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THE PFRIMMER FAMILIES OF ALSACE

l550-l870

by

Samuel Pfrimmer Hays

with research assistance from

Marie-Odile Peres and Peter D. Hays

l5, bd Jacques Preiss 342 l/2 West 8th

67000 Strasbourg, France Eugene, Oregon, 9740l, USA

88.25.02.43 54l-485-6254

Edition of January 2005

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Samuel P. Hays

4900 Thunderbird Drive, Apt. #611

Boulder, CO, 80303

303-554-6560

e-mail: [email protected]

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A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of the Pfrimmer Families

From the Earliest Known Ancestors in the village of Eckwersheim,

Alsace

l570-l880

Including villages of

Berstett, Bietlenheim Bischheim, Breuschwickersheim, Brumath,

Duntzenheim, Eckbolsheim, Eckwersheim, Geudertheim,

Hoenheim, Hoerdt, Hurtigheim, Ittenheim,

Lampertheim, Mittelhausbergen, Mundolsheim,

Niederhausbergen, Niederschoeffelsheim

Oberhausbergen, Olwisheim, Pfulgresheim,

Reitwiller, Schiltigheim, Wolfsheim, Vendenheim

and Cities of Strasbourg and Paris

Supplemented by Pfrimmer Family Genealogy

Contributed by Pfrimmer Descendants in Europe

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Table of Contents (Revised)

I.

II.

Introduction

Pfrimmer Families of the 16th Century

Descendants of Mathis and Catherine Pfrimmer

Pfrimmer Families of the l7th-l9th Centuries

Descendants of Anton and Catherine Pfrimmer

Velten Pfrimmer (l658-l726)

Eva Pfrimmer (l687-l746)

George Pfrimmer (l689-l756)

Velten Pfrimmer (l692-l764)

Johannes Pfrimmer (l696-l738)

Descendants of Claus and Barbara Pfrimmer

Hans Pfrimmer (l642-l694)

Claus Pfrimmer (l649-l7l2)

Jacob Pfrimmer (l658-l723)

Descendants of Erhard and Catherine Pfrimmer

Johannes Pfrimmer (l653-l725)

Andreas Pfrimmer (l655-l722)

Descendants of Jorg and Agnes Pfrimmer

Johannes Pfrimmer (l634-l700)

Lorentz Pfrimmer (l642-l7ll)

Velten Pfrimmer (l647-l7l4)

Michel Pfrimmer (l640-l692)

Georg Pfrimmer (l653-l733)

Valentin Pfrimmer (l659-l725)

George Pfrimmer (l648-l7l3)

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18

29

39

39

45

45

46

62

74

94

94

99

105

116

118

157

213

214

217

224

227

236

267

273

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Introduction

This is the third edition of the genealogy of the Pfrimmer family in

Alsace. The first edition was confined to Pfrimmers in the village of Eck-

wersheim, which was the main center of the Pfrimmer family in the l6th and

succeeding centuries. However, many Pfrimmers moved from Eckwersheim to

other villages and hence the second edition extended the coverage to those

villages in the cantons of Brumath, Schiltigheim and Tructersheim which sur-

rounded Eckwersheim and to several other villages where Pfrimmers were known

to have lived. Of these villages, ten with a larger number of Pfrimmer fa

milies were close to Eckwersheim, including Vendenheim, Lampertheim, Berstett,

Brumath, Bischheim, Pfulgresheim, Oberhausbergen, Mundolsheim, Niederhausber

gen and Reitwiller. However, Pfrimmer families lived in over a dozen other

villages as well, ranging from Eckbolsheim and Breuschwickersheim on the

south, to Weitbruch on the northeast to Duntzenheim on the northwest. The

second edition also included information about Pfrimmers who lived in Stras-

bourg and some initial information about families who migrated to Germany or

Switzerland, details of which have yet to be obtained.

This third edition carries the research further, exending to Pfrimmers in

Paris in the l9th century, and to Pfrimmers in the Catholic parish of Venden-

heim. Up to this time the search for Pfrimmers was entirely in the evangeli-

cal records of the various villages, but in Vendenheim a Catholic parish was

established in l7l2 and on exploring this set of records members of one Pfrim-

mer family were found to have converted to Catholicism shortly thereafter,

leading to several marriages in Catholic Churches in Strasbourg. At the same

time several additional lines of Pfrimmer descent, now numbering fourteen,

have been added from Pfrimmer genealogists living in France. In order to

pursue further the families of the l6th and l7th centuries, the records of the

births, marriages and deaths of all residents in Eckwersheim up to the year

l810 have also been covered. This has added information about families of

Pfrimmer women and their husbands, the names of a considerable number of

Pfrimmers who were recorded as godparents and other useful information. We

have also identified the family origins of Jean Auguste Pfrimmer, missionary

to South Africa who died in Algeria, as well as the family origins of Robert

Pfrimmer, current mayor of Eckwersheim.

Readers familiar with the first edition will notice, in addition to the

expansion of the genealogy, some corrections between the first and the second

edition. These have come from information from newly examined documentary

records. One of the most important of these was the re-identification of a

Johannes Pfrimmer, first thought to have been the husband of Brigitta Buchers

and a descendant of Jorg Pfrimmer of the four Pfrimmer families of the l7th

century, now identified through a variety of cross-confirming documents, as

from the Erhard Pfrimmer family, married twice, first to Elizabeth Fabrieles

and second to Catharina Maria Dorn. Family relationships established through

the witnesses in the death records were especially valuable in sorting out

these two Johannes Pfrimmers, both of whom were born and died at roughly the

same time. In this case the marriage record of Johannes Pfrimmer and Eliza-

beth Fabrieles was discovered in the Berstett records even though Johannes

Pfrimmer was clearly identified as an apprentice wet cooper of Eckwersheim.

