Johanna (Scherer) Eberle (1763 - 1829)

Born 21 Dec 1763 in Reichenbrunn, Nassau-Saarbrücken, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Wife of Nicolaus (Boueguart) Bongard — married 11 Apr 1780 in Ensheim, Abtei Wadgassen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Died 13 Feb 1829 at age 65 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország

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Biography

She was married to Nicolaus Bongard and gave birth to their son Andreas Bongard, in 1788 in Szentandrás (currently: Sânandrei, Timiș, Romania).^[1]

On 29 July 1792 her husband Nicolaus passed away.^[2]

On 20 August 1792 vidua Anna Maria Bongard married Ignatius Eberle in Szentandrás.^[3]

Anna Eberlein, born Scherer, passed away in Szentandrás in 1829 as wife of Ignaz Eberlein aged 65 years.^[4]

Research notes

Published origins

There are online trees that claim she is identical to Anna Maria Scherer, born 2 April 1768 in what is today Raumland, Bad Berleburg, Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen.^[5] Apart from the birth year being slightly off, she was Lutheran, while Szentandrás was Catholic in general.

Lay's Sanktandres family book from 2010^[6] as well Grimm's one from 2007 about Neubeschenowa (currently: Dudeștii Noi, Romania),^[7] the western neighboring village, claim that Anna Maria was from Damscheid in the former Electorate of Trier. Since both have her last name shortened to Scher (although her death record explicitly has her as "Scherer")^[4], they probably assumed a relationship to Johannes Scher from Damscheid, who was registered in Vienna on his way to Banat on 12 May 1766.^[8] But Lay then links her to Johann Scherer from Reichenborn in "Kr[eis] Oberlahn/Nassau" and his wife Eva from St. Wendel/Saarl[and].^[9] The distance between Reichenborn and St. Wendel is about 180 km, with Damscheid being somewhere in between. These distances might make the whole theory a bit unstable.

Following the husband

"Reichenborn" might help anyway: "A list of newly arrived colonists seeking settlement in the famous kingdom of Hungary" recorded between April 1784 and November 1786 contains for 13 May 1784 a Johann Scherer from Reichenborn in Nassau-Saarbrücken, who travels in a company of nine people to settle in Banat. Right below his entry, there's one of a farmer and tailor Nicolaus Bongard from "Haasel aus dem Zweybrückischen". His travel party consists of four people and he also travels to Banat. The footnotes state the location names in "present-day" form as "Hassel BU.? St. Ingbert" and "Reichenborn, Oberlahnkreis". ^[10]

But here Wilhelm and Kallbrunner made a mistake (which Lay probably carried on) in mapping the location from the source to the present: The original source definitely states "Reichenborn in Nassau Saravipontina ditione", meaning Reichenborn in the Nassau-Saarbrücken territory.^[11] Reichenborn, part of Oberlahnkreis in the days of said authors, did never belong to Nassau-Saarbrücken, but was part of Nassau-Weilburg 1806!

Was Reichenborn supposed to be "Reichenbrunn", which also belonged to the St. Ingbert parish, just like Hassel? May this be Anna Maria's husband Nicolaus and her family traveling together to Hungary?

In fact the 1791 burial record of Joannes Scherer shows something, that one could also be read as Imperio Reichenbrunn.^[12]

Walter Georg's family book about Oberwürzbach, Reichenbrunn and Rittersmühle contains the family of Johann Scherer including a note that they emigrated to Betschkerek/St. Andrasch in Banat. Georg naming those two potential settlement locations for the Scherers implies that his source was either Franz Stanglica's book about these two villages,^[13] or - more likely - the magazine of the working group for Saarland family history ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Saarländische Familienkunde") quoting a 1784 settlers list from Stanglica.^[14]

With his wife Anna Eva [sic!] Breit, Johann Scherer had the following children:^[15]

1. Maria, born before 1763
2. Johanna, born 21 December 1763
3. Johann, born 12 March 1766 † 4 May 1766
4. Andreas, born 19 June 1767
5. Katharina, born 15 April 1770
6. Simon, born 19 August 1773
7. Jakob, born 3 December 1776
8. Peter, born 2 August 1779
9. Josef, born 10 April 1782

Unfortunately there is no baptism/birth for an Anna and/or Maria found in this family, which Georg solves by assigning her a birth before 1763, when he states her marriage with Nikolaus Burgard, which happened on 11 April 1780 in Ensheim (currently part of Saarbrücken).^[16] The original marriage entry states her name as Anna Barbara, which probably was due to the priest confusing her with her mother-in-law Anna Barbara Nikoll. But since also her parents are stated correctly, one can assume that the family fits.^[17]

Who is Anna Maria?

The godfather of Anna Maria's son Andreas Bongard in 1788 was an Andreas Sche?rer.^[1] Knowing her potential family, this probably was her younger brother.

