Friederika Wilhelmina Barbara Schochenmaier (1790-1834) sheds light on the father's cause of death

Let's continue getting to know the family of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834).

We've already met two oldest children: Christian Joseph (1787-1808) and Juliana Christiana (1788-1813), who hadn't got married and both died of typhus. The girl had worked as chambermaid of Franziska von Harling (1766–1819), wife of the Count and Kingdom of Württemberg's Chief Minister Philipp Christian von Normann-Ehrenfels (1756-1817).

Here is the list of the whole family kids:

The third child and the second girl is Friederika Wilhelmina Barbara Schochenmaier (1790-1834):

I have not found any extra info about her. Everything we know is from the Family Table of Immanuel Gittlieb:

In 1804 with 14 years she had been confirmated and she died on the 4th of October 1834:

 In her marital status (2nd column) stands "ledig" - not married. With 44 years and not married in the 1st half of the 19th century is strange, don't you think? The cause of death is either "Busse" (last column) that means "bone caries" or "Ruhr" that corresponds to dysentery. Oh, dear! What happened to her?

The only thing I can't understand is why her age was noticed as 32 years??? She should have been 44! Is it a slip of the pen? Oh she just looked younger?))) Although I can spot one interesting thing. If you count 32 years back, it will be 1802. The latter shows the birth year of the last daughter which name was just Friederica Wilhelmina (without Barbara). Just look at her death year! Can you spot it? At her death year it had been noticed 1834 as well and then it was crossed out if somebody made a lapse. Maybe here 32 years is the age of the sister born in 1802? So to say, a reverse error? I don't know when the Family Table had been "coined"(. By the way, her little sister didn't die in 1834 because according to the archives she had two babies after that year)))

 There is another mistery, my dear relatives. Who has realized that she had died only 5 days (4 Oct 1834) after her father Immanuel Gottlieb had done (29 Sep 1834)? Is it just a coincidence? I've checked out the cause of death of her daddy and as I've already posted about him, we know that he passed away because of "dysentery". Well, now we got to find out that his dauther and him died of dysentery within 5-6 days.

Out of my curiosity, I decided to find the historical facts about these epidemy and it was not difficult at all:

One of the proof is medical report of a doctor who describes the critical state of a woman who had given a birth to a boy and then to a girl. The first one died and the second one stayed alife despite the epidemic dysentery (blue) bursting out in Ludwigsburg (green) in Fall 1834 with a heavy mortality (red).

The second proof is more objective as it was published in the medical journal of the 1835:

It says the dysentery (green) affected people mostly between 60-80 and under 3 years (red) and, for instance, in Ludwigsburg among 9.606 inhabitants 1.674 git sick and 118 died (blue).

Well, now we know that our relatives were among those 118 who were struck down by the epidemic.

Earl's chambermaid Juliana Christiana Schochenmaier (1788-1813)

Today we become acquainted with first two children in the family of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834) who had lived in Ludwigsburg and had worked as a hatter.

Do you remember ? He married Christine Schelling (1761-1823) in 1786. Here are their children as follows:

1. In February 12, 1787 the first baby boy was born - Christian Joseph Schochenmaier (1787-1808).

Among the godfathers (last entry), you can spot Johann Chritian Schochenmaier, his grandfather! According to the family tablet, he has had his confirmation in 1801 (14 years old).

Christian Joseph died in August 1808:

His age is noticed as 21 years and 6 months. The "led." means "ledig" - unmarried. The reason of death is "Nervenfieber" that can be literally translated as "nerves fever" what at that time corresponded to "typhus".

2. Juliana Christiana Schochenmaier (1788-1813) - was the first daughter, who was born on the 15th February 1788.

More info can be found in her death certificate:

She was 25 years and 10 months old when she passed away. The reason of death is the same - typhus (not in the picture).

Typhus again!!! I open the medical encyclopedy and it says: "During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians." Did you get it? It's about 1812, it's the beginning of the 19th centry when typhus epidemies were spread all over the Europe.

Juliana Christiana was single (forelast entry "ledig").

But the most interesting is the entry between her name and names of the parents, it's so to say "status". It's written "Kammerjungfer" that stands for Kammerjungfrau. It's an old occupational term which can be translated as chambermaid or maidservant but it indicates someone whose primary role is to serve or assist a lady of a higher society.



Where? Thre are two possibilities.

 The place of death is Unterschwandorf (60 km from Ludwigsburg).
There is a castle there but I couldn't find out who the owner was:

But as for the place of work I can decipher only "Graf Nor-man von Haus in Mötzingen" and I do realize that it could be only one possible person!!!



Well, she worked for the Count Philipp Christian von Normann-Ehrenfels (1756-1817), or precisely to say for his wife Franziska von Harling (1766–1819). The Count was the royal jurist, who served as the Kingdom of Württemberg's chief minister in 1806–1812. During 10 years (last years for the Count) they had lived in the Castle of Mötzingen. The latter has been destroyed in the WWII but the ruins can be still seen in the building built upon the old castle.

