♀Jacobe Haug

Jacobe Haug (died January 1723) was a woman of Großkembs, now Kembs, across the Rhine in Alsace, who married Joannes Spony of Rheinweiler, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, in 1666 and had nine children with him over the next twenty-two years. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Joannes Jacobus Spony (1682–1755).

Marriage and family

Joannes Spony and Jacobe Haug married at Bamlach in 1666. 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, Joannes Jacobus, was baptized at Bamlach on 6 January 1669, and eight more followed by 1688: Philippus, Josephus, two children whose names are not recorded, born in 1674 and 1675, Anna Maria, a second Joannes Jacobus in 1682, Jacobea and Elisabeth. The first Joannes Jacobus died before 1682, and his name was given again to the younger brother. Philippus died in 1716, before both his parents.

Death

Jacobe died at Rheinweiler in January 1723 and was buried at Bamlach on the 7th, after more than fifty-six years of marriage. Joannes survived her by three years. He died at Rheinweiler in January 1726, by then an aged widower, and was buried at Bamlach on 29 January.

Notes

Her origin and name

The village family book^W is 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. It gives years rather than full dates for most entries. It enters her as Jacobe Haug of Großkembs in Alsace, with the surname also written Hug and Hugin, and gives her death at Rheinweiler in 1723. It names no parents for her and gives no year of birth. The indexes of the Bamlach church book write her Jacobea Haugis or Jacobe Haug at her marriage, Hug at several of her children’s baptisms, and Jacobea Hug at her burial; the spelling Haug is used here.

The marriage

The family book gives the marriage as 1666. Two FamilySearch indexes of the Bamlach register agree on the year but not on the day: the Freiburg Catholic Church Records index writes the couple Joes Spon and Jacobea Haugis and gives 9 May 1666, and the collection Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929 writes them Joes Sponi and Jacobe Haug and gives 5 September 1666. Both give the bride and groom as born at Bamlach, and neither names their parents. Only the year is used here, and for Jacobe’s origin the family book’s Großkembs.

The children

The family book lists nine children: Joannes Jacobus in 1669, who died before 1682, Philippus (1670–1716), Josephus (1672–1742), two children whose names it does not give, born in 1674 and 1675, Anna Maria (1677), Joannes Jacobus (1682–1755), Jacobea (1685–1750) and Elisabeth (1688). FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book holds the baptisms of eight of them: Joannes Jacobus on 6 January 1669, Philippus on 7 May 1670, Josephus on 25 February 1672, an unnamed child on 1 January 1674, Anna Maria on 13 April 1677, Joannes Jacobus on 31 May 1682, Jacobea on 9 August 1685, with the surname written Schoni, and Elisabeth on 14 July 1688. It has no entry for the child of 1675. In the entries of 1669, 1670 and 1674 the mother is written Barb, Robe or Barbara Hug, and in others Jacobea or Jacobe. Across one unbroken run of children after the 1666 marriage this is most likely a misreading of an abbreviated name rather than a second wife, and the family book has the one couple.

The burials

The burials are known from FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book: Jacobea Hug on 7 January 1723 and Joannes Sponi on 29 January 1726, in the years the family book gives for their deaths at Rheinweiler. The index entries give no ages. The family book calls him “bejahrter Witwer”, an aged widower, at his burial. The register pages themselves are not cited here. The family book and the indexes write the surname Sponi or Spon; the spelling Spony is used here.