♀Maria Hügin

Maria Hügin lived in the parish of Bamlach, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, where she and her husband Beatus Basler (died 1653) had five children baptized between 1641 and 1649. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Beatus Basler (1641–1683).

Family

Beatus Basler and Maria Hügin had three sons and two daughters, Beatus, Christophorus, Maria, Joannes Jacobus and Francisca, all baptized at Bamlach between 1641 and 1649. Their son Beatus was born at Rheinweiler, a village whose baptisms, marriages and burials were then entered in the church book of neighboring Bamlach. Her husband most likely died in 1653 and was buried at Bamlach on 24 September that year, when Beatus was twelve and the youngest, Francisca, was four. The line runs through the younger Beatus, who most likely grew up to marry Anna Maria Wieland at Rheinweiler in 1667 and, as a widower, Apollonia Bürlin at Bamlach in 1671. Maria’s own parents, and the years of her birth and death, are not known.

Notes

Her name and the sources

The village family book^W, 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, writes her name Maria Hügin and lists her five children with Beatus Bassler, who died in 1653. FamilySearch’s index of the Bamlach church book, in the Freiburg Catholic Church Records collection, writes her Maria Hug at the children’s baptisms: Beatus on 12 June 1641, Christophorus in 1643, Maria in 1645, Joannes Jacobus in 1647 and Francisca on 20 January 1649. The family book gives the son Beatus’s birth at Rheinweiler in 1642.

Her son Beatus

The family book keeps the son born in 1642 apart from the Beatus Bassler who was Vogt and married Apollonia Bürlin, but a contributor’s note on his entry gives him that man’s two marriages, at Rheinweiler on 17 July 1667 and at Bamlach on 8 November 1671, and the Vogt’s own entry asks whether he came from the marriage of Beatus Bassler and Maria Hügin. A FamilySearch family tree also joins the 1641 baptism to Apollonia’s husband. The two are taken here to be one man.

Another Maria in the register

A second Beatus Bassler, married to Maria Mayer, had children baptized at Bamlach between 1644 and 1651, among them a Maria in 1644 and a Joannes Jacobus in 1646. The baptisms of the two families are told apart by the mother’s surname.