Have much information and am searching for more on burkets/Burkharts in these two counties. Israel Burket was early Pioneer of Somerset County, Pennsylvania settling some time around 1768.

MY GRANDMOTHER WAS EMMA BURKET THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND PHOEBE (BRALLIER) BURKET. SHE WAS BORN DECEMBER 24,1877 IN BEDFORD COUNTY.HER FATHER WAS BORN YELLOW CREEK(HOPEWELL TWP)IN 1835.PHOEBE WAS BORN TO DAVID AND AMELIA (BARNETT) BRALLIER IN 1835.JACOB WAS THE SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH (BROWN) OF HOPEWELL TWP. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOWN WHO JOHN AND ELIZABETHS PARENTS WERE.YOU MAY CONTACT ME AT MY E-MAIL ADDRESS RLBowmanPPNV@webtv.net RONALD BOWMAN

Most likely this John is the John born in 1756 to John Jacob and Sabina Nagle Burket. He was born in Reading and served in the revolutionary war. This line goes back to the early 1600's in Herbrechtingen, Heidenheim, Germany. sjackman@jps.net

I have a connection to your Burkets. Two of
my ancestors married Mary Ann "Polly" Burket.
Her first husband was Leonard Notestine/Nothstein
in Ohio. They were married 6 May 1819 in Perry
County. They had several children,one of
whom was my ancestor, Elizabeth. She
married Abraham Stotts 13 April 1841 also in
Perry County laterand moved to Harrison County,
Missouri. Leonard died around 1829. He was
descended from a Johannes Peter Nothstein, a
Revolutionary War hero still honored today in
Carbon County, PA.

On 13 April 1841 Mary Ann "Polly" Notestine,
married my ggg grandfather, John Jacob Storts/
Stotts (later generations in this line became
Stotts). The original surname in Germany was
Stotz, in Somerset County it was known as
Sturtz, John Jacob spelled it Storts when he
enlisted in the Revolutionary War, and his
line changed it to Stotts as they migrated
from Ohio to Missouri.

Mary Ann "Polly" was John Jacob's second wife.
I am descended through his first wife Christena
Keller. John Jacob was about 30 years older
than Mary Ann. They had 5 children in addition
to the surviving children of his first marriage
and her children from the Notestine marriage.

When John Jacob died in 1852 at the age of
88 his youngest child was 10 years old! Mary
Ann's youngest daughter, Mariah Storts Allen,
was the oldest "real" Daughter of the
Revolution" at her death in the 1940s.

Please fill me in on Mary Ann Burket. I had
previously glanced at the Swovelands but
rejected it for some reason that isn't clear
to me now.

I think the Somerset County connection is
very important since many of the people who
married into the Storts family had previous
Somerset County connections.

I have lots of information to share!

Bev (Stotts) Sadoski
bevs@alaska.net
married

Hi Bev!

My name is MaryJennifer Smith, and I am a great-great-great granddaughter of John Jacob Storts. I found your article of information on Mary Ann most interesting, and I plan to share a copy of it with my Dad who has completed an extensive project on the Storts family.

I decided we needed to find out as much information on the original family, and posted on the internet, and it has been wonderful to make connections with our mutual families all over the USA.

I would love to hear from you, and see if I can fill in any blanks, or maybe we can just share time and space. It is wonderful to know I have family in the land of the "Northern Lights." I was telling my son tonight that I wanted to drive up through Canada, and head toward Alaska, and then I went online {just recently got back onto AOL} and there you were!

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

MaryJennifer Smith

For Mary Jennifer Smith--

Please send your e-mail address. Do you have
any info on Mary Ann Burket. I haven't heard
from anyone else.

I do have contacts with some Stotts/Storts
folks.

Bev

I am also looking for information on Burkets
in Somerset County. My husbands grandfather
was Harry Ernest Burket, born October 9, 1870.
We have no other information, though. The
county courthouse burned down around the turn
of the century and took all the records with
it.

If you have any information, it would be appreciated.
I have info on his decendants, including a daughter
who is 102 years old!

hi i'am looking for my Grandpa he Ernest Burket, in Somerset County, PA. my Dad is Turman E, Burket of Somerset County, PA.
any info my Grandpa wood help my Family line
thank you R A. Burket

I am also researching my family. Have had
very poor results using the surname as we
spell it.

My father (Robert Leonard) was born in Johnson
City NY to John Leonard and Thelma I Mahar. I
know my grandfather was originally from PA
and graduated as an Electrical Engineer from
Penn State.

I now am wondering if at some point in time
and for some strange reasonm the name got
changed.

Please provide any info.

Bob

Susan, would you happen to have any mention of an Adam Burket, b. c1760, d. c1840, m. 1785 to Maria Puderbaugh. He lived in Morrison's Cove. That section later became Blair county.