Summary of Frisingers
This is a brief summary of the genealogy from William Frisinger back to Ludwig(Also spelled Ludwick) Frederick Freysinger, my forbearer that immigrated to this country arriving October 16, 1754 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania aboard the ship Peggy. The clan spread to Virginia and Ohio. I am from the Ohio branch. I do not know where he came from but speculation is Germany or Austria. Switzerland is a distant possibility. There is a town in Germany called Freising and many Frisingers believe he came from there. A good link for free translation is: http://world.altavista.com/
A TOTALLY unsubstantiated source says he was born around 1744 Munich, Germany. An equally unreliable source gives 1740 in Germany. Other sources put his birth place in Freising. Munich and Freising are only about 40 KM apart, 25 miles.
My best estimate agrees with the ships records which says he came from Württemberg or the Palatinate. See THIS web page for my detailed discussion on this.
I am William Nathan Frisinger born Ann Arbor Michigan Feb. 11,
1941.
I am the son of Max
Frisinger (probably originally spelled Robinson
Frysinger)
Max Robison Frisinger
(son of Rolla Nathan Frisinger) was born
January 2, 1914, Rockford Ohio and
died 1 September 1992 in Lauderdale by the Sea Florida 1 September 1992.
He married Elizabeth Simpson Collins on 12
November 1938 in Elkhart, Indiana even though both of them lived in Ann Arbor
Michigan at the time. Family legend is that Max was afraid of needles and
would have to take a blood test if he had gotten married in Michigan. As
his son, that sounds very plausible. Max spelled is last name of Frysinger
on his birth certificate but changed it when his dad did. He may have also changed
the spelling of his middle name from Robinson to Robison at some time.
Robison was his mother's maiden name and she changed the spelling also.
Her father spelled it Robinson. Family legend is that Robinson sounded
like the name of a African American but Robison did not. Max's
father was Rolla Nathan Frysinger. Rolla
Nathan Frysinger is the son of George
Washington Freysinger. Rolla was born in 19 February 1890 in Rockford Ohio
and died 23 January 1961 in Santa Monica Los Angeles County California. He
had a long history of vacationing there and living some of his retirement years
there. He changed the spelling of his last name to Frisinger between 1913
and 1916. George
Washington Frisinger was the son of Nathan Frisinger
also of Rockford (Actually Dublin Ohio, still in Mercer Co, but 100 Miles west
north west). Nathan was born in 1852 in Ohio and died 15 March 1924. I
have not found where he died but he was living in Dublin, Mercer, Ohio in 1910.
14 years before his death. He was also married (1889) in Dublin. There are
various spellings of his last name. Frisinger is the one on his tombstone.
For example, the 1860 census spelled it Frysinger and Frisinger in the
1870. Both were hand written. It is also spelled
Freysinger in some other places. The tombstone may not date from the time
of his death. It looks to be in pretty good shape when the color photo was
taken. Nathan Frisinger was the son of William
Frisinger. Nathan was born 3 July
1816 in Germantown,
Montgomery County Ohio, USA. He died 19 July 1891 in
Dublin, Mercer County Ohio. There is also a reference to him being born in Champaign County
Ohio. I have not found a tie breaker record. Champaign county is about 55
miles north north east of Germantown. There are varies spellings of his
name. In Ohio wills and probate records , it is spelled Frysinger.
Census data consistently spells it Frisinger.
William Frysinger believed he was the son of Peter Freysinger and was
born on 25 December 1798 in Rockingham County Virginia. He
moved to Ohio from Virginia when his
father died at age 42 when Nathan was 17. William died 12 April
1836 in Mercer Co. Ohio. His name is spelled Freysinger
on some family notes but Frisinger in a history of Mercer County. (There
is a William Freysinger who served in the 46th Regiment, Ohio
Infantry during the Civil War but this obviously has to be someone else.)
William was actually the son of a Bell probably John Bell, a neighbor who was born 28
April 1770 in New Hope, Augusta County Virginia. You can see a detailed
account of this HERE: From
here on this is the line of Frisingers, it is not the blood line of William
Frysinger above. William's blood line follows Bells discussed elsewhare. Peter (Johan Peter Frysinger) was born 12
January 1773 in Windsor, York county,
Pennsylvania about 10 miles east south east of York, or
maybe Conewago Township, about 8 miles north of York. He died on 4 January 1815 in
Rockingham County, Virginia. This is about 120 miles west south west of
Washington DC. Peter served in the war of 1812. He died
while serving his country shortly before being mustered out. A pontoon
bridge he was crossing broke and he was drowned. He was a private in the
Flying Camp (McDowell's) Virginia Mil. The spelling of his last name on the
birth records of Quickel’s (Zion) Lutheran and Reformed Church, Conewago
Township, York County, Pennsylvania where same as his father used,
Freysinger.
The 1810 census spelled it Frisinger. Peter
was the son of Ludwig who landed in Philadelphia on October 16, 1754 having come
across on the ship Peggy. Ludwig died in 1818 in Conewago, Township,
Pennsylvania, USA. His birth date is most usually reported as about 1740
but as no one has found a grave marking or other official data on his birth,
everything is just speculation. The
ship captions list spelled it Ludwig Freysinger, the oath of allegiance spelled it
Ludwig Friderich Freysinger, the oath of adjuration spelled it
Ludwig Fridrich Freysinger.
Spellings
vary. Ed Frisinger says "Ludwig
was a stone mason and a farmer. According to the Pennsylvania achieves, he
served in a Militia company in York county and according to family history he
served as a guard over prisoners." There other reports that he was a farmer and
stone mason but no others about his involvement in the revolutionary war. Some
typical spellings are Frisinger, Frysinger, Freysinger, and Freisinger.
All should be considered interchangeable from a genealogy standpoint.
His grave is believed to be in
Quickels Lutheran Church
Cemetery
Zions View,
York County,
Pennsylvania,
USA but no one
has been able to find it. Ludwig is 7 generations back from me. There are two more adult generations after me. If each generation averaged
2.2 males, then there should be 2.2 to the 9th power with the last name
descended from
Ludwig.
2.29
= 1206 adult men with the last name of one of the variations of Frisinger
descended from Ludwig. There were 325,000 Americans in 2017, 76% of which
were over the age of 18. If half were male, then the number of adult males would
be 123,000,000. The fraction descended from Ludwig would be 0.001% using
data from Mongabay.com. and they did
not list any occurrences of 2 of the spelling variations that I use. For
comparison, my calculations of Frisingers in the Unitized States based on
totally different data has the fraction of the
population at 0.0003%. I suspect that the majority of Frisingers of
all spellings in the US are descended from Ludwig, not just a 3rd. The
possible errors in both methods make any more precise calculation imposable.
As a side note,
William had a sister Margret Rebecca Frisinger who Married Lewis Bodey in
Virginia and immigrate in 1816 settling in Champaign County Ohio which is about
75 miles from Mercer county Ohio. She was 14 when she move to Ohio.
That is probably the same year that William Moved. We now he got married in Ohio
in 1819. They probably moved together.
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