Jean Rouvenacht

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivateur At Rhodes. Worked as a cultivator at Les Bachats farm, Rhodes.
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: 1794, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Of the farm Bachats. Also resided on the Morauville farm at Rimling, Moselle.

The couple was “present and consenting” at the marriages of children in 1813 and 1817.

(Birthdate of Barbara is before the date of parents marriage.)

Residence:
Cultivator, living at les Bachats farm

Jean married Madeleine Engel in 1794 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. Madeleine (daughter of Jean Pierre Engel and Madeleine (Anne) Rouvenacht) was born in 1764 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died on 23 Dec 1813 in Mittersheim, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Christian Rouvenacht was born on 12 Jun 1790 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 3 Jan 1835 in Bickenholtz, Moselle, FR.
2. Barbe Rouvenacht was born on 4 Jul 1792 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 30 Jan 1872 in Chassey, Meuse, FR; was buried in Gondrecourt-le-Château, Meuse, FR.
3. Joseph Rouvenacht was born on 11 Aug 1794 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 2 Sep 1794 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.
4. Jean Rouvenacht was born on 11 Aug 1794 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.
5. Marie Rouvenacht was born on 1 Nov 1795 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 3 May 1801 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.
6. Joseph Rouvenacht was born in Jan 1799; died on 21 Sep 1840 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.
7. Anne Marie Rouvenacht was born on 14 Jan 1808 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.
8. Christian Rouvenacht was born on 12 May 1813 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR.

Jean + Marguerite Pelsy. Marguerite (daughter of Rudolphe Pelsey (Pelzel, Bellesley) and Barbe Gerber) was born in 1735 in Freistett, Freibourg Near Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 1 Oct 1809 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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