Monday, October 2, 2017

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.