John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1877

I continue with the record of the Hanss Burkhardt Fischer family which gives the children as:

  1. Johannes » 28.5.1751
  2. Joh. Adam * 20.8.1752 † 25.2.1776 ledig Simpel
  3. Georg Jacob 26.8.1754
  4. Joh. Burckhard 5.5.1756 ( ® 650/51 )
  5. Christina Catharina 6.4.1759 ( ® 1935 )
  6. Johannes 11.2.1761 ¥ Derdingen . . . 1795 Salome , Wwe. D. Georg Adam Schmid, Schmied
  7. Joseph 28.1.1765 ¥ Schützingen . . . 1792 Louisa Lang, T.d. † Hanss Jerg L., Bauer dort
  8. Joh. David 13.3.1768 † 22.3.1768
  9. Maria Elisabeth 10.6.1769 † 24.12.1774
  10. Joh. David 15.5.1771 † 1.3.1772
  11. Philipp Heinrich 2.3.1773 † 18.2.1774.

Johannes was baptized the 28 of May in 1751.  He may have been born on this same day or on an earlier day.  Some pastors sometimes emphasized the baptismal date and omitted the birthday, while others put both in the record.  The lack of any additional information suggests that he died without a record of his death being made.  (It is also possible that he moved to another village and married there.)  The second son, Johann Adam (perhaps Johannes), was born the 20th day of August in 1752.  He was mentally retarded (simpleton) and he died as a single person when he was 23.

Georg Jacob was probably born and baptized on the same day, the 26th day of August in 1754.  His later record is indeterminate.  Johann Burckhard was born and baptized on the 5th of May in 1756.  In the parenthesis above, for him, there was a symbol, a right-pointing arrow, which suggests that you should go to families 650 and 651 , where his two marriages and families are given.  Some writers of Ortssippenbuch use the word “siehe”, meaning “see”, instead of the arrow to suggest you consult another family.

Christina Catharina was born and baptized on the same day, the 6th day of April 1759.  She lived to the age of marriage, and her history as a mother is given in family 1935 . There, we learn that she married Johann Burkard Wertwein in 1781, had two children, and died in 1784.  Child number 6, another Johannes, was born the 11th of February in 1761.  He went to Derdingen to find his wife, Salome, whom he married in 1795.  Her maiden name is unknown.  She was the widow of Georg Adam Schmid, Schmied.  Georg Adam Schmid was a Schmied by occupation, i.e. he was a "smithy". The future history of Johannes Fischer is not given here, probably because he was living in another town.
(28 Apr 04)

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