Jean Schrag (Gerach) b. 23 Sep 1818 Chateau-Salins, Moselle, FR: The Schrock-Birkey Connection

Jean Schrag (Gerach)

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  • Name Jean Schrag (Gerach)  [1
    Birth 23 Sep 1818  Chateau-Salins, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • (57) Salival
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I4976  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 25 Jun 2002 

    Father Johannes (Jean Gerack) Schrag,   b. 2 Mar 1775, Bistroff, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jun 1838, Vic-sur-Seille, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Anne Madeleine Farni,   b. 30 Nov 1785, Bisping, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1856, Vic-sur-Seille, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 72 years) 
    Marriage 27 Dec 1810  Rhodes, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Canton of Vic, Dept Meurthe
    Notes 
    • Jean was 37 years of age when he married a second time. (Anne was 25.) His marriage document lists him as a farmer/cultivator, living in Ville, Commune of Marsal, Canton of Vic, Dept. of Meurthe, born in Bistroff 24 May 1773, widower of deceased Anna Engel who died on 8 Aug 1810 in Marsal.

      There was a second declaration of marriage in Marsal in the presence of:
      Jean Rouvenac, farmer, (born 1789) living in Rhodes
      Jean Rouvenac, Jr., farmer, age 21, living in Rhodes

      Jean Suisse, laborer, age 50 (born 1802 at Rhodes), living in Rhodes at Gosselming, (cousin of the bride by marriage)
      (married to ____Risser, b. 1760 and d. 1871(?), daughter of Nicolas Risser b 1764 at Alzing,
      died 1814 at age 50 years, married at age 34 to Barbe Engel (Ringle) on 23 Jul 1798 in
      Gosselming.)
      Jacob Abresol, farmer, age 29 (born 1781), living in Rhodes (cousin of the bride by marriage)
      ( b. 12 Nov 1781, sixth son of Joseph Abresol and Barbe Vercler. Married Marie Farney, b.
      1788. One son, Joseph Abresol, b. 30 Nov 1820 in Rhodes, d. 18 Oct 1883 in France at age
      of 62. Married Barbe Nafziger.)

      The first two witnesses are paternal German cousins to the groom and the last two are cousins of the bride by marriage, who after signed the document.

      “On Dec. 27, 1810, in Rhodes, Moselle, Jean Gerack, widower of Anna Engle (d. Aug. 8, year omitted in the record), deceased at a leasable agricultural estate under the jurisdiction of Marsal, Moselle, m. Anna Farny (b. Nov 30, 1785), a native of the mill named Nolweiher in Bisping, Moselle, daughter of Joseph Farny (d. bef. 1810), once miller at Nolweiher, and Anna Schertz. Johannes Schrag d. on June 19, 1838, at Vic (-sur-Seille), Moselle.”

      Translation by NASL:
      “On Dec. 27, 1810, in Rhodes, Jean Gerack, 37, farmer living at the cense called Ville in Marsal, Moselle, b. on May 24, 1773, in Bistroff, Moselle, widower of Anna Engel, married Anna Farny, 25, b. on Nov. 30, 1785, at the mill called Nolweiher [Bisping, Moselle], daughter of the late Joseph Farny, who had been a miller at Nolweiher, and Anna Schertz.” [1, 2, 3]
    Family ID F1587  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine /Muller Miller,   b. 4 Jan 1821, Vosges, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 15 Mar 1846  Diane-Capelle, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • (57)
    Family ID F3500  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jun 2002 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 23 Sep 1818 - Chateau-Salins, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Mar 1846 - Diane-Capelle, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S297] Jean Francois Lorentz, Schrag (Gerach) Family information.

    2. [S204] Willard Schrock, Sr., More Schrock Information.

    3. [S137] Valentine Birky Remembers--1935, p. 210.


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