It’s official – I managed to post something every week in 2024. I’m almost afraid of jinxing it, but I hope to manage another 52 weeks next year, though with my new alphabetical organizational scheme rather than this year’s “on this day” theme. Perhaps all the typing is why my “o” key is giving me difficulties.
So, one last time for 2024, we commemorate a genealogical anniversary. On this day in 1675, my 10G-grandfather, Georg Noll, died in Adelsheim, Germany. His parents were Balthas and Anna (Guldin) Noll, and he was likely born in late November/early December 1596, as he was baptized on 9 December.
On 6 February 1621 Georg married Agnes Wegner in Adelsheim. Their son Martin, my 9G-grandfather, was born about 1628 in Ellmendingen, Germany. It appears Georg’s first wife died sometime before 1639, as in that year he married Catharina Schweikard on 12 May in Adelsheim. Georg’s son Martin died in 1660, around the same time his (Martin’s) daughter Maria Jacobe Nolte was born. Maria’s mother was Barbara Mutschler.
Georg himself lived another 15 years, dying 29 December 1675 in Adelsheim, aged (probably) 79. Maria Jacobe Nolte would marry Hans Jacob Ratz and give birth to Johann Jacob Ratz. Johann Jacob would marry Maria Barbara Beck in 1718, and their son Hans Ratz was born in 1724. Hans and his wife Anna Maria Fuess had a son Sebastian, born in 1754. Sebastian married Anne Marie Schaubhut, who gave birth to their daughter Anna Maria Raz in 1786. Anna Maria, in turn, married Johannes Demler; their son Johan Demler was born in 1816, married Catherine Maria Reser in 1845, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1864.