NameMary WAREMBUER 156
Birth1653, Picardle, Loire, France26
Death1716, Conestogo Township, Lancaster Co., PA
Burial1716, Ferree Cemetery, Lancaster Near Paradise, PA
ReligionCalvinist Protestant, Huguenot
Misc. Notes
Married 1669 in Steinweiler, Bavaria. AFN: 2LBC-LX
26Many alternate spellings of her last name: Warenbuer, de La Warenbau, de la Warrembere, Warrenbur, Warrembere.
She and her children fled to Holland because of religious persecution.
Emigrated to America in 1710, staying in New Paltz for a time. From there to Pennsylvania and the Pequea Valley.
Founder of the Huguenot Colony, Pequea Valley, PA in 1712.
Set aside land and was first to be buried in the Ferree Cemetery, PA., now known as Carpenter’s Cemetery.
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