Jean Schertz b. 1758 d. 5 Mar 1808 Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR: The Schrock-Birkey Connection
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Jean Schertz

Male 1758 - 1808  (50 years)


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  • Name Jean Schertz  [1, 2] 
    Birth 1758  [2] 
    • (1758-60)
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Miller 
    Death 5 Mar 1808  Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I5789  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 28 Apr 2019 

    Family Catherine Abresol,   b. 1760   d. 23 Aug 1812, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Marriage 16 Sep 1807  Rhodes, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Witnesses: Jean Gerack [Schrag] (1777-1838), and Anna Engel (1772-1809)
    Notes 
    • Witnesses:
      Jacques Abresol, 28, brother of the bride; Christopher Rocher, 40 of St. Croix; Michael Salzman, St. Croix, 50; and Jean Gingerich, cultivator and owner of St. Croix.

      (Oct 27,2004 email from Joe Staker.)
    Children 
     1. Andrés Schertz,   b. 10 Sep 1792, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Mar 1837, Lorquin, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
     2. Madeleine Schertz,   b. 3 Oct 1827, Recherey, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jun 1897, Rhodes, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    Family ID F1641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2018 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Sep 1807 - Rhodes, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 5 Mar 1808 - Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • From Guermange. Lived in Reherrey, below Herbeviller, Moselle. He was in Gondrexange for several years during the Revolution.

      Jean evidently had a first marriage that produced Andrés.
      Madeleine’s birthdate is after Catherine's death. Was there a third wife?
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      Jean had lost a child by accident with a firearm in 1794.
      A boy of 10 years playing with his companion manipulates a loaded firearm that has killed the small boy. The drama happened in the Ketzing gap. The captain of the National Gendarmerie in Blamont made the following report [summary]:
      “A child about four years old was accidentally killed with a shot of a gun. I stopped at citizen Jean Chertz’s house to get necessary information. I asked the mother of the child, but she could not give details.
      A young man aged ten, joking to amuse the child actually aimed a loaded weapon toward the child on a bench opposite. The weapon discharged and killed the child.
      Questions were asked:
      To whom did the gun belong? Jean Schertz, to another Anabaptist family from Ketzing? To a ranger from the forest of Ketzing? Why was a weapon in a Ketzing family? What kind of arms was it, a hunting weapon or rifle? Hunting, in our opinion, was not allowed by the peasants of the Old Regime.”
      The report of the Captain gives no answers. [5]

  • Sources 
    1. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co.

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

    3. [S1053] Jean-Claude Koffel, Les anabaptistes de l’arrondissement de Sarrebourg, (Self-published), Died in the mill of Hesse according to this source. .

    4. [S887] Marriage Record of Jean Schertz and Catherine Abresol, https://gw.geneanet.org/lorentz?lang=en&iz=28158&p=catherine&n=abresol&oc=1.

    5. [S1053] Jean-Claude Koffel, Les anabaptistes de l’arrondissement de Sarrebourg, (Self-published).


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