♀Maria Fräulin

Maria Fräulin (died 1675) was a villager of Bamlach, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who had seven children with her husband, Romanus Bürlin, between the mid-1640s and 1658. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Apollonia Bürlin (1652–1717).

Family

Romanus Bürlin and Maria Fräulin had seven children, all baptized at Bamlach from the mid-1640s to 1658: Maria, Anna, Jacobus, Apollonia, Romanus, Margaretha and a second Maria. The elder Maria had died by the time the youngest was born, and her name was given again. Her husband is said to have been the Vogt^W, or headman, of Bamlach.

Maria Fräulin died at Bamlach in 1675, and on 28 May that year Romanus married again.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through Apollonia Bürlin and her two marriages: one through her son Franciscus Jacobus Basler (1680–1748), from her first marriage, to Beatus Basler, and the other through her daughter Anastasia Carlin (1684–1758), from her second, to Joannes Jacobus Carlin. They meet again in Louis Oliver Bosler (1825–1909), whose father, Louis Bosler, descended from the first and whose mother, Magdalena Zähringer, from the second.

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 her death at Bamlach in 1675, names her husband as Romanus Bürlin, Vogt, and lists their seven children, from Maria in 1646, dead before 1658, to a second Maria in 1658. It gives no year for the marriage and names no parents for her. Her death year rests on the family book alone.

Her name and the baptisms

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, holds the baptisms of the seven children the family book lists, and no other child of Romanus and Maria; the register pages themselves are not available. Her name is written Freul, Freyl, Frewle, Freyler, Feryl or Freylin in those entries; the spelling Fräulin is the family book’s. The entries are Maria in 1645, with no day, where the family book gives 1646; Anna on 13 September 1647; Jacobus on 14 September 1650; Apollonia on 23 April 1652; Romanus on 1 March 1654; Margaretha on 29 May 1656, with the father written Martinus but the mother and the year fitting this family; and Maria on 13 April 1658. The same index gives her husband’s second marriage, to Anna Maria Bamerl, on 28 May 1675.