♀Anastasia Carlin

Anastasia Carlin (1684–1758) was a native of Rheinweiler, a village on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who married Joannes Jacobus Spony in 1710 and was the mother of five children baptized at Bamlach between 1711 and 1719. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Johann Jakob Spony (1716–1783).

Early life

Anastasia was born at Rheinweiler in 1684 and was probably baptized at Bamlach on 5 November that year, the daughter of Joannes Jacobus Carlin (1662–1717) and Apollonia Bürlin (1652–1717). Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, the neighboring village, and its baptisms, marriages and burials were entered in the Bamlach church book. Her mother had been married before, to Beatus Basler, who died in 1683, and had four children by him. Anastasia was the eldest child of the second marriage; Joannes Adamus followed in 1688, Catharina in 1693 and Joannes in 1698.

Marriage and family

Joannes Jacobus Spony and Anastasia Carlin married in 1710. Their first child, Anna Maria, was baptized at Bamlach on 14 August 1711, and Catharina, Johann Jakob, Franciscus Xaverius and Josephus followed between 1713 and 1719. Both of Anastasia’s parents died in 1717, the year Franciscus Xaverius was baptized; her mother died first, for her father was a widower at his own burial. Her husband is said to have served as Vogt^W, the village headman. Joannes Jacobus Spony died at Rheinweiler in November 1755, aged seventy-three, and Anastasia died there in 1758, still a widow.

Notes

Sources of the dates

The village family book^W is Felix Pöschl and Ingrid Kopf, Ortssippenbuch Bamlach-Rheinweiler 1630–1810 (Basel, 2006), online at online-ofb.de/bamlach, a compiled reconstitution of the two villages’ families from the parish registers. It gives years rather than full dates for most entries. It gives her birth at Rheinweiler in 1684 and her death there in 1758, and marks her “vidua”, a widow, at her burial. It names her parents as Joannes Jacobus Carlin (1662–1717), a widower (“Witwer”) at his burial, and Apollonia Bürlin, born at Bamlach in 1652, who died in 1717, and lists their four children: Anastasia in 1684, Joannes Adamus in 1688, Catharina in 1693 and Joannes in 1698. It gives Apollonia an earlier marriage, to Beatus Bassler, who died at Rheinweiler in 1683, and four children by him, born between 1672 and 1682. It gives her marriage to Joannes Jacobus Sponi as 1710, and his death at Rheinweiler in November 1755. The family book writes the surnames Sponi and Bassler; the spellings Spony and Basler are used here.

Her baptism

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book gives the baptism on 5 November 1684 of a child written Anastasia Carl, daughter of Jacobus Carl and of a mother written Apollonia Büchl. The index is the source for the day; the register page itself is not cited here. The same index holds the baptisms of her three brothers and sisters, with the mother written Büehl or Büel, and no other child of the couple. It also writes Apollonia Büel as the mother of Franciscus Jacobus Basler, a son of the first marriage, baptized on 26 May 1680.

The marriage and the children

The family book gives the marriage as 1710, and a FamilySearch marriage index places it in November 1710. The index of the Bamlach church book holds the baptisms of the five children the family book lists, and no other child of the couple; each entry names the parents as Jacobus Spon or Sponi and Anastasia Carl: Anna Maria on 14 August 1711, Catharina on 5 June 1713, Johann Jakob, written Joan Jacobus Spon, on 28 January 1716, Franciscus Xaverius on 10 May 1717 and Josephus on 6 February 1719.