Mapping spouses' ancestors of our earliest Schochenmaiers

As I demonstrated in the last four posts that due to the history of Germany, namely feudal disunity, it's logical to assume that our ancestors would marry a fellow villager, a neighbor, anybody who they could communicate with, who they speak the same dialect with, and who they share a similar background with. It does concern the language, the religion, the traditions and the area as well.

Let's sum up and map what we found out. It looks like follow:

1. Gottlieb Schochenmaier (ab. 1828, my 4th great grandfather!!!) was married twice.

•  to Katharina Huber, who was born on June 26, 1836 in Brücken (Pfalz). It is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

• to Elisabeth Korb who was born on August 15, 1834 in Rohrbach (Beresan colony, near Odessa, South Russia). Her parents were Heinrich Korb (1809 - ????) and Christina Schneck (1817-1901). Heinrich Korb is to be found among the first newborn babies of "Russian" Rohrbach in year 1809!!! His parents were Heinrich Korb (1777-1836) and Salomea Elisabetha (maid name unknown, abt. 1790-1851). They came to Russia from Gersbach, today's part of Pirmasens.

The parents of Christina/Christiana Schneck (Gottlieb's mother-in-law!) were Johann Heinrich Schneck (1780-1864) and Katharina Luise Vollmer (1778-1820). He was born in Oberriexingen (Neckarkreis, Württemberg). 

2. Ludwig Schochenmaier (1830) was married to Katharina Kuprian (1833-1856). Her father was called Johannes Kuprian (1811-1858). It's amazing to notice that he had been born in Rohrbach in 1811. Her mother was called Margaretha Strasser (1813-????). She was born in Rohrbach too. Her grandfather was called Johan(n) Kuprian (1775 or 1779 - 1816). He was born in Germany in Sickingen in Württemberg.

As we know, the parents of her mother cannot be definitely located.

3. Christian Schochenmaier (1833) was married to Margaretha Korb (1836), sister of Elisabeth Korb (1834), wife of Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1828). So, it's the same, see Nr. 1.

4. August Schochenmaier (1835) was married to Margaretha Ochsner (1834). She was born on February 16, 1834 in Landau, Odessa, South Russia. Рer parents were Nikolaus Ochsner (25/05/1798) and Margaretha Weikum (1806). Nikolaus, as well as his parents, or grandparents of Margaretha, Johann Ochsner (1765-1809) and Klara Walter (1770) was born in Edenkoben (Palatinate).

As for Margaretha's mum, Margaretha Weikum and her father Dietrich Weikum (1772) were born in Stebbach, around Heilbronn, from 1974 it belongs to Gemmingen.

Well, our suggestions seem to be justified. It's pretty the same space-time continuum:

If you can read properly this map, then you may recognize that to your left is Palatinate, to your right Würtemberg (Stuttgart) and in the bottom lies Alsace (now France, the borders are visible). 

In the first post about Gottlieb's wives I have already explained that it was Franconian dialect in the east and partly Swabian in the west of that area. Thus, it was a sort of intersection between the Franconian and Swabian dialects.  

The dialect is called Moselle Franconian (German Moselfränkisch) and it is a group of West Central German dialects, part of the Central Franconian language area. They are spoken in the southern Rhineland and along the course of the Moselle River, in the Siegerland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, throughout western Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, in the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium and in the neighbouring French département of Moselle (in Arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle).

So, this dialect covers four countries: Germany (f.ex. Trier), Luxembourg, Belgium (f.ex. Arlon) and France (f.ex. Thionville). 

So far, for today! Thank you very much for your attention.