This is likely going to be re-visited (to add in more) or oft-linked to posting, as part of this is like a can of worms in untangling dates and (similar) names and such, then throwing in family lore thoughts.
In trying to research For Christina Wampler, said to be a daughter of Hans Peter Wampler Jr and his 1st wife, Anna Barbara, I came across two to three birth years given - here and there - for her: 1753, 1760, and 1771. There are also marriage dates for her and Johannes/John Peter Graybeal/Graybill of 1779 and 1786. Which I guess leads to Johannes/John Peter Graybeal/Graybill getting multiple birth year thoughts as well as I have come across 1750, 1755, 1762 and 1768/69 shared for him.
Now, due to the family lore that Christina Wampler was one of the children of Peter Jr and Barbara who were kidnapped in 1757 and later returned, through a treaty, in 1764 ... that would lean folks to using the 1753 birth year to have her fit into that narrative. Which would lean to Johannes/John Peter Graybeal/Graybill having a birth year of 1750 to 1755 to have him being close to her in age.
John Peter Graybill died in 1842 and the headstone inscription says he was around 70 years old when passing. Which mathematically would give him a birth year thought of 1771/1772. However his FindAGrave memorial page shared 1762 as his birth year. Why? I don't know, the page manager did not explain the 1762 birth year thought shared.
Christina Wampler Graybill is stated to have died in 1844, and buried in same cemetery, has a headstone inscribed saying she was around 74 years of age at passing, which would mathematically place her with having a 1770/71 birth year.
So where does the 1760 birth year for her stem from? Maybe from some of the transcriptions shared on Ancestry** of her marriage records, for 1779 and 1786, listed her birth year being 1760. No image file is shared of the handwritten record used for the transcriptions to get a bit of a look at the handwriting. Problem I personally have with the online shared transcriptions is that two very different marriage years is listed for the couple and 6 to 7 years apart.
Decisions, at least on my side, come into play on which to use for "birth year" source: kidnapping year thoughts, the online shared transcriptions of marriage records or headstones where the inscription likely was based on information shared by Peter and Christina's family/children? The marriage record transcriptions would have her born after the other children were abducted and so would nix the kidnapping story, shared in later years by her children and their children, about her identity being confirmed due to her, after the return, singing a lullaby/children's song that her mother used to sing to her (and the other children). However, another tree branch also claims it was their mother whose identity was confirmed due to her recognizing/singing that same song - so can't really rely on the story if more than one branch is claiming it as "their (grand)mother did it". The headstone inscription itself, however, does not mathematically work with Christina and the kidnapping narrative though - she would had to been closer to around 94 when she died if using estimated birth year of 1753.
So, going back to touch base with birth year of 1771/1772 for Christina. Hans Peter Wampfler/Wampler Sr. had a brother, Johannes Christian Wampfler/Wampler, who came to America later, in 1747, who had a son named Hans Georg(e) Wampfler/Wampler - who had a daughter born September 7, 1771 in York county, Pennsylvania, named Christina. Could there been two Christina Wamplers born in 1771? Yeah, it's possible.
When looking at the marriage dates, which I came across two for this couple then bringing in the headstone inscriptions, for the same couple ... well, the headstone information nixes the 1779 marriage year. Which would also nix several children, attributed to them, being their children. The 1786 marriage year is slightly better, as Peter - if he had been around 70 years in age in 1842 - would been around 18 years old, if using the 1768/69 birth year, or around 15/16 years old, if going by 1771/1772 birth year via the headstone, when marrying in 1786. Which the 1760s and 1770z birth year thoughts would also work more easily in having him being a son of Johannes/John and Hannah - using the 1737 or 1747 birth year thoughts for the parents. In using the 1771/72 birth year for Christina would work for the 1786 marriage year as she would been around 14/15 when marrying. But they have children (Henry ~1778, John ~1780, and John Peter ~1783) attributed to them, but the birth years would only work with 1753 or 1760 birth year for Christina ... which would have to bump John Peter to the 1750/55 birth year as well.
One thing that is consistent, even with the marriage records' transcriptions on Ancestry, is that she is listed to being a daughter of Peter Wampler. Her mother's name is not listed, but Peter Wampfler/Wampler Sr. is not attributed to having a daughter named Christina - and his brother, Johannes Christian, did not have a daughter named Christina either. Hans Georg(e) Wampfler/Wampler's daughter, Christina, is said have passed away before 1817.
However, once past that, the rest is a can of worms. If I go with the headstones' information then it goes against the grain of those who feel she was born in time to been one of the kidnapped children but also the parentage thoughts of some children attributed to the couple. If I go with the 1753 date, that throws John Pater's parentage into a loop unless I have her marrying someone almost 10 years younger than her. If I go with 1760 date for Christina's birth thoughts, that doesn't work with the kidnap thoughts but does work for the kids attributions with either marriage year ... which the 1771 birth year doesn't work for the 1779 marriage year thoughts at all, so would have to go with the latter 1786 marriage year which doesn't work at all with at least 3 of the children.
So, for now, I am going with the headstone inscriptions, which - as I already said - likely was based upon information from her and/or her children closer to the time of Peter and her passing and will list the other year thoughts about birth in a notation for Peter and Christina. However, going this route would mean a 1779 marriage year would not work for either one of them and so throws parentage/age of three kids up in the air. Which means I will have rely more on paper trail thoughts to try helping have the children properly attributed. And I will have to see how it goes from there ...
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** as a notation, given majority of Ancestry's records require a paid subscription to view, I am debating on sharing links that some people would not be able to use/find of use due to not being paid subscribers of a site - so that goes for MyHeritage, FindMyPast, et al that also have paid subscriptions to view majority of the records. This is not a negative as it forces me to try to locate more citations to add from my side of the researching online thoughts.
