Newsletter Outline
New Records from Bretten, Germany
Revised Ancestry of our Hans Jacob Wertz Discovered
From Bretten, Germany: Herr Herbert Vogler’s Wurz Family History
Summery:
In 1912 Estelle Ryan Snyder received by correspondence from Karl Renz, then Pastor of the Reformed Lutheran Church of Bretten, records dating from about 1600. (see Chapter 1 in our Wertz Book.) Those records are now recorded in the IGI and Ancestral File. They, apparently incorrectly, identify our Hans Jacob Wertz, emigrant of 1731, as born 20 June 1705, a son of Hans Conrad Wurtz, born 28 Nov. 1665, and his wife Anna Maria Ursula; and as a grandson of Unstatt Wurtz and Margaretha Ziegler.
Herr Vogler’s records show our Hans Jacob Wurz as born 20 May 1705, son of the Hans Konrad Wurz born 4 Oct. 1668, son of Hans Melchior Wurz and Susanna Baumer.
If Herr Vogler is correct, and I believe his research is more likely correct than the partial, probably incomplete records received from, Pastor Karl Renz in 1912, then our Hans Jacob Wertz/Wurz, 1705-1775, emigrant of 1731, has the following ancestry:
Parents: Hans Conrad Wurz, born 4 October 1668, Bretten; married 8 April 1698 at Bretten to Anna (Maria?) Ursula (Heirling?) Our Hans Jacob being the fourth of their ten children. Family #14 on Herr Vogler’s charts.
Grandparents: Hans Melchior Wurz, born at Bretten 2 Oct. 1631; died in Holland; married at Bretten 28 April 1657 to Susanna Baumer; the above Hans Conrad being the fourth of their eight children; family #8 on Herr Vogler’s charts.
Great grandparents: Wendel(in) Wurz, born at Bretten on 17 Sept. 1598; died at Bretten 4 Sept. 1635; married at Bretten on 27 July 1624 to Katharina Hack; the above Hans Melchior being the fourth of their five or six children; family #5 on Herr Vogler’s charts.
2nd great grandparents: Alexander Wurz, born Bretten about 1560, died in Bretten 30 Sept 1622; married 5 Oct 1585 at Bretten to Barbara Fleiner; son Wendel(in) above being the eighth of their eleven children; family #2 on Herr Vogler’s charts.
3rd great grandparents: Hans Wurz, born about 1530; died before 1594; and his first wife, Ursula Beckelheub, who died before 1567; family #1 on Herr Vogler’s charts.
If anyone sees any other possible conclusions from Herr Vogler’s records, or has any additional information to add to these records, or can better translate them, please let us know.
End of Wertz Newsletter #64
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