Marty and Karla Grant

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Faber Genealogy - Germany, Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Welcome to my Faber genealogy pages. I am interested in the Faber surname in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

I have only done a small amount of research on this line thus far.

Faber didn’t make it to the list of the top 1000 most common surnames in the United States in 2000, nor in 2010.

My most recent Faber ancestor was 6 times great grandmother Maria Magdelena Faber (1735-1813) who was born somewhere in Pennsylvania just two years after her parents immigrated there. She married Johannes Muller (John Miller) in Pennsylvania, ca 1749. They moved to Virginia briefly, then to Rowan Co., NC (now Davidson Co., NC) where John died in 1780 and she died in 1813. Maria’s parents:

Michael Faber was born ca 1697/98, presumably in Baden in what was then the Holy Roman Empire, but became Germany later on. He married Sarah Meinhert in Baden, ca 1724. In 1733, Michael, Sarah and their two young children left Germany for Philadelphia, Like the Millers, they soon wound up in Rowan Co., NC where both died, she in 1774 and he in 1778.

I don’t know who Michael’s parents were. That would require research in Germany which isn’t on my “to do list” any time soon.

Revised: February 25, 2026

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