Walter (Rosenheim-1)

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Walter (Rosenheim-1)
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Adam Walther was born 20 March 1713 in Pfedelbach. He married Anna Wilhelmina Gänsfüß, daughter of Christian & Anna Sara Gänsfüß. Anna Wilhelmina Gänsfüß had been born in Heilbronn on 4 November 1711.

The birth of the following children to Adam Walther & Anna Wilhelmina Gänsfüß is recorded in Heilbronn: Georg Wilhelm Walther, born 6 December 1746, baptized 7 December 1746..

Adam Walther, a day laborer (Tagelöhner), his wife Wilhelmina (age 50), and children (Georg Wilhelm, age 15; Ludovica Margaretha, age 12; Johann Christian, age 9; Johann Friedrich, age 5) arrived in the city of Schleswig on 20 May 1761 and swore their oath to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 4 January 1765.

Adam Walter, a farmer, his wife Wilhelmina, and sons (Johann Christian, age 15; Friedrich, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 40. Oldest son Wilhelm Walter and his wife Maria Elisabeth are recorded there in Household No. 41. They had arrived in Rosenheim on 15 March 1766.

The death of Georg Wilhlem Walter is recorded in Rosenheim on 18 March 1793 at age 47 years, 5 months, and 12 days.

The widow and children of Wilhelm Walter are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm42.

Friedrich Walter and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm56.

The Eichhorns record that Adam Walther came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Adam Walter came from the German village of Pfedelbach. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Walter came from the German village of Hollabrun [Heilbronn].

Sources: 

- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1747.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rm15, Rm42, Rm56.
- Parish register of Heilbronn.
- Parish register of Pfeldelbach.
- Parish register of Rosenheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 72.

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