Emigrants from Fommern, Weilheim, and Waldstätten, Württemberg, 1750 and 1754

EMIGRANTS FROM FROMMERN, WEILHEIM, AND WALDSTÄTTEN, WÜRTTEMBERG, 1750 AND 1754 contributed by Elizabeth B. Bunting * T he emigration from German villages was occasionally so large in number as to prompt separate mention in the church book. In this case, the minister seems to have first entered the departures in 1754 and then entered information about those departing in 1750.1 GERMAN [left page–the pages are reversed chronologically] Anno 1754 zogen neuer dingen in die Americanishe Lande folgende Personen fort: [margin] d. 5th April Freitag 1. Joh. Gürthner ^Salp.^ mit seinem Weib An[n]a u. 5 Kinder nahmentl. 1) Anna Barbara, 2) Theresia, 3) Anna Maria, 4) Anna, 5) [blank] 2. Joh. Ludw. Strobel ^Salp.^ cum ux. Anna Maria, u. 2 Kindern 1) Agnes u. 2) Monica. 3. Michl Strobel, Salp. cum ux. u. 4 Kind. 4. Joh. Mart. Müller, Zimmermann cum ux. Marg. u. ihrem Kind Christina. [margin] d. 27th Aprl. Sam[m]stag 5. Joh. Lud. Zimmermann, Tagl. vulgo Rothen Sohn cum ux. Anna Maria u. 4 Kindern. 6. dessen Schwester Cath. Zimmermännin coel. 7. Stephan Kraus Schneider cum ux. Margretha u. 2 Kindern 1) Simon u. 2) Maria Agnes. * Elizabeth B. Bunting is on the Board of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania and its Publications Committee. Editor’s note: The 1754 record was found for Lubold [Luppoldt, Lebold, Lupold, Leopold] descendants by Frederich R. Wollmershäuser, Herrengasse 8—10, 89610 Oberdischingen, Germany, who did a translation. He did not, however, provide copies or a full citation. When the editor searched for it to complete the citation and include some missing wording, the 1750 record was found on the facing page. Transcription and translation were done by the editor and Annette Kunselman Burgert, FGSP, FASG. 1 Kirchenbuch, 1582—1932 Evangelische Kirche Frommern, manuscript in the Hauptstaatsarchiv, Stuttgart. FHL #1,189,997, bande 18. This record is a stray, nonchronological pair of facing pages near the end of this item, which is styled in the catalog as Seelen Tabelle 1748—1761 [literally, table of souls]. 110 Final copy 31 December 2003 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 43 (2003) 2003] Emigrants from Frommern, Weilheim, and Waldstätten 111 8. Joh. Luippoldt, Schäffer cum ux. Anna Maria et 7 Kinder 1) Joh. Martin ^geb. 5 Nov. 1730^, 2) Maria Agnes ^geb. 19 Oct. 1731^, 3) Joh. Casp., 4) Joh. Ludwig, 5) Johannes, 6) Joh. Carl, 7) Anna Maria. [margin] copulirt zu From[m]ern d. 26 ?Jan. 1728. 9. Mart. Müller, Taglr. cum ux. Agnes et 5 Kinder 1) Martin [other children not named] [margin] S[u]m[m]a aller seit A[nn]o. 1750 in beeden Com[m] abgegangene Seelen 55. [right page–the pages are reversed chronologically] Anno 1750. d. 22.th Maji: Freÿtag Sind aus dem From[m]erner Kirch Spiel folgende Persohnen nach Americam, oder nach der sonst gemeinen Redens Art in die Neue Welt gezogen. 1.) Von From[m]ern 10 Seelen, nehml. a.) Eine gantze Ehe. Matthias Müller, Schütz aet: 48. mit seinem Weib Christina, einer gebohrene Hetzelin aetat: 46. mit nachstehenden ihre 5. Kindren 1.) Eva aet: 25. 2.) Rosina aet: 22. 3.) Joh: Georg aet: 19. 4.) An[n]a Maria aet: 17. 5.) Christina aet: 16. b.) ledige Pursche nehml. 1.) Joh. Ludwig Stengel, deß Meßners aet: 25. 2.) Joh: Ludw: Zim[m]erman[n], Salpeters aet 22. 3.) Joh: Georg Mercklen, Schmidts aet: 22. 2.) Von dem Filial Weÿlheim eine gantze ehe, nehml. Bernhardt Rüst, Beck aet: 38 u. Seine hausfrau An[n]a Maria, nat: Fetzerin aet: 32 u. als Schwanger u. deren Kind Joh: Martin Rüst aet 8 dieser Bernh: Rüsten Weib starb auf dem Meer als eine Kindbetterin, da sie nur nach 8. Tag zu schiffen hatten, und das Landshon sahen. Nach deren Tod kame er mit seinem Sohnl. [Sohnlichen] wieder ins Land zuruck kamm vor dem Ohm bdet od. erndt. Anno 1751. 3.) Ludwig Gastel, händler mit seinem Weib u. Kind. Von Waldstätten. Final copy 31 December 2003 112 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 TRANSLATION [left page] Year 1754, have gone to the American land the following persons: Friday, April 5: 1. Joh. Gürthner, saltpeterer,2 with his wife Anna and five children named: 1) Anna Barbara, 2) Theresia, 3) Anna Maria, 4) , 5) [blank]. 