After I stumbled upon the oldest record on Schochenmaiers in the Russian Empire, we found out that Christian Schochenmaier, father of Michael (1859-1937) and Jacob (1861-1923) Schochenmaier, the Founding Fathers of the American and Canadian Schochenmaiers,
And now only one question may shed light on our history: can be Carl Schochenmaier a missing link between our today's Schochenmaiers and the historical ones from the Ludwigsburg-Stuttgart area? Let us see!
If we search through all family tree of the historical Schochenmaiers in Germany, the name Carl is to be detected for following persons:
The second and the third Schochenmaier couldn't have been fathers for Christian Schochenmaier in 1837! Carl Gustav died in September 1851 in Louisiana, I told you about him und his two sisters here.
His nephew Carl Emil was born in 1844 and probably had been taken by his mum to the U.S. in December 1847 if not died prior to emigration.
About the first Carl August Schochenmaier, I've posted in July 2018 here, where we got to know that, being a master bricklayer, he had moved to Heilbron in 1820, had had 8 children and had died in Heilbron on October 6, 1847. So he didn't left Germany.
Only one Schochenmaier left - Carl Heinrich Cornelius (1798). We don't know much about him. He is son of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834), the hatter from Ludwigsburg. His birth year could fit to the births of the first Schochenmaiers generation in the Russian Empire: August (1825), Gottlieb (abt. 1828), Ludwig (abt. 1830) and already above-mentioned Christian (1837). Everything we have of him, it's the family table of his parents with comments on every son and daughter. It's interesting to note that there is a comment about Carl but I could NOT decipher it.
Can you read what happened to him? See the picture below. What had happened to Carl after he was confirmated in 1812? (blue):
- was called Christian Franz Samuel
- was born on the 1st September 1837
- was baptized on the 1st October 1844 by Johannes Doll (1797–1857)
- lived in New Danzig (South Russia)
- and his parents' names were Carl Schochenmaier (Colonist) and Barbara Hochhalter (both Evangelical Lutherian Confession)
And now only one question may shed light on our history: can be Carl Schochenmaier a missing link between our today's Schochenmaiers and the historical ones from the Ludwigsburg-Stuttgart area? Let us see!
If we search through all family tree of the historical Schochenmaiers in Germany, the name Carl is to be detected for following persons:
- Carl August Schochenmaier (1793-1847)
- Carl Gustav Schochenmaier (1834-1851)
- Carl Emil Alexander Schochenmeyer (1844-????)
- Carl Heinrich Cornelius Schochenmaier (1798-????)
The second and the third Schochenmaier couldn't have been fathers for Christian Schochenmaier in 1837! Carl Gustav died in September 1851 in Louisiana, I told you about him und his two sisters here.
His nephew Carl Emil was born in 1844 and probably had been taken by his mum to the U.S. in December 1847 if not died prior to emigration.
About the first Carl August Schochenmaier, I've posted in July 2018 here, where we got to know that, being a master bricklayer, he had moved to Heilbron in 1820, had had 8 children and had died in Heilbron on October 6, 1847. So he didn't left Germany.
Only one Schochenmaier left - Carl Heinrich Cornelius (1798). We don't know much about him. He is son of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834), the hatter from Ludwigsburg. His birth year could fit to the births of the first Schochenmaiers generation in the Russian Empire: August (1825), Gottlieb (abt. 1828), Ludwig (abt. 1830) and already above-mentioned Christian (1837). Everything we have of him, it's the family table of his parents with comments on every son and daughter. It's interesting to note that there is a comment about Carl but I could NOT decipher it.
Can you read what happened to him? See the picture below. What had happened to Carl after he was confirmated in 1812? (blue):
