The Schochenmaiers Reunion in Saint-Petersburg

I'd like to share with all of you the news on a great meeting I had last week. During my trip to Russia, I've planed to visit the former capital of the Russian Empire and I met our remote relative Natasha Schochenmaier from Saint-Petersburg.

As you know, according to her origin, she is much more closer to the American-Canadian Schochenmaiers than to ours. Let me explain how we are related.


Natasha's great great grandfather was Christian Schochenmaier (1866-1934), brother of Michael (1859-1937) and Jacob (1861-1923) who had left for the New World in 1880s. It seems to be that he was only 20 years old when his brothers emigrated, he stayed with his farther and got his farm.

As well as other Russianb Schochenmaiers, his son Heinrich Schochenmaier (1905-1975), grandfather of Natasha, fled to the West from the Soviet Army but he got stuck in Poland and was deported to the Soviet North, settlement of Syktyvkar, where was very cold and snowy.  His son Harry Schochenmaier (1937-2018) as well as grandchildren Eugen (1963) and Natasha were born there.

It means that our branches of the Schochenmaiers hadn't seen each other since 1946 (because the ours had been deported either to the South of Ural or to Kazakhstan, so just opposite direction)!!! And now we met ! That was great! I am so thankful to Natasha for such a wonderful time we had together, Her son Nikita Schochenmaier (1995) joined us in order to find out more about our history and origin.

Oldest record on Schochenmaiers in the Russian Empire ever found!

My dear relatives, the remote and close ones, after almost two years of posting solely on the historical Schochenmaiers from Germany, today, as I promised, I will show you the oldest record from the Russian Empire where the Schochenmaiers are mentioned. It's a new period, it's related directly to us and it's much more improtant for our Amercian and Canadian Schochenmaiers! I will explain why)

Here is the document from year 1844:

Previously, we could track the Schochenmaiers in the Russian Empire from the beginning of the 1850s.

For example, we could find out that:

Ludwig Schochenmaier (1830-1856, wheelwright) and Katharina Kuprian (Kuprijahn) (1833-1856) married on the 20 Dec 1851 (record from the church book in Worms / Beresan Colony / Odessa) and gave birth to their first daughter Margaretha (September 1852). All of them died during the cholera epidemy in 1856.

His brother August Schochenmaier (1825-1855, smith) married Maria Margaretha Ochsner (1834-1917) on 31 May 1854 (record from the church book in Rohrbach / Beresan Colony / Odessa). He died in July 10 1855 because of cholera.

Their brother Gottlieb Schochenmaier (about 1833, tailor) married Katharina Huber (1836-1856) on the 12 Oct 1854 ( from the church book in Lustdorf (please do not read it in English, it's German name - pronounce like "Loostdorf" / Grossliebental Colony / Odessa).

And, it seems to be that we have found the baptismal record of their forth brother -
Christian Schochenmaier. As you can see, he was born in 1837 but baptized in 1844. He was a cartwright. I suggest they worked together with Ludwig. In this context, it proves the theory of origin of the Schochenmaiers presented in the Memory Book of the Canada by Clarence Schochenmaier.

Why could he be so interesting for the Amercian and Canadian Schochenmaiers? The answer is short: according to our family tree, he was father of Michael (1859-1937) and Jacob (1861-1923) Schochenmaier, who had left for the New World. We never knew when he had been born, but now we do.

Additionally to that, we can see the names of his parents!!! And what a great news - maybe now we have found the names of all four brothers, namely of August, Ludwig, Gottlieb and Christian, from who we all descend (technically from Gottlieb and Christian only, for August and Ludwig either had no children or gave birth to girls only).

In the next post, we discuss names of the parents, what else can we find thanks to this new record and where was the church book from.

First Schochenmaiers in the US detected!

As I promised, we finish the serie of posts about our ancestors deep from the past when they had lived in Germany. In the latest posts, I told you about children of Carl August Schochenmaier (1793-1847), the bricklayer master from Heilbronn. And today, I'd like to share with you my last discovery of the really first Schochenmaiers who had come over to the New World. Here is the register journal:

They are three chidlren of the above-mentioned Carl August Schochenmaier! Let me introduce:

Auguste Louise Schochenmaier (1823-???? after 1848)
Caroline Pauline Schochenmaier (1829-???? after 1849) and 
Carl Gustav Schochenmaier (1834-1851).

