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Latest Update: 23 January 2011
This website tells the stories
of descendant families of
Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall
(1763 to 1806),
and her husbands Frederick Rohrer, Jr.
(1767 to 1794)
and John Marshall (about 1761 to 1806),
of
Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
PRIMARY
FAMILY LINES:
ROBINSON ~ MARSHALL ~ BAILEY
A huge tribe of Robinson, Marshall and Bailey cousins descend from her--our common ancestor, Anna Catharina Truby.
After the custom of the Pennsylvania
Germans, she was called “Catharina”—“Anna" was her baptismal name. Born in
eastern Pennsylvania in about 1763, Catharina was the daughter of Colonel Christopher Truby (born 1736 in eastern Pennsylvania), a descendant of French Huguenots, a soldier and an early settler in Westmoreland
County. Catharina’s mother was Pennsylvnia-German born Sybilla Bauman (born 1743).
The Trubys moved across the Appalachian Mountains to the near vicinity of present-day Greensburg in 1771. There Truby
took his place in the civil and military life of the Pennsylvania frontier. The family found itself part of the growing
German-speaking community of this region, which was being rapidly settled by the Europeans.
Catharina
married Maryland-born Captain Frederick Rohrer, Jr. (about 1767 to 1794), the oldest son and namesake of noted early Pennsylvania Indian trader Frederick Rohrer (1742-1823)
and Catharine Deemer (1746-1829). Her mother Sybilla died in 1801, and her father Christopher the next year on 20 February
in Catharina’s tavern-home in Greensburg. His son-in-law (Catharina's second husband), John Marshall, was
an administrator of Truby’s estate.
Marshall was
born (perhaps) in Ireland. He was the son of Irish-born Revolutionary War soldier Andrew Marshall (died
1788) of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. His mother was Mary Eaton Marshall (died 1818). John Marshall seems
to appear suddenly in Greensburg in the late 1790s, when he married the wealthy widow Catharina Truby Rohrer.
(More on the next webpage . . . click on the red words to access)
The Children of Catharina Truby
Rohrer Marshall
and
Frederick Rohrer, Jr.
Elizabeth
Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881)
Frederick
Augustus Rohrer (1794-1882)
The Children of Catharina Truby
Rohrer Marshall
and John Marshall
Andrew
Marshall (1800-1832)
Samuel Marshall (1801-1835)
John
Marshall (1803-1889)
Mary Ann Marshall Bailey
(1804-1895) ~ Do you know which of these six siblings is your ancestor?
If not, email me (see below) and we'll figure it out.
Click here to contact me -- Kelly Marshall
 
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PHOTOGRAPHS
of Catharina's Children
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As of May 2009, we have photographs of two of her six children. There are very likely no images of Col.
Andrew Marshall (died 1832) or his younger brother Samuel Marshall (died 1835). There should be photographs, however,
of Col. Frederick A. Rohrer and his half-brother, John Marshall, both of whom lived into the 1880s.
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| Elizabeth "Betsy" Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881) |
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| Mary Ann Marshall Bailey (1804-1895) |
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Note the facial similarities of these
half-sisters--
both daughters of Catharina Truby, but each having a different father.
Surely the face of
their mother is apparent here.
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| A family document, most likely in the hand of John Marshall, Greensburg, Pennsylvania (early 1800s) |
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Click on the link
below to read the latest issue of "Family!" ~ If you can't open this document, please email or phone me, and I'll send you a hard
copy the "old-fashioned" way, via the USPS.
"FAMILY!" -- September 2008 Newsletter
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP . . .
Take on one of the projects outlined on this webpage -- click here.
OR
Make a contribution to one of the organizations listed at the above webpage, in the name
of our huge, extended family.
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| September 1805 German Baptism Record--the Children of John and Catharina Marshall--click to enlarge |
For more about the Baptisms of the Marshall Children, click here. They were baptized in Greensburg shortly before the family
left for its ill-fated journey to Ohio.
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| The Rohrer-Marshall Tavern site was located at the front of this property--click to enlarge. |
John Marshall and his wife, the widowed Catharina
Truby Rohrer, kept a tavern in Greensburg in the first years of the 19th century.
It was located on East Pittsburgh Street--the main
east-west road between Greensburg and Pittsburgh--but
we've not yet learned its name. This property remained in the possession of Catharina's son Frederick Augustus Rohrer throughout much of his long life in Greensburg.
When the family moved to New Lancaster, Ohio, in late 1805, they apparently intended to continue this occupation
there--a conclusion based on the extensive inventory of their possessions after their deaths in the summer of 1806. Several family members are working on deciphering this remarkable inventory, to share with all their descendants.
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John and Catharina Marshall:
Their Books
Excerpted from an Inventory of their Possessions
at the Time of their Deaths
New Lancaster, Ohio: Summer 1806
1806 Book List -- click here!
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“Whether by birth, marriage or adoption,
whether in a traditional or blended arrangement—the sense of family has to do with a strange love and a deep attachment
geography can’t break and time will not erase. Something to do with the abiding conviction that kinfolk should know
each other and know their roots. Something to do with parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers, uncles, aunts, and cousins—close
or distant. FAMILY! No matter what.”
(Kelly Marshall, 2006)
"It is amazing
how much family
is out there!
Who knew?!?"
Cousin Jeff Olson
of the State of Washington
Jeff is a sixth-generation descendant
of John Marshall and
Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall
ENTIRE SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
(All the Time!)
Photos and Information Placed Online
I make a good effort not to place online any information which easily would
allow someone to contact you or your family members. If I've inadvertently placed such information on our family site
(or a photo of you and/or a family member which you prefer would not appear) just
e-mail me. I'll remove the information and/or the picture right away.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
All content
and images on this site
which
aren't in the public domain are
the
intellectual property of Gordon Kelly Marshall.
Researchers,
family members, libraries,
or
genealogical and/or historical societies are invited to use
the information
freely, for non-commercial purposes only,
with proper
credit to this site.
The website may not be copied or distributed
without express written consent.
Email me at
marshallfamily@zoominternet.net.
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