Marriage of Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger

My constant battle to clean out my overfull inbox yielded fun stuff yesterday.  I was looking at messages that were sent to me by family search.....hints about members of my family tree.  Lo and behold one of the messages contained links to original documents found in Obersteinbach Bas Rine France.  These documents contain dates of marriage for Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger as well as death information for Georges and name parents for both.  I have added the information to my private tree on my computer as well as my public trees on Ancestry and MyHeritage.  I am putting the links below so that you can look at them as well.  Please get in touch with me if you know more about any of these people.

On the map below you will see Obersteinbach truly on the border of France and Germany.  No wonder one has to look at the history and geography books to know which country claimed them in any given year.  It is just north of Strasbourg.

Marriage of Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BWV?treeref=G3Q7-QKM&cid=rom-email 

"France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912", , FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BW8 : Tue Mar 05 03:30:34 UTC 2024), Entry for Georges Hornberger and Fréderic Hornberger, 2 Feb 1863.

This document names parents for Georges as Frederic Hornberger and Anne Marie Wenberger.  And parents for Barbe as Dorothée Koelhoeffer and Frederic Schweickart

Death of Georges Hornberger:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CST3-94L3?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYX-VY5H&action=view&cc=4116416

"Obersteinbach, Bas-Rhin, France records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CST3-94L3?view=index : Dec 1, 2024), image 243 of 473; . 008322038

This document gives death date as  21 Jul 1870.  Georges was only 43

New mtDNA match

I received an e-mail from FTDNA today telling me of a new mtDNA match.  And it happened that my day was not busy with anything pressing.  So I decided to look...And after looking a bit, I decided to write a blog post about my mtDNA matches.  I have seven matches.  I am not sure how people feel about their names being posted on the internet, so I printed out the list and I have numbered the matches and will refer to them by number.

I have written a blog post or two about my mtDNA in the past and I'll put the links here in case you have interest:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2013/05/trip-to-blue-ash-ohio-in-april-2013.html

Everyone's mtDNA comes from their mother whether you are male or female.  The Males do not pass on their mtDNA.  Only mothers pass their mtDNA to their children.  And quite honestly I know less about my mom's mother's female ancestors than almost anyone in my tree...so this is a fairly interesting project.

Number 1, 2, and 3 are my closest matches with a genetic distance of 1.  #1 has listed Mary Ann Butcher b. 182? and d. 1902.  I opened Ancestry to try to put together a "quick and dirty" tree for Mary Ann Butcher.  Believe it or not there are several Mary Ann Butchers who died in 1902.  I chose the Mary Ann Butcher who was born in 1821 in Lancaster Co PA and died in Indiana in 1902.  Mary Ann's mother is said to be Anna Mariah Gruber in several of the trees connected to this person.  Anna Mariah Gruber is said to have been born in 1783 in Basel Switzerland.  This makes sense to me as my mother's mother line goes back Clara Margaret Hornberger Sammons>Maggie Schmitt Hornberger>Margarite Rauch Schmitt.

Margarite Rauch Schmitt says in the 1900 census that she was born in Germany, her father was born in Switzerland, and her mother was born in Germany.  However, I believe that the family was living in the Alsace Lorraine area that was sometimes in Germany and sometimes in France before the move to our shores.  

So it is the next generation earlier than Margarite Rauch Schmitt that is my earliest know female ancestor on this line:  Magdalena Baumert.  Her husband was born in Switzerland.  Magdalena and her husband Abraham Rauch married in 1826 in Strasburg, Alsace France.  I do not have documentation for most of this.   However, it is of great interest that the place of birth for Magdalena's husband, Abraham Rauch is said to be Mittloedi, Glarus Switzerland.  And here is a map of the geography that includes Anna Maria Gruber's birth place in 1783 in Basel Switzerland and the place of Abraham's birth.  I do not have a birth place for Magdalena....did they know each other in Switzerland?  Did Abraham move to Alsace  before they met?  