I am indebted to Pfrimmer genealogists in France who have contributed

their research to this edition. These include Robert Bauer of Saverne (Jorg

Pfrimmer family); Michel Roth of Hericourt, (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Jean-

Paul Kaminski of Strasbourg (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Elizabeth Genevieve

Arment of Chavin (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Alain Petion of Truchtersheim

(Erhard Pfrimmer family); Nadine Lauban of Plaisir (Anton and Erhard Pfrimmer

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families); Chantal Morel of Selestat (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Charles Pfrim-

mer of Hoenheim (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Jean Paul Schaeffer of Strasbourg

(Erhard Pfrimmer family), Antoine Hoffman of Strasbourg (Erhard Pfrimmer

family); Rene Wendling of Stutzheim (Anton Pfrimmer family); Dr. Jean-Paul

Hummel of Bischheim (Erhard Pfrimmer family); Albert Knierim of Strasburg

(Erhardt Pfrimmer family; and Thierry Straub of Dunkerque (Jorg Pfrimmer

family). Herr Wolf Pfrimmer of Igensdorf, Germany, descendent of Jacob Pfrim-

mer of Breuschwickersheim (Jorg Pfrimmer family), who migrated to Nurnburg,

Germany in l9l3, kindly contributed his Pfrimmer genealogy. I am also indebt-

ed to M. Christian Wolff, secretary of the Cercle Genealogique d'Alsace, in

Strasbourg who announced the availability of the Pfrimmer geneology in the

Society newsletter, inviting Pfrimmer genealogists to contact me; most of the

resulting correspondence came as a result of this assistance.

The genealogy is based upon birth, confirmation, marriage and death

records of the various villages available on microfilm from the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) through the Family History Library

of the Genealogical Society of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. The

records also include notarial estate records from the archives in Alsace and

the applications of Pfrimmers throughout France who took up the "Option for

French Citizenship" after the Franco-Prussian War, records that are located in

the National Archives in Paris. The translations have been completed on two

occasions. Initially the records were confined to Eckwersheim and Berstett

and were gathered first in l975 by Mme. Marie Odile Peres of Strasbourg, and

then later in l994 by Peter Hays, a specialist in European languages, in

Eugene, Oregon, USA. Records in villages beyond Eckwersheim were gathered

primarily by the author for the l9th century and by Peter Hays for earlier

years; Mme. Peres helped with both.

This Pfrimmer genealogical project was an outgrowth of an initial compila-

tion of the descendants of my great-great-great-grandfather, John George

Pfrimmer and his wife, Elizabeth Senn, who were married in Sissach, Switzer-

land in l782, who migrated to America in l788 and who then came to Harrison

County, Indiana in l808, raised their family and lived and died there. This

was the community in which I was born and raised. From this first venture in

genealogy I sought more information about the background of John George Pfrim-

mer, a search that led to the village of Eckwersheim in Alsace, just north and

west of Strasbourg. I decided that the only way to obtain an accurate account

of my own ancestors was to reconstruct the entire history of the Pfrimmer

family in Eckwersheim. The project cleared up many uncertainties in Pfrimmer

family history and established earlier roots of the American ancestor. But it

also gave rise to an opportunity to construct the wider Pfrimmer family in

Alsace and I have made the material available to assist other Pfrimmer re-

searchers attempting to work through their own segment of that larger venture.

Hopefully it will provide an opportunity for work by others on Pfrimmer family

genealogy.

This edition of the Eckwersheim Pfrimmer genealogy continues to be subject

to periodic revision and correction in later editions. While the first was

confined to a standard genealogical account from earlier ancestors down

through the years, the second added two additional parts: (a) a compilation of

the records into single family groups or family biographies for both Pfrimmer

women and Pfrimmer men who married and had families, a compilation called a

Biographical Dictionary; and (b) the records of births, confirmations, mar

riages, deaths and notarials from the original records, called Documentary

Records. The Biographical Dictionary is extremely useful as a ready reference

to the main branches of the Pfrimmer family and the Documentary Records pro

vide the evidence on which both the genealogy and the biographical dictionary

are based. The documentary records include the records of all Eckwersheim

inhabitants for the l6th, l7th and l8th centuries.

The earliest Eckwersheim Pfrimmer records are from the last half of the

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l6th century. They comprise six families of which the male heads of house

holds were Claus, Erhart, Hans, Mathis, Sixt and Wolff Pfrimmer. The rela-

tionship among these six Pfrimmers is not known. For their wives in some cases

only the given name and not the surname is known; the names of children are

obtained from the birth records. In the case of each family the birth of the

earliest child on record is for either l569 or l570. This would place the

dates of birth of their parents as approximately l545-l550, and would suggest

that all six of the fathers were approximately the same age, perhaps brothers.

In one case, that of Sixt Pfrimmer, the father's name is given in the record,

"Sixt Pfrimmer, son of Hans Pfrimmer" for the marriage of Sixt Pfrimmer in

l570. This would indicate that the father, Hans Pfrimmer, was born about

l540. Several records suggest that Hans Pfrimmer was a villager of some

substance since in a number of births from l579 on, a number of godparents are

listed as servants of Hans Pfrimmer. Moreover, the inventory at the death of

George Pfrimmer, who died in l6l4, indicates that he obtained a substantial

farm which he inherited when his father died about l596, when the son would

have been 20 years old. One might speculate, therefore, that this Hans Pfrim-

mer is the first Pfrimmer on record, that the six possible brothers might well

be his sons and that the George Pfrimmer who died in l6l4 was his grandson.

