Madeleine Schertz

Notes:

Around 1920, after the departure of her sons who rented a farm near Thionville, Barbe went to join her daughter in Chassey, where she was buried.

Birth:
near Herbeviller

Died:
Personnes citées : 1. PELSI ; PELSY Christian Christophe - 504 - , né en 1814 à Rhodes (57), Famille 6 cultivateur Rhodes 1846, Frère

Madeleine married Jacob Pelsy (Pelzel, Bellesley) on 15 Mar 1847 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. Jacob (son of Christian Pelsy and Catherine Verkler (Wirckler)) was born on 3 Feb 1822 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 29 Oct 1910 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; was buried in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Maurice Hébert

1. Marie Pelsy (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 13 May 1847 in Ehoswa, Moselle, FR; died on 28 Oct 1892 in Roanoke, Woodford Co., IL; was buried in Roanoke, Woodford Co., IL.
2. Catherine Pelsy was born on 20 Apr 1851; died in 1935.
3. Madeleine Pelsy (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 16 Jun 1854; died in 1902.
4. André Pelsy was born on 2 Aug 1858 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 20 Aug 1914 in Schneckenbusch, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR; was buried in Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR.
5. Joseph Pelsy (Pelzel, Bellesley) was born on 4 Apr 1863; died in 1933; was buried in 1933 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Miller

Notes:

From Guermange. Lived in Reherrey, below Herbeviller, Moselle. He was in Gondrexange for several years during the Revolution.

Jean evidently had a first marriage that produced Andrés.
Madeleine’s birthdate is after Catherine's death. Was there a third wife?
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Jean had lost a child by accident with a firearm in 1794.
A boy of 10 years playing with his companion manipulates a loaded firearm that has killed the small boy. The drama happened in the Ketzing gap. The captain of the National Gendarmerie in Blamont made the following report [summary]:
“A child about four years old was accidentally killed with a shot of a gun. I stopped at citizen Jean Chertz’s house to get necessary information. I asked the mother of the child, but she could not give details.
A young man aged ten, joking to amuse the child actually aimed a loaded weapon toward the child on a bench opposite. The weapon discharged and killed the child.
Questions were asked:
To whom did the gun belong? Jean Schertz, to another Anabaptist family from Ketzing? To a ranger from the forest of Ketzing? Why was a weapon in a Ketzing family? What kind of arms was it, a hunting weapon or rifle? Hunting, in our opinion, was not allowed by the peasants of the Old Regime.”
The report of the Captain gives no answers.

Birth:
(1758-60)

Jean married Catherine Abresol on 16 Sep 1807 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. Catherine was born in 1760; died on 23 Aug 1812 in Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Witnesses:
Jacques Abresol, 28, brother of the bride; Christopher Rocher, 40 of St. Croix; Michael Salzman, St. Croix, 50; and Jean Gingerich, cultivator and owner of St. Croix.

(Oct 27,2004 email from Joe Staker.)

Married:
Witnesses: Jean Gerack [Schrag] (1777-1838), and Anna Engel (1772-1809)