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- “Another family Schottenhof installed between 1827 and 1833 is that of Jean Roggy (a son of Jacques Roggy miller to mill Oderfang in Saint-Avold and Véronique Gingerich, born about 1806) and Catherine Risser. During this time the couple has four children. Afterwards they leave Sarralbe to settle in Denting, where they die, both of them (John and Catherine in 1865 in 1892). Their son Christian, born in 1833, emigrated to the US in 18519.
One of his descendants returned a few years ago in the footsteps of his ancestors Schottenhof. It existed in the farm a tomb of the family Roggy, the latter would have disappeared during the Second World War (Mrs. Schoeser Testimony of Schottenhof).
Another Roggy family, that of Joseph (a son of Jean and Catherine Roggy Guingerich, born in 1815 near Weidesheim Kalhausen (57), came to Schottenhof in 1840 with Barbara Schantz whom he married in Kalhausen in November 1839. She died September 30, 1840, four days after giving birth to a son named John. May 1, 1841, Joseph remarried in Sarralbe with Madeleine Schertz also from Weidesheim, where his father André was a miller, his mother being Jacobine Engel. The couple had two children in 1842 and 1844, then leaves Sarralbe shortly after to go to Borny, near Metz, where was born the third child in 1846. “ [3]
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