Another bit of l6th century evidence is intriguing, a record concerning

Zimprion Pfrymer (Smphorianus dictus Pfrymer Zimprion) wife Applong (Apollonia),

in Strasbourg in l548, which would well indicate a Roman spelling from a Catholic

context prior to the introduction of Lutheranism about mid-century which

involved a more German name spelling. This information was kindly provided by

M. Wolff of the Cercle Genealogique d'Alsace.

There is a considerable difference between these six Pfrimmer families of

the l6th century and those of the l7th. A major gap occurs in all of the

families, between l590 and l650 in which there were many fewer births, mar

riages and deaths than in previous years. Some of this is because there are

gaps in the records, mainly those for births between l6l7-33. But much of it

is undoubtedly the result of the turmoil of the times, the devastation due to

the 30 Years War from l6l8 to l648, disease and plagues. The role of disease

is suggested by the fact that in l597 there were 32 deaths in Eckwersheim,

many of them children, in contrast to a total of l9 for the remaining years

between l593 and l599; the second highest peak for deaths in early Eckwersheim

was l7, l2 of them children, in l607. During these years of turmoil, many

southwestern German communities were reduced to a fraction of their earlier

population, often to ten percent, both due to direct circumstances and to the

exodus of people from the areas.

The Thirty Years War and other events at the time created disruptions of

life in the region of the Pfrimmer family which led to a number of mass move-

ments to the safety of Strasbourg. The chronicle of Berstett describes a

number of such occasions and the way in which they led to the celebration of

religious events such as the Lord's Supper or Noel in Strasbourg jointly on

the part of congregations from Berstett, Olwsheim and Eckwersheim first in the

years l6l8-22 on the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, then again in l627 and

from l630-33 when the troops of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden traversed the

Rhineland near Strasbourg, again in l644 when the Imperial Armies "devastated

the village and violated the women." On such occasions the citizens of the

villages had difficulty finding a place of worship in Strasbourg and usually

took refuge in one of the almshouses for the sick, such as for those with

smallpox or leprosy.

An additional factor which might have contributed to these disruptions

was an earthquake that occurred on August 8, l60l and is a part of the record

ed history of Berstett, Vendenheim and Eckwersheim. The history of Berstett

records the event as "un terrible tremblement de terre" and the account of

Eckwersheim records that it "destroyed the church and the village." The story

of the event by the Eckwersheim pastor in both death and marriage records was

quite a bit less dramatic, confined to this statement: "The 8th of August of

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this year, l60l, at 2:00 in the morning there was such a frightful earthquake

that the ground shook so hard, once or four times, that the chickens in the

whole area fell from their roosts, and a few bells and little bells were made

to ring, as in Strasburg, Hagenau and Weyersheim." One small piece of Pfrimmer

family evidence that reflects the turmoil of the times is that three Pfrimmer

births are recorded in Strasbourg in l633 and l635 to two families in which

the father for each is listed as "of Eckwersheim"; There are other births to

these families in Eckwersheim either before and/or after those dates, indicat-

ing that these were Eckwersheim families temporarily living in Strasburg.

Another period of disruption took place in the l670's apparently as a

result of the devastation created by the French armies as they mauraded over

the countryside. The Berstett chronicler noted that even after the treaty of

Westphalia in l648 the "wars and invasions continued" since Berstett "was

under French influence." The record of births especially tells the tale even

more firmly. There were anually 7-l0 births in the years before l674 but from

l674 on through l678 the number of births each year was l, 3, 2, l and 3.

These years also witnessed few marriages, none in l673 and l674, 2 each in

l675 and l676 1 in l677 and 2 in l678. One of the Pfrimmer family heads of the

late l7th and early l8th century, Johannes Pfrimmer, the wet-cooper, was

married in l676 not in Eckwersheim but Berstett, appently due to the absence

of a pastor in Eckwersheim. Finally, in the year l674, three burials were

reported in the Eckwersheim records as having been performed at Good People's

Cemetery in Strasbourg, one in June and two in November, as well as a third

one in Sept. l678, and one marriage was conducted in the Good People's Church

there, Aug. l0, l675. The hostilities persisted as on Nov. l, l690, the record

reported, "Jacob Klein, in tumult, stabbed by a French soldier and died 4

hours later." After l680 the population of Eckwersheim became far more stable;

certainly the Pfrimmer families flourished.

The impact of all this in Eckwersheim is revealed by the records of

Pfrimmer births, marriages and deaths as indicated in the following chart (the

notation "--" indicates that records for that decade are missing). [The birth

and marriage records in Eckwersheim begin in l568 and the death records in

l593]. This Pfrimmer data can be compared with the entire population of Eck-

wersheim during several of these same years which are also reported here,

reflecting similar turmoil. [In several decades there is no data in the

record and to present relatively accurate comparisons, in the following tables

the decade-long data is filled out by adding the annual data for missing years

in the same amount, average per year, as the annual available data for years

in that decade.]

Pfrimmer Data

Years Marr- Births Deaths Years Marr- Births Deaths

iages iages

l570-79 3 27 -- l640-49 -- 7 l

l580-89 4 l3 -- l650-59 -- l8 7

l590-99 2 0 2 l660-69 2 ll 5

l600-09 8 6 6 l670-79 2 ll 6

l6l0-l9 5 2 2 l680-89 ll 20 l8

l620-29 l 5 0 l690-99 9 32 53

l630-39 l 2 l

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All Eckwersheim Data Per Decade

(brackets indicate data interpolated for missing records)

Years Marr- Births Deaths Years Marr- Births Deaths

iages iages

l568-69 2 [80] 1640-49 -- [39] [17]

l570-79 29 134 -- 1650-59 -- 126 40

l580-89 l9 128 -- 1660-69 -- 106 67

l590-99 2l 56 [71] l670-79 19 50 46

l600-09 39 70 48 1680-89 [27] [110] 41

l6l0-l9 15 38 [15]

l620-29 19 52 12

l630-39 13 [21] [10]

It is probable that the lack of records during some of these years was due to

the absence of ministers who compiled the parish records. Records for the

years from l600 through l630 often appear to have been got together several

years after the fact based on personal memory. A conclusion as to the effect

of all these factors on the Pfrimmer family in Eckwersheim, is that although

present in that village in the last third of the l6th century the family did

not develop a firm base there until a century later; it also seems apparent

that the Pfrimmer families persisted over these years apparently in greater

proportion than was the case for other families.

