Michael Bellesley (Pelsey, Pelzel)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivator At Neuhof Farm In Buhl-Lorraine
• Immigration: 1837

Notes:

Michael married Katherina Schertz on 9 May 1811 in St. Jean Kourtzerode, Moselle, FR. Katherina (daughter of Johannes (Gross Hans) Schertz and Anna Barbe Engel) was born in 1793 in Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR; died on 15 Apr 1864 in Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Their’s was a double ceremony with her older brother David and Michael’s sister Catherine.

1. Joseph “Black Joe” Belsley was born on 20 Mar 1812 in Alsace Lorraine, FR; died on 23 Oct 1879; was buried in Woodford Co., IL.
2. Michael Pelsey (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born in May 1815; died in 1901; was buried in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL.
3. Pierre (Peter) Pelsey (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born in 1818; died on 6 Apr 1856.
4. Anne Pelsey (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 28 Mar 1819 in Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR; died on 2 May 1903; was buried in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL.
5. Magdalena Pelsey (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 11 May 1825 in Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR; died on 20 Nov 1887.
6. Catherine Belsley (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 12 Feb 1825 in St. Jean Kourtzerode, Moselle, FR; died on 13 May 1902; was buried in East Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL.
7. Mary (Marie) Belsley (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 13 Mar 1826; died on 20 Dec 1904.
8. Christian Belsley was born on 28 Jun 1828; died on 5 May 1910.
9. Barbe Belsley (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born in 1832.

Notes:

Both children's birthdate is before the parents marriage date. Perhaps they don’t belong here, or there was an earlier marriage.

Died:
Below Bourscheid

Michel married Madelaine (Marthe) Halter in 1791. Madelaine was born about 1748; died on 6 Dec 1809. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: by 1710, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

“Rudolf Balzli, a cowherd at Sainte Croix, went to the presbytery to register a boy who had just been born. But how to do it ? The said Balzli was one of those Anabaptists who refused to baptize his children because, like his co-religionists, he felt that this act was too individually engaging to be practiced by a newborn.

But Monsieur le Cure was a wise man, and just like our Anabaptist, he was a man of peace. Together they found a solution, a "nameless boy", bastard certainly, but nevertheless effective because it allows us to know on which date he was born in the family Balzli. Bringing this mention in the register was the trick found by our two comrades. The renown of the gentleness of the church man was, no doubt, widespread among the Anabaptist families and more and more came to Rhodes to reside there.” (Translated from the French)

Residence:
at the time his son Rudolphe was born