Aldinger Family Register
Kyle Printing Company
140 South George Street
York, Pa.
The name Aldinger is familiar in most parts of
Germany, for the family records go back almost to the
beginning of the Christian era A.D. 56, when Theobald
Aldinger lived in Augsburg. While a complete genealogy
had been in the library of Vienna, the American descend-
ants have no record other until A.D. 500, in the time
of King Rudolph. Pelagius and Andrew Aldinger lived in
Augsburg. These families spread to Bavaria, Swabia, and
Switzerland.
Following the lines we come to Ulrich Aldinger, who
was High Bailiff of Augsburg about A.D. 1100 and who
left three sons, Ulrich, Nickolas, and Theodore
Aldinger. Nickolas was manager and director of whole-
sale merchants at Leipzig, but afterwards went back to
Augsburg. His descendants by his four sons scattered
through Saxony, Silesia and northern Germany. Theodore
moved to Cologne on the Rhine and from him the American
branch traces its descent.
Christopher Aldinger, the first to come to America,
was the son of Matthias Aldinger. He was a farmer and
vine grower in Fellbach, Württemberg. He was married
to Miss Ruff and with his wife and seven children
started for the New World in 1817. His pass was given
and sealed June 11th. They landed at Philadelphia, but
soon came to York County, where they lived first in
Windsor Township, then in Dover Township, where he
taught school on the present site of Heidelberg Town-
ship, where they both died and were buried at Bear's
Meeting House.
C. Frederick Aldinger, son of Christopher Aldinger,
was born in Württemberg, Germany, August 14, 1789, and
came with his father to this country in 1817, being
nineteen years of age. He first learned the shoemaking
trade, but soon tired of it, preferring to work in Mr.
Rife's distillery in Adams County. He worked there five
years then went to work for Abraham Myers in the
distillery in York County. While there he married his
employer's daughter, Elizabeth, so named after his
mother, Elizabeth (Erb) Myers, who was a native of
Lancaster County. Soon after their marriage, they
moved on a farm near Hanover, Pennsylvania, and lived
there fourteen years. Then they bought a farm in York
Township, lived there four four years, then sold out
in order to go west and try farming near Muscatine,
Iowa, but only stayed one year then came back and
bought the adjoining farm in their former home in York
Township, York County, Pennsylvania. (Note: "This is
one connection between the Aldinger families of Iowa
and the Aldinger families of Pennsylvania"!!!)
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