I know what you gonna tell me))) Stop! We've alraedy read about one of them! And you are right. I've alraedy written about Caroline Pauline Schochenmaier in my "Any Schochenmaiers prior to 1880s in the New World? Yes!" post but without any idea how Caroline was related to the "big" German family tree. Now I know it and I've found two of her relatives who came with Caroline together.

After I found all details, I think I got the general overview of the situation. Just imagine year 1847, the Schochenmaier's family went through three deaths: mum Luise Friderike Hofmann (1798–1847) died at 49 years because of "dentition fever", then only one week later (!) daughter of Maria Carolina Schochenmaier (1826-1890) - Pauline Friederike Luise Schochenmaier (1845–1847), and finally in two months father Carl August Schochenmaier (1793–1847) who passed away with 54 years because of "violent hemorrhage" (= internal bleeding). The last cause of death could be explained by his job with high risks of injuries. Maria Carolina is already married and is in good conditions but three children are just left on their own((( So, they defy their destiny, they take a ship to America to start a new life.

In the emigration archives, we find the following info:

Three persons under the names Louise and Carolina Schochemeyer  on 24th October 1847 take the ship (bark) General Green from the harbor of Antwerp in Belgium. They reached the coast of America on 31st December 1847.

Here is the scan:

By the way, the green question is pointing out that I am very interested in one more person, namely Louise Heinrich. This is due to the known fact that our ancestors had a closed relationship with the Heinrich family. I mean Friederike Wilhelmine Schochenmaier (1802-1844), sister of Carl August who married to Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (1799-1837) and their second daughter was named Friederike Louise Heinrich (1827-????). As Friedreke is her mum's name, it's very possible that her main name could be Louise. Besides that, her age noticed on the passangers' list matches that of Louise. So, maybe they decided to undertake such a difficult voyage.

Well, two names but I wrote "three persons". I am sure that their brother Carl Gustav joined them later as he was 13 years in 1847 and it's very possible that somebody was looking after him. Let's go one by one:

1. Louise Schochenmeyer (1823) : there is no info after she reached the New World. Everything could happen, she married, or moved or died. If she got another surname, it's not possible anymore to find her.

2. Caroline Schochenmeyer (1829). As we know she got married to Romuald Jacobi or Jacobs on the 2nd January 1848. STOP!!! Did you spot it??? I can't believe))) They got married 2 (TWO!!!) days after Caroline came out of the ship))) How can it  be possible??? In the same list of passangers, I din't find his name, it means he was already in the U.S. How can we interpret it? Did he wait for her? But where did they meet before??? I don't kniow what to think)))

The problem is that I couldn't find them after that. No info. However, I can suggest one explanation. My new discovery is that this Romuald Jacobi/s is Romuald Heinrich Bruno Jacobi, born in Düsseldorf in 1819, who, accroding to archives, died in in St. Louis (Missouri) on the 20th June 1849. It's 18 months after their marriage. It may explain why they didn't left anything after them, maybe it was a kind of epidemy. Either she died at the same time with her husband or she remarried and got new name.

By the way, Romuald Jacobi is descendant of a pretty known family in Germany. His brother was Victor Friedrich Jacobi (1809-1892), Professor of Zoology at the University of Leipzig, his father was Georg Arnold Jacobi (1768-1845), painter and state councilor of the North-Rhine Westphalia, his grandfather was Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819), German writer, economy reformer and philosopher (see the portrait!), his great grandfather was Johann Konrad Jacobi (1715-1788), German manufacturer, Electoral 'Councilor of Commerce', his great gr. grandfather was Johann Andreas Jacobi (1680-1756), Lutheran clergyman from the Lower Saxony, first from the simple Jacobis who ever studied. Well, it was a good catch by Caroline Schochenmaier))), it proves that she was a beautiful and well-educated girl!!!

