Thursday, May 5, 2016

Life of F. W. Schochenmaier throughout archives

Those of you who got access to "my" our Family trees (on Ancestry or FamilySearch) have definitely noticed that our "very first" common ancestor Gottlieb Schochenmaier (about 1800) is brother of Friederike Wilhelmine Schochenmaier (1802). Their parents are Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier and Christina Schelling.

I would like to stress one more time that this kinship between Gottlieb and Friederike is presumble. We can't prove it on the base of documents! I suggested their connection because of names "Gottlieb" shared by "our" Schochenmaier and Imanuel. There had been an old tradition to inherit forenames and, besides that, no other Gottlieb had been found among Schochenmaiers by the end of the 18th century.

Searching for the Schochenmaiers in various archives I collected some documents on the above-mentioned Friederike Wilhelmine. I should we must take a closer look at her if we think that she is our remote in time relative.

Let's start with notice from the church book of 1802:



First column: date of birth - 11th September 1802 (year from the top) + date of baptism either 17th September or 14th, or even the same 11th September. I can't read clearly.

Second column: Name of the child Friderica Wilhelmina

Third column: Parents - Imanuel Gotlib Schochenmaier, his occupation Hutmacher (hatter!!!) and Christina geb. (nee) Schellingin.

Fourth column: "Patrini"- here I should explain this word. By that sponsors at baptism are meant. So called from the Medieval Latin term, which means those taking the place of parents. They undertake the office of spiritual patents toward those whom they bring to the baptismal font. It's difficult to recognize the names, but the first name is Heinrich Röler or Höler.

Did you find anything interesting? Firstly, there is no place Name. Secondly, yes! Immanuel Gottlieb's profession was Hutmacher, what means the Hatter!!! We have already met one before. Do you remember? Here is he: Schochenmaier the Hatter from Ludwigsburg. In that post we got to know a Schochenmaier the Hatter from a building application (1810), but he was without first name. I think we have found this missing name - Immanuel Gottlieb. It would be good to prove that he had lived in Ludwigsburg (area).

Please, admire the old town of Ludwigsburg:



Let's go on! In 1813, when Friederika Wilhelmina was about 11 years old, her sister died. She was 25 years 10 months and 1 day old. The information is from here:


Her Name had been Juliana Christiana Schochenmeier. Her father had been Gottlieb Immanuel Schochenmeier, HUTMACHER in Ludwigsburg! It's already impressive) And her mum had been Kristina geb. Schelling. That fits perfectly Friederika's parents. The order in personal names was not fixed: Gottlieb Immanuel or Immanuel Gottlieb, both were possible. If she died in 1813 and she was 25 years old, then she might be born in 1788.

Here is the whole record, but I can't decipher all of it:


 This church book is from Nagold. Maybe that's why it's noticed that her father was a hatter in Ludwigsburg (about 60 km between them). Read from Wiki:

Nagold is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the Northern Black Forest. It is located in the Landkreis (district) of Calw (Germany/Baden-Württemberg). Nagold is known for its ruined castle, Hohennagold Castle, and for its road viaduct. It takes its name from the river Nagold, which flows through the town.
Nagold has a beautiful city centre where half-timbered houses and modern architecture meet each other. The following small villages belong to the district of Nagold: Emmingen, Gündringen, Hochdorf, Iselshausen, Mindersbach, Pfrondorf, Schietingen and Vollmaringen.

It looks like that:



The next step of every girl at that time was to get married. It was done in April 1826 when she had become wife of Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (where Heinrich is last name!). He had been born in 1799.

Their children as follows:

Carl August (1826-1851)
Friederike Luise (1827-....)
Christiane Wilhelmine (1829-1830)
Pauline (1831-....)
Caroline Sophie (1833- ....) 
Johanne (1842-1842)

Here is their marriage record:


It's almost unredable but you may recongnize their names: Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (last тame is underlined) + Friederika Wilhelmina Schochenmaier (last name is underlined). Then religion - for Friederika "evang" - it means "evangelical". Then parents: for Friederika - Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (underlined), Hutmacher, Lburg (for Ludwigsburg), Christina n. Schelling (underlined).

Name Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich
Geburtsdatum 01 Apr 1799
Geburtsort Oberalfelderbach
Name des Ehepartners Friederike Wilhelmina Schoehenmaier
Geburtsdatum des Ehepartners 11 Sep 1802
Geburtsort des Ehepartners Lburg.
Ereignisdatum 09 Apr 1826
Name des Vaters Georg Friedrich Heinrich
Name der Mutter Eva Barbara Burger
Name des Vaters des Ehepartners Immanuel Gottlieb Schoehenmaier
Name der Mutter des Ehepartners Christiana Schelling
Familienstand Single
Familienstand des Ehepartners Single

Every human life is to be ended by death. Our relative had died in 1834 at age of 32 only! Here is the document:


As usually you may read her Name of Friederika Wilhelmine Schochenmaier and the names of parents: Iman. Gottl. Schochenmaier (Hutmacher) and Christina geb. Schelling.

Hér husband died 3 years later in 1837:


In the last column you can read Friederika Wilhelmina, geb. Schochenmaier.

The whole life in records... It was a rare case when we can follow the most important miles of the life of one of the Schochenmaiers in the beginning of the 19th century. I hope she was happy during such a short life...