Because of this gap, only four of the six families, Hans, Erhard, Claus

and Mathis have a documented line of descent from the first group of l6th

century Pfrimmers to the second group in the l7th century. For Hans, Erhard

and Claus the lines of descent are male; for Mathis, who had only female

children who survived, the descent is through the daughter, Ottilia, who

married Andreas Haberbusch; descent from this couple into later centuries was

extensive and there were many Pfrimmer-Haberbusch intermarriages. For Sixt and

Wolff Pfrimmer there is no continuity between the two time periods; while

there are several l6th century marriage records for their children, there is

no evidence that those families persisted as Pfrimmer families. Descendants

of other Pfrimmers either died out or migrated. They might have moved else

where in the region but, while the Eckwersheim records go back to l570,

records in the other villages to which Pfrimmers might have moved, usually

begin about l660. At the same time the l7th century Anton Pfrimmer family has

no documented connection with the l6th century families; in fact, the first

record of his family is for the birth of a daughter in l650; therefore the

origins of Anton Pfrimmer cannot be traced amid the six adult Pfrimmer males

in the l6th century. These six l6th century Pfrimmer heads of families had 44

grandchildren of whom l9 were males and 25 females.

The main body of this genealogy pertains to the five Pfrimmer families of

the l7th century, headed by Anton, Mathis, Claus, Erhard and George, the last

four of whom might be called the "Pfrimmer survivors" from the devastations of

the first half of the l7th century, their children, grandchildren and descend-

ants. All of the Pfrimmers in the l7th century Eckwersheim records and after

ward whose family connections are identifiable can be placed in these five fa-

milies. There are many intermarriages as well, so that by the l7th century a

considerable number of families closely related to the Pfrimmers are found in

Eckwersheim: Jorg, Hirt, Zimmer, Michel, Bentz, Wolff, Jacob and Thuringer.

Only the Haberbusch family, of whom a Pfrimmer was a l6th century ancestor,

has been followed beyond the late l7th century. The genealogy contains some

information about descendants down into the late l9th and the 20th centuries.

This has been provided either by Mme. Peres, or present descendants who have

developed information about their own Pfrimmer ancestry.

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Among these five 17th century heads of families the descendants of only a

few of their children or grandchildren can be traced for several generations,

all of them males. All of the descendants of Anton Pfrimmer are from his son,

Valentin, and Valentin's five children, Eva, George, Velten, Brigitta and

Johannes and of these only the three male lines are traced beyond another

generation or two. Of the descendants of Ottilia Pfrimmer and Andreas Haber

busch, the descendants are from their sons Claus, Andreas and Jonas. Of the

descendants of Claus the entire descent is from his grandson, Claus and his

three male children, Hans, Claus and Jacob. The descendants of Erhard are

from his grandson Erhard and Erhard's two sons, Johannes and Andreas. The

descendants of George stem from his two known children, Lorentz and George and

his one presumed son, Johannes; there were three sons of each of the two known

children these, Johannes, Lorentz and Velten for Lorentz, and Michel, George

and Velten for George; and there was one son, Georg, of Johannes, who lived in

the l7th century. These families constitute the main body of this genealogy.

Those l7 groups are identified in the table of contents and are described

now here briefly as a group as of the year l675.

One, Lorentz (l604-l658) had recently died, age 7l. Four Pfrimmer living

males were "senior citizens," and heads of households in l675 with children

and grandchildren: George (l607-l682) age 68; Claus (l6l7-l679) age 58; Anton

(l620-l688), age 55 and Erhard (l626-l698) age 49.

In the next generation of Pfrimmer males, there were eleven who had either

recently established families or were on the point of doing so in the near

future, and who, along with their four senior elders constituted the main

group of Pfrimmers in Eckwersheim in l675. These included six in the older age

group 26-4l and five in the younger age group of l7-22. The six in the older

group were Johannes (l634-l700) age 4l; Michel (l640-l692) age 35; Hans (l642-

l694) age 33; Lorentz (l642-l7ll) age 33; Velten (l647-l7l4) age 28 and Claus

(l649-l7l2) age 26. The five in the younger group were George (l653-l733) age

22: Johannes (l653-l725) age 22; Andreas (l655-l722) age 20; and Velten (l658-

l726) and Jacob (l658-l723) both age l7. In addition to these Eckwersheim

families were Hans Pfrimmer of Berstett (l642-l694) and Georg Pfrimmer of

Vendenheim (l648-l7l3).

Each of these males who identify the Pfrimmer family community of Eck-

wersheim as of l675 can be traced in the genealogy, along with the other

members of their family. Three other types of records underline these as the

"major Pfrimmer families" of the time. One are confirmation records in which

a number of children are reported as undergoing confirmation ceremonies (the

records are confined to the years l666-l736), at ages from l4 to l7, and most

of the confirmation records are from these "major families." A second is a

set of "marks," symbols of various kinds which are attached to the names of

Pfrimmers who were witnesses to births, marriages and deaths between l686 and

l7l3. The marks are recorded after the names of witnesses and it is assumed

that while the names were written by the local official, the marks were writ-

ten by the witnesses who could not write their names but could write their

symbols. A few of the symbols are for women, but the overwhelming majority are

for men, and the same symbol is associated with a given person on a number of

occasions. The symbols seem to be related in their format and structure,

either in terms of family groupings, or in association with an occupation.

These are adult males, therefore, who were relied on frequently to testify to

the vital events in the villages and seem to constitute respected leaders of

the community. It would appear that after l7l3 individuals increasingly wrote

their own name.

The third set of records are more numerous - the names of godparents

designated at births, noted on the birth records. A considerable number of

Pfrimmers, 213 over the years from l65l through 1736, served as godparents.

