Today’s Anniversary ~ Franz Jacob Bold and Elisabetha Scheid ~

Nuenschweiler’s Church of the Ascension via Wikimedia Commons

Nuenschweiler – On today’s date in 1842, my third great grandparents Franz Jacob Bold and Elisabetha Scheid were married in the Catholic parish in Nuenschweiler, Rheinpfalz, Germany by Father Joannis Feibel.  They were the parents of Emilia Bold Leies.

Elisabetha and Franz Jacob were from neighboring Rodalben.  She was born there while he was born in neighboring Knopp-Labach.

Their Catholic marriage record declared that Franz Jacob was the son of Adam Bold and Margaretha Becker, married residents of Rodalben.  It looks like the parochial vicar of Rodalben, Father Petro Bold, is mentioned in the Latin marriage record.  He was the older brother of Franz Jacob.  He also baptized Elisabetha Scheid, according to the baptismal record I found on film which is now available online at Family Search.

The marriage record also declared that Elisabetha was the daughter of Johann Jacob Scheid and the deceased Catharina Buchler, also of Rodalben.

Franz Jacob Bold, the head schoolmaster of the Catholic school in Nuenschweiler, was the son of farmers.  His Bold grandparents were named Johann Adam Bold and Magdalena Helf.  Elisabetha’s ancestry has been detailed here and here.

Franz Jacob Bold, for all intents and purposes, appears to have died in Germany around 1880, which lead to his wife’s immigration to America.  She died in New York City in 1905.

Pictures of Nuenschweiler and Knopp-Labach can be found online here.

Sources:

Familienbuch 1785, 1799 – 1824,  Knopp-Labach, Germany

Nuenschweiler, Germany Catholic Church Records via microfilm

Rodalben, Germany Catholic Church Records via Family Search

New York City Passenger Manifests

New York City Death Index

 

 

My German Palatinate, Saarland, Alsace-Lorraine, France, and Swiss Anabaptist Surname and Place Lists – POST UPDATED 7/20/19

 

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The German Palatinate

• Nunschweiler: Leies/Lais/Layes/Leis/Leyes, Bold, Pfeiffer, Scheid (originated in Loutzviller, Moselle), Bauer, Burkhart, Conrad (originated in Schweyen, Moselle)
• Knopp-Labach: Bold, Becker
• Rodalben: Scheid (originated in Loutzviller, Moselle), Buchler, Becker, Hauck/Hocque/Hock/Hoque/Huekh, Bisser(in), Helfrich/Helferich/Helferig, Helf, Hoh
• Vinnigen: Hauck, Kolsch (originated in Moselle)
• Leimen/Merzalben/Leiningen: Reber, Helfrich/Helferich/Helferig (in Leimen before and after the Thirty Years War according to 850 Jahre Leimen.  See also Die Helfriche)
• Mauschbach: Conrad, Steu/yer, Pfeiffer, Kempf, Burkhart, Ziegler
• Grosssteinhausen: Pfeiffer, Kempf, Schaefer, Engel
• Kirchenarnbach: Bisserin
• Leichelbingen (Monbijou): Ziehl
• Hornbach: Ziehl
• Beidershausen: Stuppi/y, Muller, Rubli
• Niedershausen: Stuppi
• Oberhausen: Rubly/Rubli, Schwartz, Leyies/Leies/Layes/Leyies-Trauden/Traudi
• Bechhofen: Rubli
• Zweibrucken: Schwartz
• Weselberg: Buchler/Bugler, Wilhelm
• Weisbach: Leies
• Contwig: Leyies/Leies/Leyies-Trauden/Leyies-Traudi/Traudi, Rubeli, Bevell/Buffel, Stein, Finck
• Messerschwanderhof: Rubeli/Reubal/Ruble
• Harsberg: Buchler/Bugler, Wilhelm
• Thaleischweiler: Bauer, Matheis, Pfeiffer/Pfeifer, Simon, Ganter/Gander, Han, Becker
• Martinshohe: Becker, Mueller
• Massweiler: Moraux, Simon, Gander
• Lemberg: Hauck, Kuntz, Schneider
• Wachenheim, Alzey-Worms: Schuttler

Saarland*

• Saarbrucken: Kempf, Ludt, Hufflinger
• Burbach: Gans, Hufflinger

*My Kempf ancestors from Grosssteinhausen, RP are possibly descended from the Saarbrucken Kempfs in the Saarland.  

