William Shillingburg Family
Genealogy
Updated: March 22, 2000
Don, Ed and Patricia Shillingburg returned to discover the Shillingburg
roots in the Mount Storm area in July 1998. You will want to know what
they found. Article.
William H. Shillingburg and Margaret Murphy settled in Mt. Storm,
Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1794. Their known children were: Hugh,
William, John, Jacob, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Eliza Ann, and James. The record
of their descendants, what is known of it, is the subject of this site.
Shillingburg Family
Genealogy (Updated 4/24/98)
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Palatine Emigrants
The early German immigrants to the Colonies between 1709 and 1770 came
in droves for two basic reasons: economics and religion. It is estimated
that between 10,000 and 15,000 were in Pennsylvania by 1727 and between
70,000 and 80,000 by 1750. These people not only came from German states
-- particularly the Rhineland, but also Bohemia and Switzerland. Most were
either Lutheran, Reformed or Mennonite in religious belief. Interesting
sites describing this mass exodus are linked below:
The people whose hard work has gone into the
research for the Shillingburg Family Genealogy include foremost Kathleen
Shillingburg Strock, then Gladys
Shillingburg Bowers, Hazel Shillingburg Burton, and Alberta Shillingburg
Taylor, Carolyn Britton, Don Shillingburg
and most recently Rebecca Shillingburg Harper,
Donna Shillingburg Nye, Shirley Minnich, and Matt Shillingburg.
We are deeply grateful for their persistence in research and willingness
to share. Our work is merely a compilation of their work. No doubt there
are errors and ommisions. We hope that they and other Shillingburgs will
contribute so that eventually we will succeed in linking all Shillingburgs
to the family tree.
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