Philipp Drollinger

1784 - 1834  (50 years)

• Name	Philipp Drollinger
  Birth	21 Aug 1784	Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany   [1]
  	Churchbooks Ellmendingen Baden, originals examined by Gordon L. Drollinger
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Aug 1834	Manhattan, New York, NY
  	New York, New York City Municipal Deaths Name Philip Drolenger Event Type Death Event Date 24 Aug 1834 Event Place Manhattan, New York, New York, United States Residence Place Bloomingdale Gender Male Age 50 Marital Status Unknown Birth Year (Estimated) 1784 Birthplace Germany Citing this Record "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F69Z-LW1 : 10 February 2018), Philip Drolenger, 24 Aug 1834; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 447,548. Name Philip Drolenger (Drolinger on original) Sex Male Age 50 Residence Place Bloomingdale Birth Year (Estimated) 1784 Birthplace Germany Event Type Death Event Date 24 Aug 1834 Event Place Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States Event Place (Original) Manhattan, New York, New York, United States Certificate Number vol 9 congestion fever, Methodist Society Cemetery sexton Peter Brown. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F69Z-LW1 : 13 May 2022), Philip Drolenger, 1834. By the 1880s, the members of the 18th Street Methodist Church viewed their defunct vault yard with disfavor, considering it unused land that could be a source of revenue. The trustees of the church, a young, ?vigorous and business-like? group with no sentimental attachment to a generation that had long since passed away, in 1882 offered a resolution to remove the dead from the vaults in the strip of land extending from the rear of the church to 19th Street. Although many of the vault owners initially resisted the plan to clear out the vaults and sell the ground, by 1886 the Trustees had obtained consent to proceed with the disinterments and the bodies were removed to plots at Woodlawn and Cypress Hills cemeteries. After the removals, the church sold the section of the property fronting on 19th street for $26,000 and townhouses were built there. It?s not known when or if the bodies from the smaller plot to the rear of the parsonage, or the bodies from the earlier Chelsea Village burial ground, were ever removed from the church grounds.
  Person ID	I2236	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Jacob Friedrich Drollinger,   b. 11 Oct 1752, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. 21 Jan 1832, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Maria Magdalena Bach,   b. 15 Jan 1753, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. 20 Sep 1825, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F28	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Christina Barbara Merkle,   b. 20 Sep 1792, Feldrennach, Baden, Germany d. 2 Nov 1814, Feldrennach, Baden, Germany (Age 22 years)
  Marriage	9 May 1813	Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany   [1]
  	Wuerttemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials Name: Philipp Drollinger Gender: mannlich (Male) Event Type: Heirat (Marriage) Birth Date: 21 Aug 1784 Marriage Date: 9 Mai 1813 (9 May 1813) Marriage Place: Feldrennach, Weurttemberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg),Deutschland (Germany) Marriage Age: 28 Father: Jakob Friedrich Drollinger Mother: Maria Magdalena Bach Spouse: Christina Barbara Merkle Page Number: 18 Custodian: Evangelisches Landeskirchenamt, Stuttgart, Deutschland Wuerttemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials Name: Christina Barbara Merkle Gender: weiblich (Female) Event Type: Heirat (Marriage) Birth Date: 20 Sep 1792 Marriage Date: 9 Mai 1813 (9 May 1813) Marriage Place: Feldrennach, Wuerttemberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg),Deutschland (Germany) Marriage Age: 20 Father: Veit Merkle Mother: Sibilla Agatha Bohlinger Spouse: Philipp Drollinger Page Number: 18 Custodian: Evangelisches Landeskirchenamt, Stuttgart, Deutschland
  Children	1. Christian Friedrich Drollinger,   b. 4 Sep 1813, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. 13 Nov 1813, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany (Age 0 years)   2. Gustav Friedrich Drollinger,   b. 4 Sep 1813, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. 16 Sep 1858, Hannahstown, Butler, PA (Age 45 years)
  Family ID	F714	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Aug 1784 - Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany Marriage - 9 May 1813 - Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany Death - 24 Aug 1834 - Manhattan, New York, NY  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The further back we trace our family history the less there is written to be discovered about individuals. Philipp appears to be a tragic figure from the little I found about him. His young wife died a little over a year after giving birth to his only son. He would possibly had to have had to have a "wet" nurse to feed the baby. You can only wonder at how a single father was able to raise a baby in that time frame. Did his parents help with the child? Certainly he had to have help. Where did he live and how was he able to provide? There are unfortunately more questions than answers. The one thing I uncovered on a visit to the Karsruhe archiv with Rudi Drollinger was that Philipp suffered a Gant in 1839. This is an archaic word and had to be looked up. It is a German form of our Sheriff's Sale. The probability is that he borrowed heavily in order to emigrate to the new world and have a chance at a better life. His brother accompanied young Gustav to the USA and was enumerated in the census of 1850. After that there is no further record of the brother. Until the newspaper article recording his death by fire when Nathan Skeer's old tavern burnt down and he was killed in the blaze. The high probability is he died in NYC. The entry in Manhattan of the death of one Philip Drolenger in 1834 would certainly answer the question of why Gustav emigrated to New York. He had to have some money to get from Germany to New York City. Possibly borrowed because of the Gant processed in 1839. What he did there is a mystery. Possibly what ever he did explains the debt of Philipp Frey to his son Gustav. So far no record of his passage has been found. Nor has a record of his being released to emigrate or move been located. Since Werner Hacker uses the term released it is some form of permission to move from one place to another granted by the authorities. The authorities in this case being the Crown of Baden. These records have to exist some where as Hacker published in 1980 so they weren't destroyed in WWII. Gordon Louis Drollinger

  
  

• Sources

  [S109] Churchbooks Ellmendingen Baden.