Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John CONARD
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John Conard was the son of Joseph Conard and Rebecca Cook, his wife; grandson of Henry Conard and Catherine Streypers, his wife and also his first cousin and great-grandson of Thones Kunders and Elin Streypers, his wife-the original settlers from Crefeld, Germany, who located in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1682.
John was born on February 4, 1782, in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, on the farm owned by his father, Joseph, on the road leading from Gwynedd to Chestnut Hill and between Blue Bell and Sandy Hill. This farm was later divided between John and his brother Joseph, the older of these two only children of Joseph and Rebecca.
According to an article which appeared in the Ambler Gazette, June 24, 1909, "John was indentured as an apprentice to James Wood, the pioneer of the well-known iron manufacturing company." He made use of this training later by "conducting a blacksmith shop in addition to tilling his farm. He invented' a screw auger which had a wide sale."
In 1805, May 23, he married Sarah Child at Plymouth Meeting House, "in the presence of his step- father, Joseph White; his mother, and sixty other Friends." John and Sarah lived on his half of the farm inherited from his father, he having erected new buildings on his portion, the older brother Joseph having received the original farm
house. He died here in 1853, July 29, aged 71 years. His grave and that of his wife, is in the burial ground at Plymouth Meeting.
Sarah Child was the daughter of John Child and Mary, his wife. She bore to her husband nine sons and three daughters, and it is with the descendants of these twelve children that this book deals.
"Forty-eight years of married life, twelve children, everyone of them to reach maturity, nine married during the life-time of the father and one married during the brief interval before the death of the mother, and every marriage having issue, this is indeed a remarkable record," says her grandson, John (48) in one of his papers read at the Reunion.
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