2. Joh. Ludw. Strobel, saltpeter maker, with wife Anna Maria and two children: 1) Agnes and 2) Monica. 3. Michl Strobel, saltpeterer, with wife and 4 children. Saturday, April 27: 4. Joh. Mart. Müller, carpenter, with wife Marg. and their child Christina. 5. Joh. Lud. Zimmermann, day-worker, commonly called Rothen Sohn, with wife Anna Maria and 4 children. 6. His sister, Cath. Zimmermänn, single. 7. Stephan Kraus, tailor, with wife Margretha and two children: 1) Simon and 2) Maria Agnes. married at Frommern, 26 ?Jan. 1728. 8. Joh. Luippoldt, shepherd, with his wife Anna Maria and seven children: 1) Joh. Martin born 5 Nov. 1730, 2) Maria Agnes born 19 Oct. 1731, 3) Joh. Casp., 4) Joh. Ludwig, 5) Johannes, 6) Joh. Carl, 7) Anna Maria. 9. Mart. Müller, day-worker, with wife Agnes and 5 children: 1) Martin [other children not named]. The sum of those since the year 1750 gone away from both villages 55 souls. [right page] Year 1750, the 22nd May, Friday. From the Frommern parish are gone the following persons to America, or, as they say, to the New World. 1.) From Frommern, 10 souls, namely. a.) Married Matthias Müller, marksman, age 48. with his wife Christina, who was born Hetzel, age 46. with their following 5 children 1.) Eva age 25. 2.) Rosina age 22. 3.) Joh: Georg age 19. 4.) Anna Maria age 17. 5.) Christina age 16. 2 Wollmershäuser translated Salp. as nitrate boiler. Saltpeter manufacture was an important industry in parts of Germany, where a major part of the process was adding potassium chloride to a boiling solution of sodium nitrate. Evaporation and crystallization created sodium chloride (table salt) and potassium nitrate (saltpeter). Final copy 31 December 2003 2003] Emigrants from Frommern, Weilheim, and Waldstätten 113 b.) single persons namely. 1.) Joh. Ludwig Stengel, the sexton, age 25. 2.) Joh: Ludw: Zimmermann, saltpeterer, age 22. 3.) Joh: Georg Mercklen, smith, age 22. 2.) From the sister [village/church] Weÿlheim [Weilheim] are gone married [persons], namely. Bernhardt Rüst, baker age 38 and his wife Anna Maria, born Fetzer age 32 and also pregnant and their child Joh: Martin Rüst age 8 this Bernh: Rust’s wife died on the sea in a childbirth, there on ship only 8 days before the landfall. After this death he came with his little son on land returned again before the [?] or [?]. Year 17513 3.) Ludwig Gastel, trader, with his wife and child, from Waldstätten. PENNSYLVANIA On 29 September 1750, 145 males arriving on the Osgood signed the oath. The following names appear together:4 Hans Ludwig Zimmerman, Hans Jerg Mekhel, Hans Ludwieg Stenel,5 Mattheis Miller, Hans Martin Müller, Christian Stotz [his connection, if any, to the villages is not known], Bernhart Wüst. The oath lists indicate that the Gürthners, Strobels, one of the Müller families, and the Zimmermans traveled on the Richard and Mary, which arrived in Philadelphia on 30 September 1754. The Krauses and Luppoldts were on the Peggy, which arrived on 16 October 1754.6 Thus, we see that a village-to-dock journey took five to six months. It appears that one of the Martin Müllers made his first trip in 1750 and his second trip in 1754 with his family, explaining why he is on the oath list in 1750, but the minister’s list in 1754 (he did not need to sign the oath twice). 47 had departed in a single month in 1754. In 1750, 16 persons are listed; three are from another village and the surviving Rüsts apparently returned, but this still does not total 55 as indicated by the minister. 3 A precise translation was not possible. This may say that he left his son with an uncle or relative. It also is not clear if the baby survived. 4 Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1727—1808 (Norristown: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 1:446, 2:518. 5 Strassburger and Hinke has Stein, but Burgert reads it as Stenel [Stengel]. 6 Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1:604—8, 636—41. Males 16 or above were noted; this included several Luppoldt sons. Final copy 31 December 2003