According to Mr. Scheuring, during the 17th and 18th centuries, the parish of Üchtelhausen had its rectory at the town of Hausen, and the church records were kept there. But the records for the years 1771--1850, the church vital records (``matriculas'') for Üchtelhausen are now (1998) kept at the rectory in Schonungen. The records since 1850 are in the rectory at Üchtelhausen. Civil records date from 1878.
According to Albrecht Scheuring, Since 1820, there has been a second Niclaus family at Üchtelhausen. He (the second Niclaus) married in to House #12 and originated from the adjacent village of Hesselbach. Mr. Scheuring states, ``I could not determine whether the two were brothers; the latter's father's name could be shown to be Theodorich; Balthasar's father's name was illegible in the records.'' However, on another page, Mr. Scheuring apparently gave the name Martin as the name of this Balthasar's father. I'm awaiting clarification on this point.
The Niclaus name can be found in Üchtelhausen a little earlier even. The following passage is from a 1994 booklet commemorating the 800th year of Üchtelhausen (first in German, then the English translation). The booklet quotes a 1744 entry in the records of a local prince's tax bureau which levied a tax on people who emigrated from or immigrated into the area.
Hans Niclauß\ erlegt für sich und seine Hausfrau, welcher von Hesselbach
anhero gezogen 5 Gulden, welche der Gemeinde gehörig.
Hans Niclauß\ pays an immigrant's tax of 5 guilders (which go
to the community) for himself and his housewife; he moved in
(to Üchtelhausen) from Hesselbach.
In Mr. Scheuring's opinion, this Hans does not belong to our ancestry, however. The church death register at Schonungen (which began in 1771) listed one Johannes Niclaus who died on 11 June 1773, and, one month later, one Margaretha Niclaus(in) who died on 14 July 1773. Mr. Scheuring could not match this pair into our ancestry either. They may have been the same immigrants of 1744.
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