♂Joannes Jacobus Carlin

Joannes Jacobus Carlin (1662–1717) was a native of Rheinweiler, a village on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who at twenty-two married Apollonia Bürlin, a widow ten years older than himself, and had four children with her between 1684 and 1698. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his daughter Anastasia Carlin (1684–1758).

Early life

Joannes Jacobus was born at Rheinweiler in 1662 and was probably baptized at Bamlach on 15 January that year, the eldest son of Benedictus Carlin and Anastasia Erhard, who had married in January 1659. Rheinweiler belonged to the parish of Bamlach, the neighboring village, and its baptisms, marriages and burials were entered in the Bamlach church book. His mother came from Bruebach, across the Rhine in Alsace. Six younger brothers followed between 1663 and 1676.

Marriage and family

Joannes Jacobus Carlin and Apollonia Bürlin married at Bamlach on 16 February 1684, when he was twenty-two and she thirty-one. She was the widow of Beatus Basler, who is said to have been the village’s Vogt^W, or headman, and who had died the year before. She had borne Beatus four children; the eldest had died young, and her son Franciscus Jacobus was three when she married again.

Their daughter Anastasia was baptized at Bamlach on 5 November 1684, and Joannes Adamus followed in 1688, Catharina in 1693 and Joannes in 1698, when Apollonia was forty-five. Apollonia died at Rheinweiler in 1717 and was most likely buried at Bamlach on 27 February; Joannes Jacobus died there the same year, at fifty-five, a widower at his own burial, so he outlived her by less than a year.

Notes

Sources of the dates

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. It gives his birth at Rheinweiler in 1662 and his death there in 1717, calls him a widower (“Witwer”) at his burial, and writes the surname also as Carli. It names his parents as Benedictus Carlin, born at Rheinweiler in 1637, and Anastasia Erhard of Bruebach in Alsace, who married at Rheinweiler in 1659, and lists six younger sons, from Georgius in 1663 to Nicolaus in 1676. It gives his wife as Apollonia Bürlin, born at Bamlach in 1652, who died in 1717, the widow of Beatus Bassler, and lists the four children of the second marriage, born at Rheinweiler: Anastasia in 1684, Joannes Adamus in 1688, Catharina in 1693 and Joannes in 1698.

His baptism

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, gives the baptism on 15 January 1662 of a child written Jo Jacobus Carl, son of Benedict Carl and Anastasia Erhart, the parents the family book gives. The index is the source for the day; the register page itself is not available. The same index holds the parents’ marriage on 27 January 1659, with the bride written Anastasia Carder, most likely a misreading of Erhard, and the baptisms of five of the six younger brothers, from Georgius on 16 September 1663 to Nicolaus in 1676. The sixth, Joannes Georgius, born in 1673, is known only from the family book.

The marriage and the children

Two FamilySearch indexes of the Bamlach register give the marriage on 16 February 1684: the collection Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929 writes the couple Jacobus Carlin and Apollonia Buerler, and the Freiburg Catholic Church Records index writes them Jo Jacobus Carl and Apollonia Bürler. The Freiburg index holds the baptisms of the four children the family book lists, and no other child of the couple, each naming the parents as Jacobus Carl and Apollonia Büchl, Büehl or Büel: Anastasia on 5 November 1684, Adamus on 14 May 1688, Catharina on 4 October 1693 and Joannes on 24 January 1698.

Apollonia’s burial

The burial of an Apollonia Bühl at Bamlach on 27 February 1717 is in the same index, in the year the family book gives for her death; the entry gives no age and names no husband. A niece of the same name, baptized in 1674, could in principle own it, but she appears to have married and taken another surname by then, so the entry is most likely Apollonia’s own.