These were husbands and wives, older single young men and women, almost all

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besides the adult men identified as in some relationship to another family

member. Many were identifed by occupation, and their wives by the husband's

occupation, a good number were identified as living in some other village.

These godparents records are useful to identify several Pfrimmer families not

otherwise identified, but for the most part they added to the information

about the same Pfrimmer families already known from other records as compris-

ing the main body of Pfrimmers of the village.

Members of the Pfrimmer family left Eckwersheim and migrated elsewhere

beginning at an early date and continuing up to the present time. In all the

records in Alsace searched thus far no Pfrimmer has been found who originated

or whose ancestors originated in a place other than Eckwersheim. Women married

men in other villages and few of these have been traced; but Pfrimmer men have

been traced more readily. Pfrimmers recorded in Eckwersheim in the last half

of the l6th century who might have migrated elsewhere quite early are impossi-

ble to trace because of the fact that most parish records begin only after

l650; records in Eckwersheim and Weitbruch are the only ones thus far examined

which extend back into the the l6th century.

The first Pfrimmer records other than in Eckwersheim are three births in

Strasbourg in l633 and l635 which appear to be in families temporarily resi-

dent in the city. These were children of Jacob Pfrimmer, son of Jorg and Agnes

Pfrimmer of Eckwersheim, born in l6l0 and died in l670 in Eckwersheim, but

their further descendants have not been traced. There are two early permanent

migrants on record. One was Hans Pfrimmer (l642-l694) son of Claus Pfrimmer

who married Maria, widow of Anthoni Haman in Berstett Sept. l7, l665 and lived

and raised his family there. The other was George Pfrimmer who was born in

l648 and appears in Vendenheim with records as early as l675; his father,

Hans, was a son of Jorg and Agnes Pfrimmer of Eckwersheim, who lived later in

Vendenheim; another son of Hans, Thomas, moved back to Eckwersheim where he

married Ottilia and died in l670. Michael Pfrimmer and his recent wife,

Catherine Pfrimmer, left Eckwersheim about l7l5 shortly after their marriage

and moved to Brumath where they had eight children and where Michael Pfrimmer

died in l730. His wife, Catherine, then married Friedrich Gall. Two of the

children of Michael Pfrimmer and Catherine Pfrimmer migrated later to Ber-

stett.

The village of Vendenheim, nearby Eckwersheim, was a major destination of

Pfrimmer migrants from Eckwersheim. A George Pfrimmer (l648-l7l3), mentioned

above, is found in Vendenheim in the last half of the l7th century; he is

presumed, with some indirect evidence, to have been the grandson of Jorg

Pfrimmer of Eckwersheim (l579-l6l4). A Thomas Pfrimmer, identified on two

occasions as the "son of Hans Pfrimmer of Vendenheim" is listed in the Eck-

wersheim records as a godparent between l654 and l677; he died there April 8,

l675 and might well be a brother of George Pfrimmer. A son of George Pfrim

mer, Michael, married Mary Barbara Bronner in Dunzenheim about l705 to become

the forerunners of the Pfrimmer family in that village; two sons of another

of his children, Hans, married in Strasbourg in l740 and they as well as their

descendants continued to live there. Brigitta Pfrimmer, daughter of Andreas

Pfrimmer and Eva Scholl of Eckwersheim and who was born there Feb. 20, l682,

married Nicholas Schultz in Vendenheim in l70l and lived there. George Pfrim-

mer, son of Claus Pfrimmer, innkeeper of the Crown in Eckwersheim (son, in

turn of Claus Pfrimmer) married Anna Zimmer and lived in Vendenheim where

their son, Andreas, was born in l742. Valentin Pfrimmer, born in Eckwersheim

in l726, went to Vendenheim where he married Anna Wurtz in l752 and became the

forerunner of a sizeable Pfrimmer family there. These early Pfrimmer migrants

to Vendenheim were followed by at least seven others in the l9th century to

establish Vendenheim as a major "satellite" center of the Pfrimmer family in

Alsace.

By the early l9th century these migrations had led to a fair number of

Pfrimmer descendants in other villages. Some of these involve family groups,

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usually from a male Pfrimmer who married in the surrounding village and lived

there. These include Berstett, Bietlenheim, Brumath, Bischheim, Duntzenheim,

Lampertheim, Mundolsheim, Oberhausbergen, Pflugresheim and Vendenheim. Jean

Pfrimmer, for example, son of Andreas Pfrimmer and Catherine Klein of Eck

wersheim, married Catherina Pfitzer in Breuschwickersheim in l760; all of the

later Pfrimmers in that village are their descendants. By the l9th century a

Pfrimmer "diaspora" had led to Pfrimmers in at least 25 villages in the Lower

Rhine province of Alsace.

Pfrimmers also migrated to Strasbourg. Between l700 and l880, for exam-

ple, there were 37 marriages involving Pfrimmers in Strasbourg. These came

from a number of villages, always villages where Pfrimmers were already liv-

ing; the largest number were from Eckwersheim. The first Pfrimmer marriage in

Strasbourg is recorded in l740 and in all 20 occurred between then and l800;

l7 more took place between l800 and l880. Some Pfrimmer families can be

traced in Strasbourg for several generations, but many of them remained only

for a short time. Some conversions to the Catholic Church came with the

migration to Strasbourg. The initial one involved the family of Hans Pfrimmer

and Eva Lobstein of Vendenheim, where a Catholic parish was established in

l7l8. Two sons of this family migrated to Strasbourg and married in the Ca-

tholic Church there, but two daughters who remained in Vendenheim, converted

to Catholicism. It appears that the change in the family's religious affilia-

tion came about the time that the Catholic church was established there since

birth records of the older children are in the Lutheran parish and of the

younger children in the Catholic Church. It also appears that the father

converted and the mother did not, since her death record indicates that she

was Lutheran and the two daughters did not convert until shortly after their

mother died.

