WAGGY/KISER/DEFRAIN ANCESTRY
Click HERE for more information about the Waggy's.
Waggy also had spellings Wagey, Wagy, Wage, Wege, and Waga.
"There were WEGE/van der Wege/van de Wege families in Dutch
Flanders, the part of Zeeland that is the south bank of the
Scheldt and connected to the Belgian landmass. . . . Don't
know if there's any connection, but the Licking Co., OH,
history did suggest that the Waggy's came through Amsterdam,
and Zeeland was a famously tolerant location for all kinds
of people, including Huguenots and other refugees" (Gordon
Seyffert, E-mail dated March 11, 2003).
Milton Waggy has announced his discovery of the Waggy-Wagy
family in Montgomery Co., PA, around 1760. He has found
information in Montgomery Co., PA, at the New Hanover
Lutheran Church. Gordon Seyffert shared this in a March 11,
2003, e-mail, and cited Milton Waggy's message dated
August 20, 1999.
Click HERE for Waggy/Wagy Family History.
The name DeFrain has also been spelled DeFroehn, DeFrehn,
du Frene, Frehn, Frain, Froehn, Frene, and is Huguenot in
origin. It is the maiden name of Susannah, wife of Phillip
Waggy, Sr. (Reference: Gordon Seyffert's research of the
DeFrain family in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania).
Click HERE to read more on the Kiser family
that settled Rockingham Co., VA, in 1832.
Or click on Jacob Kiser below.
John DeFrehn + Catherine Jacob Kiesling + Barbara
| (Kissling) | Ursula
| +------------------+ Herter
| |b. 1704 in Saxony,|
| |GERMANY; d.14 Jan +-------+
| |d. 14 Jan 1740/41 |b. 1702|
Phillip Waggy, | |in Wurtenburg, |d. 1789|
Sr., settled | |GERMANY | |
1796 in the | +------------------+-------+
South Branch | |
8 miles above | |
what is now | |
Franklin, WV. | Susanna was |
He was from the | not a Nebergall |
Palatinate | according to |
region of | Gordon Seyffert's |
Germany in the | reporting on Milton |
Rhine River | Waggy's data. |
Valley. | |
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Philip Susannah Michael Barbara Christopher Christina
Waggy, Sr. + DeFroehn Wise + (maiden Kiesling + Lingel
+----------+-----------+ (Weiss) | name (Kissling) |
|b. about |b. about | +---------+ unknown) +-----------+----------+
|1735 in | 1739 | |b. about +--------+ |b. about |b. about |
|GERMANY | She was | | 1723 |b. about| |1724 d.1774| 1726 |
|d. 1812 | from | |d. about | 1725 | +-----------+----------+
|Rockingham| AUSTRIA? | | 1790 | | |Both born in Dresden, |
|Co., VA | | +---------+--------+ |Saxony, GERMANY. |
+----------+-----------+ Wise also | +-----------+----------+
| spelled | |Arrived @ Philadelphia|
| Weisz, | |in 1753 aboard Neptune|
| Wees, | |Came to Rockingham Co |
+----+ Wies, | |VA in 1763. |
| Wease, | +-----------+----------+
| Weaze, | |
| Weese | |
| | |
| | +----+
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| Adam |
Abraham Mary Wise, Barbara Jacob Elizabeth
Waggy,+ (maiden (Weiss) + Pieterin Kiser + Kiesling
Sr. | name?) Sr. | | (Kissling)
Abraham +------+--------+ +-------++-----+ +----------+--------+
Waggy lived |b.1772|b. about| |b. about|b. | |b. 6 Apr. |b. 2 Jun|
adjacent to |d.1821| 1772 | | 1750 |about| |1763 in | 1769 |
George | |d. pre | |d. about|1752 | |Heidelberg|d. 13 |
Rexroad. | | 1853 | | 1835 | | |Township, | October|
+------+--------+ +--------+-----+ |Berks Co.,| 1836 |
| | |PA | |
| | |d. 1 Aug. | |
| +---+ | 1828 | |
+-----+ | +----------+--------+
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John + Alice Barbara |
Waggy | (Allie) Wise William (Wilhelm)
(b. 16 | Propst (Weiss) + Kiser
+-------+-----+ +----------+------+
John Waggy was born and |b. 16 |b. 15| |b. 1793 in|b. 16 |
he died in Rockingham |March |Feb. | |Wise |Sept. |
County, Virginia. |1807 |1807 | |Hollow, |1787 |
Allie Propst was born at |d. 16 |d. 3 | |Rockingham|d. 4 |
the old Propst Church, |March |Feb. | |County, VA|Dec. |
the first church in |1882 |1887 | |d. 12 Dec |1853 |
Pendleton Co., just south +-------+-----+ |1858 | |
of Brandywine on the road | +----------+------+
to Sugar Grove. | |
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Adam Susan (Susanna)
(b. 30 May 1831) Waggy + Kiser (b. 19 Jan. 1831)
(d. 24 Jan 1906) (m.1/8 Dec 1850) (d. 23 Feb. 1907 - obituary)
Picture of Adam Picture of Susan
Adam Waggy was a reknown fox hunter with blue eyes, dark hair and beard.
He hunted with horse, gun, and hound and lived in Pendleton County (of what
is now West Viriginia) in 1831. Adam was a member of Board that founded
Mt. Hall School. He was also a cofounder of the Union Church in Sugar
Grove. He was born and he died in Pendleton County, West Virginia.
There is more information available about Adam, John, and Abraham Waggy
by clicking here.
Barbara Wise was a descendant of the Weiss German family that settled
before 1787 in North Mill Creek and Brushy Run in the Mill Run District
of what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia.