![]() John, born in Rowan County, NC in 1748, served in the American Revolutionary War for his brother, Peter, born in 1756. ![]() Andrew Preslar Jr’s children, were: Charles, John, Andrew III, Peter, and Joseph. 1730 and Andrew Preslar, Jr younger brother of Thomas, was born 1732. Stephen’s Parish, Cecil County, MD Christian Preslar b. Andreas (Andrew) and Antje (Anna) Preslar had five children born and baptized in St. It appears that the descendants of Hans Jurie kept the ‘Preslar’ surname while the descendants of Andreas seem to have shifted over to Pressley and Presley, perhaps to differentiate between the two families. (Some sources list Andreas (Andrew) Preslars year of bith as 1701) There were two sets of Preslars living in Anson County, NC, they were not only the children of Andreas and Antje (Anna) Wells, but of Hans Jurie Preslar, (1713-1777) brother of Andreas. Antje Wills was born 1697 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, USA and died 1765 in Anson, North Carolina, USA. ![]() He was to marry Antje (Anna) Wells of Staten Island, New York, in 1727, they moved through New York through PA to Maryland and then to Anson Co. On 14 June 1710 among those arriving on the ship ‘Fame’, (Captain Walter Houxton), were the following: Johann Valentin Bressler, 41, his wife, Anna Christiana, 36, and children Anna Elisabetha, 14, Anna Gertrud, 12, Andreas, 6, Antoni, 4, and (son) 1-1/2.Īndreas Preslar was born in Germany in 1704 and died 1759 in Anson, North Carolina, USA. They arrived in London between May and November of 1709. Johannes Bressler and family had left Germany looking for a better life in America. ![]() 2,400 Germans (Palatinate) arrived in New York and New Jersey from England. This continued down Elvis Presleys ‘line’ to his grandfather Jessie D. After the mid-1800s many members of the family changed their last name to Pressley or Pressly. Johannes Valentin Bressler, the founder of the Presley family in America, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, 1669 in the village of Hochstadt (where the Preslar family was first mentioned in 1494) Valentine was employed there as a vine dresser he married Anna Christiana Franse (Born Germany 1674) and immigrated to New York in 1710 In the early generations of the family, in America, the German surnames were often turned into English (in parenthesis) Preslar (Johannes was shortened to Johann and then John). ![]()
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