3. Carl Gustav Schochenmaier (1834-1851). It seems to be that after the youngest brother grew up, he decided to join their sisters. In this case, we may suggest that two girls were still alive in the year 1851... Or he just followed their example in order to get a better life. Under the name of Gustavus Carl Schochemayer, he can be found within the death index in the Louisiana Archives (Bouton Rouge) in September 1851. He was 17 years old. But when did he arrive to the New World from Europe?  He is not on the passangers' lists, so maybe his name was spelled in a wrong way, and yes, we may stumble upon the following:

On the 7th April 1851 as Charles Schofelmeyer (was falsly transcribed by FamilySearch), he came out of the ship Lexington which proceeded from the French harbor Le Havre:

  
It's noticed "Bavaria" what was written for every German person in France)))

From April to September, there are only 5 months. That is why I think that he got seriously sick during the awful travel across Atlantic ocean and then he died. What a crazy destiny, to came to the U.S. for 5 months and then to die. 

Well, it's the end for the historical German Schochenmaiers. In the next post, I will share with you my new discovery from the Russia. It's so exciting, I've found the oldest mention of the Schochenmaiers in the Russian Empire. YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Maria Carolina Schochenmaier (1826-1890), mother of thirteen babies

After a short break, only two posts about historical Schochenmaiers are left. As I promised, today I'd like to present to you Maria Carolina Schochenmaier (1826-1890), daughter of Master bricklayer Carl August Schochenmaier (1793-1847) that moved from Ludwigsburg to Heilbronn.

Her 7th child was Christiane Emilie Sauter (1857–1937). Number 7 is lucky, isn't it))) At the age of 26, she married to Wilhelm Reuther (1855-1936) from Gemmrigheim by Ludwigsburg. Here you can find his family tree. They had three children during their marriage. She died on January 26, 1937, in Waldhof, Baden-Württemberg, at the age of 79. By the way, that Wilhelm Reuther belongs to a well-known industrialist family. His brother Carl Reuther (1846-1908) was a factory owner, he founded VAG Armaturen. Here is his family, he's in the center... who knows maybe his brother is in the picture as well (who could be about 50 if the photo was taken in 1905?):

Let's go back to her mother Maria Carolina Schochenmaier. Born on 22 March and baptized on 2nd April 1826 in Heilbronn. Here is it in the church book:

We have no idea what she did, but it seems to be that she got illegitimate daughter Pauline Friederike Luise Schochenmaier (1845-1847). The latter was born two years prior to her mother's mariage, she bears the family name of her mother. Besides that, there is a note in the death register (spur. from spuria that means "spurious") as follows:

 However, her father and husband of Maria Caroline is to be already seen thereon. His name is Johann Friedrich Saut(t)er (1820-1895). He should have been a kind of tailor or cutter if I read off his profession properly (in German "Schneider"). He was born in Hessigheim (between Ludwigsburg and Heilbronn) to farmer Georg Friedrich Sauter (1768-1821) and Eva Catharine Rosine Pfeiffer (1785-????). By the way, their ancestors' tree can be reconstructed up to his great-great-grandfather Hans Balthas Sauter (1674-1751), who was already born in the same Hessigheim.
Johann Friedrich Sauter and Maria Carolina Schochenmaier got married on April 3, 1847 in Hessigheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

They had 14 children in 25 years:

1. Carl Adolph Sauter (1847–). Actually, I suppose that her first son was not from Johann Friedrich. Is it not strange that they married on 3rd April and she gave birth to Carl Adolph on 9th Apr 1847? What does it mean? The cutter Johann Friedrich was a such nice guy that she married a pregnant Maria Carolina in order to avoid the notice "spurious child" in the church book.

At age of 21, she went through three deaths: her mum Luise Friderike Hofmann (1798–1847) died at 49 years on 16th July 1847 (the cause of death was "dentition fever" that is pretty much strange because it is a children's disease!), then only one week later (!) her daughter Pauline Friederike Luise Schochenmaier (1845–1847) on 23rd July 1847 possibly in Heilbronn, and finally in two months her father Carl August Schochenmaier (1793–1847) who passed away with 54 years on 6th Oct 1847 in Heilbronn as well because of "violent hemorrhage" (= internal bleeding). So, it was not a kind of epidemy... The last cause of death could be explained by his job with high risks of injuries.

