John Conrad Burgy of Lucas Co., Ohio

[Haplotype I - M253]

John Conrad Burgy (originally Johann[es] Buergi or Johannes Bürgi) was born on 4 July 1847 in Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in 1869. He married Elizabeth Weber (also a Swiss native) on 11 April 1870 at Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio. He filed his naturalization papers on 12 October 1875 in Williams Co., Ohio (where his surname is spelled Buergi). He is listed in the 1880 census for Defiance Co., Ohio, in 1900 in Lucas Co., Ohio, and in 1911 in Humbolt, Saskatchewan, Canada. He died on 10 March 1918 at Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio, having had six sons:

1. John H. Burgy (1869-1947) of Lucas Co., OH
2. Conrad Burgy (1871-1944) of Lucas Co., OH
3. Albert Burgy (1873-1945) of Lucas Co., OH
4. Jacob T. Burgy (1883- ) of Lucas Co., OH
5. Franz Gottfried Burgy (1887-1906), died unmarried
6. Edward Ernst Burgy (1892-1918) of Lucas Co., OH

Albert Burgy is the ancestor of R. C. Burgy.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other family in the Burgess DNA Project.