A number of Pfrimmers migrated to Paris, most of them, however, not until

the l9th century, and a number of them appear to have taken up the Citizenship

Option after the l870 War. A good number of these can be traced both in the

records in Alsace and those in Paris, but the origins of other Paris migrants

have not been found.

Several Pfrimmers also migrated more widely, to Germany, to France, to

Switzerland and to America. The first on record is John George Pfrimmer, who

married Elizabeth Senn in Sissach, Switzerland and migrated to America in

l788. In the l840's two brothers, Valentin and Christian Pfrimmer, sons of

Valentin Pfrimmer and Catherine Schuster of Eckwersheim, migrated to New York

City and then to western Ontario in Canada. They were followed shortly

thereafter by another family, Andreas Pfrimmer, who lived in the same vicinity

of Ontario. In l9l4, Jacob Pfrimmer, who had been born in Breuschwickersheim

in l89l, migrated to Nurnburg, Germany where he founded a company that

manufactured medical equipment. Currently. In l996, there were five other

Pfrimmer families in Germany listed in the German nation-wide telephone

directory and one Pfrimmer, Charles, who was an arboriculturist in Algeria

is on record because of a book which he wrote on the subject that was

published there. His descendants have recently been contacted; they removed

from Misserghin in Algeria to Bordeaux, France in l962. Most Pfrimmers today,

live in France where l52 Pfrimmers names are listed in the French "Minitel"

electronic telephone directory; two thirds of these are in Alsace and one

third in other parts of France. Moreover, in l998 three Pfrimmers were found

in telephone directories in Italy.

Equally significant are some of the distinctive in-migrations into Eck

wersheim and this was especially the case for Swiss who were noted in the

records in increasing numbers after l690. The pastor recording births, mar

riages and deaths, and especially godparents, frequently noted that an indi-

vidual was from Switzerland and equally frequently that they were members of

the Reformed faith. The presence of Reformed migrants from Switzerland, some of

whom became Pfrimmer marriage partners, is particularly interesting. The

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Strasburg city council prohibited Reformed church members from owning property

in the city, nor could their congregations build churches there. But the

Reformed seemed to be accepted in Eckwersheim, even though their dead were

buried in separate locations in the parish cemetery.

After the Franco-Prussian War of l87l-72 Alsace became a part of Germany

and the French gave the Alsatians an "Option for Citizenship" under which they

could move elsewhere to France and retain their French citizenship. Each case

was recorded in a certificate that included the name, date and place of birth

and destination. The certificates are preserved in the files of the French

National Archives. Twenty-two Pfrimmers are among these certificates. Of

these seven came from Eckwersheim, five from Brumath, two from Strasbourg, and

eight from other villages in Alsace. Of the twenty-two, six went to Paris,

five to Algeria and eleven to other places in France. Of the seven from

Eckwersheim, six were in two closely related family groups and those from

Brumath were from one family group. Of the five who went to Algeria two were

Jean Auguste Pfrimmer, a missionary, who already lived in Algeria, and his

nephew, Charles Auguste Pfrimmer, both of whom lived at Misserghin, Oran, in

Algeria.

Several occupational patterns stand out. Claus (l649-l7l2) was innkeeper

to the Crown in Eckerwsheim; also his son, Hans (1709-1791) and still later the

second husband of Hans' daughter, Brigitta (l738-l8l9), Johann Freyss. Anoth-

er Pfrimmer male of the time, Michel (l640-l692) had a grandson, Michel (l694-

l752), who was "host at the Lion," another inn in Eckwersheim. Thus, two

Pfrimmers, Hans and Michel, were inkeepers of the two Eckwersheim inns, the

Crown and the Lion. These inns are still in operation today. Several Pfrimmer

children living in Strasbourg were identified as innkeepers there. Michael

Pfrimmer, born in Berstett and married in Bischheim in l790, was an innkeeper

at the White Horse inn there, an inn that no longer survives.

Johannes Pfrimmer (l653-l725), son of Erhard (l626-l698) was a cooper,

identified in his marriage record as a 'kueferknecht' or apprentice cooper and

in later records on the birth of his children as a kuefer or wet cooper; so

also was his son Hans Velten (l698-l762), his son, Johannes (l735-l795) and

also his son, in turn, Johann George (l769-l844) who by this time was identi-

fied as a barrel maker. A second son of Johannes (l653-l725), Michel, married

and moved to Brumath; he was a blacksmith and his son, Johann Georg and in

turn Johann George's three sons, Jacob, John George and Michael, were also

blacksmiths. This Michel Pfrimmer may well have inherited this trade from the

father of his wife, Catherine, who was a daughter of George Pfrimmer (l653-

l733) and identified as a smith at the time of his daughter's marriage. A

number of Pfrimmers were smiths or married smiths. Beyond these occupations,

in later generations, were weavers, tailors, farmers, wheelwrights, shoemak-

ers, farmers, shepherds of horses and sheep, night watchmen, and day labour

ers.

Several of the Pfrimmer males were local officials of various kinds,

particularly members of the local governing bodies and known as "gerichtsch-

off" or "justice" or "gerichtschultheiss" or a church official known as

"eldester." The first of these identified in the records as "mayor" was Johan

nes Pfrimmer, grandson of Jorg Pfrimmer, one of the four "founding fathers" of

the l6th century who served as mayor in the late l7th century. The next

Pfrimmer to serve as mayor, Jacob Pfrimmer, grandson of the Eckwersheim Pfrim

mer couple, Michael Pfrimmer and Catherine Pfrimmer, was mayor of Berstett for

several decades, beginning at the time of the French Revolution; his brother,

Michael, and his son, Jacob, were both mayors of Bischheim, and in turn this

Michel's grandson was also; and two sons of Jacob Pfrimmer, mayor of Berstett,

were also mayors, Michael of Berstett and Johann of Olwisheim.

