♂Geörg Carlin

Geörg Carlin (died 1653) was a villager of Rheinweiler, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, whose five known children with his wife Anna Klein were born in the last years of the Thirty Years’ War^W. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his son Benedictus Carlin (born 1637).

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. The war ended in 1648, the year after their youngest son was born. Geörg is said to have died at Rheinweiler in 1653, when Benedictus was about sixteen and Joannes Martinus about six, and Anna outlived him by nine years.

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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 Geörg’s death at Rheinweiler in 1653 and Anna Klein’s there in 1662, 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. Another online tree gives the day of Geörg’s death as 6 October 1653; it is not used here.

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.