Franz Ziegler, son of Michael Ziegler (died 30 December 1750) & Margaretha, married 15 July 1748 to Maria Barbara Hack, daughter of the deceased Nikolaus Hack & Maria Barbara.
The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main records the baptisms of the following children born to Franz Ziegler & Maria Barbara Hack: (1) Burhard, born 27 July 1749, died 23 August 1750; (2) Elisabetha, baptized 1 December 1750; and (3) Johannes Michael, baptized 5 May 1752.
Maria Barbara Ziegler née Hack died 7 January 1753.
Franz Ziegler remarried on 18 May 1753 to Eva Rienecker, daughter of Johannes Michael & Anna Maria Reinecker. She died 30 November 1757.
Franz Ziegler, a cobbler, his [new] wife Magdalena, and children (Elisabeth, age 15; Michael, age 13; Adam, age 4; Magdalena, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Franz Ziegler (age 36), a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Maria Magdalena (age 26), children by his first wife (Elisabeth, age 16; Johannes Michael, age 14), and son by his second wife (Paulus, age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 8. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
An entry from the minutes of the Office of Immigrant Guardianship on 29 April 1776 records that the widower colonist Lorenz Schroh from Volmer has petitioned to marry Magdalena, widow of Franz Ziegler from Seelmann.
The 1767 census records that Franz Ziegler came from the German village of Gemünden in the region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ziegler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2202.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the baptism of Johann Michael Ziegler on 5 May 1752.
Source: Anonymous2.