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)))

Immanuel, Carl and Friedrich Schochenmaier

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

We've already met three 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. 

Friederika Wilhelmina Barbara Schochenmaier (1790-1834) which died only 5 days (4 Oct 1834) after her father Immanuel Gottlieb had passed away (29 Sep 1834). In that way, we found out that our ancestors died because of dysentery and, for instance, in Ludwigsburg among 9.606 inhabitants 1.674 git sick and 118 died. 

Today, I am going to present to you three boys, about whom there is not much info(((

The fourth child was a boy. His name is Immanuel Cornelius Simon Schochenmaier (1791-1792). 

He was born on October 31, 1791 and died on April 7, 1792. It means he has lived only for 5 months and 1 week. It is sad to notice that the infant mortality was pretty high at that time. 

As usually, you can spot his name, then father's name, mother's name and on the right side the names of his godfathers, amon which the name of his grand father Johann Christian Schochenmaier (1724-1799), the Master of the Manufactory within the Ludwigsburg Workhouse. 

The death year is to be found only in the Family Table. 

The eighth boy (I skip the fifth boy, who will be the hero of the separate post!, and couple of girls, who I will dedicate the next post to) is Carl Heinrich Cornelius Schochenmaier (1798 -????). 

It's very strange but everything I stumbled upon is the birth registration. 

That's all. On the Family Table, you can see that he was confirmed at the age of 14 in 1812:

  
and then there is a note about him but it's an aweful handwriting and I cannot decipher it. 

So, we don't know how he ended up. I have no idea if he was too young to take part in the Napoleonic Wars, but we are aware that from the Russian campaign 1812-1815 only a few hundred returned safely from the original contingent of 15,800 Württemberg soldiers. Maybe among those 15.000 soldiers there was our Cornelius? Who knows...

The ninth child and the last baby boy was Friedrich Gottlob Felix Schochenmaier (1800-1801). 

He was born on May 23, 1800 and died on January 21, 1801. He has lived for eight months. 

 So far today, three boys, two of which died in their early childhood and one of which remained unknown to us. 

Next time, I will post about three girls, who married and got children. 

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!!!