Moselle, Lorraine, France

• Loutzviller: Bittel, Scheid(t), Conrad
• Schweyen: Conrad, Stauder
• Volmunster: Bittel, Ziegler, Zeigler Huber, Stauder, Stauder dit Le Suisse
• Haspelscheidt: Fabing/Faber
• Sarreguemines: Bittel
• Roppeviller: Schaub dit Bittel
• Bliesbruck: Stauder dit Le Suisse
• Leiderschiedt: Weyland
• Urbach: Faber, Champion 
• Petit-Rederching: Faber, Faber dit Schoff Jockel
• Bitche: Faber

Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France

• Niederbronn: Kuntz, Conis
• Memmelshoffen: Kuntz, Cuntz, Cuntzen
• Cleebourg: Cuntzel, Cuntz, Contz, Cuntzen, Cunze, Cunz

 

Bernese Anabaptist Refugees to the Palatinate

• Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach, Bern: Rubeli/Strubel (from Langnau), Muller – Rubeli and Muller migrated to Fischbach, RP and lived in Messerschwanderhof and Contwig.  The Rubeli were related to the Gungerich Anabaptists of Diessbach.  See: Mennosearch.com and Der Tauferlehrer Christian Gungerich von Oberdiessbach (1595-1671) und der Streit um Seinen Nachlas by Hanspeter Jecker.
• Oberdiessbach, Bern: Gungerich/Gundrich/Gungery, Schindler
• Langnau, Bern: Strubel, Vogt

My DNA matches the Rubeli descendants that emigrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolution.  They used Ruble and Ruple in America.  See also this former blog post for sources and references on the Strubel/Rubeli:  The Anabaptist Rubeli of Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach, Switzerland.

See also: My Anabaptist/Mennonite/Canton Bern, Switzerland Surname List

Links to my Palatinate Immigrants and Refugees on Ancestry.com

Christian Rubeli – Mennonite Refugee to the Palatinate

Anna Muller – Mennonite Refugee to the Palatinate

Emilia Bold Leies

Elisabetha Scheid Bold

Johannes Leies

Peter Leies – Palatinate Immigrant that died at Antietam

 

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Brick Wall Wednesday: Could This Historic Mill in Germany Be Where Some of Emilie Bold’s Ancestors Lived?

Moschelmuhle, Burgalben, Pfalz, Germany – I am still tracing the lines of Emilie Bold.  Her mother’s side is proving easier than her head schoolmaster father’s side.  Emilie Bold’s mother Elisabetha Scheid (Grandma Ferraro’s great grandmother), descended from several millers and mill owners.  They keep popping up on all of the Scheid twigs.  Some of them just owned mills.  Others owned mills and worked them.  Some were just millers at a mill owned by somebody else.  They all appeared to inter-marry too.  I am finding that when you are a miller or buying and selling mills you are also in a lot of land transactions in areas of organize-happy Germany and Lorraine, France, that didn’t lose records in any of the World Wars!

Luckily, in at least one case, there is a mill still standing today named after the place Emilie Bold’s ancestors lived in Burgalben, near Rodalben, Pfalz, Germany in the mid 1700s.  It was called Moschelmuhle.  To be exact Elisabetha Scheid’s grandmother’s family, the Beckers, lived in a place with this name and only other families with their surname lived there.

Could this be where they lived?

That is a picture of the actual mill today.  To be fair there are other mills in Burgalben still standing but this is the only one named Moschelmuhle.

A mill could be owned by a lord or the town and millers bid on the rent to lease it and be the town’s miller for a specified number of years.   Now, in my case in my family I can say my ancestor Frederic Scheid (Elisabetha’s great grandfather) bought a mill near Rodalben, Pfalz in 1722.  I have its description too, along with its price, in German, from the Gerichtsbuch.  It was his, not the town’s. His son Peter married into the family that lived in Moschelmuhle – the Beckers.

On the other hand in Farindola in my tree, my ancestor Nicola Carusi, the Cancelliere and his uncle the Conte Carusi, signed off on a document authorizing the highest bidder named Giuseppe Salvitti (who happens to be my 6th great uncle) to mill for Farindola in 1814 for a duration of four years.  That was a mill owned by the town.

Did you know Frederic Scheid is another person in Grandma’s ancestry that was born in France?  I am still sorting that all out.

Back to Moschelmuhle.  Did my ancestors just live at Moschelmuhle?  I haven’t found any document yet that calls Christian Becker a “miller” unfortunately. I am still looking for any land transaction for Moschelmuhle since Christian Becker’s family lived in a place with that name.  Nor am I finished researching his limb in the family tree.

 

Grandma’s lineage to the Beckers of Moschelmuhle

 

Related:

Another Week, Another Country. Discoveries in Germany in the Leies Line.

Emilie Bold Leies (1843 – 1894) – Find A Grave Memorial

Grandma Ferraro’s French Connection

Coming soon:  A fact-finding probe into the obscurity of Louis F. Kirsch