André Schrag b. 1742 Mittelbach, Zweibrücken, GR d. 13 Jun 1809 Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR: The Schrock-Birkey Connection

André Schrag

Male 1742 - 1809  (67 years)


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  • Name André Schrag  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 1742  Mittelbach, Zweibrücken, GR Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    • - Birth year calculated from birth record of granddaughter Catherine, when his age was given as 52 in 1805. At his death in 1809 his age is given as 60. (A record from Europe gives the birth date os 1753.) PYRENEES ORIENTALES, 66482. Source 1120 gives date as 1742, as does source 1260.
    Gender Male 
    Education Could Write His Name 
    Occupation Miller-Likely The Master Miller Enumerated At Hengstbach (=Mittelbach, D 66482) Near Zweibrücken In The German Palatinate In A Census From 1776. Also A Miller At Tenschmuhle In Lorraine  [1
    Religion Amish 
    Residence 1776  Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Wahlerhof estate at Mittelbach-Hengstbach.
    Residence 1781  Oron, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Near Chateau-Salins
    Residence 1797  Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Near Linstroff
    Death 13 Jun 1809  Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13, 14
    • Living with son André’. Death document says he was originally from “Deuxponts (Mont-tonnere)” (Zweibrücken) A widower in second marriage of Suzanne Herge. Father of André Schrag, 30, who reported the death.
      Translation of death document by Neil Ann Levine:
      2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   
    Person ID I1011  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2024 

    Father Johannes Schrag,   b. 1740, Falkenstein, Donnersberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1830, Holmes, Crawford Co., OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Elisabeth Albrecht,   b. 1745, Hermersbergerhof, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1796, Wischenka, Tschernigov, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage 1760  Albisheim An Der Eis, Obrigheim, Palatinate, GR Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    Family ID F1484  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Suzanne Bachmann 
    Marriage 20 Feb 1805  [16
    Children 
     1. Andréas /Schrag (Gerard Serach),   b. 1779, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1848, Dombrot-sur-Vair, Vosges, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    Family ID F1485  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2020 

    Family 2 Madeleine Zehr,   b. 1746   d. 24 Dec 1795, Albestroff, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Children 
     1. Suzanne Schrag,   b. 1787, Imling, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. André Schrag,   b. 1793, Vilsberg, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F11169  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2020 

    Family 3 Susanne Christine Hirschy (Hirschi)   d. 15 Apr 1799, Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1781  [17
    Children 
     1. Simon Schrag (Schrack),   b. 1781, Oron, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1856, Saint-Ouen-Lès-Parey, Vosges, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     2. Pierre Schrag (Serach),   b. 1791, Sarreguemines, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Aug 1854, Gondrecourt-le-Château, Meuse, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     3. Christophe Schrag (Gerard),   b. 26 Oct 1797, Grostenquin, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Dec 1850, Chassey Beaupré, Meuse, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)
    Family ID F734  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1742 - Mittelbach, Zweibrücken, GR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1776 - Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1781 - Oron, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1797 - Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Jun 1809 - Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Andreas’ descendants migrated to America 1843, 1855.

      Hermann Guth says, “Andréas probably belongs here.” However, his birth date doesn’t seem to fit. But there is probably a connection, since Jean Hirgie was a witness to Anna’s marriage and listed as a cousin.

      After Suzanne Bachman died, Andréas moved to Lorraine in France and married Suzanne Hirchi before 1781. Lived in Oron (F 57528) near Chateau-Salins in 1781 and in
      1797 in Grostenquin near Linstroff. Andreas was named as an “anne Baptiste” miller at the mill of Tenchel in the birth document of son Christian. The mother of Christian is named as Susan Hirche.

      Andréas later settled in Vergaville (F 57708) near Dieuze, where he was living with son Andréas at the time of his death in 1809. He was miller at the Tenchel in Lorraine.

      In 1805, André’ signed the birth record of his granddaughter, Catherine Schrag, daughter of son André’ and Anne Pelsey.

      Translation of death document by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine:
      2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   

      André’s descendants are compiled in the voluminous first edition of “Who’s Who in The Schrock Family”, and printed in February 2001 by Kevin J. Willems.
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      Individual Note
      SCHRAG on his death certificate
      SERACH on marriage certificate
      Serach Zere in 1839 on Christine's birth certificate
      in 1857 it is indicated André Gerard in German Schrag
      Gerard on marriage certificate from 1845

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  • Sources 
    1. [S113] Neil Ann Stuckey Levine, Partial Genealogy of the Family of Christian Schrag/Schrock/Gerard.

    2. [S112] Katie Green, Salt of the Earth: Joseph Saltzmann, Barbara Litwiller and Descendants.

    3. [S190] Jean Francois Lorentz, Schrag, Berki, Pelsey:.

    4. [S985] Descendants of Andre Schrag and Anne Pelsy.

    5. [S40] Hermann Guth, Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations, The Estates Where They Lived, Their Families (English edition), (Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA).

    6. [S1120] Migrations of the Schrag Family of Leumberg Switzerland from Adam to Adams County (Part 1-to the 20th Century), p. 139.

    7. [S1260] Timothy Schrag, Schrag/Schrock Genealogy-in Light of an Analysis of Y-DNA Studies done by the Schrag/Schrock Y-DNA Research Group, birth date 1742.

    8. [S712] Maurice Hebert , Handwritten notes by Maurice Hebert, Gives birthdate as 1749.

    9. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz, http://gw.geneanet.org/lorentz_w?lang=en;pz=samson+etienne+jean;nz=aymonier;ocz=0;p=andre;n=schrag;oc=4.

    10. [S188] Jean Francois Lorentz, [email protected].

    11. [S1120] Migrations of the Schrag Family of Leumberg Switzerland from Adam to Adams County (Part 1-to the 20th Century), P. 139.

    12. [S259] Andre’ Schrag - Death Record.

    13. [S695] Death Record of Andre Schrag.

    14. [S907] Death Document of Andrè Schrag.

    15. [S805] GeneaNet Family Tree of Peter Schrag.

    16. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz, Document on line.

    17. [S113] Neil Ann Stuckey Levine, Partial Genealogy of the Family of Christian Schrag/Schrock/Gerard, Gives date as before 1781.

    18. [S1260] Timothy Schrag, Schrag/Schrock Genealogy-in Light of an Analysis of Y-DNA Studies done by the Schrag/Schrock Y-DNA Research Group.

    19. [S840] Birth document of Madeleine Schertz.

    20. [S1199] Who’s Who in the Schrock Family.

    21. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz.


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