Manetta A. Moomey Smith
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Life
Manetta A. Moomey is your great-great-grandmother on the Derry side, wife of William Henry Smith and mother of Hattie Estelle Smith. The Moomey surname is one of the hidden German gems in your family tree. The name is likely a variant of the German "Mumma" or Swiss Mennonite origins, possibly from Alsace-Lorraine (Huguenot). The earliest confirmed American ancestor is Jacob Moomey (1699–1779), who settled in Pennsylvania. His descendants spread through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and Iowa — a migration pattern remarkably parallel to the Albaugh family on your mother's side! Both families arrived in America in the same 1699–1734 wave of German/Swiss Mennonite immigration. A 680-page published genealogy titled "The Descendants of Jacob and Mary Moomey of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and Iowa" documents 7 generations of the family. The Ohio branch — where Manetta lived — is heavily documented. Leonard Mumma arrived in America in 1732, just two years before Zachariah Ahlbach (1734) — suggesting these German families came over in the same great wave.
Timeline
- —MarriedWilliam Henry Smith
- —Birth/DeathUnknown — research needed
Claims in the record
Sources
"Descendants of Jacob and Mary Moomey" — 680 pages, 7 generations