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Johannes Valentin Bressler, the founder of the Presley family in America, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, 1669 in the village of Hochstadt (where the Preslar family was first mentioned in 1494); Valentine was employed there as a vine dresser; he married Anna Christiana Franse (Born Germany 1674) and immigrated to New York in 1710; In the early generations of the family, in America, the German surnames were often turned into English (in parenthesis); Preslar (Johannes was shortened to Johann and then John).

After the mid-1800s many members of the family changed their last name to Pressley or Pressly.

This continued down Elvis Presleys ‘line’ to his grandfather Jessie D. McDowell Pressley (J. D. ). In June of 1710, approx.

Minnie mae presley biography of christopher

2,400 Germans (Palatinate) arrived in New York and New Jersey from England. Johannes Bressler and family had left Germany looking for a better life in America. They arrived in London between May and November of 1709. O