158 km is almost a 100 miles....But still what ever the truth we do know that our maternal lines started out in the same area of the world.  

OK....Match #2.  Earliest known ancestor is Rosine Fischer 1887, Caroline Wurth 1842, Beihingen.  The first tree I looked at on Ancestry with these clues had a tree owner who had done a great deal of research and collected many sources and he took this tree back to Margretha Bunttenschuch who married Petter Dreer.  If this person's research is correct this line live in Baden-Wurttemberg, Deutschland for many generations.

Oh, that is very interesting....guess where that is?  It is inside the red dotted lines below.

Some of the surnames in this tree after  Margaretha Bunttenschuch are Jorg, Betz, Seitz, Dublin, Herker, Strenger, Walter, Beuttenmuller, Hettich,  

So it would seem likely that my Magdalena Baumert was born somewhere near Strasbourg and her husband moved from Switzerland to marry her in Strasbourg

OK match #3 has not earliest female ancestor and her tree is not helpful.

Match #4 Has earliest ancestor Bertha Hirsch, 1893-1979.  The Bertha that fits our story best has a slightly different birth date:  

 

Bertha was very pretty.  

Born about 120 miles from Strasbourg.  The surnames with this tree are Drumm and Schug

Match #5 has earliest ancestor of Martin Sayes b.1813 d 1896.  Match #5 has a pretty decent tree, so I was able to go back his female line to Earliest female Adele Mayeaux b. c 1846 and died 1923 in Effie LA.  I could find nothing much about the earlier females on Ancestry except that Adele's mother was Mary Bordelon.

Match #6. Match #6's tree showed these to be the earliest females that could have passed down their mtDNA to him.

Match #7  No tree and no earliest female ancestor. 
 

I filed the paper that has names of the matches for each number in the cubby in my office labelled DNA.  I might look to see if I can find any of these people via autosomal DNA

Migrations from NC to Ohio and Indiana

 My research Winter/Spring 2024 culminated in the talk that I gave at the Hollingsworth gathering in Ohio about what I believed to be the migration path of the Quaker families from Bush River MM to the Miami river valley in the first decade of the 1800s.  

Joe sent me a link to a site this morning that has more information about these migration routes.  The one that he sent me actually went another direction.  It left Chatham County, NC and traveled up through Randolph County to Cane Creek MM in NC.  The quaker families that traveled via wagon train in 1815 took a different route than the one I described in June.  They traveled to Lost Creek MM in Jefferson Co TN.  

I didn't want to lose this link so I am posting it here:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/family/Journey.html

This link connects to an actual diary and also other migrations.  

Passions

 I don't usually put things on my public blogs about who I am.  But this morning there was an article written by Melissa Kirsch about the fact that she is a lapsed Tennis fan.  While I have never been much of a professional tennis fan, I understood the fact that she had given up a passion.  My husband was an enthusiastic golfer and so at our house we followed golf rather than tennis as well as Marshall University's football team.  However, I have to admit both of these passions belonged to my husband .....not to me.

But I liked what Melissa said and wanted to capture it:

If we define ourselves by who and what we love, and I think we should, then it’s valuable to love as many things as we can, to accumulate enthusiasms and lean into them, to hold onto passions when we discover them and not let them fall away. This way, our identities become rich, multidimensional, expansive. ....

                                                                                                                        María Jesús Contreras

I love her illustration.  It reminds me of my days in the stands with my husband.  Clearly this woman is not paying very close attention to the match going on....that would have been me at a football or basketball game.  

Cane Creek Dispute involving Charity Cook, Charity Wright and Herman Husband

 In the midst of my early September "busyness" Joe sent me the following paragraph.  I did not want to loose the several thoughts that I would like to look at when I have a bit more spare time:

   Charity Cook (m. Brock) just below them is of interest to me.  Her mother Charity Wright was of convicted (not the right word but it will do) of having pre-marital sex in 1761 Cane Creek, North Carolina and that started a fury among the Quakers that became known as the the Cane Creek Dispute. A couple of results were that Charity's mother Rachel Wright, a Quaker minister, and Herman Husband were both Disowned and that caused very serious rift in the North Carolina Quaker community. Many supporters of Herman, including both my Day and Jones families, then left Cane Creek and went to Georgia and formed a new Quaker colony at Wrightsborough in 1767.   Herman would continue as a Non-Quaker in North Carolina until he provoked the Battle of Alamance in 1771.  He escaped that and returned to Pennsylvania and there he would later provoke the Whisky Rebellion.