The origin of the name Pfrimmer remains a matter of interested specula-

tion. It seems rather strange that no Pfrimmer names save those in Alsace are

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found yet in the German records. However, the name Pfreimer does appear else

where in Germany and Austria and there is some reason to believe that the two

names come from the same origin. Both the Deutsches Namenlexicon by Hans

Bahlow (Frankfurt, l972) and the Deutsches Woerterbuch by the Grimm brothers,

Jacob and Wilhelm, indicate a close similarity in the words Pfriem and Pfrime

or Pfrimme, and that the word denotes an awl used in shoemaking or saddle

making with the word Pfriemer as one who uses an awl. There is one suggestion

that the area in Alsace around Berstett, Eckersheim and Olwisheim was once an

area devoted to raising horses and that festivals featuring the horse con-

tinued to be held in the region well into the 20th century. The connection is

then made between horse raising, saddle making and the awl, with the idea that

the name Pfrimmer/Pfriemer derives from saddle making as an occupation. Suf-

fice it to say that the origin remains clouded in the mists of time. Moreo-

ver, no connection as yet has been found between families by the name of

Pfrimmer and those by the name of Pfreimer.

The records reveal the long-time transition of local culture in Alsace

from German to French and this is especially true of the language in which the

records are written and the names that parents gave to their children. Over

the decades, however, the main cultural focus was on the retention of German

names and customs. Despite the fact that the French absorbed Alsace politi-

cally at the top levels of government in the late l7th century, many German

customary practices continued long thereafter and more extensive local changes

came about only after the French Revolution. The records continued to be

written in German script for at least a decade after the Revolution, even

though the new calendar of the French Revolution was used beginning in l793

and lasted until l805. Beginning in l803 French replaced German as the lan-

guage of the records. In l8ll the French provided a form on which all local

births, marriages and deaths were to be recorded, the form printed in French

and from then on those forms are the manner in which the records were kept.

After the Franco-Prussian War, German replaced French in the records until

after World War I.

The use of given names has a more finely divided history. Some Pfrimmer

names common in the l6th century, such as Appolonia, Ottilia or Matheus, do

not contnue into the l7th century. The most interesting case was the name

Ottilia or Odilia which in the early years appeared in almost every Pfrimmer

family. Odilia was an abbess who was the patronness of Alsace, and widely

venerated in adjoining lands. Despite the prevalence of the name in the

Pfrimmer families of the l6th century it comes to an end about l600 and does

not appear in the l7th century. St. Odilia's shrine on the Odilienberg, west

of Strasbourg, became a celebrated place of pilgrimage. Several names of the

l7th century, such as Barbara or Brigitta for women, or Lorentz for men, do

not continue in the l8th. Nicolaus (often Claus) is popular in the l7th and

l8th centuries, but less so in the l9th and Velten, with a transition to

Valentin, continues until the early years of the l9th century.

Andreas, Jacob, Johannes and Michael, are the most common male names from

the early l7th century and they continue through the l9th, with variations as

Andreas becomes Andre, Jacob becomes Jacques and Johannes becomes Jean during

the French years. Michel continues unchanged well into the l9th century.

During the earlier German years Hans and Johannes are often interchangeable,

even in the same record, and Hans is often a first name in combination with

Michael or George. Some records refer to Michel Pfimmer throughout entire

lives but then in later records the same person is referred to as Hans

Michael. After the French period Johannes becomes Jean and the only signify-

cant combination of Jean with another name is Jean George, which is the most

common male Pfrimmer name in the l9th century. The beginning of the shift

from German to French spellings, as for example from Jacob to Jacques and

Johannes to Jean comes somewhere about l760 but takes well over a half-century

to become common. At the same time new French names began to appear in the

early l9th century such as Charles, Philip or Benjamin.

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Among female names the most common early German names are Anna, Cathari-

na, Eva and Marie, with Marie being used often in combinaton with Catharina as

Marie Catharina. These continued relatively unchanged in popularity through

the French years and on into the post-l870 German years. From the naming

patterns one would judge that while in the l8th and l9th century there was

considerable French influence in Alsace, the German control of Alsace after

l870 did not produce a reversal to German names but only to German spellings

of traditional names.

For those who wish to place Pfrimmer family history in the context of the

times village histories are particularly interesting. Several have been

identified, among them "Berstett: Un Village Pittoresque du Kochersberg,"

published in l993 by editions Coprur in Strasbourg, and "Breuschwickersheim"

also published by editions Coprur in l983. On several occasions the Berstett

history mentions individuals in the Pfrimmer family, but its main value is to

provide an excellent picture of the "life of the times" including the rela-

tionships between the lord or seigneur of the village, the de Berstett family,

and the villagers through a document from the times of the Thirty Years War

that set forth the "communal rules and regulations" established by the seig-

neurs and required of the villagers. There is also an account of life in

Berstett, "The Family Farm in an Alsatian Village" by Mary Elizabeth Hays,

daughter of the author of this genealogy, who spent two months in the summer of

l975 with the family of Alfred and Lily Pfrimmer of Berstett and wrote up her

experience as a senior thesis at Wesleyan Unversity in Connecticut.

This genealogy includes an effort to track the married Pfrimmer daughters

at least to l810, so as to include the names of their husbands and their

children. This can be done fairly readily from the marriage and birth records

since these include the maiden name of mothers. Later information beyond l736

is, for the most part, a result of contributions from Pfrimmer genealogists in

Europe who have worked out this further descent. Many lines of Pfrimmer

genealogy remain uncharted.

Many of the records on which family connections are based are included in

the main body of the genealogy, so that the reader can follow directly the

connections revealed by the records without referring to the records them

selves. In most cases the records reveal the family relationships directly.

