I have written several Blogs lates concerning my HIrschenhof Ancestors and the Revision Lists. So far I have covered:
- Rathfelder
- Schwechheimer
- Lutke
- Fuhrmann and Biedermann
I want to do a future Blog on my Gangnus ancestors in the Revision Lists. However, I have left a few loose ends which I wanted to address in this Blog.
Biedermann Families
One of my goals in looking through these Revision Lists is to add siblings to my ancestors’ families.
Above are some of my ancestors in my Biedermann Line in 1816. The name Biedermann is abbreviated, but it was clear from the 1811 Revision Lists that this was Biedermann. I tried to add Luise to the family, but Ancestry noted that I had that Maria Margaret her mother died in 1802:
This leads me to believe that the death I have for Mother Fuhrmann was wrong. I see two trees on Ancestry. One has a later death date for Anna which seems more realistic:
This means that someone else saw something that I saw.
Maria Eva Buchenroth Born 1772
It should be possible to find this family in the 1782 Audit of Souls for Hirschenhof:
Here is Johan Peter on Farm 43 suspiciously close to some of my other ancestors’ farms. the next page is difficult to decipher:
Eva Maria must be my ancestor at age 10. That means that it appears that Johan Peter was Eva Maria’s father at age 72 and not her grandfather! It is also possible that Maria Anganesia? Schmidt could be a second wife.
This chart shows how close my ancestors’ families lived near each other.
It appeaars that Maria’s second name was more like Agnes. Here is Helmsheim, Germany:
This fills out the Buchenroth family. I found a record of Barbara, but with no date and no mother’s name. I assume that the mother was Maria Agnesia.
Filling in a Schwechheimer Blank
Unfortunately, Anna Schwechheimer was born in 1784. That means that she missed the 1782 Audit of Souls. And by the time that the 1816 Audit came around, she had been married for a while. However, I have a hint from the 1811 Revision Lists.
Only men were listed, but here is Simon Fuhrmann living on Farm 11 with Joahnn Schweigheimer. The note at Ancestry says:
I do not see the word ‘schwester’ in the record, but let’s assume that Ancestry is correct. Simon is obviously not Johann Schwegheimer’s sister. However, I think that Simon married Johann’s sister. The good news is that Johann was born before 1782. I skipped transcribing this family into my spreadsheet previoiusy (not a good idea), but will do that now:
What I gather from this is that Macus Schweigheimer had a large family. Likely he had three sons in law living on his farm in 1811 after he passed away. I further surmise that Anne E Schwechheimr was the daughter of Marcus Schweigheimer born in 1874 when her father was about 55 and her mother Anna Maria Schmidt was about 38.
Here I have added two people as Anna’s parents who were already in my Ancestry Tree. What this all means is that I must descend from this couple twice:
This shows my Rathfelder descent on the top left through Johann G Scwechheimer. The Gangnus descent is on the right through Anna Schwechheimer. Bottom line is that there were only so many Colonists in Hirschenhof to marry. This fills in Maria Gangnus’ Tree:
I am not able to see others who have made this connection at Ancestry. I see that a DNA connection at MyHeritage, Wolf has made this connection in his tree:
Thank you, Wolf, for your research.
Summary and Conclusions
- Without the connections noted in the Revision Lists, it would be difficult to assemble some of my Hirschenhof ancestral families
- In a closed society it should be assumed that one will descend from a person or couple more than once.
- After researching US, English and Irish records, it appears that these Revision Lists are some of the best records for the time that they covered.
- French Canadian records are also good, but they do not have the family relationships. These relationships have been developed from birith, marriage and death records for French Canadians.
- There will always be loose ends, but this solves some of the looser ends
- There are some loose ends on my Rathfelder side which I will look at later.