Person:Johan-Andreas Drom (1)

Excerpt from NYG & B, July 1959 page 181 reads:

'The following data on the pre-emigration history of the Drum family were received too late to be included in the recently published Snyder-Brown Ancestry by H. Minot Pitman, F.A.S.G., reviewed on Page 185 of this issue of THE RECORD: Andreas Trom, the progenitor of the Drum (Trom) family, was a Palatine emigrant who came with his family to East Camp, Columbia Co., NY in 1709 from the Duchy of Sweibrucken. He and his family are recorded in the registers of the Reform parish of Niederkirchen in Ostertal. From these registers it appears that Endreas (Andreas) Trom of Marthe m (1st) before Dec 1694, Margaretha ___, who died Feb 7, 1702, and was buried the next day. He m (2nd), on May 16, 1702, Maria Magdalena, widow of Hans Melchoir Schopper of Kirweiler. The children of Andreas, three by each wife, were recorded in the above registers.' [recent examination of records discloses 5 children by wife #1, and 4 by wife #2]

Glockner chosen as surname of first wife, because Hans Adam Glockner was sponsor of first two children and Jacob Glockner's wife was sponsor for the third child. See Snyder-Brown Ancestry, pages 35-37.

Spouse (1): Anna Margaretha Glockner; Birth: ? Palatine, Germany Death: 7 Feb 1702, Niederkirchen (parish), Pfalz, Germany Burial: 8 Feb 1702, Niederkirchen (parish), Pfalz, Germany Married: ca 1692

Children: Johann Phillip 1692 ; Maria Catharina 1694 bp 28 Nov 1694 ; Hans Jacob ca 1697 ; Hans Nickel ca 1699 bp 11 Apr 1699 ; Hans Theobald ca 1702 bp 2 Feb 1702

Spouse (2): Maria Magdalena Hellriegel, widow of Hans Melchoir Schopper Birth: 1675, Kusel, Pfalz, Germany Married: 16 May 1702, Niederkirchen (parish), Pfalz, Germany

Children: Anna Margaretha bp 22 Feb 1704; Maria Margaretha Engel ca 1706; Sophia Catherina ca 1709; Susanna ca 1710