In 1875, Carl Adolph Sauter married Rosine Catharine Leonhard (1848-????) in Heilbronn. What happened after that is unknown: no archives, no children... nothing! 


2. Luise Caroline Sauter (1848–). No info, maybe she died at her baby age. She had been christened 11 days after her birth.. I am not sure whether it means she was a weak child.

3. Marie Johanne Sauter (1850–). No info, baptized in 19 days after the birth...

4. Johanne Sophie Sauter (1852–1852). Born on 17th April, christened on 21st May and died on 10th July.

5. Pauline Caroline Sauter (1853–1929). Born 8th October. She married Karl Friedrich Jäger (1858-????) from Bothnang on 17th March 1883. After that they moved to Mannheim ( about 80 km) where they got 6 children.  Pauline Jäger passed away on 7th March 1929 in Neckargemünd (by Heidelberg, between Mannheim and Heilbronn).

6. Elisa Christiane Sauter (1856–1857). She died in 7 months due to "convulsive fits".

7. see above)))

8. Mathilda Johanna Sauter (1859–1867). That girl died at the age of 8 years because of "tracheitis" (in German "Luftröhrenentzundung") that is an inflammation of the trachea.

9. Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Sauter (1860–1860) • Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, died in one month, due to "Brechdurchfall" that is bloody diarrhea / perhaps bacillary dysentery (i.e. Shigellosis)

10. Wilhelmine Caroline Sauter (1863–1863) • Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, died in almost 6 months, due to teeth infection or something like that(((

11. Bertha Christine Sauter (1865–1865) • Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany,  died in one month, due to "Brechdurchfall" that is bloody diarrhea / perhaps bacillary dysentery (i.e. Shigellosis)

12. Caroline Wilhelmine Sauter (1866–1866) Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, died in two weeks, due to "convulsive fits".

13. Bernhardina Emma Sauter (1870–1870) • Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, died in three months, due to "Keuchhusten", what means a whooping cough.

Master bricklayer Carl August Schochenmaier (1793-1847).

The successor of the Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834) was his son Carl August Schochenmaier (1793-1847).


According to the documents, he was a master bricklayer (in German: Maurermeister)!!! Very interesting and sharp turn after two generations of cloth-makers)







Who knows what he could build up at that time. Just have a look of the buidings which have been constructed in the first half of the 19th century in Heilbronn where he had worked:

 

What do we know about him?

He was born on the 27th of March 1793 in Ludwigsburg:

In 1807, with 14, he got confirmated.

The next milestone is his marriage in May 13, 1821. Interestingly, it seems to be that Carl August moved to Heilbronn from Ludwigsburg. It's 37 km (23 miles) away from his father. I could not find out if he first got a job there or got married.

Let me introduce his wife Luise Friderike Hofmann (1798-1847).

As you can read off, she is daugther of Johann Jacob Hofmann and Maria Christina Kaufmann. I didn't find them but I suggest they correspond to Jacob Friedrich Hofmann and Christina Kaufmann who got married in Heilbronn on the 1st of June 1797.

Carl August and Luisa Friederike got at least 8 children:


Heinrike Luise Wilhelmine Schochenmaier (1822–????) - no info

 Auguste Luise Schochenmaier (1823–????)

Wilhelm Adolph Schochenmaier (1824–1824)

Maria Karoline Schochenmaier (1826–????) 

Gustav Georg Schochenmaier (1828–1828)

Caroline Pauline Schochenmaier (1829–????)

Clara Bertha Schochenmaier (1831–1832)

Carl Gustav Schochenmaier (1834–1851)

At least three of them died very early: Wilhelm Adolph, Gustav Georg and Clara Bertha.

I haven't found any info about the very first girl Heinrike Luise, so maybe she died, too.

Maria Karolina got married and was very rich in children and their descendants. I will write a post about them.

