♂Beatus Basler

Beatus Basler (died 1653) lived in the parish of Bamlach, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, where he and his wife Maria Hügin had five children baptized between 1641 and 1649. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his son Beatus Basler (1641–1683).

Family

Beatus Basler and Maria Hügin had three sons and two daughters, Beatus, Christophorus, Maria, Joannes Jacobus and Francisca, all baptized at Bamlach between 1641 and 1649. Their son Beatus was born at Rheinweiler, a village whose baptisms, marriages and burials were then entered in the church book of neighboring Bamlach. Beatus the father most likely died in 1653 and was buried at Bamlach on 24 September that year, when his namesake was twelve and the youngest, Francisca, was four. The line runs through the younger Beatus, who most likely grew up to marry Anna Maria Wieland at Rheinweiler in 1667 and, as a widower, Apollonia Bürlin at Bamlach in 1671.

Notes

Sources of the dates

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, gives the five baptisms, with the parents written Beat or Beatus Bassler and Maria Hug: Beatus on 12 June 1641, Christophorus in 1643, Maria in 1645, Joannes Jacobus in 1647 and Francisca on 20 January 1649. The village family book^W, Felix Pöschl and Ingrid Kopf, Ortssippenbuch Bamlach-Rheinweiler 1630–1810 (Basel, 2006), 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 writes his name Beatus Bassler, gives his death in 1653, names his wife Maria Hügin and lists the same five children, with the son Beatus born at Rheinweiler in 1642. The same index gives the burial of a Beatus Bassler at Bamlach on 24 September 1653, with no age or wife; the other men of that name in the register were buried in 1660, 1683 and 1706, so the entry is taken to be his.

Their son Beatus

The family book keeps the son born in 1642 apart from the Beatus Bassler who was Vogt and married Apollonia Bürlin, but a contributor’s note on his entry gives him that man’s two marriages, at Rheinweiler on 17 July 1667 and at Bamlach on 8 November 1671, and the Vogt’s own entry asks whether he came from the marriage of Beatus Bassler and Maria Hügin. A FamilySearch family tree also joins the 1641 baptism to Apollonia’s husband. The two are taken here to be one man.

Another Beatus Bassler

A second Beatus Bassler, married to Maria Mayer, had children baptized at Bamlach between 1644 and 1651, among them a Maria in 1644 and a Joannes Jacobus in 1646, and died in 1660. The baptisms of the two families are told apart by the mother’s name.