Even though, Andreas' apparently didn't have any child named Maria Anna,^[18] it might be an idea to check out the godparents to his children. In fact, the godmother of his daughter Johanna, born on 21 January 1809, solves everything. She is stated as "Joanna Scher uxor Ignatii Eberlein".^[19] So apparently Maria Anna was in fact baptized Johanna on 21 December 1763, which exactly fits her age in the death record.^[4]

Fun fact: The FamilySearch profile of said niece Johanna, also has her as Anna "Johanna" Scherer.^[20]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Baptism of son Andreas Bongard: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950"
   citing Record number: 9;
   FamilySearch Record: 6NS5-Z9WH (accessed 23 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQZS-B Image number 00019
   Nicolaus Bongart's son Andreas Bongard baptism on 3 Aug 1788 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
2. ↑ Burial of first husband: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950"
   citing Record number: 0;
   FamilySearch Record: 6NSY-73ZH (accessed 23 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQH7-1 Image number 00391
   Nicolaus Bongard burial (died age 38) on 29 Jul 1792 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
3. ↑ Second marriage: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950"
   citing Record number: 0;
   FamilySearch Record: 6NSB-894S (accessed 23 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQCM-7 Image number 00248
   Ignatius Eberle marriage to Anna Maria Bonga*tin on 20 Aug 1792 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Burial: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950"
   citing Record number: 4;
   FamilySearch Record: 6NST-HJKK (accessed 23 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQ47-S Image number 00600
   Anna Eberlein burial (died age 65) on 13 Feb 1829 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
5. ↑ Baptism: "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
   citing FHL microfilm: 804030;
   FamilySearch Record: NXWJ-1YC (accessed 23 May 2023)
   Anna Maria Scherer baptism on 5 Apr 1768 (born 2 Apr 1768), daughter of J. Henrich Scherer, in Raumland, Wittgenstein, Westfalen, Preußen, Deutschland.
6. ↑ Heinrich Lay: Familienbuch der römisch-katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Sanktandres im Banat 1739-2009 und ihre Filiale Kowatschi 1844-1861, p. 112 #389
7. ↑ Maria Friedrich, Hans Grimm: Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Neubeschenowa im Banat und ihrer Filialen 1751–2005 (2007), p. 136 B475
8. ↑ Franz Wilhelm, Josef Kallbrunner: Quellen zur deutschen Siedlungsgeschichte in Südosteuropa (1936), p. 63/7
9. ↑ Heinrich Lay: Familienbuch der römisch-katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Sanktandres im Banat 1739-2009 und ihre Filiale Kowatschi 1844-1861, p. 1170 #4041
10. ↑ Conscriptio neoadvenarum colonorum in inclyto regno Hungariae incolatum petentium, Orszagos Leveltar, kincstari osztaly, 6267/1784, cited after Franz Wilhelm, Josef Kallbrunner: Quellen zur deutschen Siedlungsgeschichte in Südosteuropa (1936), p. 219/65 ff.
11. ↑ Conscriptio neoadvenarum colonorum in inclyto regno Hungariae incolatum petentium, Orszagos Leveltar, kincstari osztaly, 6267/1784 as found in Wiener Hofkammerarchivlisten und Prokolle 1784-1785 + 1786, archive of Arbeitskreis donauschwäbischer Familienforscher, Sindelfingen
12. ↑ Burial of father: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950"
    citing Record number: 6;
    FamilySearch Record: 6NST-BNDM (accessed 24 May 2023)
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQH6-K Image number 00386
    Joannes Scherer burial (died age 53) on 23 Sep 1791 in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
13. ↑ Franz Stanglica: Klein-Betschkerek und St. Andrasch zwei saarpfälzische Siedlungen im Banat (1938)
14. ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Saarländische Familienkunde: ASF-Informationsdienst Nr. 7, p. 3
15. ↑ Walter Georg: Ortsfamilienbuch Oberwürzbach mit Reichenbrunn und Rittersmühle - bis zum Ende der bayerischen Zeit 1918 (2010), #2580
16. ↑ Walter Georg: Ortsfamilienbuch Oberwürzbach mit Reichenbrunn und Rittersmühle - bis zum Ende der bayerischen Zeit 1918 (2010), #564
17. ↑ First marriage: Katholische Kirche Ensheim (BA. Sankt Ingbert): Kirchenbuch Heiraten 1772-1798, 1801-1817 Heiratesbelege 1818-1820 (Ensheim, Heckendahlheim, Eschringen, Ommersheim) Heiraten 1821-1850 (Ensheim)
    Film number: 008215971 > image 83 of 677
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSG8-74HF (accessed 4 July 2023):

    Nro. 55 Nicolaus Boueguart Sohn von Jakob Bouegard und Anna Barbara

    Nikoll Eheleute in Hasell, verehelicht am 11 April 1780 mit Anna

    Barbara Scherer Tochter von Johannes Scherer und Eva Breid Eheleute

    in Reichenbron

18. ↑ Ferdinand Müller, Matthias Weber: Dorffamilienbuch Sankt Andreas (1972), p. 160
19. ↑ Baptism of niece Johanna: "Hungary, Church Books, 1624-1950", citing Record number: 1, FamilySearch Record: 6NS5-DN5M (accessed 1 July 2023) FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSJ1-WQC6-4 Image number 00167, Johana Schar baptism on 21 Jan 1809, child of Andreas Schar & Margaretha Barti*, in Szentandrás, Temes, Magyarország.
20. ↑ Anna "Johanna" Scherer (1809–1849), FamilySearch, profile with linked sources (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDY4-GXC : accessed 1 July 2023)

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