  

It's in  Mötzingen (8 km from Unterschwandorf):

 

So, 8 children are left for the next post. Have a nice day, my dear relatives!!!

Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834)

We are moving on, we are moving up our family tree.

Please, welcome Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier.

He is grandson of the Staff Sergeant Johann Christian (1690s-1750s) from the Stuttgart Infantery Regiment "Alt-Württemberg" and son of the Cloth Manufactory's Master (within the royal Workhouse) from Ludwigsburg Johann Christian (1724-1799). The orphans of the regiment were educated in the Workhouse that also produced military clothes for soldiers and horses. So, it's the turn of the 3rd generation of the Württemberg family.


1. Years of life

Immanuel Gottlieb was born in 1759, February 6. We can spot his parents Johann Christian and Anna Margaretha.

 

He had lived for 74 years and died in 1834, September 29. Besides that, it's noticed that he was widow (Wtwr) and died from dysentery ("Ruhr"). Mistakenly, he is named "Gottlob" instead of "Gottlieb".

On first reading, he had been given a pretty strange name - Immanuel Gottlieb. As for Gottlieb, I must precise that he had the uncle named Christoph Gottlieb (born 1722, Oct.), elder brother of Johann Christian (1724-1799). So, it's probably the second traditional or inherited name. What about Immanuel? Well, there are two explantions. Firstly, he could be baptized in March or around this month. The name day of Saint Emanuel in Germany is (and was) on the 26th March and he was born in the beginning of February. Secondly, this name became fashioned at that time. Who is the most popular German philosopher? Immanuel Kant who had lived in Königsberg. When was he born? In 1724.

Immanuel spent all his life in Ludwigsburg. It looked like that at that times:

2. Wedding  

The next document demonstrates who he had married to:

On the 31st January 1786 he married in Ludwigsburg to Christina Schelling.  I was astonished by fact that her father Joseph Schelling had been mayor of "Bißingen an der Enz" (today's Bietigheim-Bissingen -  the second-largest town in the district of Ludwigsburg, with 42,515 inhabitants in 2007. It is situated on the river Enz and the river Metter, close to its confluence with the Neckar, about 19 km north of Stuttgart, and 20 km south of Heilbronn.) To the end of the 18th century, it had been a small town with about 2,000 inhabitants:

Christina was born in July 1761 and died in December 1823. That is why, in 1824 when Immanuel died, he was marked as widow.


3. Job

Actually, we have already met this person, but we weren't aware of his name. Immanuel Gottlieb is the Hatter from Ludwigsburg about who I posted two years ago (May 2014).

In the 18th century, nearly everyone wore some kind of head covering, making the hat industry very important. A man’s hat advertised his social status. Hats that were more elaborate represented greater wealth or status. The hats were made of beaver skin, wool, cotton, or straw. The hatters knew how to make many different kinds of hats such as a knitted caps, broad-brimmed hats (which was the most popular), or upturned brim-tricorne hats (three-cornered hats).

Interestingly, part of the process of making hats involved “carroting” or washing the furs with a type of steaming hot, orange liquid. The liquid was full of mercury, which would attack the central nervous systems of the workers when it became airborne. Such workers would experience blurring of vision, loss of balance, delusions, and uncontrolled twitching of the muscles. This phenomenon would give rise to the statement “mad as a hatter.”

I hope he didn't suffer from it although i have no idea if such an occupation could cause the dysentery. Dysentery is a type of gastroenteritis that results in diarrhea with blood. Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. It is caused by several types of infections such as bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, or protozoa. The mechanism is an inflammatory disorder of the intestine, especially of the colon.

Net time, we'll talk about his family.

This Is the House That Johann Christian Schochenmayer built

Today we finish with Johann Christian Schochenmaier!!!

In the previous two parts we got to know that he

- was born between 1724 and 1725;
- married in 1750 to Anna Margaretha Wolf (midwife from Weiler, daughter of the silk weaver);

- they got 8 children, from which 5 died in their infancy
- worked as Master of Cloth Manufactory within Workhouse in Ludwigsburg;
- died in 1799 because of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Besides all that info, I've found the construction plan of his house in Ludwigsburg.

Under signature A 249 Bü 1429/1 (K 5) from the Court Chamber in the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart there are front view and groundplan of the Johann Christian's house. Here are they:

by courtesy of the National Archive of Baden-Württemberg

When did he build up the house? 

The construction plan is dated 5th September 1770. When it was over we do not know precisely. Well, Johann Chirstian was about 45 years old. In Europe, it's the men's life phase when you earn enough, you found a meaning and purpose to your work and you set sights on the world around you. 

Where did he build up the house? 