And now, the most intriguing aspect: other three children moved away and I am exciting to find out where to!

Friederike Wilhelmine Schochenmaier, wife of trumpeter from the Cavalry Regiment Nr. 1

Today, we finish the overview of the Immanuel Gottlieb's (1759-1834) family.

Let me introduce the last daughter: Friederike Wilhelmine Schochenmaier (1802-1844).
In April 1826 in Ludwigsburg, she got married to Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (1799-1837) where Heinrich is the last name!

Johann Friedrich Gottlieb was a trumpet player in the Cavalry Regiment Nr. 1 of the Württemberg Army. The latter is known as the 20th (2nd Württemberg) Uhlans "King William I" Regiment. It was a cavalry regiment. The regiment was formed as dragoons in 1809, and was reorganized as uhlans in 1871. The regiment took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign, the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian war.





















He was born in Obermaßholderbach (not far from Heilbronn) in 1799 in the family of Georg Friedrich Heinrich (1774-1840) and Eva Maria Barbara Buerger (1778-????). They are two old families from the area of Oehringen (see picture).









What about Friederike? She was born on the 11th of September 1802 in Ludwigsburg:

 At the age of 5 years, she lost her brother Christian Joseph (1787-1808); at the age of 11 - her sister Juliana Christiana (1788-1813). At the age of 14, in 1816, she got confirmated. With 21 she passed through the death of her mother Christina nee Schelling (1761-1823).

Here is her marriage note in the church book:

Friederike and Johann got the following children:


Carl August Heinrich (1826–1851)

Friederike Luise Heinrich (1827–????)

Christiane Wilhelmine Heinrich (1829–1833)

Friederike Luise Pauline Heinrich (1831–????)

Caroline Sophie Amalie Heinrich (1833–????)

Johanne Dorothea Caroline Heinrich (1836–????)

There is no info about them. Almost all of them were girls and probably they changed their names after getting married.

I do not know how but in 1842 Friederike Wilhelmine gave birth to an illegitimate girl who died on the next day - Johanne Caroline Schochenmaier (1842–1842). I could not find from who...

Well, we are through with the family of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier. Only one generation is left and we are done!

Eva Rosina Schochenmaier (1796) to be the first immigrant?

After we met three boys from the family of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834), let's get aquainted with three girls. Our second lady is:

Eva Rosina Schochenmaier (1796 - ????). Here is her family book:

She was born on the 17th Nov 1796 to Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier and Christina Schelling. The names of her parents are to be found below as well from the birth register of Ludwigsburg:

As you may conclude from her family page, she got married in 1822 to the citizen of Ludwigsburg and master-tailor (in German "Schneidermeister") Jakob Friedrich Furch who was born in 1798 in Ludwigsburg, too.

They got 6 children:

1. Carl Friedrich Constantin Furch (20 Apr 1823 – ????)
2. Carl Friedrich Andreas Furch (12 Apr 1824 – 1 Jun 1824)
3. Carl Andreas Hermann Furch (11 Jul 1826 – 18 Nov 1826)
4. Wilhelmine Charlina Eberhardtine Furch (4 Aug 1828 – 4 Mar 1829)
5. Carl Friderich Andreas Furch (18 Sep 1830 – ????)
6. Friedrich Heinrich Andreas Traugott Furch (25 Feb 1833 – 7 Mar 1833)

Their family tree looked like that: 

What do we know about the origin of the Furch family?

I was surprised as I found some info about his parents:

His parents were:

Johann Leonhard Furch (1769-1820) and Margarethge Munz (1769-1825) from Poppenweiler (now it's part of Ludwigsburg).

Please, have a look how its scenery is admirable (then and now). Just click on them:

 

Johann Leonhard was brick maker (in German: "Ziegler").  His parents, or in other words, grandparents of Johann Friedrich were: Jacob Friedrich Furch and Esther Salome Bauder.


Now, why did I titled the post as "the first immigrant". Let us zoom the very first picture and try to decipher the last notice. By the way, did you get that there are no death years? Why. I suggest I know the answer:

In 1833, the whole family emigrated from Germany... but where? I read like America (in German: Amerika). So, we should look for them in the U.S. after 1833.

