♀Maria Habin

Maria Habin (died 1734) was a woman of the parish of Bamlach, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who married Josephus Reymann of Rheinweiler in 1713 and was the mother of seven children baptised at Bamlach between 1714 and 1732. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through her daughters Elisabetha Reymann (1717–1763) and Maria Anna Reymann (1724–1799), whose grandchildren married each other at Bamlach in 1810.

Marriage and family

Maria Habin came from Bamlach itself, according to the village family book^W of Bamlach and Rheinweiler. On 7 May 1713, by the parish index, Josephus Reymann married Maria Habin at Bamlach. The couple made their home at Rheinweiler, the neighboring village, which belonged to the parish of Bamlach, and their children were baptized in the Bamlach church. The first, Sebastianus, was baptized on 20 January 1714, and Anna Maria, Elisabetha, Maria Magdalena and Catharina followed between 1715 and 1721. The elder Anna Maria probably died young, for the daughter born in 1724 was baptized with the same names, though she was married in 1763 as Maria Anna. The last child, Antonius, was baptized in April 1732, eight years after her.

According to the village family book, Maria died at Rheinweiler in 1734, two years after that last baptism, and Josephus outlived her by more than thirty years, dying there in January 1767.

Lines of descent

Both lines to Ora run through daughters of Josephus Reymann and Maria Habin who married men named Spony. Elisabetha married Josephus Spony in 1744, and her daughter Gertrud Spony (1751–1812) was the mother of Louis Bosler (1787–1831). Maria Anna married Johann Jakob Spony at Bamlach in 1763, and her daughter Jakobea Spony (born 1766) was the mother of Magdalena Zähringer (born 1790). Louis Bosler and Magdalena Zähringer, grandchildren of the two sisters, married at Bamlach on 22 January 1810, and their son Louis Oliver Bosler (1825–1909) carried both lines on to Ora.

Notes

Sources of the dates

The village family book 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, which mostly gives years rather than full dates. It gives her death in 1734 and her husband’s at Rheinweiler in January 1767, and lists the seven children. The marriage of 7 May 1713 at Bamlach is known from FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, which names neither set of parents.

The children

FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book holds seven baptisms to the couple, and they are the seven children the family book lists: Sebastianus on 20 January 1714, Anna Maria on 14 October 1715, Elisabetha on 15 August 1717, Maria Magdalena on 21 August 1719, Catharina on 16 May 1721, a second Anna Maria on 28 March 1724, and Antonius on 3 April 1732. The index writes the parents of the 1717 and 1724 children Josephus Reyman and Maria Habi, and the mother of the 1732 child Maria Hab. The family book gives the elder Anna Maria as dead before 1724. The index of the 1763 marriage writes the younger one Maria Anna Reymann, the form used for her here.

The two lines

The marriage of 22 January 1810 is known from FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach register, which writes the groom Aloysius Basler, aged 23 and born at Rheinweiler, names his parents as Fidel Basler and Gertrud Spony, and names the bride’s as Christian Zehringer and Jakobea Spony. Gertrud’s own baptism, on 28 March 1751, is indexed under the surname Syiny, an error for Sponi, as a daughter of Joseph Syiny and Elisabetha Reymänn. The family book names Elisabetha and Maria Anna as sisters, daughters of Josephus Reymann and Maria Habin, and places Jakobea among the children of Johann Jakob Spony and Maria Anna Reymann.

Her name

The family book writes her Maria Habin, of Bamlach, and gives her no parents. The ending -in is the form the registers of the region gave to a woman’s surname; FamilySearch’s index writes her Maria Habi in the baptisms of 1717 and 1724 and Maria Hab in 1732. The index of her marriage writes her Maria Habibamlauns, which looks like her surname joined to a word naming her as of Bamlach.