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Heinrich Dechert was born around 1660. He married Anna Appolonia, whose maiden name is unfortunately unknown, and had three children: Anna Margaretha (1695), Maria Angelica Engell (1697), and Johann Peter (1699). All three of the children were born in Waldfischbach, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Heinrich died September 23, 1738 in Geiselberg, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany and his wife died a number of years later on September 11, 1747 also in Geiselberg. The Dechert's were of the Lutheran faith. Angelica, Heinrich's daughter, married Johann Martin Wahl, son of Hans Nickel Wahl and Anna Magdalena Klein, and had 5 children between 1733 and 1745. She was widowed in 1747 when Johann Martin Wahl died and she died in 1774. The Wahl's were also Protestant, like the Dechert's and much of my roots in Bavaria, but they weren't Lutheran, they belonged to the Reformed Church. Johann Martin Wahl and Maria Angelica Engell Dechert had a daughter, Anna Barbara Wahl, on April 11, 1745, who would marry Johann Adam Grundtisch, the son of Johann Adam and Maria Elisabeth Grundtisch. All of these people, of course, lived in Bavaria, Germany. It appears the Grundtisch origin was actually in Switzerland, however (the Canton-Bern region). Anyways, if I learn more about the Dechert's I'll put it on this website right away.

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Maria Angelica Engell Dechert, simply known as Angelica, was born on August 25, 1697 in Waldfischbach, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany of the parents Heinrich (c.1660-1738) and Anna Appolonia (1666-1747) Dechert. She had a sister, Anna Margaretha (born 1695), and a brother, Johann Peter (born 1699). Unfortunately, I don't know her mother's maiden name yet. Hopefully I'll get that information soon. Angelica married Johann Martin Wahl (1702-1747), of the Reformed Church. His parents were Hans Nickel Wahl and Anna Magdalena Klein. Angelica died on January 2, 1774 after having five children. Her husband passed away September 30, 1747. Both died in Geiselberg, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Their children were: Johann Adam (1733), Maria Magdalena (1735), Maria Catharina (1739), Johann Ludwig (1743), and Anna Barbara (1745). Anna Barbara Wahl married Johann Adam Grundtisch, son of Johann Adam and Maria Elisabeth Grundtisch. I am a descendant of that couple. Their grandson, Jacob Grundtisch, went from Germany to the United States (Ohio specifically) and Jacob's son, Johann Grundtisch, went from Ohio to Western New York. If I learn more about Angelica Dechert, I'll post it here.

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Maria was born in Holland, according to her granddaughter, Eleanor Herrmann. She said this in 1985, in her later years of life though. Not sure how well this can be trusted. On records in America it lists her born France. I think I'd believe she was born in Holland, that's what I'm putting on all my records, but I also think she moved to Alsace area France where she probably met her husband, Jean Klein. She was born August 18, 1820 in Holland. She married in Alsace around 1843. Her husband was born in Metz, Alsace, France according to Eleanor Herrmann. I'm convinced they were married in Metz and had children there. Their children in France were Nicolas (1844) and Anna (1846). Then they immigrated to Erie County, New York, USA. Their children from then on were Maria (1848), John (1850), Margaret (1852), Jacob (1854), George (1856), Phillip (1859), Catharina (1860), baby who was unnamed (1862), Magdalena (1864), and Amelia (1865). Maria was also known as "Sophie" or "Sophia". One of her grandchildren said that her maiden name was Edendhoffer, but I am almost certain that's incorrect. Dannenhoffer is a proven name throughout Europe, specifically in Alsace. This Holland stuff is interesting, who knows if it'll be true or not, but she definitely was in Alsace at one time of her life if not her whole life before America. Maria died May 12, 1897 in Williamsville, Erie County, New York, USA. I am a descendant of her through her 2nd youngest child, Magdalena, who was born in 1864 and married Andrew Mark Beaser. Lastly, I would tackle Metz records, but Metz is such a big city I can't do that. There's too many church records. I need more info, maybe Erie County records can give me that more info. They may have been from near Metz, rather directly Metz. A lot still to be figured out with this Klein/Dannenhoffer family.

