I am EMBARRASSED about the last note. I took the “Weyland” which was usually spelled Weyeland or Weiland to be a maiden name. It would be better to interpret this as “deceased”.
To recap, there is a marriage record for Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler, journeyman weaver, who married Catharina Barbara, the deceased Jacob Schneider’s surviving widow. The year was probably late 1738.
In February 1740, at the baptism of Maria Susanna, the d/o Johann Peter Oberst and his wife Catharina Barbara, one of the sponsors was Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler. The other sponsor was Maria Susanna, Jacob Herlaus wife.
On 20 April 1740, Maria Catharina was born to Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler and his wife Catharina Barbara. The sponsors were Jacob Koenig, weaver, and Anna Catharina [note a slight change in the name], Peter Oberst’s wife, and Anna Maria, Friederich Tuebach’s wife.
In 1741, at the baptism of Johann Peter, the s/o Johann Peter Oberst and his wife Catharina Barbara, one sponsor was Jacob Keerdlen (but note the sponsor in the baptism second above) and the other sponsor was Catharina Barbara the wife of Nicolai Blanckenbuehler.
On 2 September 1742, the death register carries the record that Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler, citizen and weaver, died in his 34th year. [Therefore he was born ca 1708.]
In 1743, Johann Michael Huefnagel married Catharina Barbara, the surviving widow of the deceased Nicolai Blanckenbuehler.
How does Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler fit the larger picture? So far the only evidence is that the Austrian emigrant, Matthias Blanckenbuehler, had one son Hans Thomas Blanckenbuehler who married Anna Barbara Schoene and they were the parents of three Blanckenbuehler men who came to Virginia. For the Nicolaus Blanckenbuehler above to exist, it would probably be necessary that Matthias had another son besides Hans Thomas.
(25 Oct 06)
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