John married Ottilia Mathilda Kress on 27 Oct 1874 in Ohio, USA. Ottilia (daughter of Anton Kress and Eva Wehner) was born on 18 Aug 1851 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 10 Jan 1926 in Washington County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Heinrich Singer was born on 5 Mar 1876 in Jefferson, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 1 Sep 1912 in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, USA; was buried in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, USA.
2. Cecilia Agnes Singer was born on 15 Sep 1877 in Jefferson, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 23 Sep 1946 in Ohio, USA.
3. Martha Mary Singer was born on 19 Jan 1880 in Jefferson, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 5 Jan 1969 in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, USA.
4. Theodore D. Singer was born on 17 Nov 1881 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 19 Jun 1940 in Muskingum Township, Washington County, Ohio, USA.
5. Emma M. Singer was born on 10 Nov 1884 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 21 Feb 1946 in Ohio, USA.
6. Roman Francis Singer was born on 19 Feb 1888 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 9 Dec 1959 in Washington County, Ohio, USA.
7. Felix Singer was born on 17 Jun 1890 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died in 1892 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA.
8. Ernest John Singer was born on 3 Oct 1894 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 6 Feb 1962 in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, USA.

Notes:

Franz Jacob Singer immigrated with his family to the United States in April 1843 on board the packet ship La Duchesse d?Orleans. Jacob and Magdelena already had three children, and Magdelena was pregnant with a fourth child when they left for America. While attempting to board ship in Le Havre, France, they were delayed because of a question regarding their origin and citizenship. (In 1843 "Germany" did not exist, as we know it now. It was a conglomeration of independent states.) As a result of the postponement of the family's travel plans, and Magdelena's advancing pregnancy, Jacob and Magdelena's daughter Catherine was born during the Atlantic crossing on 20 Mar 1843. Fellow passengers took up a collection and presented the Singers with the equivalent of about $200 to celebrate Catherine's birth. La Duchesse d'Orleans arrived in New York on 22 Apr 1843. The route by which the family traveled to Ohio is not known, but Jacob Singer eventually brought his family to Monroe County, Ohio. He used the $200 given to him by his fellow passengers along with other money to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of land in what is now Lewisville, Ohio on Willis Creek. He turned this area into a prosperous farm.
Despi te its name, the Duchesse d'Orleans was an American ship, according to Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 286. She was built in New York in 1838 by Webb & Allen, and from 1838 to 1852 belonged of the Havre Union Packet Line, and belonged to the Baltimore registry in 1866. Her measurements were as follows:
ton nage: 798 (old custom house measurement)
length: 155' 6"
beam: 34' 2"
depth of hold: 20' 6"

The master, from 1838 to 1849, was Addison Richardson (d. Brooklyn 1872). Ibid., p. 340. The Duchesse d?Orleans was still in service as late as 1891. White, James Terry, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time (J.T. White, 1895), vol. 2, p. 263.

Gi ven that La Duchesse d'Orleans is described as a "ship", it is important to recall the distinction between sloops, schooners, brigs and ships. The sloop, which was generally the smallest type, had a single mast, supporting a large fore-and-aft sail. The schooner likewise had fore-and-aft sails, generally with two masts but occasionally, even then, with three. The brig had two masts, but was square-rigged; that is, each mast supported several sails, which crossed from side to side of the vessel instead of lying fore-and-aft. Finally, the full-rigged ship had three masts, all of which were square-rigged. The nautical purists are careful not to use the word "ship" as a synonym for vessel, when brigs or schooners might be included in the term. A fifth type, the bark, began to be common in the 'thirties [1830's]. It had three masts, the first two of which were square-rigged and the third fore-and-aft. In size, it usually fitted in between the brig and the ship. On the whole, the relative size of the four main classes ran up-wards from the sloop through the schooner and brig to the ship. There was considerable overlapping, however, for the largest vessels in a lower category were generally of greater tonnage than the smallest in the next higher grade. Albion, p. 13.

A "packet" does not represent a "type" of vessel, but its function ? i.e., a vessel that sails a set course on a regular schedule. In this
respect the packet differs from the "transient" or "tramp" (which picks
up cargoes wherever it can find them and carries them to whatever port business at the moment directs, with no set course of predetermined schedule) and from the "regular trader" (which limit itself to trade between two or more particular ports, but follows no fixed schedule). In order to maintain a regular schedule, more than one ship (all true packets were full-rigged ships) was required, and packets were organized into "lines" (the origin of the term "liner"); the earliest true line was the "Black Ball" line between New York and Liverpool, and the first sailings took place in January 1818. The Havre Union Line, to which the Duchesse d'Orleans belonged, was initiated in 1823.

Franz married Maria Magdalena Zwick on 2 Oct 1834 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern. Maria (daughter of Franz Zwick and Margaretha Erhard) was born on 9 Jun 1815 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz; died on 2 Jan 1896 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Apollonia Schantz about 1795. Apollonia (daughter of Michael Schantz and Maria Anna de Borzell Debortzel) was born on 5 Oct 1774 in Erlenbach bei Dahn, Pfalz; died on 26 Jul 1834 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franz married Margaretha Erhard on 9 Feb 1807 in Dahn, Pfalz. Margaretha (daughter of Johannes Georg Ehrhard and Katharina Dauenhauer) was born on 3 Mar 1784 in Erfweiler, Pfalz; was christened on 3 Mar 1784 in Erfweiler, Pfalz; died on 30 Apr 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Sevilla Burkhart. Sevilla was born in 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michael married Maria Anna de Borzell Debortzel about 1772. Maria (daughter of Johannes de Borzell Debortzel and Maria Magdalena Klemm) was born on 28 Jul 1752 in Bobenthal, Pfalz; died on 19 Aug 1812 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Maria Barbara Nauer about 1770. Maria (daughter of Valentin Nauer and Anna Maria Schreiner) was born on 11 Feb 1745 in Dahn, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Katharina Dauenhauer on 12 May 1783 in Erfweiler, Pfalz, Bayern. Katharina (daughter of Andreas Dauenhauer and Katharina Schehl) was born on 25 Dec 1749 in Erfweiler, Pfalz; died in in Erfweiler, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]