NameAdam Port
Birth22 Apr 1644, Gierschnach, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Baptism27 Apr 1644, St. Martin and St. Severus Church, Muenstermaifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death19 Jun 1702, Gierschnach, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
OccupationHofman “Kurfuerst zu Trier” (manager) in Gierschnach.
FatherJohann Port (~1612-~1653)
MotherKatharine Kuentzer (~1615-~1666)
Spouses
Birthabt 1645
Deathaft Mar 1673, Gierschnach, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Birth4 Oct 1653, Sevenich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
DeathFeb 1729, Gierschnach, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Father(Johann) Anton Sevenich (1622-1705)
MotherKatharine Muench (1622-1699)
Marriage28 Oct 1674, St. Nikolaus Chapel, Gierschnach, Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
ChildrenJohann (~1675-<1689)
 Anna (~1677-~1717)
 Wolfgang Friedrich (~1679-1730)
 Maria (~1681-1697)
 Lucie (~1682-1748)
 Johann Heinrich (~1684-1771)
 Leonard (~1686-1708)
 Johann (~1689-1749)
 Maria Margarete (~1691-1762)
 Maria (1694-)
Notes for Adam Port
Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld. Source of his parents’ names, his birth date, the information about his first marriage, and his occupation: Manfred Ruettgers.
Port was somethimes spelled Porth and Portz.
His baptismal sponsors were [Johann} Adam Kuentzer, (Hunolsteiner hofman) of Gierschnach [and possibly his mother’s brother] and Balthasar Lentz’s wife Maria [Esch].
He was a baptismal sponsor in 1675 for Adam, the son of Georg Kalter and Lucie Fuhrmann of Gierschnach; in 1677 for Adam, the son of Stephan Sebastian and Katharine Burgener of Muenstermaifeld; in 1681 for Adam, the son of Anton Adams and Margarete Sevenich of Muenstermaifeld; in 1684 for Maria Salome, the daughter of his wife’s brother Nikolaus Sevenich and Anna Maria Ackermann of Sevenich; and in 1689 for Adam, the son of Matthias Fuhrmann and Maria Katharine Mueller of Gierschnach.
Adam and Maria Lucie’s son Wolfgang Friedrich married Lucie Einig in April of 1704; their son Leonhard married Lucie’s sister in May of 1704. When their daughter Lucie married in 1705, the Port family’s residence was given as Burghoff, Gierschnach.
Notes for Margarete (Spouse 1)
Source: Manfred Ruettgers. Source of the information about her baptismal sponsorship in 1673: FB Muenstermaifeld.
She was a baptismal sponsor in March of 1673 for Margarete, the daughter of Nikolaus Beyer and Maria of Gierschnach.
Notes for Maria Lucie (Spouse 2)
Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld. Source of her middle name and her birth date: Manfred Ruettgers. Source of the information about her baptismal sponsorships in 1669 and 1699: FB Muenstermaifeld.
She was also referred to as Maria and as Anna Maria Sevenich.
She was a baptismal sponsor in 1669 for Johann, the son of her sister Margarete Sevenich and Leonard Ackermann of Sevenich; in 1675 for Johann Caspar, the son of Johann Oster and Maria Doetsch of Gierschnach; in 1681 for Georg, the son of Johann Koehn (or Cuno) and Angela of Gierschnach; in 1699 for Nikolaus, the son of Werner Schweres and Mechtild Schwedt, in Gierschnach; and in 1702 for Anna Maria, the daughter of Sebastian Kirchem and Katharine Frantzen of Muenstermaifeld.
When she was a baptismal sponsor in 1705 for Johann (?), the son of her brother Johann Sevenich and Maria Katharine Brachtendorf of Sevenich, she was referred to as Maria, the widow of Adam Port of Gierschnach. She was also a baptismal sponsor in 1705 for Heinrich, the son of Johann Peter Kern and Margarete Orig of Muenstermaifeld.
When she died she was referred to as Anna Maria, widow of Johann Port, villicus electoralis in Gierschnach.
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