I have searched in the US and found the following persons:

• Jacob Furch who took part in Census 1840 in Bethel, Clark, Ohio, USA;
• J. Furch is mentioned in Columbus, Chenango, New York in the Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1860  

However, two words prior to "emigrated" can be read as "but not" (aber nicht). What does it mean? The family sold their civil right of the Württemberg Kingdom but could not immigrate to the US? I don't understand.

The special is that I've also found a very interesting notice in the family table of the Furch family. Let us zoom the list of Jacob's borthers. The place of death for one of them is noticed as "in Rußland":

It seems to be that the elder brother of Jacob Friedrich Furch, Gottlieb Friedrich (1798) emigrated to Russia. It seems to be that we reached the generation, which was ready to leave Germany. Who knows, maybe two brothers emigrated in two different countries.

It's getting more interesting then)))

Charlotta Louisa Schochenmaier (1794-1874)

After we met three boys within the family of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834), let's get aquainted with three girls. Our first lady is:

Charlotta Louise Schochenmaier

• was born on October, 25 1794 in Ludwigsburg;
• got confirmated in 1809 

After this info from the family table of her father, it's difficult to find copies of official documents. However, we can stumble upon some interesting facts while finding the births of her children in Dotternhausen. That is why, we may suggest that she got married to Franz Xaver Klaiber (1792 - ????) and moved in.

It's pretty easy to find out that the family of the Klaibers was historically present in Dotternhausen since the 17 century. Dotternhausen is a small town in the south-east of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Let's have a look where is it and how it looks like: 

 

In 1823, there were 692 inhabitants. Now what about children? I've found only two of them - Jacob Xaver Klaiber (born in 1827) and Theresia Klaiber (born in 1831), see below: 

That's all, nothing else. Then, I told to myself: let's try from another end. If I can't find anything about the wife, maybe there is something about her husband. And on the Geneanet, you can find almost all Klaibers from Dotternhausen, but and that's a BUT like that. Are you ready? The wife of Franz Xaver is noticed as Charlotta Luisa, not Schochenmaier (!!!), but HAHN. Do you understand?

I started to compare these two ladies... It's very possible that she had another wife with the same first given names, everything is possible.... But, those two wives shared almost every details, if they had been similar or identic to each other...

Here is the list of similiraties:

- both of them were from Ludwigsburg!
- both of them were born on the 25th of October
- both of them got boys named Jacob in 1827 and girls names Theresia in 1831...
- both of them got married to Franz Xaver Klaiber

Well, I may conclude that those two wives were the same person. I didn't find any explanations but it's possible that our Charlotta Luisa got married before to any Hahn... it's strange though... no document in the archives about it.

But let's admit that they are the same person, then we may add new info about Charlotta Luisa, although on different websites there are different details:

• Franz Xaver and Charlotta Luisa got married in Ludwigsburg on the 12 Jan 1822; 
• Franz Xaver was son of Johann Martin Klaiber (1757-1825) and Lugard Dachtler (1762-1841)
• Besides the above-mentioned babies, she got more children:

• Henrietta Louisa Mathilda Klaiber (1822-1845);
• Josepha Sophia Theresa Klaiber (1825-1826);
• Jacob Xaver Klaiber (1827-1828);
• Z. Ferdinand Klaiber (1828-1828);
• Theresia Klaiber (1831-1851).   
• She died on the 16th Feb 1874. So, she was about 80 years old, very respectable age at that time... 

After I examnied the family table one more time, I think, I found some new details. Next to Charlotta Luisa you may spot the name of Franz or Xaver Klaiber:

If I decipher properly, then he was on a military service at the 5th Infantery Regiment (see the picture!). And what is amazing, that Regiment had a garnison in Lidwigsburg from 1818!!! So, it's probable that they could get married in 1822 in Ludwigsburg. Below you may spot the first girl: Henrietta Louisa Mathilda Klaiber (born Dec 9 1822).

Well, so far for today... I have no idea how I can find out what was the reason of the family name change, but everything is possible)))