♀Anastasia Erhard

Anastasia Erhard married Benedictus Carlin of Rheinweiler, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, in 1659 and had eight children with him over the next seventeen years. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Joannes Jacobus Carlin (1662–1717).

Origins

Anastasia is said to have come from Bruebach, a village across the Rhine in Alsace. When she was born, and who her parents were, is not known. Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, the neighboring village, and its baptisms, marriages and burials were entered in the Bamlach church book.

Marriage and family

Benedictus Carlin and Anastasia Erhard married at Rheinweiler on 27 January 1659. Their first child, a daughter, Anna Maria, was baptized at Bamlach on 12 February 1660, and seven sons followed: Joannes Jacobus in January 1662, Georgius in 1663, Benedict, who bore his father’s name, in 1665, Joannes in 1667, a second Joannes in 1670, Joannes Georgius in 1673 and Nicolaus in 1676. The first Joannes seems to have died young, before the second was given his name. Nicolaus, the youngest, is said to have been baptized at Arlesheim, near Basel, rather than at Bamlach. When Benedictus and Anastasia died is not known.

Notes

Sources

The village family book^W is Felix Pöschl and Ingrid Kopf, Ortssippenbuch Bamlach-Rheinweiler 1630–1810, 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. It calls her Anastasia Erhard of Bruebach in Alsace, gives her marriage to Benedictus Carlin at Rheinweiler in 1659, and lists the eight children. It gives the first Joannes as dead before 1670.

Her name in the index

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, gives the marriage on 27 January 1659, with the bride written Anastasia Carder, most likely a misreading of Erhard. At her children’s baptisms her surname is written Erhart or Erhard, and also as Echoetz and Eret. The index holds the baptisms of seven of the eight children: Anna Maria on 12 February 1660, Joannes Jacobus on 15 January 1662, Georgius on 16 September 1663, Benedict on 1 August 1665, Joannes on 17 July 1667, the second Joannes on 23 January 1670, and Nicolaus in 1676, with no day. Joannes Georgius, born in 1673, is known only from the family book. The register pages themselves are not available.

Nicolaus at Arlesheim

The family book notes of Nicolaus “fuit Arlishemi baptisatus”, “he was baptised at Arlesheim”, yet the Bamlach index carries an entry for him in 1676. The records do not explain the difference.

The daughter Anna Maria

The family book makes the daughter born in 1660 the Anna Maria Carlin who married Josephus Dossenbach at Rheinweiler in 1693 and whose last child was baptized in January 1715. A mother baptized in 1660 would have been nearly fifty-five then, so the book has most likely joined two women of the same name, and that identification is not followed here.