Maria Neuhauser

Abt 1773 - Aft 1826  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Maria Neuhauser  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1772-1773	Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR
  	Birth year calculated from son Johannes’ marriage document--she was 53 at the time. No doubt born at Alzing farm. In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin: In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin and was born in Mariabirch. So far I haven’t found his father’s name.
  Gender	Female
  Religion	Anabaptist
  Death	Aft 1826  [3]
  	She was present at Johannes and Catherine’s marriage in 1826. In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin: “In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin [?] and was born in Mariabirch [Merlebach].”
  Person ID	I4503	Schrock-Birkey Connection
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Christian Neuhauser,   b. 1736   d. 11 Mar 1798, Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Catherine Marie Ritzieker (Regsecker) (Lithzieker),   b. 1736   d. 18 Mar 1798, Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1770  [4]
  Family ID	F1768	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Schrag (Schrack),   b. 17 Mar 1772, Bistroff, Moselle, FR d. 5 Apr 1830, Rhodes, Moselle, FR (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1800	Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR   [5]
  	Alzing?
  Children	1. Johannes Schrock (Schrack, Gerrard),   b. 15 Jun 1801, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR d. 21 Jan 1875, Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 73 years)   2. Peter Schrock,   b. 15 Jun 1802, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR d. 7 Sep 1887, Trenton, Butler Co., OH (Age 85 years)   3. André (Andréas) Schrock,   b. 3 Jul 1804, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR d. 5 Aug 1855, Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL (Age 51 years)   4. Anne Schrag (Serach),   b. 24 Dec 1806, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR   5. Magdalena Schrock (Schrack),   b. 10 Apr 1811, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR d. 4 Aug 1855, Congerville, Montgomery Twp., Woodford Co., IL (Age 44 years)   6. Barbara Schrock (Schrack),   b. Abt 1815, Moselle, FR d. Abt 1835, Spring Bay, Worth Twp., Woodford Co., IL (Age ~ 20 years)
  Family ID	F3199	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2018

  
  

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• Notes

  Alzing was already mentioned in 1525 as being a farm of the seigniory of Sarreck. In 1556, she was a possession of the counts of Lutzelbourg, then of the count de Custine. Alzing seems to have been in ancient times an important locality. The heart of Alzing remained an Anabaptist community. Marie is almost certainly part of the Neuhauser family which lived in Gosselming and was well known to Schrag and Engel families--a sister to Jean Neuhauser, who was a witness to Joseph’s marriage to Marie Engel, since Marie’s mother had secondly married Jean’s father, Nicholas Neuhauser. Her death is still a mystery. There is a Mary Gerrard listed along with Anna and Madeline Gerrard on the ship Baltimore, on which the family sailed to America in 1831. Her age is given as 52, and that fits fairly well with her probable birth date. However, except for a notation by son Peter in his Bible saying his mother died 27 January 1839, there has been no other data found about when (or where) she died, and no mention of her by any family members in America, or researchers finding evidence of her presence in America. Gosselming (part of Meurthe before 1870 had 795 people in 1836, 542 in 2001) is situated at the extremity of a forest named Selvald, on the left bank of the Saar River, 6 km south of Fenetrange, 9 km from Sarrebourg, and 72 km from Nancy. The farm Alzing is 5 km west of Gosselming. [6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S247] Death record of Joseph Schrag (Schrack) (Serack), Surname spelled Neyhousser. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz. [S805] GeneaNet Family Tree of Peter Schrag, Gives death date of 2 Jan 1819, but she was alive in 1826. [S712] Maurice Hebert , Handwritten notes by Maurice Hebert. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co. [S1053] Jean-Claude Koffel, Les anabaptistes de l’arrondissement de Sarrebourg, (Self-published), P. 122.