Martin Ebert

Martin Ebert
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Friday 23 September 2011

More on the Ebert family of Albany County, New York

I have been looking for information on the John Ebert family of Berne, Albany, New York.  I have not been able to find very much info on the internet, but I did find the family on the 1820 US census in Berne.  ancestry.com had it transcribed as John Eberl (I put in a correction on 23 Sep 2011 to ancestry.com change to John Ebert)

from ancestry.com
1820 United States Federal Census about John Eberl
Name:     John Eberl  / John Ebert
(this is really Ebert, I checked the rest of Berne census, and the census taker doesn't cross his t's when they are at  the end of a name  ie  Robert, Bradt, Everet Bartley, etc.)
Township: Berne      County: Albany             State: New York
Enumeration Date:     August 7, 1820
Free White Males - 45 and over:     1  (John Ebert--I have estimated his birth as about 1755)
Free White Females - 45 and over:     1  (Mrs. John Ebert? or it could be a daughter or housekeeper)
Free White Persons - Over 25:     2
Total Free White Persons:     2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other:     2


I did come across a Catherine Ebert/Ebberts who married Daniel Butterfield in 1797 in Berne, Albany, New York.  I think she is probably a daughter of the above John Ebert, but none of the internet family trees have parents for this Catherine Ebert.  She was born in 1777 in New York according to these family trees.  Interesting to note that one of her children, John Warren Butterfield (1801-1869) moved to Utica, Oneida, New York with his wife and children.  Elizabeth Catherine Ebert, daughter of our Martin Ebert was supposedly born in Utica.   Could be a coincidence?


Another coincidence?  Nancy Ebert Hicock, daughter of our Martin Ebert says she was born in Albany County, New York  (1865 New York State census).  In some of the info I have found on the internet,  Cherry Valley, New York is mentioned as a possible birth/marriage place for  some of this Hicock family.  Cherry Valley is about half way between Berne, Albany County and Utica, Oneida County in New York state.  Berne and Utica are about 80 miles apart according to the map I looked at.  They are in what is commonly called "The Mohawk Valley".
I think this John Ebert of Berne, Albany, New York is worth more investigation.  Does anyone else have more info on him?

Carol H.

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