VGI Updates

Joh. Henrich Arnold was baptized in Steinbach on 28 October 1711. He married there on 9 February 1741 to A. Elisabeth Keßler. She had been baptized in Steinbach on 11 June 1721.

Georg Friedrich Arni was born on 3 October 1720 and baptized on 5 October 1720 in the Göbrichen Lutheran Church. His parents were Hans Michael Arni (born 6 January 1691) and Margaretha [surname unknown]; his grandparents were Hans Jakob & Barbara Arni.

Georg Friedrich Arni married on 11 December 1753 in Göbrichen to Christina Barbara Knodel, daughter of Markus & Anna Barbara Knodel. She had been born on 18 February 1732 in Lienzingen.

The Aqua family moved from Italy to Germany before 1750 and settled in the village of Hattersheim, today part of metropolitan Frankfurt directly across the Main River (northwest) from the Frankfurt Airport.      

Giovanni Pietro Dell'Acqua [Johannes Peter Aqua], son of Giuseppe Antonio Dell'Acqua [Joseph Anton Aqua] & Petrolilla Zanoni, was born 28 November 1726 and baptized on 29 November 1726 in Codogno, Italy. [Giuseppe Antonio Dell-Acqua was born about 1685 and died 30 December 1734 in Codogno.]

Philipp Heinrich Appelhans, son of Johannes Rutger Appelhans & Anna Maria Schuster, was married in St. Lambertus Catholic Church in Bechtheim on 25 November 1738 to Anna Katharina Hueff, daughter of Johannes Georg & Anna Barbara Hueff. She was born ca. 1722 in Waldenbach (Bavaria?).       

The parish record in Bechtheim records the marriage of Philipp Heinrich Appelhans and Anna Katharina Hueff in Latin:

Johann Nicolaus Oldt/Olt was born 21 May 1736 in Wüzberg and by occupation was a master weaver.  He and Anna Catharina (Öhlmann) of Rimhorn where in 1764 he took over several properties from his father-in-law, which he then sold in 1766 for 241 guiders and 47 kreuzer to cover his debts, in order to be able to emigrate to Russia.  Because of a large gap in the Rimhorn wedding register, there is no existing record of their wedding. 

A baptism entry for their daughter Anna Eva born 5 May 1765 has note in the margin: left for Russia. 

Christian Amend, son of Johann Georg Am End & Anna Margaretha Kempff, was born 18 January 1727 in Aulebach near Eschau [today called Unteraulenbach]. At that time, this area belonged to the region of Erbach, but following the Napoleonic Wars it became part of Bayern (Bavaria). Christian married on 26 January 1751 in nearby Wildensee to Anna Margaretha Damm, daughter of Peter Damm & Anna Margaretha Müller. Anna Margaretha Damm had been born 2 August 1727 in Wildensee.

Georg Friedrich Altergott, son of Johann Martin Altergott & Anna Maria Pfeiffer, was born in Feldrennach on 1 August 1714. He married there on 2 January 1739 to Elisabetha Gorgus, daughter of Johann Georg Gorgus & Christina Wentz. Elisabetha had been baptized on 7 January 1717 in nearby Gräfenhausen. The couple had eight known children, each of whom had been born in Feldrennach.

Johann Peter Albert from Schweinheim bei Aschaffenburg married Anna Margaretha [surname unknown]. She died 7 March 1743 in Gronau. He remarried on 13 August 1743 in Gronau to Anna Margaretha Heß, daughter of Johann Georg Heß & Margaretha Werner. She had been born 14 October 1711 in Gronau.

The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Peter Albert & Anna Margaretha Heß are recorded in the parish register of Gronau: (1) Johann Georg, born 17 May 1744; and (2) Johannes, born 29 January 1746.

Peter Allbach, a son of Johann Peter Allbach & Maria Elisabetha Peter, was born in Vadenrod, south of Alsfeld, and baptized on 10 August 1738 in the Evangelical Church of Hopfgarten about 4 kilometers from Vadenrod. His brother Johann Heinrich, also born in Vadenrod, was baptized in the same church on 2 July 1742.

The birth of a son to Peter Albach is recorded in Vadenrod: Johann, born 9 September 1766.

Johann Georg Abig, son of Johann Abig & Susanna Maria Froschhäuser, was born on 27 September 1745 in Gelnhausen, northeast of Hanau. He married on 18 March 1766 in Büdingen to Anna Maria Schröder. Anna Maria had an illegitimate daughter Anna Barbara Schröder who had been born 19 February 1762, also in Gelnhausen.

Johann Georg Abig, a cobbler, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.