♂Romanus Bürlin

Romanus Bürlin (died 1688) was a villager of Bamlach, on the Upper Rhine in Baden, Germany, who had seven children with his first wife, Maria Fräulin, and married again in the year she died. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both through his daughter Apollonia Bürlin (1652–1717).

First marriage

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.

Romanus is said to have been the Vogt^W, or headman, of Bamlach, and at his burial the church book gave him the Latin title praefectus.

Second marriage and death

Maria Fräulin died at Bamlach in 1675, and on 28 May that year Romanus married again. His second wife, Maria Bammerlin, came from Holzen. The marriage is entered in the Bamlach church book, but the village family book places the wedding at Mariastein^W, across the Swiss border in Solothurn. They had no children. Romanus died at Bamlach in 1688, and Maria Bammerlin outlived him by six years, dying at Rheinweiler, the neighboring village, in 1694.

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 his death at Bamlach in 1688, calls him Vogt, notes that the church book styles him praefectus at his burial, and writes the surname also as Büelin, Birlin and Burlin. It gives the death of Maria Fräulin at Bamlach in 1675 and lists their seven children: Maria in 1646, dead before 1658, Anna in 1647, Jacobus in 1650, Apollonia in 1652, Romanus in 1654, Margaretha in 1656 and Maria in 1658. It gives no year for the first marriage. It gives his second marriage, in 1675 at Mariastein in Solothurn, to Maria Bammerlin of Holzen, her death at Rheinweiler in 1694, and no children of that marriage. His being Vogt and his death year rest on the family book alone.

The church-book index

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. The surname is indexed a different way on almost every entry, as Düel, Büel, Würle, Büelis, Birl, Buel and Bürl, and the mother is written Freul, Freyl, Frewle, Freyler, Feryl or Freylin. 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 the marriage of Romanus Büöl and Anna Maria Bamerl on 28 May 1675, in the Bamlach church book; the day is the index’s, and the index places the wedding at Bamlach, where the family book has Mariastein.