha Jeyter on 6 Jul 1760 in the White Oak Church. This is our source for Catharina's surname as Lehmann. We assume this was prior to their wedding, as she identified as Lehmann, and their first child was born in 1762. This dates their wedding to around 1761 when Bernhard would have been twenty-one years old.
The surname 'Luther' has been put forth on the internet for Catharina, with some claiming she was Maria Catharina Luther, born 1734 in Herbitzheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace. This Maria Catharina Luther did in fact emigrate to Philadelphia, arriving with her parents on 15 Sep 1749 aboard a different Phoenix voyage, according to Strassburger-Hinke's Pennsylvania German Pioneers. But according to Annette Burgert's Eighteenth Century Emigrants, this Maria Catharina married Josiah Harper on 10 Sep 1763, only weeks after Johannes Zentmeyer was born, so she was not Bernhard's wife.
Others identify her as Catharina Elisabetha Luther baptized 8 Jan 1744 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. But the Kichenbücher (church records) reveal that this Catharina was married in 1765 in Frankfurt and died there in 1782.
The only place we have found the surname 'Luther' connected to Catharina other than in copycat Ancestry.com trees is in the IGI on FamilySearch, where Bernhard is wrongly identified in a completely fictitious member-submitted tree as 'Bernhard Nicholas Santmyer, b. 1735' with a wife whose surname is 'Luther.' This member combined our Bernhard Zentmeyer b.1740 with another actual immigrant, Nicholas Sandmeier, who arrived on 9 Oct 1775 on the good ship King of Prussia. We believe this is the source of the 60+ Ancestry.com member trees which identify her surname as 'Luther.'
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d. Abt 1820, Shenandoah Co., (now Warren Co.) Virginia 