   Joe

Campbell/Hays/Handley in Borden grant in 1739

 I was chatting with Elaine today about her Campbell family and the fact that she might join a lineage society with her connection to this family line.  I worked on my Campbell family several years ago and I believe it very likely that Elaine and I are cousins of some sort from our connections to the Campbells.  

Several months ago our DAR chapter had a member die who had held many offices in our chapter.  But always her passion had been genealogy.  Her name was Barbara Rutledge.  I attended the funeral with several of the women who had been in the chapter with Barbara.  Her daughter asked us if we would help her with her promise to her mother to find a good place to house her research and I agreed to take this responsibility.  I had lots of fun looking at Barbara's research.  She had had a very amazing genealogy life.  Her maiden name was McClure and I was able to find a woman in Ohio who was a member of the Allen County genealogical society and promised to make Barbara's research available in the location.  Barbara's McClure's live in that area for at least two or three generations.

But then I found I wished that I had known Barbara in the years she was doing research!  I figured out that her ancestor lived next door to my own ancestor in 1739 on the Beverley Patent in Virginia.  What might we have learned if we had worked together on this neighborhood?

You can see my own ancestor, Patrick Campbell (colored in pink) while her ancestor, Finley McClure is colored in Yellow. 

 The book The Campbell Clan In Virginia which I viewed at the DAR library in DC says that Patrick's wife was Delilah Thompson.  And that the couple had four sons and three daughters. This source is

Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families: Including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell Families (Classic Reprint) by Margaret Campbell Pilcher.  The author names two of the daughter's and gives family information about them.  She does not name Grissell, but the fact that Grissell's grandmother Campbell was also named Grissell assures me that indeed she was a daughter of Patrick Campbell.  

Ms Pilcher names the children of Patrick as:  Son, William , son, Charles who served in the French and Indian Wars between 1742 and 1752 (Charles is the father of the William Campbell who led patriot forces at Kings Mountain)  and James who is named in road orders.  Daughters are Mary who married William Christian and Martha who married William Edmonson.  Grissell is not named in the book even though Ms Pilcher says there were three daughters.  Grissell married John Handley and I descend through their daughter Margaret who married William Clendenin.

Baptisms in the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

 Kim reached out to me last week about some Baptism records she wanted for proofs for a supplemental she is preparing papers for for the DAR.  She had found the locked key above the records on Family Search and traveled to the Barboursville library to see if she could access these records in our library.  I was very happy to hear that Family search had sent her to our library.  However, the records still were not accessible from the affiliate library.  So the librarians there gave her my number.

I am always excited to learn something new!  Family Search suggested that the images were available on the Find My Past site.  And indeed they are right there.  These images are held by the Pennsylvania Historical Society who I assume have entered into an agreement with Find My Past.  So below are the images that I found for Kim.  You will have to manipulate them to read as they are too hard to read when I add them to the site in a smaller format.

There was a  third image for the third child born to George Rumbaugh and his wife Anna but I had put it in the trash and it is too hard to figure out.  

But I wanted to add the following for my own information.  Almost certainly these images are from the baptisms in the 

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. This church is still located in Elizabethtown, PA as the address on their website is: 75 East High Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17022

Here is a screen shot from my blog that shows that this location makes excellent sense for where George Rumbaugh would have been living in the 1780s 

hmmmmm.....I could not get the screen shot to download to this blog post....I give up.  Here is the URL for the original map from which I took the screenshot.  It is a VERY wonderful map of Lancaster County's Townships.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/lancas/usgs/