♀Anna Kürber

Anna Kürber was a woman of the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, whose son Sigismundus was baptized on 28 March 1641 in the church of Bamlach, the parish to which the neighboring village of Rheinweiler belonged. She was an ancestor of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both through that son, Sigismundus Dossenbach (died 1680): her seventh great-grandmother by the one, and her eighth great-grandmother by the other.

Her husband was Hanss Dossenbach. Sigismundus is their only known child.

Lines of descent

The boy of 1641 is most likely the Sigismundus Dossenbach who married Margaretha Scherer at Rheinweiler in 1659 and died there in 1680. Both lines run through his son Josephus Dossenbach (1665–1722) and part among Josephus’s children. The first continues through Maria Eva Dossenbach (1715–1785) to her grandson Louis Bosler (1787–1831); the second runs through Ursus Dossenbach (1696–1781) and most likely through his daughter Maria Ursula Dossenbach (died 1807) to her granddaughter Magdalena Zähringer (born about 1790). The two lines meet again in Louis Oliver Bosler (1825–1909), whose father and mother, Louis Bosler and Magdalena Zähringer, were both descendants of Hanss and Anna.

Notes

The baptism of 1641

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, holds the baptism of Sigismud Dessenbach on 28 March 1641, a son of Hanss Dessenbach and of an Anna whose surname the index reads as Rüeber. The village family book^W, 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, gives the couple as Hanss Dosenbach and Anna Kürber, with one child, Sigismundus, born at Rheinweiler in 1641. It gives neither of them a birth, marriage or death. The index holds no other baptism of a child of a Hanss Dossenbach and an Anna between 1628 and 1662, and no marriage of the couple.

Her name

The family book gives her surname as Kürber; the index of the 1641 baptism reads it as Rüeber. The name is given here as the family book writes it.

Her son Sigismundus

The family book keeps the boy of 1641 apart from the Sigismundus Dossenbach who married Margaretha Scherer in 1659: it gives the boy no marriage, children or death, gives the husband no birth, and makes no remark joining them. The 1641 baptism is the only one of a Sigismundus Dossenbach in the index between 1633 and 1658, and the two are taken here to be one man on the name, the parish and the dates. If they were, he was eighteen at his marriage. The link from Hanss and Anna to the husband of Margaretha Scherer, and so to the lines of descent above, is therefore probable rather than proved.

What is not known

Where Hanss and Anna came from, when and where they married, and when they died are not known.