Maria Neuhauser

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

Alzing was already mentioned in 1525 as being a farm of the seigniory of Sarreck. In 1556, she was a possession of the counts of Lutzelbourg, then of the count de Custine. Alzing seems to have been in ancient times an important locality. The heart of Alzing remained an Anabaptist community.

Marie is almost certainly part of the Neuhauser family which lived in Gosselming and was well known to Schrag and Engel families--a sister to Jean Neuhauser, who was a witness to Joseph’s marriage to Marie Engel, since Marie’s mother had secondly married Jean’s father, Nicholas Neuhauser.

Her death is still a mystery. There is a Mary Gerrard listed along with Anna and Madeline Gerrard on the ship Baltimore, on which the family sailed to America in 1831. Her age is given as 52, and that fits fairly well with her probable birth date. However, except for a notation by son Peter in his Bible saying his mother died 27 January 1839, there has been no other data found about when (or where) she died, and no mention of her by any family members in America, or researchers finding evidence of her presence in America.

Gosselming (part of Meurthe before 1870 had 795 people in 1836, 542 in 2001) is situated at the extremity of a forest named Selvald, on the left bank of the Saar River, 6 km south of Fenetrange, 9 km from Sarrebourg, and 72 km from Nancy. The farm Alzing is 5 km west of Gosselming.

Birth:
Birth year calculated from son Johannes’ marriage document--she was 53 at the time. No doubt born at Alzing farm.

In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin:
In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin and was born in Mariabirch. So far I haven’t found his father’s name.


Died:
She was present at Johannes and Catherine’s marriage in 1826.
In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin:
“In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin [?] and was born in Mariabirch [Merlebach].”

Maria married Joseph Schrag (Schrack) about 1800 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. Joseph (son of Caspar (Gaspard) Schrag (Gerack) and Barbe Rouvenac (Rüfenacht)) was born on 17 Mar 1772 in Bistroff, Moselle, FR; died on 5 Apr 1830 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; was buried in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Alzing?

1. Johannes Schrock (Schrack, Gerrard) was born on 15 Jun 1801 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR; died on 21 Jan 1875 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL.
2. Peter Schrock was born on 15 Jun 1802 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR; died on 7 Sep 1887 in Trenton, Butler Co., OH; was buried on 9 Sep 1887 in Trenton, Butler Co., OH.
3. André (Andréas) Schrock was born on 3 Jul 1804 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR; died on 5 Aug 1855 in Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Aug 1855 in Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL.
4. Anne Schrag (Serach) was born on 24 Dec 1806 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR.
5. Magdalena Schrock (Schrack) was born on 10 Apr 1811 in Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR; died on 4 Aug 1855 in Congerville, Montgomery Twp., Woodford Co., IL; was buried in Woodford Co., IL.
6. Barbara Schrock (Schrack) was born about 1815 in Moselle, FR; died about 1835 in Spring Bay, Worth Twp., Woodford Co., IL; was buried in Worth Twp., Woodford Co., IL.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Plowman

Notes:

Died:
Probably at Alzing farm

Nicolas married Catherine Marie Ritzieker (Regsecker) (Lithzieker) in 1770. Catherine was born in 1736; died on 18 Mar 1798 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• EARL: Y
• Residence: 1798

Notes:

Residence:
Alzing

Died:
Paul Auburtin source

Other Events and Attributes:

• EARL: Y
• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

This line of Neuhaus families evidently came from Lützelflüh, Rüderswil, CH3432, , BE, Suisse (Switzerland) (near Burgdorf and Wynigen)

A Jacob Neurshus (Neuhauser) is named in a list of Anabaptists at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in 1703.
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There is a gap of 16 years between children Jean and Nicolas,: this could mean a second marriage.
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Translated by Google from French:
sources:
-Individual, birth: 2002 Souvenance n21
sources:
JF Lorentz


Historical research on the Anabaptists of the former Princiipauté Montbeliard , Alsace and the Territory of Belfort , 1969 , Editions Le Phare, Flavion , Belgium , p. 31-38 , p . 57

REASONS AND DATES OF EXILE OF BERNE NEUHAUSER The general persecution against the Anabaptists , inaugurated by the Edict of Spire of January 4, 1528 , which unfairly confounded under the same name, fanatical supporters of John of Leyden and Thomas Muenzer with the peaceful Anabaptists , later called Mennonites, died in Holland in the late sixteenth century. There was not the same in Switzerland, where the Mennonites were persecuted again throughout the course of the seventeenth and part of the eighteenth centuries. The Bernese authorities were particularly bitter and persevering in repression.

Bernese patricians, with their exclusive pride, their military spirit , their corruption were at the opposite extreme "Christians without defense or revenge" which demanded that the freedom to practice their faith in peace . Among the measures taken by these " lords of Berne ,” more stringent than other mandate in 1670 gave fifteen days all Anabaptist to cross the border of the State of Berne, and put his property in receivership.

The exodus of 1671 and the following years brought to Alsace ? and Montbéliard several hundred refugees which include the name of NEUHAUSER . Jacques Neuhauser had settled in 1704 on the lands of the Principality of Montbéliard . See National Archives: K. . 2178 and Arch. Doubs E. 465 . (see geneanet Neyhousser )

Jacques + Barbe Geny. Barbe was born in 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Date from Jean Paul Neyhousser via Helen Everhart