Maria Schindler (1837 - aft. 1868)

Born 15 Aug 1837 in Hinterzarten, Neustadt, Freiburg, Baden, Deutscher Bund

Ancestors

Died after Feb 1868 after age 30 in Switzerland [uncertain]

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Biography

Maria was born in 1837 as oldest daughter of Andreas Schindler and Adelheid Schelb. Her godparents were Johann Schelb and Maria Anna Schindler, both probably siblings of the parents.^[1]

The family lived in Hinterzarten until 1849, when Andreas became innkeeper of Adler in Bärental (currently: part of Feldberg (Schwarzwald)).^[2] With this relocation the family members including Maria were not longer residents of Hinterzarten.

After Andreas had gone bankrupt in 1856,^[2] Maria's parents split up and had their possession separated the following year. The protocol of the separation mentions Maria, being 19 years of age and living together with her sisters Theresia (18), Caroline (8) and Adelheid (7) as well as their mother in rent.^[3]

In summer 1862 Maria requested a certificate of residence (Heimatschein) from Bärental local council, in which is stated that she plans getting married in Basel.^[4] At that time, she was already pregnant with her daughter Maria, who was born in November of the same year - in the maternity hospital of Freiburg, about 30 km away from Bärental.^[5]

In January she requested a Heimatschein for her six weeks old child in order to go to Switzerland, give the child in foster care and to continue serving in Basel.^[6]

On 12 November 1867 she gave birth again in Freiburg's maternity hospital: her daughter Agatha Ottilie was born.^[7] During the middle of December she went to Freiburg district office (Bezirksamt) and told them that she is breastfeeding a very weak child, which might still take another three months, and therefore not able to go to her home village of Bärental to request a Heimatschein. Freiburg district office sent a letter to Neustadt district office to request Bärental community council issuing a Heimatschein for Agatha Ottilie. Bärental council replied, that Maria, who wants to put her child in paid foster care in order to be able to leave for work as wet nurse (Säugerin), already had done this with her first child: But, as the council claims, she hadn't paid anything and had disappeared without further notice, which had lead to the child being put in care of the of the Bärental community, which had paid for it almost three years already. The council claimed that Maria did this by purpose to harm the community and assumed that she will do this again with her second child, to whom she's also not able to state a father from which money can be claimed.

Maria replied via Freiburg district office (Bezirksamt) in the middle of January that she will take care that the community won't need to pay for the child, since she wants to put it to foster care in Switzerland. Also she claimed to have started proceedings in order to make the father, who is currently in Straßburg, pay for the child's maintenance. Later she also stated that her child is currently taken care of by the wife of shoemaker (Schuster) Lerch in Freiburg, while she works as wet nurse (Amme) for printer (Buchdrucker) Wangler. She earns 10 fl. and uses those to pay 8 fl. to Lerch. Once the Wagner child would be ablactated, she would go to Switzerland. She already made a contract to serve in Sarnen, where she could start working starting on first of April. From there she would approach the father's parents in Meiringen, from which she's sure she will receive support for the child. For going to Switzerland she needed the Heimatschein, therefore she asked again for it. The district offices agreed that the document would only be handed out to Maria, once she resolved her debt of 36 fl./year with Bärental local council.^[8] On 7 March 1868 the requested Heimatschein was finally created. It was returned to Bärental after the death of Agathe Ottilia in Luzern, which occurred before late January 1882. The remaining Heimatschein files until 1920 do not contain any further documents about Maria.^[9]

Research notes

The five years between the two children would exactly match the normal duration of a Heimatschein.

• Find death record of Agathe Ottilia in Luzern
• Check last Heimatschein folder from 1921
• Find Lerch and Wangler in Freiburg
• What about civil registration in Sarnen?
• Documents on the payment of Bärental for the previous child?
• Find Gerichtsakten/Paternitätsakten => Staatsarchiv Bern

Sources

1. ↑ Staatsarchiv Freiburg, L 10 Nr. 3544, Hinterzarten FR; Katholische Gemeinde: Standesbuch 1811-1837 picture 490 Nr. 29:

   29. Im Jahr 1837 den 15. August Abends 9 Uhr wurde

   dahier geboren und heute früh 8 Uhr

   getauft: Maria; ehel. Kind des dasigen

   Bürgers und Sägers Andreas Schindler

   und der Adelheid Schelb. - Taufzeugen

   sind Johann Schelb mit M. Anna Schindler

   und Meßmer Joh: Georg Hensler sämtlich

   von hier. -

   Hinterzarten am 16. August 1837

   T. Dold Pfarrer

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} August Vetter: Geschichte der Gemeinde Feldberg (1968), p. 476
3. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, G 550/1 Nr. 4441, Vermögensaufnahme und Absonderung zw. Schindler, Andreas und Ehefau Adelheide geb. Schelb, Bärental, p. 3 and 12
4. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 726/1 Nr. 5145, Ausstellung von Heimatscheinen für in der Gemeinde Bärental Heimatberechtigte 1855-1873, 7 July 1862, 4453
5. ↑ Staatsarchiv Freiburg, L 10 Nr. 1551, Freiburg FR; Katholische Gemeinde: St. Martin, Standesbuch 1860-1863, picture 224, #181
6. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 726/1 Nr. 5145, Ausstellung von Heimatscheinen für in der Gemeinde Bärental Heimatberechtigte 1855-1873, 29 January 1863, 4891
7. ↑ Staatsarchiv Freiburg, L 10 Nr. 1553, Freiburg FR; Katholische Gemeinde: St. Martin, Standesbuch 1867-1870, picture 47, #242
8. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 726/1 Nr. 5145, Ausstellung von Heimatscheinen für in der Gemeinde Bärental Heimatberechtigte 1855-1873, 1868/69, 10145
9. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 726/1 Nr. 5146, Ausstellung von Heimatscheinen für in der Gemeinde Bärental Heimatberechtigte 1874-1894, 26 January 1882