Andrew Knerr Jr.

   Other names for Andrew were Andrew Knarr and Andreas Knerr Jr.

  General Notes:

His children with no dates are either family members in his household or children from a possible first marriage. Some of these children do have date. The children in question are: Anna Maria 1796, Salome 1800, David 1803, Elias 1806, Jonas ?

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1800, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ This was actually in Northampton County at the time since Lehigh County was formed from Northampton in 1812. In his household:
Males (born)
Under 10 (1791-1800) = 1 son
10-15 (1785-1790) = 1 son
16-25 (1775-1784) = 1 son
26-44 (1756-1774) = 1 Andrew
Females (born)
Under 10 (1791-1800) = 1 daughter
10-15 (1785-1790) = 1 daughter
16-25 (1775-1784) = 1 wife

• Census, 1820, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ Males (born)
Under 10 (1811-1820) = 4 sons
26-44 (1776-1794) = 1 father Andrew
Females (born)
Under 10 (1811-1820) = 1 daughter
26-44 (1776-1794) = 1 wife

• Census, 1850, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ Andrew (age 63), farmer, is listed as the head of the household that included Elizabeth (59), Aaron (29, a laborer), Mary Ann (17), Amelia (14). Another person listed is Lavina Mohr? (unreadable) (14).

• Census, 1860, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁶ He is living at age 73 with Elizabeth, age 69. The post office is listed as Schnecksville.

• Book: Anniversary History of Lehigh County, Volume II, 1914. ⁷ Andrew Knerr, Jr., born Feb. 17, 1787, died in June, 1865. He married Elizabeth Kocher, who died in 1861. Their children were: Amos, who died in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1883; Jonas; Mary, married Moses Heilman; Owen; Aaron, who died at Allentown; Stephen, of Michigan; and Alvin, who died unmarried, at Schnecksville.

Andrew married Elisabetha Kocher, daughter of Simon Kocher and Maria Elisabetha Danner, about 1809-1811 in Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Elisabetha Kocher was born on 27 Nov 1790 in Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA ², christened on 25 Dec 1790 in Lowhill Township: Lowhill Reformed Church, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 18 Oct 1861 ².)