♀Anna Klein

Anna Klein (died 1662) was a woman of Rheinweiler, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who bore her husband Geörg Carlin five known children in the last years of the Thirty Years’ War^W. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Benedictus Carlin (born 1637).

Marriage and family

Geörg Carlin and Anna Klein had five known children between 1637 and 1647, four sons and a daughter: Benedictus, Sixtus, Eva, Ursus and Joannes Martinus. Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, the neighboring village, and its baptisms, marriages and burials were entered in the Bamlach church book.

Widowhood and death

Geörg is said to have died at Rheinweiler in 1653, when Benedictus was about sixteen and Joannes Martinus about six, and Anna was left a widow. She lived to see Benedictus marry Anastasia Erhard at Rheinweiler on 27 January 1659 and their first child, Anna Maria, baptized at Bamlach on 12 February 1660. She is said to have died at Rheinweiler in 1662.

Notes

Sources of the dates

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 gives Anna Klein’s death at Rheinweiler in 1662 and Geörg’s there in 1653, and lists their children as Benedictus, born at Rheinweiler in 1637, Sixtus in 1638, Eva in 1639, Ursus in 1646 and Joannes Martinus in 1647. Her own parents and birthplace are not known.

The church-book index

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, holds the baptisms of two of the children: Ursus on 12 March 1645, with the parents written Geörg Carl and Anna Klein, and Joannes Martinus on 30 April 1647. The family book’s 1646 for Ursus is most likely a year off, and the baptism date is followed here. The baptisms of Benedictus, Sixtus and Eva, and the parents’ marriage, are not in the index. The same index gives Benedictus’s marriage on 27 January 1659, with the bride written Anastasia Carder, most likely a misreading of Erhard.