Johann Christoph Ganshorn, son of Hans Georg Ganshorn & Veronika Burger, was born 18 December 1694 in Bammertal. He married 21 November 1724 to Maria Elisabeth Werner from Schwarzach. Johann Christoph Ganshorn died in Bammental 3 November 1749. Maria Elisabeth Ganshorn née Werner died 14 December 1750.
The births of the following children born to Johann Christoph Ganshorn & Maria Elisabeth Werner are recorded in the parish register of Bammental: (1) Johann Paul, born 29 August 1725; (2) Anna Maria, born 21 August 1726; (3) Elisabeth, born 15 February 1729; (4) Anna Katharina, born 2 December 1730; (5) Johann, born 3 October 1732; (6) Johann Nikolaus, born 14 July 1735, died 22 February 1736; (7) Johann Adam, born 18 April 1737, died 2 May 1783; (8) Anna Maria Margaretha, born about 1738; (9) Adam Christoph, born 27 February 1740, died 28 June 1741; (10) Maria Elisabeth, born 11 September 1743; and (11) Georg Bernhard, born 25 April 1747.
Bernhardt Ganshorn, a farmer, and his wife Eva Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 23 along with his sister Maria Elisabeth, the divorced wife of Philipp Bähr who is recorded in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 7 September 1764.
The 1767 census records that Bernhardt Ganshorn came from the German town of Heidelberg in the Kurpfalz region.
- Goshorn, Floyd. Goshorn Family History [Online].
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): An20.
- Parish register of Bammental.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 59.
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