The problem is where that house is to be found today))) It's city of Ludwigsburg. In the 18th century, the system of houses' addresses was different and there were no streets, if I understand properly.  What do we read in the archives? I quote translating from German: 

"The front view of facades of the house opposite the City Church and "Eagle" (Adler???), as well as the layout of the ground-floor and first floor. The roofs are washed pink." 

From the document, we may conclude that the house was erected in the old city behind the "Hauptwache" - Main Sentry (or Principal Guardhouse?), so to say behind the Central Police Station of that time. So, the next question is where is the Main Guardhouse? I found out that this Hauptwache was near by the Girls' High School. Actually, it's the same quarter where the Market Place and the City Church are to be seen. 

Let's have a look at the houses opposite the City Church, maybe we'll find something that matches the layout.

This is the Market Place where on your left you may see the City Church (Stadtkirche): 

   Maybe we should look around the City Church because "opposite" could mean not only at the Market... 

This house looks a bit similarly:

Here is the old photo of the Market place:

One house is very closed to the Church:

   
It's the only one whose facade is looking directl at the City Church. The windows and the roof are pretty the same as in the pic. The gate is strange though, but maybe it could habe been changed later? Now therein there are two companies: IT solutions Ehardt and Shoeshop Böhmer. 

And what do you think? Could it be the Schochenmaier's homestead? 

By the way, our ancestor was very smart. Let's count how far is it from his work place, namely the Workhouse)))

Well, only ten minutes (800 metres) afoot and you should cross an amazing park.

I'd like to work like that))) 

Jürgen Schochenmeier passed away on Sunday 21, 2017

My relatives let me know that my great-uncle Jürgen (Georg) Schochenmeier died on Sunday 21, 2017 in the Eastern Germany. He was born on the 24th February 1941 in Odessa. He is brother of my grandma Johanna, here they stand together in the 1950s:

We didn't keep in touch a lot, but I always asked for news about him. He was saxophone player, emigrated to Germany in 1996. Here is he with his wife Galina in the end of 1960s or beginning of the 1970s:

Johann Christian Schochenmaier aka Family Guy

About Johann Christian there is a lot of info, so one post was not enough)

In the 1st part we got to know that he

- was born between 1724 and 1725;
- married in 1750 to Anna Margaretha Wolf (midwife from Weiler, daughter of the silk weaver);
- worked as Master of Cloth Manufactory within Workhouse in Ludwigsburg;
- died in 1799 because of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Let's puzzle out what kind of family man he had been.

First generation of descendents

1. Johann Christian Schochenmaier (1751-1751) 

First baby was boy who had been baptized as his father with the name of Johann Christian. At that time he was 27 years old.

 
By the way, you may read off that among the godfathers there is David Leonhard Vogt who was working as cloth-maker as well in the same Workhouse.

Johann Christian was born in March 16 but died in March 23 1751. He had lived for one week only.

2. Johann Friedrich Schochenmaier (1752-1752)

It seems to be that Johann Friedrich was still-born child for he was buried in June 17, 1752, so one day after his birth (16. June 1752). His father was 28 years old.

3. Johann Ernst Peter Schochenmaier (1753-1753)

On the 24th April 1753 Johann Ernst Peter was born. His father was 29 years old.

In two months on 21st June 1753 he died: 

4. Johann Christian Peter Schochenmaier (1754-1754)

On the 3rd May 1754 Johann Christian Peter was born. 

In 15 days he died on the 18th May 1754. His father was 30 years old. Amon the godfathers the first name is Johann Peter Rast - mint-master at Stuttgart who worked from 1746 to 1762 in the same manufactory. 

5. Johanna Juliana Barbara Schochenmaier (1755-1756)

First daughter was born on the 9th November 1755. Her father was 31 years old.

She died in three months on the 22nd February 1756: 

6. Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834)

It seems to be that Immanuel Gottlieb could be the only baby boy who had survived and had a long life. His father was 35 years old when he had been born. There is a lot of information about him (once I've already posted about him - he is that Schochenmaier the Hatter who I wrote about two years ago). 

7. Wilhelmina Charlotta Schochenmaier (1762-????)

On the 19th August 1762 Wilhelmina Charlotta was born. Her father was 38 years old at that moment. 

It's pretty strange but no info when she died... 

8. Heinrica Carolina Schochenmaier (1765 - ????)

The last child and the last baby girl was born on the 18th March 1765. Her father was 41 years old.

No info about her death either, but it is for sure that she didn't die being baby because there are records concerning her marriage with the cooper and cellarman Christoph Ludwig Höllwarth from Ludwigsburg in 1785: 

They got two daughters: Catharina Gottliebin Höllwarth (1785-????): 

and Carolina Heinrica Höllwarth (1789-????) 

The first girl got married to the cooper Christian Friedrich Mauerer (1786-????) from Botenheim (by Heilbronn) in August 1810: 

As you can see lots of children but just a few survived. 

Between three last babies of Johann Christian there are gaps of 3 years respectively, so it's probable that we may find other babies))) 

So far for today, love your children!!!