Nicholas Risser

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivateur (Farmer At Alzing Farm In 1798)
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: 1798, Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Birth:
Born at Alzing. Birth year extrapolated from marriage document. Birth abt 1768/1771 according to another source.

Residence:
Living at Alzing farm when he married for the second time.

Nicholas married Barbe Engel on 23 Jul 1798 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. Barbe (daughter of Jean Pierre Engel (Ringle) and Marie Magdalena /Rouvenacht (Reuvenacht Riffenacht)) was born in 1776 in Guermange, Saarebourg, Moselle, FR; died on 15 Sep 1833 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage document seems to say Nicholas is a widower, but no name of first spouse. He is the son of deceased Jacques Risser and Catherine Ruppe, father and mother from Alzing. It does not say if Catherine Ruppe is dead or alive.
Four major witnesses: Joseph Farnie, miller, living in Nollweyer (57930 Bisping Belles Forets), brother-in-law of the groom. Christian(ne) Engel, farmer, living in Sommange (Zommange 57260), brother in law of the groom; Jacque Moser, miller, living in Nollweyer, neighbour of the bride; Josephe Engel, meunier (miller) demeurant au moulin de Lorentzs. Josephe Farnie does not know reading and writing.

Barbe Engel, born in Germange (Guermange 57260), 22 years old, daughter of deceased Jean-Pierre Engel and Magdeleine Riffennact, father and mother from Gosselming.

Married:
Witnesses included Joseph Farny, a miller on Nolweyer Pond at Bisping (he was Nicolas's brother-in- law, married to Anne Risser); Christian Engel, a Zommange cultivator (Barbe's cousin); Jacob/Jacques Moser, miller at Bisping and neighbor to the bride (he later married Joseph Farny's widow); and Joseph Engel, miller at Lorentzen (Barbe's younger brother).

1. Nicolas Risser was born on 19 Oct 1811 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died on 15 Aug 1889 in Stanford, McLean Co., IL; was buried in Stanford, McLean Co., IL.
2. Anne Marie Risser was born in 1802.

Notes:

Jacob and Katharina farmed the property Alsing near Gosselming late in the eighteenth century.

They were at Alzing when their daughter Anne was born in 1761, during the time when the local priest was trying to force baptisms of Anabaptist children born at on the farm.

Jacques + Katherina Rupp (Rouppe, Ruppe). Katherina was born about 1733; died on 1 Dec 1801 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Alzing.

Birth:
1729?

Died:
Alzing