The Von Der Berg family origin is in Germany. The name changed after their immigration to the colonies, becoming both Funderburk and Funderberg or Funderburg. Hans Devauld (Funderburk), at age 14, left his home in Leipzig, Germany with parents and six brothers and probably two sisters. They boarded the ship, "The Golden Beaver" at Hamburg on the North Sea, and sailed for America. The ship was wrecked off the coast and all the family lost except him. He was rescued by a ship carrying German immigrants, and brought to Charleston, SC, and sold as an indentured servant to a planter to pay passage. This may have been at Orangeburg, where a colony of Germans had settled earlier. After some years, he "skipped bond" and headed north over the Charleston-Salisbury inland road to (what is now) Lancaster County, and became associated with Titus Laney, an Irish immigrant who settled on Wildcat Creek. In 1755, when he was 30, he married Titus's daughter, Catherine Laney, who was 15.