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Anna Maria Edinger, known simply as Maria during her life, was born in Waldfischbach, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany around 1675. Her father was Peter Edinger. The surname is sometimes spelled Ettinger. She married on December 4, 1696 to Johann Nicolaus Weissmann, or simply Nicolaus, who was the son of Lorentz Weissmann. Johann Nicolaus Weissmann's uncle, Peter Martin Weissmann, was the builder and mayor of Wolfstein, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany, according to several early records from that region. He was born in 1640, married in 1664 to Catharina Thiel, and had a son Lorentz in 1672, who became mayor of the city, Wolfstein, as well. He had 10 children with his wife, Anna Elisabetha Kolter, and I have some of that line traced all the way up to the 20th century. So I know a great deal of information about the Weissmann's. Weissmann literally means "white man" when translated from German to English. So Maria married into a well-known family of that area of Bavaria. Maria and Nicolaus had 9 children including 6 sons. The children were: Lorentz (1697), Anna Catharina (1700), Johann Heinrich (1702), Johann Nicolaus (1704), Johann Peter (1705), Anna Maria (1707), Maria Barbara (1709), Johann Theobald (1711), and Johann Adam (1715). I am a descendant of Johann Adam Weissmann, the youngest child of Maria and Nicolaus, who had 14 children of his own. Four of these children were to his first wife, Anna Maria Jochem, and the other ten were through his second wife, my ancestor, Maria Catharina Seibert. Anna Maria Edinger Weissmann died on July 9, 1727 in Heltersberg. Her husband lived until 1774, when he passed away on March 10th of that year. Maybe someday I'll learn of Maria's mother's name. It's unlikely though. Records this far back aren't very complete. These families belonged to the Reformed Church.

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Little is known about Peter Edinger. He was born around 1641 in Heltersberg, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. He belonged to the Reformed Church. I'm not sure of his wife's name. Around 1675 he had Anna Maria Edinger, who married Johann Nicolaus Weissmann, and had 9 children. The name was sometimes spelled Ettinger. For more about Anna Maria Edinger Weissmann and her family, go back and click on her name. She was known as Maria, her second name was what people called her (a German custom for centuries). Little is known about the origin of the name Edinger/Ettinger. There are other Edinger's and Ettinger's in this region of Bavaria. I haven't connected any of them to my ancestors yet, but they were probably related. If I learn more about Peter or the Edinger's in general, I'll post it here. Oh, and I use the Edinger spelling most often, but I must one more time stress, Ettinger is interchangeably used. To someone speaking German, it must have been hard to decipher if it was meant to be a "d" or "tt", so when they went from place to place, incomplete records at the time led to question in the "correct" spelling. I use Edinger only because it's the way it was most often spelled in the German records.

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Christina Fischer was born around 1655 in Birenbach, Wuerttemberg, Germany. Her parents are not known. She was Roman Catholic and she married Johannes Bieser of Birenbach. His parents are not known either. They had six children after moving to Waeschenbeuren, Wuerttemberg, Germany: Jacob (1684), Joseph (1686), Michael (1687 - my ancestor), Maria (1690), Magdalena (1693), and Melchoir (1695). Michael married twice - first to Anna Koleb (they had 4 children) and then to Elisabeth Dangelmayer of Kizer (they had 5 children). Elisabeth Bieser, Michael and Elisabeth's daughter, married Anton Maier. Through this line comes Maria Genovefa Schwab. She married Andreas Bieser (no relation to Maria Genovefa's Bieser ancestry which includes Christina Fischer has been found yet -- one seems to be from Beuren and the other from Birenbach -- if records would go back far enough I'm sure a connection could be established, but they just don't go back any further). Records in Birenbach available today from the 17th century are all Protestant unfortunately. I have even viewed this film, finding nothing. Mine were all Roman Catholic. Maybe somehow new information about Christina and the Fischer family will pop up, but it's doubtful.

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James Bulger was born in County Wicklow, Ireland around 1800. He immigrated to Canada and settled in Cobourg, Ontario with his family around 1848. He married Julia Kelly around 1823 in County Wicklow. She was born there in 1800. Julia, his wife, died June 1, 1885 in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. She's buried at St. Michael's Cemetery there. It says wife of the late James Bulger on her tombstone, but I was unable to find a burial records for James Bulger, so I don't know when he died. Sometime between 1850 (around the time he showed up in Canada) and 1870 (because he can't be found on the 1871 census). Hopefully I'll find that out somehow soon. It is important to note that in Ireland the name also appears Bolger. Now James and Julia Bulger had 13 children: Thomas Carson (1825), Michael (1829), John (1830), William (c. 1832), Mary (1833), James (1834), Catherine (1836), Edward (1837), Bridget (c. 1838), Julia (1839), Ellen (1842), Margaret (1843), and Ann Jane (1844). All were born in Ireland and all came to Canada. All those birth dates I have listed were from Canadian records, not Irish, so they might be a little off and not accurate. The most accurate record for birth dates is obviously Irish birth records, but I haven't found where in County Wicklow they were from yet, so without a town I can't go much further in Irish records yet. These Bulger's were all Roman Catholic. Regarding James' wife name it appears to be Kualy in the Canadian records. I think it's Kelly, but it could be something else like Cualey or Cauley. More soon I hope, but that's all for now.

