Hans Jacob & Anna Barbara (Meyer) Pirtle
How we are related to this family:
Hans Jacob Pirtle married Anna Barbara Meyer. Their son, John Jacob Pirtle, Sr., married Dorothea Berkel. Their son, John Jacob Pirtle, Jr., married Charity Dibbs. Their son, Nathaniel Pirtle, Sr., married Jean McNealey. Their son, James Monroe Pirtle, married Mary Kelly. Their son, Nathaniel Hull Pirtle married Mary Elizabeth EMERY. Their daughter, Emma Caroline Pirtle, married Albert "Ross" SMITH. They had three children.
Alternative spellings are Pirkle and Perkle. The Pirtle family migrated to Illinois from North Carolina. Many researchers have claimed a German ancestry for this family, including the pedigree below. However, DNA tests on three descendents seem to suggest that the Pirtle family is of English origin. Therefore the information below about Hans Jacob & John Jacob may not be correct.
Hans
Jacob PIRTLE was born about 1680, probably in The Palatinate in
Germany (on the west bank of the Rhine River below Frankfort). Hans
married Anna Barbara MEYER. Anna was born
about 1680 in Germany. She may have died in 1760 in Pennsylvania.
Hans & Anna had the following child.
John
Jacob PIRTLE, Sr. was born about 1704 in Germany. He died
about 1780 in Pennsylvania.
John married Dorothea BERKEL about 1724 in The Palatinate, Germany. Dorothea was born about 1704 in the Rhine Valley in Germany. She died about 1745 in Pennsylvania.
John & Dorothea had the following children.
Catherina PIRTLE was born about 1727 in The Palatinate in Germany. Nothing more is known about her.
Maria Magdalena PIRTLE was
born about 1729 in The Palatinate in Germany. Nothing more is
known about her.
Anna Barbara PIRTLE was born about 1730 in The Palatinate in Germany. Nothing more is known about her.
John
Jacob PIRTLE, Jr. Click on his name for more information.
Michael Leonhardt PIRTLE was born on 20 Aug 1736 in Greenville County, South Carolina. He died on 7 Jan 1820 in Caldwell County, KY. Michael married Barbara McCLAIN before 1760. Barbara was born about 1735. Barbara died about 1796. Nothing more is known about them.
Anna Eva PIRTLE was born on 8 May 1739 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She died before 1819. Nothing more is known about her.
Maria Dorothea PIRTLE was born on 27 Nov 1741 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She died before 1821. Maria married Marcus BUHLER before 1766. They had five children.
Elizabeth PIRTLE was born on 24 Dec 1743 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Nothing more is known about her.
