Part II: Georg Huber and Anna Maria Hooß

Kris Hocker on 4 Oct 2016

Yesterday I shared what I’ve learned about Hans Georg and Anna Maria (Hooß) Huber in baptismal records in Lancaster County and emigration records. Today I’ll cover what I learned about the pair from German records.

In Blankenloch

According to the Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee, Georg Huber was a “fränkischer Artillerieschmied.”1 He  was the son of Thomas Huber of Balgheim and first married Anna Barbara Nagel, daughter of Georg Nagel and Anna Margaretha Ulrich, on 26 May 1711 in Blankenloch.2 Barbara was born 28 December 1684 in Blankenloch. They had children:

  1. Anna Margaretha (22 Nov 1711—26 Nov 1711)
  2. Hans Georg (8 Mar 1713—1 Feb 1714)
  3. Hans Adam (20 Aug 1715—)
  4. Georg Friedrich (4 Feb 1717—29 Dec 1773)
  5. Hans Georg (29 Dec 1718—)
  6. Catharina Barbara (25 Nov 1720—)
  7. Thomas (23 Dec 1722—17 Jul 1723)

According to the book, Hans Georg Huber, son of Hans Georg and Anna Barbara (Nagel) Huber, was the man who emigrated to America in 1738—Werner’s emigrant #4357.

Barbara died 20 December 1722 in Blankenloch and Georg married again on 28 June 1723 to Anna Barbara Boch, daughter of Antonius Boch.3 She was born in August 1676 in Blankenloch. She had been married previously to Isaac Heyl of Hagsfeld and had, it appears, one surviving child, Hans Wendel Heyl, born 8 March 1714.4 She died 10 January 1733 in Blankenloch.5

After Barbara’s death, Georg apparently married yet again, this time on 11 August 1733 to Anna Maria Hooß, daughter of Hans Jacob Hooß and Anna Maria Reinau.6 She was born 9 September 1710 in Blankenloch and she, too, had been married previously. She had been married to Hans Michael Hermann—a Soldat, “ein marggräflicher Musquetier.7 They had a son Hans Michel born 12 August 1731 and died 26 October 1731 in Blankenloch. Georg and Anna Maria apparently had two children in Blankenloch:

  1. Hans Jacob (4 Mar 1734—)
  2. Johann Friedrich (26 Jun 1736—)

Father or Son?

So, who was the Georg Huber who arrived in Pennsylvania by 1739? Was it the father born in Balgheim? Or the son born in Blankenloch? Which one married Anna Maria Hooß?

Werner’s entry for Hans Georg Huber provides little information. No age, no indication of whether or not he was traveling with a spouse or children, no occupation.8 The entry in the ortssippenbuch for Hans Georg Huber Jr. states “Bemerkung: Schuster, 1738 nach Amerika auswandert, Regesten Nr. 4357.”9 The son, it appears, was a shoemaker.

Although no birth date is provided for Hans Georg Huber Sr., his first wife was born in 1684 and his second in 1676. I think it’s highly likely that he was in the same age group, possibly born in the mid-1670s to early 1680s. This means he was significantly older than his third wife Anna Maria who was born in 1710.

So, can we tell if he was the man who married Anna Maria? Could it have been the son?

The records in the ortssippenbuch for Georg and his three wives list his occupation. In the first he was a schmied or Artillerieschmied—a blacksmith, one with knowledge of artillery. In the second he’s listed as a hufschmied or farrier. I would presume there’s more need for a farrier than an artillery smith in village life and the skillset is applicable.

The third record which includes Anna Maria also lists his occupation as hufschmied. This would seem to indicate that it was George Sr. who married Anna Maria, not George Jr. Given the practice of apprenticeship in Germany, switching occupations was not easily done, especially in just four years.

Furthermore, George was also a full citizen of Blankenloch at the time of this marriage. There are at least two ways I know to become a bürger. One was to be the child of a bürger and born in the village, the second was to purchase the status.10 The purchase price could be steep and it did not transfer from village to village.

So, for George, who was not born in Blankenloch, to be a bürger in 1733 speaks to both an acceptance by other Blankenloch residents and a certain level of financial success between 1723 and 1733. Would he have given that up in 1737 when, presumably he was in his mid-to-late 50s or early 60s? It’s not unheard of. My ancestor Christoph Hacker and his wife emigrated when they were in their 50s.

There are no death dates provided for George Sr., Anna Maria, and a number of his/their children in the Blankenloch ortssippenbuch. This would mean that there were no death records found for any of these family members in the town church books. In fact, the ortssippenbuch shows no records for this family group after 1736. Why not? If they didn’t leave for America in 1738, where did they go?

The only family member with further information was Georg Friedrich. He married 5 January 1753 and died 29 December 1773 in Gräben where he was a farmhand. Even he did not remain in Blankenloch. Furthermore, there is a note that he applied to emigrate to Denmark with his wife and five children in 1761, though he did not leave.11 None of the Huber families listed in Blankenloch in the early 1700s apparently stayed.

Based on this information, I believe Hans Georg Huber Sr. married Anna Maria Hooß. However, I still can’t tell who was the emigrant—father or son or both.

Check back tomorrow for more analysis. Maybe their ties to and relationships with others will help paint a clearer picture.

Footnotes

  1. Walter August Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee, 1672-1920 (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 528; a Frankish artillery smith. ↩
  2. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 824. ↩
  3. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 90. ↩
  4. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 414. ↩
  5. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 528. ↩
  6. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 529 and 524. ↩
  7. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 447, a musketeer for the margrave of Baden-Durlach. ↩
  8. The entry for Adam Ulrich provides just as little information. He, however, was traveling with his wife and possibly a child. So, we can’t read too much into the lack of information for Georg’s entry. ↩
  9. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 528. ↩
  10. Teva J. Scheer, Our Daily Bread, Village Life in Early Modern Germany (North Saanich, British Columbia : Advantis Press, 2010), page 16, location 665 (Kindle ebook). ↩
  11. Scheidle, Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig und dem Studtensee (Blankenloch-Buchig : Heimat- und Museumsverein, 2001), page 529. ↩

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