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Thomas Carson Bulger was born in 1825 in County Wicklow, Ireland and he was the son of James Bulger and Julia Kelly. He was the first of thirteen children. He married Ann Fitzsimmons, the daughter of Owen Fitzsimmons and Ann O'Reilly, around 1845 in County Wicklow and around 1848 he immigrated to Canada with his siblings, parents, and wife's family. Thomas and Ann would then have six children in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, where they settled: Julia (1854), Catherine (1856), James (1858), John (1860), Ann (1863), and Mary (1865). So far I've tracked down 139 descendants of Thomas Carson Bulger and Ann Fitzsimmons and I'm one of them. Their daughter Julia married John Lavis in 1876 in Cobourg and had seven children. Their daughter Catherine, my ancestor, married Andrew Wallace in 1877 in Cobourg and had eight children. I don't know what happened to James. Relatives have never heard of him, but their is a picture taken in the early 1900's with 6 people. 5 of them identified, Julia, Catherine, John, Ann, and Mary, and one not. That could very well be James. They all seem about tthe same age. So I think James reached adulthood, but I'm not sure if he married or anything else like that yet. John married Helena Benson, who was from Oslo, Norway, and they had ten children. Ann married John Tunney in 1894 in Cobourg - no children that I know of. Mary married John Quinn in 1892 in Cobourg - no children that I know of there either. Thomas Bulger died March 5, 1910 in Cobourg and was buried with his wife, who died in 1905, at St. Michael's RC Cemetery. In the same burial plot is a Fred Bulger (1879-1965), but I have no idea who he is yet. Let me close in noting that Bolger is the same surname in Ireland, but in Canadian records this family has always preferred the Bulger spelling.

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Antonia Dangelmayer was born in or near Waeschenbeuren, Jagstkreis, Wuerttemberg, Germany around 1738. I don't know her parents' names or of any siblings yet. She married Joseph Heckenlaible, the son of Christian Heckenlaible and Elisabeth Kuerner, on July 17, 1759 in Waeschenbeuren, Jagstkreis, Wuerttemberg, Germany. They had three children: Catharina (1760), Franziska (1764), and Franziska (1768). The first Franziska died young, but the second lived to adulthood and married Joseph Binn in 1791. He died in 1796 and she remarried to Anton Bieser in 1797. In 1799, Anton and her had Andreas Bieser, my ancestor, who immigrated to America in settled in Buffalo, New York. I'm not sure when Antonia died. I know little about her. There are other Dangelmayer's in Waeschenbeuren though that I should mention. One other Dangelmayer is Elisabeth Dangelmayer, born about 1689, who married Michael Bieser. I am a descendant of this Dangelmayer as well (for more on Elisabeth and that side of the family go back to the main page and click on her name). Another Dangelmayer family in Waeschenbeuren married into cousins of mine. Anna Bieser (the first cousin to my ancestor, Rosina Maier), married Anton Dangelmayer, son of Johannes Dangelmayer, on February 16, 1794. They had 7 children: Johann (1796), Maria (1801), Catharina (1802), Magdalena (1805), Maria Magdalena (1807), Georg (1810), and Joseph (1812). So there are other Dangelmayer's, but I have none of these connected to each other, at least yet. There are other Dangelmayer families in the area, specifically in the town of Winzingen, according to websites on-line. I hope to learn more about my Dangelmayer roots soon.

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Elisabeth Dangelmayer was born around 1689 in Kizer, Wuerttemberg, Germany, according to Waeschenbeuren church records. I've been unable to locate Kizer on a map. She married Michael Bieser, son of Johannes Bieser and Christina Fischer, on February 20, 1722 in Waeschenbeuren, Wuerttemberg, Germany. They had 5 children: Anna Maria (1722), Eva (1723), Sebastian (1725), Georg (1733), and Elisabeth (1735). Georg and Elisabeth, brother and sister, married Magdalena and Anton Maier, also brother and sister. I am a descendant of Elisabeth and Anton Maier through their daughter, Rosina Maier. Elisabeth Dangelmayer probably died in Waeschenbeuren, although I'm not sure of that, and I have no idea when she died. Hopefully soon I'll have more on this woman and her ancestors. I can say that there were other Dangelmayer families in Waeschenbeuren and that area. One other Dangelmayer is Antonia Dangelmayer, born about 1738, who married Joseph Heckenlaible. I am a descendant of this Dangelmayer as well (for more on Antonia and that side of the family go back to the main page and click on her name). Another Dangelmayer family in Waeschenbeuren married into cousins of mine. Anna Bieser (the first cousin my ancestor, Rosina Maier), married Anton Dangelmayer, son of Johannes Dangelmayer, on February 16, 1794. They had 7 children: Johann (1796), Maria (1801), Catharina (1802), Magdalena (1805), Maria Magdalena (1807), Georg (1810), and Joseph (1812). So there are other Dangelmayer's, but I have none of these connected to each other, at least yet. There are other Dangelmayer families in the area, specifically in the town of Winzingen, according to websites on-line. I hope to learn more about my Dangelmayer roots soon.