Database: rdball dated 21 Mar 2021
- Alt. Name: Henry Rickenbacher
- Sex: M
- Born: 1722
- Baptized: 22 Feb 1722 in Runenberg, BL, Switzerland1, 2
- Died: Bet 1780 and 1781 in Orangeburgh District, South Carolina3, 4
- Buried: in Orangeburgh District, South Carolina
- Notes:
The Old Rickenbacker Cemetery is the probable burial location but there is no evidence.
Some sources say Heini's wife was Anna Maria Till but I believe this is not correct. Rev. Giessendanner says Anna, not Anna Maria. Also, Anna Maria would have been only 15 in 1740. That would have been an unusually young marriage for the time.
Father: Heinrich Rickenbacher, b. 1690
Mother: Anna Burgi, b. 1695 in Bubendorf, BL Switzerland
Family 1: Anna Till, b. 1722
- Married: Abt 1740 Berkeley County, South Carolina5, 6, 7
Some sources say Heini's wife was Anna Maria Till but I believe this is not correct. Rev. Giessendanner says Anna, not Anna Maria. Also, Anna Maria would have been only 15 in 1740. That would have been an unusually young marriage for the time.
- Hans Heinrich Rickenbacker, b. Abt 1741
- Nicholas Rickenbacker, b. 1747 in Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Johannes Rickenbacher, b. 1750 in Orangeburgh Township, South Carolina
- Elizabeth Rickenbacker, b. 3 Jul 1753 in Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Anne Catherina Rickenbacker, b. 10 Aug 1756 in Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Samuel Rickenbacker, b. Abt 1760
- Jacob Rickenbacker, b. 10 Dec 1763 in Berkeley County, South Carolina
Sources:
- Faust, Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, Volumes I & II, National Genealogical Society, 1920, 1925 (1991 reprint) (v. II, p. 90).
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Kilchberg (Basel), Kirchenbuch Kilchberg, 1559-1911, FHL INTL Film 953142 (Anno 1722).
- Account Audited of Claims Growing out of the American Revolution, S. C. Department of Archives & History (#6402).
- Account Audited of Claims Growing out of the American Revolution, S. C. Department of Archives & History (#6401).
- A. S. Salley, Jr., The History of Orangeburg County South Carolina, From its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Heritage Books, Inc., 1996 (96).
- A. S. Salley, Jr., The History of Orangeburg County South Carolina, From its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Heritage Books, Inc., 1996 (108).
- Joop Giesendanner, Book of Record, Orangeburg, SC, Transcriptions of Original.