Jacob Albrecht

Family/Spouse: Katherine Birkey. Katherine (daughter of Valentin Bircky (Birky) and Elizabeth Springer) was born on 8 Nov 1852; died on 3 Feb 1931. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“At one time Jacob owned 1,570 acres of land in Bureau County, IL and 320 acres in Lee County, and was half-owner of the hotel in Princeton known as the American House. “

A large bank barn was built by Jacob and it is still standing, located about two and one-half miles northwest of the “Red Covered Bridge” in Bureau County--has hand hewn walnut beams.

Buried:
Oakland Cemetery

Jacob married Barbara Ringenberg on 7 Jan 1844 in Tazewell Co., IL. Barbara (daughter of Pierre Ringenberg (Ringenberger) (Rinkenberger) and Anna Schrag) was born on 25 Sep 1821 in Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died on 4 Jan 1864 in Walnut Twp., Bureau Co., IL; was buried on 6 Jan 1864 in Walnut Twp., Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Barbara married Jacob Albrecht, who was skilled in household arts. They had seven children.

Birth:
Hingsange farm. Joe Staker says 25 Sep 1821, as does Ardys in source 181.

Buried:
Red Oak Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver
• USR1: Pneumonia
• Immigration: 29 Apr 1836, NY

Notes:

Lived in a large community house at Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Germany in the early 19th century.
The family knew John Burkey, who had come to America several years earlier and were living in Illinois at Hennepin on the Illinois River.

See source no. for description of the journey to Illinois, began June 1836 from Bavaria. Landed in New York, boarded a boat and traveled by the Hudson River to Albany and the Erie canal to Buffalo. From there by the way of the Great Lakes, and landed Fort Dearborn (now Chicago). There they obtained a team and wagon they traveled overland to Hennepin in Bureau County. They walked that distance as a family of father, mother, twelve children and about that many grandchildren. The trip took over three weeks.

The first winter four of their children erected a one room log cabin in which the four families lived the next winter, having only the large old fashioned chimney fire place to cook with and keep them warm.

Birth:
Hermersbergerhof

Immigration:
18 Jun 1836 on the Orion from Bremen. In order to escape the military draft for his sons.

Buried:
Albrecht Family cemetery on the home farm

Christian married Elisabeth Engel on 2 Aug 1802 in Hochspeyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Jakob Engel and Anna Imhoff) was born on 23 Jul 1780 in Dermerstein, GR; died on 24 Nov 1842 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Pneumonia

Notes:

Birth:
near Kaiserslaughtern

Buried:
Albrecht Family Cemetery on home farm
Source 1292 says she is buried in Willow Springs Cemetery , Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL

Notes:

Married:
Near Kaiserslautern

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer In Illinois
• Occupation: Weaver In France of “fine tablecloths, and other articles. Peter III had a bedspread which was woven by him.”
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Stroke
• Residence: 1809, Haute-Clocher, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1810, Hingsange, Linstroff, Lorraine, FR
• Immigration: 1831, NY
• Residence: Abt 1831-1837, Lancaster Co., PA
• Residence: 1837, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1837, Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL
• PURC: 7 Jun 1837, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Peter and Anne lived in Hingsange between 1810 and 1829 when nine of their children were born and two died. In 1831, Peter, Anne, and at least seven of their children sailed for America. After disembarking in New York, they went to Lancaster Co., PA, where their last child was born in 1833. The family moved by steamboat to Illinois in 1837.

Peter walked twenty miles to attend church at Mackinaw Dells. When he died, Peter left no will. , His grave stone uses the name Rinkenberger.

Birth:
Hingsange farm (Arr.Sarg, Dept. Moselle)

Residence:
for several years before their marriage at the garm Sarrelfing, working as domestics.

Residence:
Until 1829

Immigration:
Peter and Anna; children John, Christian, Peter, Anna, Barbara, Mary and Katie. They sailed for six weeks.

Residence:
The family stayed in Lancaster six years.

Residence:
Traveled by steamboat to Farmdale

PURC:
160 acres in Sec 25, Fond du Lac Twp. Built a log cabin on this land.

Census:
Peter “RingerBarger”, 64, France; Anne, 62, France; laborer Christian, 30, France; and laborer Abraham, 17 PA; Barbara [Stalter], 25, Bavaria; and grandson/son Peter, three months, IL.

Buried:
Rinkenberger Family Cemetery - on their farm in East Peoria: 3550 East Washington Street, East Peoria, IL (Robein, Tazewell Co., IL ) This land was not included in the sale of the farm in 1948.

Pierre married Anna Schrag on 13 Jan 1810 in Haute-Clocher, Moselle, FR. Anna (daughter of Caspar (Gaspard) Schrag (Gerack) and Marie Blaser (Blaiser)) was born on 15 May 1787 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 10 Apr 1859 in Farmdale, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in East Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Emigration: 1831, NY

Notes:

Anna and her husband are buried in the Rinkenberger Family Cemetery. It was established before 1859 on the 160-acre farm in Section 25 of Fond du Lac Township in Tazewell Co., about a mile north of Farmdale, IL, which immigrant Peter Rinkenberger purchased in 1837. It can be found in a clump of trees at the top of a hill, at 3550 East Washington St. in East Peoria, IL.

