Friday, August 1, 2014

Second oldest Schackenmeyrs

Today, after we found out where the oldest SchAchenmeyers had lived, is the turn of second oldest SchAchenmaiers in order to reconstruct the context and continuity, as we did it with the oldest SchOchenmayers and the second oldest SchOchenmajers.

Well, let me introduce the second oldest SchAchenmaiers: their last name was spelled as Schackenmeyrs. I am not sure, but I think the difference between "ch" and "ck" is not considerable, especially at the time when only clergymen could write and they recorded names during the baptismal services.

Here's the notice on it:



So, Catharina Dorothea had been born to Simon Edhmueller and Katharina Schackenmeyr (I've changed the spelling of names from their Latin versions /casus dativus -is for masculine and -ae for feminine/ into German ones). She was baptized on the 18th August 1722 in Wiebglingen, region of Baden. We may conclude that Katharina Schackenmeyr herself had been born in 1690s-1700s. NB: The names are not pronouncedly Jewish... 

 Let's analyze this data in time and space, as usually))) I hope you're not tired of it... 


Where is Wieblingen? 

Contemporary, Wieblingen is a part of Heidelberg city (since 1920). 

  


It's in the west of city, on the left bank of the River Neckar. 



Some pictures of its places:


And below you'll see the Old Catholic Church. In the archives is noticed, that Katharina Dorothea was baptized in the Sankt Bartolomaeus Catholic Church. Here it is:   

Kirche St. Bartholomäus in Heidelberg OT Wieblingen



How far is it from Gingen (where the first SchAchenmeyers in 1630s-1740s were found: Isaac and Sara). It's about 140 km (85 miles). The way lies through Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart area, Heilbronn, Neckarsulm... all places that we already know: 




Reading about the history of that area, I stumbled upon a very interesting place-name:

Many of the Heidelberg villages have emerged from the Frankish times in the 6th time Century. They are first mentioned in the 8th Century in the Lorsch Codex – Neuenheim and Handschuhsheim in 765, Rohrbach in 766, Wieblingen and Kirchheim in 767 and Bergheim in 769. Those are villages of Heidelberg which, looking back to several centuries ago, are older than the city itself.

As you see, they cite Rohrbach!!! The problem is there are lots of Rohrbachs in Germany(((


What happened to Wiebling in the beginning of 18th century

I quote from Wikipaedia:

To strengthen his dynasty, Frederick arranged the marriage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV, king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son, Elector Charles II, Louis XIV laid claim to his sister-in-law's inheritance. The Germans rejected the claim, in part because of religious differences between local Protestants and the French Catholics, as the Protestant Reformation had divided the peoples of Europe. The War of the Grand Alliance ensued. In 1689, French troops took the town and castle, bringing nearly total destruction to the area in 1693. As a result of the destruction due to repeated French invasions related to the War of the Palatinate Succession coupled with severe winters, thousands of Protestant German Palatines emigrated from the lower Palatinate in the early 18th century. They fled to other European cities and especially to London (where the refugees were called "the poor Palatines"). In sympathy for the Protestants, in 1709–1710, Queen Anne's government arranged transport for nearly 6,000 Palatines to New York. Others were transported to Pennsylvania. They worked their passage and later settled in the English colonies.

 
Emigrants Leaving the Palatinate for America 
Source: Imhof, Andreas Lazarus von. Neu-eröffneter historischer Bildersaal, Vol. 9: Geschichten, welche sich unter Carolo VI, von dem Jahr 1723 auf das Jahr 1733 zugetragen. Nuremberg: Buggel, 1735. Courtesy of PD Dr. Helmut Schmahl, Mainz University.

In 1720, after assigning a major church for exclusively Catholic use, religious conflicts with the mostly Protestant inhabitants of Heidelberg caused the Roman Catholic Prince-Elector Charles III Philip to transfer his residence to nearby Mannheim

Being aware of those two waves of migration to England and to the future U.S., we could explain the presence of some Schochenmaiers either in the UK or in the USA prior to migration from Russia in 1880s.

Here you can read about the Palatinate Emigration: http://home.comcast.net/~harnessfamily/History/History11.htm

The last (but not the least) thing to be mentioned is the fact that in 1735 (15 years later!!!) Eva Thorodea Schachenmayer (with "ch" and "ay") got married to Simon Damm in the Sankt Bartolomaeus Church and in 1780s (60 years later!!!) in this Wieblingen we will meet the whole family of "Schachenmeyer" (with "ch" but "ey"). Bernard Schachenmeyer and Magdalena Angstmann got five children from 1788 to 1800 in Eppelheim village, near Wieblingen, and baptized them in the same Sankt Bartolomaeus Catholic Church. Is it a coincidence? I think it's very probable that it's the same line of the Schachenmaiers. But it's still not clear if they are related to the Schachenmaiers from Gingen...  
   

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