♀Anna Maria Carlin

Anna Maria Carlin (died 1744) was a woman of Rheinweiler, a village on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who married Josephus Dossenbach there in 1693, had seven children with him over the next twenty-two years, and outlived him by twenty-two more. She was an ancestor of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent: her fifth great-grandmother through her daughter Maria Eva Dossenbach (1715–1785), and her sixth great-grandmother as well, through her son Ursus Dossenbach (1696–1781).

Marriage and family

Josephus Dossenbach and Anna Maria Carlin married at Rheinweiler on 25 January 1693. Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, the neighboring village, and its baptisms, marriages and burials were entered in the Bamlach church book. Their first child, Josephus, was baptized at Bamlach on 14 October 1693, and five more followed between 1696 and 1707: Ursus, Catharina, Joannes Sebastianus, Sigismundus, who bore his paternal grandfather’s name, and Joannes Jacobus. The seventh and last, Maria Eva, was baptized on 14 January 1715, more than seven years after the next youngest. Catharina died in 1710, when she was eleven or twelve.

Widowhood

Josephus Dossenbach died at Rheinweiler in 1722, at fifty-six, and was presumably buried at Bamlach on 24 February that year. Their youngest child, Maria Eva, was seven. Anna Maria lived on as a widow for twenty-two years, and outlived her son Joannes Sebastianus, who died in 1741. She died at Rheinweiler in 1744 and was probably buried at Bamlach on 28 February that year.

Lines of descent

Both lines begin with children of this marriage. The first runs through Maria Eva, who married Simon Basler at Rheinweiler in 1734; their youngest child, Fidel Basler (1759–1808), was the father of Louis Bosler (1787–1831). The second runs through Ursus, who married Anna Maria Fräulin at Bamlach in 1723, and most likely through their daughter Maria Ursula Dossenbach (died 1807), the wife of Christian Zehringer, and her son Christian Zehringer, the father of 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 Josephus and Anna Maria.

Notes

Her birth and parents

The village family book^W, Felix Pöschl and Ingrid Kopf, Ortssippenbuch Bamlach-Rheinweiler 1630–1810 (Basel, 2006), gives her a birth at Rheinweiler in 1660, as the first child of Benedictus Carlin and Anastasia Erhard, who had married there the year before. FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book holds the baptism of that child, an Anna Maria Carl, daughter of Benedict Carl and Anastasia Erhard, on 12 February 1660. A mother baptized then would have been nearly fifty-five when Maria Eva was baptized in January 1715, so the book has most likely joined two women of the same name, and neither that year nor that parentage is used here. The name was not rare: another Anna Maria Carl, the wife of a Josephus Higele, had children baptized in another parish between 1711 and 1724. Where and when she was born, and who her parents were, is not known.

Sources of the dates

The family book, online at online-ofb.de/bamlach, is a compiled reconstitution of the two villages’ families from the parish registers, and gives years rather than full dates. It gives her marriage to Josephus Dosenbach in 1693, her only marriage, and lists their seven children, from Josephus in 1693 to Maria Eva in 1715. It gives her death at Rheinweiler in 1744 and marks her then as “hon. vidua”, an honorable widow. The burial of a Maria Carler at Bamlach on 28 February 1744 is in FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the year the family book gives for her death; the entry gives no age and names no husband.

Her name

The indexes write her name in several forms: Anna Maria Carlin and Anna Maria Carl in the two indexes of her marriage, Maria Carl at the baptisms of her sons Josephus in 1693 and Ursus in 1696, Maria Carler at Catharina’s in 1698, Anna Maria Carler at Joannes Sebastianus’s in 1701, Anna Maria Carl at Maria Eva’s in 1715, and Maria Carler at her burial.

The church-book index

The index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, holds the baptisms of the seven children of Josephus and Anna Maria, the seven the family book lists, and no other child of the couple: Josephus on 14 October 1693, Ursus on 24 March 1696, Catharina on 23 November 1698, Joannes Sebastianus on 20 January 1701, Sigismundus on 14 September 1703, Joannes Jacobus on 1 September 1707 and Maria Eva on 14 January 1715. It also holds Josephus’s burial on 24 February 1722, in the year the family book gives for his death. The register pages themselves are not available.

The marriage

The marriage is given here at Rheinweiler, the place the family book names, on 25 January 1693. Two FamilySearch indexes of the Bamlach register give the same day and place the wedding at Bamlach: the collection Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929 writes the couple Josephus Dossenbach and Anna Maria Carlin and gives both as born at Bamlach, and the Freiburg Catholic Church Records index writes the groom Josephus Rossnbach, a misreading of the surname, and the bride Anna Maria Carl. Neither names the couple’s parents. Since Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, Bamlach is most likely where the marriage was entered in the church book, and the parish’s name the birthplace the first index gives; Rheinweiler was the couple’s village.

The second line

Two links of the line through Ursus are probable rather than proved. Maria Ursula’s place as his daughter rests on the family book and on the index of a baptism at Bamlach on 18 January 1727, of an Anna Maria Ursula Dossenbach whose parents are written Ursus Dossenbach and Anna Maria Freyl. Her son Christian is most likely the Christianus Zehringer baptized on 15 August 1764, a son of Christian Zehringer and Maria Ursula Dossenbach, but another Christian Zähringer, married to Elisabetha Merz and living after 1800, could be that child; his birth year is not known.