Family Group Sheet for Nicholas Risser / Barbe Engel (F2010) m. 23 Jul 1798 : The Schrock-Birkey Connection

Family: Nicholas Risser / Barbe Engel (F2010)

m. 23 Jul 1798


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  • Male
    Nicholas Risser

    Birth  Abt 1764  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  19 Jan 1814  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Marriage  23 Jul 1798  [1, 2, 3]  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR  [1, 2, 3] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Jacques (Jacob) Risser | F1847 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Katherina Rupp (Rouppe, Ruppe) | F1847 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Barbe Engel

    Birth  1776  Guermange, Saarebourg, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  15 Sep 1833  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Father  Jean Pierre Engel (Ringle) | F1878 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Marie Magdalena /Rouvenacht (Reuvenacht Riffenacht) | F1878 Group Sheet 

    Male
    Nicolas Risser

    Birth  19 Oct 1811  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  15 Aug 1889  Stanford, McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Stanford, McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Catherine Schmitt | F10687 
    Marriage  16 Dec 1845  Imling, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location

    Female
    Anne Marie Risser

    Birth  1802   
    Death     
    Burial     
    Spouse  Jean Suisse | F6281 
    Marriage  29 Nov 1830  Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location

  • 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).

  • Sources 
    1. [S699] Marriage Record of Nicolas Risser & Barbe Engel.

    2. [S688] Neil Ann Stuckey Levine, Nicholas Risser & Barbe Engel, Year only.

    3. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co., Memo.


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