Classification scheme:
Hist.Mss.2.90
Title: Otterbein families of Ontario, Canada
Dates of creation: 1999-2013
Biographical sketch: Velten Otterbein (1685-1743) was born in Nieder-Stoll, Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, to Heinrich Otterbein. He married three times, to: Elisabeth Heil (d. 1716), Anna Catharina During (1696-1734) and Anna Kunigunda Lang (1694-1751). Twelve children were born from these marriages. The families listed below are believed to be descendants of Velten Otterbein, though the compiler notes that further research is required.
Physical description: 2 cm of textual records
Custodial history: Manuscript donated to the Archives by John B. Calder in 2013.
Scope and content: A genealogy of the following Otterbein families, prepared by John B. Calder:
- Johann Heinrich Otterbein & Anna Margaretha Schmalz
Includes the Waterloo County families of:
Heinrich Otterbein & Margaretha Steinacker
Origin: Fraurombach, Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Germany.
Year of Immigration: 1854, via the U.S.A.
Johann Valentine Otterbein & Elisabetha Hermann
Origin: Fraurombach, Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Germany.
Year of Immigration: January / 1842.
Johann Caspar Otterbein & Margaretha Hahn
Origin: Fraurombach, Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Germany.
Year of Immigration: Arrived May 2, 1856 in New York, U.S.A. - Georg Otterbein & Barbara Gremm
Origin: Germany.
Year of Immigration: 1842. - Conrad Otterbein & Margaretha Graeb
Origin: Germany.
Year of Immigration: Arrived May 2, 1856 in New York, U.S.A. - Johann Georg Otterbein & Margaretha Post
Origin: Bad Salzschlirf, Hesse-Kassel, Germany (their son, Germanus).
Year of Immigration: Arrived May 5, 1851 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. - Conrad Otterbine & Catherine Otterbine (nee ?)
Origin: Ontario, Canada.
Notes: For photographs related to this family search the Mennonite Archival Image Database.
Further materials related to this family may be found by searching the Archives and the Milton Good Library catalogue.
Original archival description created 2013 and upated in 2020 by Laureen Harder-Gissing.