FEBRUARY 1997 NEWSLETTER
RESEARCH REPORTS FROM TRUDY SCHENK:
To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996
From: Trudy Schenk
Dear Jerry, While doing research near the city of Darmstadt, I came across
the parish Gross Gerau wherein I found the name Kolb in a very early time
period. Some of the husbands are bakers and I think there could be a
connection to your earliest Johannes Kolb.
There is one Michael Kolb, a baker, he is only recorded once with the chr.
of a child. This could be his last child in 1674. I extracted all Kolbs
before 1700 and checked some neighboring villages also in particular the
parish records of Graefenhausen, yet there were no Kolb entries. The last
known Johannes direct line names a son Michael and a daughter Appollonia.
Among the Kolb families in Gross Gerau is a Nicklaus, also a baker, listed
as coming from Mannheim. I will now look into the early Mannheim church
records in hopes I can make a connection.
This is an area not far from Meckesheim. The main road leads from
Switzerland on through Mannheim towards Darmstadt. Journeymen traveled
this way as they looked for jobs. Millers and bakers were journeymen and
could easily have traveled this route.
I am sending the hand-written sheets by mail. Hope you and your family
have a Happy New Year! Sincerely yours, Trudy Schenk.
To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997
From: Trudy Schenk
Dear Jerry, I have now exhausted all possible records on the Maurer
research in the parish Doettingen and Orlach. The Doettingen church records
show a gap of 10 years from 1595 - 1605 in the chr. because of thus it is
impossible to make a connection to the earliest Maurer now always spelled
Meurer.
Before 1595 I found only one Maurer entry, a chr, of a child Hans on 5 Apr
1568. He could easily be the father of the earliest Michael we have at this
point. The earliest Orlach parish records begin in 1595, there seem to be
some entries of people from Jungholzhausen there. One Michel Meurer has 2
children chr. in 1607 and 1608, yet he disappears from Orlach. I found no
marriage nor deaths there of any Meurers.
Andreas Abelin from Orlach had 7 children chr. in Orlach beginning in 1613
yet his marriage was in 1605. Barbara who married Michael Maurer should
have been born ca. 1610 since her first marriage was in 1632. I had an
inclination to check Braunsbach and found Andress Abelin there with the
chr. of some children before 1613. He must have lived there after he got
married. I was able to create another generation from the marriages and
the deaths. There is nothing more that can be done on these lines. This
closes the Maurer research.
KOLB: I searched the Mannheim parishes and its suburbs and found no Kolb
entries. Perhaps the Michael who had a child chr. in Gross Gerau only lived
in Mannheim for a little while. I also checked the nearby towns Sandhausen,
Ladenburg, Feudenheim, Kaefertal, Wallstadt, Ilvesheim and Seckenheim. In
the Ladenburg parish records I found one Kolb and one Gerich family, both
lived in Neckarhausen. The extracted information is in
the packet I sent off on Friday. I will not search on the Kolb line again,
if I come across the name in the vicinity of Meckesheim I will extract the
information.
Sincerely yours, Trudy