Birth:
Bachats? Headstone gives year as 1790

Died:
At age 71

Buried:
Family cemetery on their land in East Peoria: 3550 East Washington St.- Robein neighborhood

Notes:

Anna’s surname is spelled (Schraque) on the marriage document.

One of the witnesses to the marriage was the bride’s cousin, Jean Hirgie, a 58-year-old farmer at Haute-Clocher. (Could be Jean Hirschy, born 1752 in Haute-Clocher, who married Anne Rouvenacht (sister of Barbe Rouvenacht?) .
The groom signed his name “Petter Rinckenberg” and the bride signed with an “x”, indicating she was illiterate. Catherine Kempt also signed with an “x”.

Catherine Kempf was present and consented to her son’s marriage.

Married:
arr. de Sarrebourg (Haute-Clocher means high bell tower)

Johannes married Magdalena Gingerich about 1776. Magdalena (daughter of Valentin Gungerich and Anna Nafziger) was born about 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver

Jakob + Anna Imhoff. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farm on the ruined castle estate Hingsange farm, Linstroff, Moselle
• Residence: 1765-1772, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Christian married Catherine Kempf before 1786. Catherine died on 23 Aug 1821 in Dolving, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: A Mennonite tailor
• Occupation: Miller And Tailor Of Clothes In Rhodes
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1771, St. Avold, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1772, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1773, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1775, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1783, St. Avold, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1787, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1788, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1794, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Andréas has been included as a child of Caspar by several researchers. However, his birth date seems not to fit with being Caspar’s son, but perhaps Andréas’ birth date is incorrect. It could also be that Caspar’s birthdate is incorrect or that he had a wife before Barbe Rouvenac.

Gondrexange is situated at the edge of a lake with the same name, between Rechicourt le Chateau and Heming. Eight km from Rechicourt le Chateau, twelve km from Sarrebourg and 72 km from Nancy. In 1836 there were 1027 people living in the village. By 2001 that number had dwindled to 464. A farm 2 km away called Ketzing had 18 inhabitants in 1836.

“At the edge of the village (Gondrexange), next to a large recreational lake, a narrow lane named ‘rue de la vieux moulin,’ or ‘old mill street,’ winds down below the edge of the main highway. Here can be seen the trace of a small mill stream and the ruins of a small stone mill structure, overgrown with weeds. Though not conclusively documented, this site seems a likely candidate for the Schrag residence and site of Joseph Oyer’s marriage (to Catherine Schrag, daughter of second wife, Marie Blazer).”


(also found on French documents as 'Caspard' and 'Gaspard'), was born circa 1744 and died on Sommerhof at Neuviller, Lower Alsace March 15, 1794. He was a miller at Bischwald Mill and a cultivator on Belgrade farm at Bistroff after 1772, and at the time of his death was a tailor at Rhodes. His civil death entry from Neuviller described him as a 50-year-old Anabaptist living at Rhodes (it is likely that he was visiting the Sommers on Sommerhof at the time of his death). Witnesses were tenant farmer Jean Sommer, 63, and day laborer Jean Müller, 59 (Jean Sommer, born circa 1731, was the father of Joseph Sommer, and grandfather to the Sommers who came to Tazewell County in 1834). “ }




  

Birth:
Ingweilerhof

Residence:
Cultivator at Belgrade farm, and miller at Bischwald Mill.

Residence:
Son Joseph was born at Bellegrade Ferme near Bistroff

Residence:
At time of Catherine’s birth

Residence:
At time of Anne’s birth

Residence:
Domiciled at Bachats at the time of his death.

Died:
On Sommerhof. 25 Ventose 2. Caspar Schraag, 50 year old Anabaptist living at Rhodes. Witnesses: Tenant farmer Jean Sommer of Sommerhof, 63, and day laborer Jean Muller.
The witnesses may not have known the exact date of Caspar’s birth, and gave a nice round number as what they thought was a probable age. Witnesses were Jean Sommer, 63 (tenant farmer) and Jean Muller, 59 (day laborer). Jean, b. abt. 1731 was the father of Joseph Sommer and grandfather to the Sommers who arrived in Tazewell Co., IL in 1834.

Buried:
There are remains of a Sommers cemetery at Sommerhof, so Caspar could have been buried there, or the body removed back to Rhodes. There are no identifiable stones at either place.

Caspar married Marie Blaser (Blaiser) about 1774. Marie was born in 1749; died on 27 Nov 1792 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Once lived at Belgrade/Bellegarde.

Birth:
Calculated from death date

Died:
At age 43. Civil death entry: 43-year-old wife of ‘citizen’ Gaspard Girack, a 48-year-old Anabaptist tailor living at Rhodes. Witnessed by ‘citizen laborer’ Jean Ruvenach, 27, and signed ‘Caspar Schrag’ and ‘Hans R?venacht.’