Christian Schrag (Gerard)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Meunier (Miller) at la Gravier
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: 1805, Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1813, Assenoncourt, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1814-1817, Baccarat, FR
• Residence: 1818-1819, Deyvillers, Vosges, FR
• Residence: 1823-1848, Dombrot-sur-Vair, Vosges, FR

Notes:

This family picked up the surname Gerard in occasional use. We suspect it began with the birth of daughter Christine, the first child born in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. The clerk at Baccarat called both father André and his witness Joseph ‘Gérard.’ While André signed with an ‘x’, indicating he was illiterate, Joseph very clearly signed ‘Joseph Schrag.’
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This mixup of Gerard for Schrag would continue until April 11, 1863, when Christophe Schrag (a son of André’s brother Christian/Christophe) made a grievance at a public meeting of the civil tribunal in District 2 of the department of Meuse. He explained that the persistent error could only be explained by poor pronunciation of the word Gerard. This resulted in a lengthy remark inserted in the civil records of Chassey, detailing all the family events that had been misidentified because of it.

Birth:
Mittelbach-Hengstbach

Residence:
Lived in Vergaville in 1809 at the time of his father’s death. ?

Residence:
(F 54039)

Residence:
(F 88132)

Residence:
(F 88141) At the mill Graviere.

Died:
Death certificate states André was a son of the late André’ Schrag, a miller at Mittelbach, and a woman whose name was not known to the witnesses, one of whom was David Schertz, husband of Catherine Schrag and son-in-law of the deceased.?

Andréas married Anne Pelsy (Pelzel, Bellesley) on 20 Feb 1805 in Oberstinzel, Fenetrange, Moselle, FR. Anne (daughter of Rudolf Pelsy and Catherine Swalter (Zwalter)) was born on 9 Nov 1783 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 3 Dec 1843 in Robecourt, Lamarche, Vosges, FR; was buried on 8 Jan 1784 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

She was the third child of Christian Bellesley (“Pelsel”) and Catharina Swalter.

Died:
Moulin Froid, Home of son André, at age 57.

Notes:

Married:
Moulin Sarreck

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Could Write His Name
• Occupation: Miller-Likely The Master Miller Enumerated At Hengstbach (=Mittelbach, D 66482) Near Zweibrücken In The German Palatinate In A Census From 1776. Also A Miller At Tenschmuhle In Lorraine
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1776, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: 1781, Oron, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1797, Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Andreas’ descendants migrated to America 1843, 1855.

Hermann Guth says, “Andréas probably belongs here.” However, his birth date doesn’t seem to fit. But there is probably a connection, since Jean Hirgie was a witness to Anna’s marriage and listed as a cousin.

After Suzanne Bachman died, Andréas moved to Lorraine in France and married Suzanne Hirchi before 1781. Lived in Oron (F 57528) near Chateau-Salins in 1781 and in
1797 in Grostenquin near Linstroff. Andreas was named as an “anne Baptiste” miller at the mill of Tenchel in the birth document of son Christian. The mother of Christian is named as Susan Hirche.

Andréas later settled in Vergaville (F 57708) near Dieuze, where he was living with son Andréas at the time of his death in 1809. He was miller at the Tenchel in Lorraine.

In 1805, André’ signed the birth record of his granddaughter, Catherine Schrag, daughter of son André’ and Anne Pelsey.

Translation of death document by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine:
2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   

André’s descendants are compiled in the voluminous first edition of “Who’s Who in The Schrock Family”, and printed in February 2001 by Kevin J. Willems.
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Individual Note
SCHRAG on his death certificate
SERACH on marriage certificate
Serach Zere in 1839 on Christine's birth certificate
in 1857 it is indicated André Gerard in German Schrag
Gerard on marriage certificate from 1845

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Birth:
- Birth year calculated from birth record of granddaughter Catherine, when his age was given as 52 in 1805. At his death in 1809 his age is given as 60. (A record from Europe gives the birth date os 1753.) PYRENEES ORIENTALES, 66482. Source 1120 gives date as 1742, as does source 1260.

Residence:
Wahlerhof estate at Mittelbach-Hengstbach.

Residence:
Near Chateau-Salins

Residence:
Near Linstroff

Died:
Living with son André’. Death document says he was originally from “Deuxponts (Mont-tonnere)” (Zweibrücken) A widower in second marriage of Suzanne Herge. Father of André Schrag, 30, who reported the death.
Translation of death document by Neil Ann Levine:
2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   

André married Suzanne Bachmann on 20 Feb 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist, as noted on his death record

Notes:

The father of ten.

Birth:
JFL: 29 Mar 1745

Rudolf married Catherine Swalter (Zwalter) in 1783. Catherine was born about 1752-1753; died on 25 May 1823 in Dombrot-sur-Vair, Vosges, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
At home of daughter at the age of 70.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite
• Residence: 1776, Hornbach, Palatinate, GR

Notes:

He went to Falkenstein, Galicia and later Russia. Many of the children of this couple lived and died in Volhynia, Ukraine.

Residence:
near Zweibrücken

Johannes married Elisabeth Albrecht in 1760 in Albisheim An Der Eis, Obrigheim, Palatinate, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Michael Albrecht) was born in 1745 in Hermersbergerhof, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR; died in 1796 in Wischenka, Tschernigov, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Michael Albrecht of Hermersbergerhof. There were Albrechts at Hemersbergerhof around 1810, according to Herbert Hage in his book Mennonites in Bavaria.

Birth:
Peter Schrag gives date as 1739

Rudolphe + Catherine Walter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1770, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Verna Belsley’s book says Rodolphe Pelsey was at Rhodes about 1770 and his wife was Barbara Vercler. Their son Christian, at Rhodes in 1774, was the father of ten children.

The family farm was Sainte-Croix near Rhodes, which now part of a park and wildlife refuge.

Birth:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kipferbeller&id=I0209

Rudolphe married Barbe Gerber in 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]