♀Magdalena Zähringer

Magdalena Zähringer (born about 1790) was the wife of Aloys Basler, a farmer of Rheinweiler, a village on the Upper Rhine in the district of Müllheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden^W, and the mother of at least nine children, all born there between 1812 and 1828. She was the great-great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Louis Oliver Bosler (1825–1909), his daughter Anna Lucy Bosler (1860–1910) and her son Clarence Eugene Walrath (1878–1934).

Marriage and children

A FamilySearch index entry for the marriage of Aloysius Basler and Magdalena Zehringer at Bamlach on 22 January 1810 names his parents as Fidel Basler and Gertrud Spony and hers as Christian Zehringer and Jakobea Spony; the register entry itself is not available. The index gives her as 19 and a native of Rheinweiler, and a second index entry, taken from the Bamlach register, records the baptism of a Magdalena Zehinger, daughter of Christian Zehinger and Jacobea Schany, on 11 June 1790. The family book of Bamlach and Rheinweiler likewise lists a Magdalena, born 1790, among the children of Christian Zähringer (1764–1800) and Jacobea Spony, who married at Rheinweiler in 1786; neither register entry has yet been seen.

Five daughters were born to the couple before 1820. Katharina was born on 12 July 1812 and baptized the next day. Four daughters in four years were each named Magdalena, the mother’s own name: the first, born on 17 April 1814, was baptized at birth by the midwife and died the same day; the second, born on 16 July 1815, was baptized at home; the third, born on 10 June 1816, was also baptized at birth by the midwife; and the fourth, born on 25 September 1817, died on 5 October that year, when the register gives her age as twelve days.

The birth registers of Rheinweiler, in the government copies of the Catholic registers kept for the Grand Duchy, name her as the mother of Joseph, born on 5 March 1820; Gertrud, born on 23 February 1822; Aloys, born and baptized on 7 April 1825; and Maria Magdalena, born on 8 July 1828. In 1820 she and her husband are called Bürgersleute of Rheinweiler, citizens of the village, and in 1822 and 1825 he is described as an Ackermann, a farmer working his own land. The same two godparents, Michael Dosenbach and Theresia Basler, stood for Aloys in 1825 and for Maria Magdalena in 1828.

She was widowed in June 1831, when Aloys Basler died at Rheinweiler on 28 June, aged 45, leaving her with children, the youngest of them Maria Magdalena, born in 1828.

Notes

Her son Aloys

Her son Aloys is identified with Louis Oliver Bosler, who signed his marriage bond at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1849 as “Alois Basler”, and whose Illinois obituary of 1909 gives his birth in Baden on 7 April 1825, the day of the Rheinweiler entry. No record of her death has been found.