The Shockey Chronicles

Book excerpt: Descendants of Christopher Shockey (Johann Christophel Schacke) (1714- 1796), who was born in the Palatinate area of Germany and came to America in 1737. He landed in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 1737 and took the oath of allegiance on that day. He later owned land in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania and Frederick Co., Maryland, which be- came Washington Co., Maryland in 1776. Christopher Shockey and his first wife Barbara (d. ca. 1772) had nine children: 1. Valentine (ca. 1735-1810), married Barbara Bixler (b. 1739); 2. Elizabeth (b. 1738); 3. John (b. ca. 1740); 4. Barbara (b. ca. 1745; 5. Magdalena (b. ca. 1747), married Philip Stombaugh (b. ca. 1745); 6. Jacob (ca. 1749-1810), married Anna Freed; 7. Isaac (ca. 1752- 1801); 8. Abraham (1755-1816), married Margaret (1763-1850; 9. Christian (1756-1829), married Mary Welsh (1757-1844). Christopher married ca. 1773 (2) Anna Maria. He had one child with her, Samuel Christian Shockey born 1774. Anna Maria had one daughter before her marriage to Christopher, Catherine, born 1768. She went by the name of Shockey. She married John Smith (1767-1807). Descendants live in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Virginia and elsewhere.