you have no idea how grateful i am to you for this clarification!
thank you also for the tschanad record location information.
my email address is rlcolwell@....
Thank you so much
On Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 09:45:56 AM CDT, Karen Dalton Preston <karen@...> wrote:
Hi Rich,
I found Johann WITTMANN in the family book for Tschanad, by Brunhild Hinkel. The birth date you have for him is correct. His parents were Johann Peter WITTMANN and Margaretha SCHMELZER who also both born in Tschanad.
Johann’s wife Margaretha JUNG was also born in Tschanad - again, the birth date you have for her is correct, but the family book says she died 10 October. 1866 in Tschanad. And, yes, they both died on the same date.
Margaretha is the daughter of Peter JUNG and Anna Maria SCHÜTZ. The Tschanad family book says the was a cholera outbreak in 1866 that killed 180 residents.
They had 7 children, only 1 of which survived to adulthood, son Nikolaus, born 24.11.1862 in Tschanad, had 2 marriages (1) to Julianna WELLINGER in 1887 & (2) Katharina WEBER in 1903.
I will send you scan of the family book pages, off-list, with some explanation of the abbreviation used and how to follow the family numbers to trace a family line from generation to generation. For both Johann WITTMANN and Margatetha JUNG, the book will allow you to go back a couple of generation. The JUNG line goes back to Tromborn, Bolchen, departément of Moselle, Lorraine, France. The WITTMANN line goes back to Franconia, Germany.
As a side note, you won’t find records in Budapest for these ancestors. Tschanad records will be in the Serbian National Archives in Novi Sad. If there are records for their arrival in the Banat as colonists, those records will be in the Hofkammer Archives in Vienna.
I will send the pages privately.
I hope this gives you what you need.
Best,
—Karen