(Trummer) Barbara

Jacob Rumph, immigrant, came to Charleston, South Carolina on 13 July 1735 with his siblings: David, Abraham, Peter, Catherine, Mary and Barbara. Probable father being Christian Rumph, all from Bern, Switzerland. ABRAHAM RUMPH, immigrant, settled in St. George’s Parish, Dorchester, at an early date. He was “suscep” for his nephew Abraham, son of Jacob and Ann Rumph, born September 27, 1754; died June 17, 1756.” By his will, dated October 4, 1777, he is known to have had three sons, Abraham, Christian and George Jacob Rumph, immigrant, was married May 19, 1748, to Ann Dattwyler in Orangeburgh Township, South Carolina. He died in 1785. Although the parentage of Ann Dattwyler is not established, it is positive that she came over with the emigrants from the Swiss Cantons, and was perhaps one of the two children who came over with their parents, Hans Dutweiler and his wife, in 1738« Book: The Rumph and Frederick Families, Genealogical and Biographical: with Allied Families.... by Louise Frederick Hays, pg. 24, 46