_Theobald BRITZIUS ___________+
| (1742 - 1803) m 1767
_Johan Jacob BRITZIUS __________|
| (1788 - 1866) m 1809 |
| |_Catharine Charlotte GERLACH _+
| (1748 - 1816) m 1767
|
|--Theobald H. BRITZIUS
| (1820 - 1896)
| _Johann Adam SCHWARTZ ________+
| | (1743 - 1823) m 1772
|_Catharina Elisabethe SCHWARTZ _|
(1786 - 1838) m 1809 |
|_Phillipina SUNDHEIMER _______+
(1752 - 1813) m 1772
[1696]
Per B. Moyer - in 1864 Theobald is living in Quincey, near Dover, Minn.
From Bill Moyer, 5 Mar 2005: "On the earliest immigration record for Theobald Britzius, old Theo is
listed in English, by an English customs official or ship clerk as "Dewold."
He got the sound okay but boy is it confusing for people like us."
Per 1870 Census: Theobald is a farmer. Value of real estate is $7000. Value of personal estate is $2350.
Per Barbara Hill Ancestry tree: Emigration: 6 JUL 1840 N.Y. from Le Havre, ship Leopard
Per Britzius file III p. 4 "On the ship 'Leopard' arriving New York 6 July 1840, departing Europe from Le Havre, were Jacob Britzius born 1788, Catharina Britzius born 1813, Jacob born 1820, 'Dewold' (Theobald) born 1821, and Lisbeth born 1823. . . Jakob Britzius lost his wife, Katarina Elizabeth Schwartz, in Bisterschied in 1838. Two years later he emigrated (we learn from above record) with four of his children including 20 - year old Theobald, who later married Christine Elizabeth Maurer. . .also young Jakob Britzius, 16, who later married Catherine Wasem. The ship's record lists the family as coming from 'Bavaria.'"
History of the Bisterscheid area of Germany - per Britzius File III, p. 2
"We asked about the history of the Bisterschied area. Frau Matheis said that long ago stone was cut there for millstones and people moved in from Franken/Wurzburg to work and live. Frau Poth said grapes were once grown in the area, but there was insufficient labor to maintain the vineyards and the crops now are mostly grain plus some vegetables. Gunter Brizius said he understood that during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) loss of life in the Pfalz was so great that after the war was over the nobles who owned the land sought immigrants from all over to repopulate the area and restore the flow of taxes and rents. He was told that the Brizius family immigrated with other Huguenots from France because of the oppression by Louis XIV of the Protestants. . . . I also asked about metal mining in the area because of the pewter plate that was passed down in the britzius family in Minnesota, and was told that indeed there had been considerable metal mining all around the Donnersberg."
Britzius File III p. 8 " (Frau Dahler) heard that the Britzius family immigrated originally from Austria."
Britzius File III - about the Pfalz - "The Pfalz has the largest forests in Germany, even larger than the Black Forest. . . In 1814 the Pfalz area west of the Moselle came under Prussian rule, the area to the (east) going to Austria - Bavaria. At the Congress of Vienna the Pfalz was given to Bavaria. . .Bavaria was Catholic whereas most of the people of the Pfalz were Protestant.
Britzius File III - pp. 10 - 12 "My Trip to America" a letter from a person who emigrated from the Pfalz to Ohio in 1832
Britzius File II p. 4
"I told her the legend in my Mother-in-law's family that the name had originally been "Brisseau and two of its progenitors were said to have been a young soldier and a young lady 'attached to the French court' who had eloped, which was considered scandalous and resulted in their moving to another place."
p. 17 " A legend in George Britzius's family (related to Margaret Russell Sutton by her mother, Leona Britzius Russell) was that his grandmother was 'a lady of the French court' who married a soldier and eloped, going to Alsace-Lorraine for a generation. The name was Brizeau (or Briseau) in French. It was very scandalous to elope in those days. I haven't been able to find any confirmation of this story, although the Bisterschied area is on the French/German border and did go back and forth between the two countries as part of the general area of Alsace-Lorraine at the time of Napoleon and subsequently. 'The French Court' could also mean 'a' French court such as in the town of Saarbrucken, Metz, Strasbourg, etc., wherever a noble had his court, and this possibility would open up quite a few opportunities for the story to have validity. Counts, dukes, and princes in such cities (not just Paris) had sizeable retinues of soldiers, maids, and artisans. Occassionally a listing of such court personnel is given in Pfalzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde, a genealogical and historical magazine. . . The Dec. 1987 issue lists the members of the 1734 court of the Duke of Zweibrucken - 176 people in all, including 20 nobles and many lesser specialists such as trumpeters, bakers, guards, porters, a tailor, a clockmaster, a forest game master, teachers, archivists, etc."
Brizius File II p. 12 - Linen Weaving was a traditional Bisterschied occupation.
[1693] copy of an original German birth certificate and its translation.
In an evil hour he (Nathaniel Greensmith) took to wife Rebecca, relict of Abraham Elson, and also relict of Jarvis Mudge
_Daniel LANGILLE _____+
| (1687 - ....) m 1711
_Matthias LANGILLE __________|
| (1724 - 1800) m 1758 |
| |_Annie France BRANDT _
| (1689 - 1744) m 1711
|
|--Mary Catherine LANGILLE
| (1765 - 1874)
| ______________________
| |
|_Susanne Catherine MENEGAUX _|
(1738 - 1786) m 1758 |
|______________________
_Jacob WINTERMANTEL ___________+
| (1860 - 1937)
_Emmet Archie WINTERMANTEL _|
| (1889 - 1975) |
| |_Amelia Johanne Helene BUTTKE _
| (1864 - 1931)
|
|--Myron Jacob WINTERMANTEL
| (1928 - 1992)
| _______________________________
| |
|_Mary Annetta HALL _________|
(1892 - 1985) |
|_______________________________