But in a number of cases those relationships have been pieced together through

the names of grandparents, stepfathers, uncles, sons-in-law and brothers named

especially as witnesses in the death records. In a number of cases where the

names of parents are the same in several families, such as an Andreas Pfrimmer

with wife Eva but Eva's last name is not known, children have been assigned to

parents through an assessment of the complex of family data.

This account of the Pfrimmer families of Alsace has been created in order

to stimulate research in Pfrimmer family genealogy and I am especially grate

ful to Pfrimmer descendants in both Europe and America who have showed an

interest in the work.

Corrections are welcome, since there are inevitably errors in both tran-

scribing the records and in compiling them. At the same time additions to the

record are also welcome since it is the purpose of the author to develop an

ever more complete genealogy of the Pfrimmer family in Europe. The text of

this genealogy has been entered into a computer with a standard word process

ing program, Microsoft Word, and can be corrected or added to readily. It

is also available on disk for those who request a copy. In l998 a Pfrimmer

Homepage was established on the World Wide Web (http://www.asatek.com/pfrim-

mer/index.html). The Web pages also contain photographs from both Berstett

and Eckwersheim, a product of a photographic expedition by Mr. James Derheim

to photograph Pfrimmer ancestral villages and then posted on the Web as exam-

ples of his work.

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Several companion volumes to this one have been prepared, one comprising the

descendants of John George Pfrimmer who came to America in 1788, a second

comprising the descendants of his brother, Michael Pfrimmer, who lived in

Bischheim near Strasbourg and three of whose grandchildren migrated to America

in the mid-19th century, and a third the descendants of those who migrated to

Canada. Finally,

the documents on which the genealogy is based will be deposited, for permanent

record, in the Genealogical and Historical section of the Corydon Public Library,

Corydon, Indiana, USA, the community in which John George Pfrimmer, the 1788

migrant to America lived and where I was born and raised.

Samuel P. Hays

4900 Thunderbird Drive, Apt. #611

Boulder, CO, 80303, USA

Tel: 303-554-6560

e-mail: [email protected]

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Pfrimmer Families of the 16th Century

The birth days of the older Pfrimmer heads of families of the l6th century are

estimated from the dates of the birth of their children or the dates estimated

from the time of the listing of their children as godparents. With children,

the fathers are estimated to be at least 20 years old at the birth of their

oldest child, and with godparents they are estimated to be at least 20 years

old at their appearance as godparents.

1-1. Hans Pfrimmer. Estimated birth about l530. The oldest recorded birth of

a child of Hans Pfrimmer is in l570. However, there is an Agatha, daughter of

Hans Pfrimmer who served as godparent at a birth in l570 and again in l575.

This would place the birth of the oldest child of Hans Pfrimmer at an earlier

date of approximately l550. If this is the case this Hans Pfrimmer was born

about l530 and could well be the oldest of the recorded Pfrimmers of the l6th

century.

Hans Pfrimmer married (l) Eva and had two children, Margaretha and Brigida,

twins, and Brigida. Married (2) Maria Brussels, daughter of Ludwig Brussels

of Lampertheim, June 27, l575. She died Dec. 26, l597. They had seven children,

Odilia, Nicholas, Georg, Jacob, Johannes, Anna and Margaretha. Records of

godparents indicate that Hans Pfrimmer had three children born earlier, prior

to the beginning of the Eckwersheim birth records. These are Agatha with

godparent listings of l570, l575 and l576, Catherine with listing of l576 and

Sixt who is identified as the "son of Hans Pfrimmer" with oldest child born in

l570, indicating his own birth about l550. From these records we asssume that

Hans is the oldest one of the l6th century Pfrimmer males and that his three

oldest children were Sixt, Agatha and Catherine.

Marriage record of Hans Pfrimmer and Maria Brussels: "June 27, l575: Hans

Pfrimmer and Maria, Ludwig Brussels’ daughter in Lampertheim." [There is a

death record in Eckwersheim, l6l4, no further date, for the wife of Hans

Pfrimmer, no further name.]. [Eva, wife of Hans Pfrimmer, is listed as a

godparent to German, son of Jerman's Jacob, Mar. 30, l572]. There is, fur

ther, a marriage of "Hans Pfrimmer and Otilia, his servant girl, May 8, l6l4."

Servants of Hans Pfrimmer are listed as godparents in l568 l569, l570, l573

l576 and l580. Hans Pfrimmer himself is a godparent in l574 and l579. Maria

Pfrimmer is a godparent in l575. A daughter, Agatha is a godparent in l570 and

l575; a daughter Catherine is a godparent in l576, l586, l589 and l594.

Neither Agatha nor Catherine are in the birth records, but would be born no

later than l550 and l556 and hence are the oldest known children of Hans

Pfrimmer. Since Sixt Pfrimmer is listed as the "son of Hans Pfrimmer" and

since the oldest child of Sixt Pfrimmer was born in l570, we assume that he

was born about l550. Hence he is the third of the older children of Hans

Pfrimmer born before the records in Eckwersheim begin.

2-1. Agatha Pfrimmer. Godparent at births in l570, l575 and l576.

2-2. Catherine Pfrimmer. Marriage record of Catharine Pfrimmer, daughter

of Hans Pfrimmer of Bischweiller, Aug. 30, l603, record in Eckwersheim parish

records. Godparent in l576.

2-3. Sixt Pfrimmer (see family 1-6), listed as "son of Hans Pfrimmer",

born about l570."

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2-4. Margaretha Pfrimmer. Born May 22, l570. Birth record: "l570, May

22: Margaretha, twin daughter of Hans Pfrimmer and Eva."

2-5. Brigida Pfrimmer. Born May 22, 1570. Birth record: “1570, May 22:

Brigida, twin daughter of Hans Pfrimmer and Eva.”

2-6. Brigida Pfrimmer. Born Aug. l5, l574. Birth record: "l574, Aug. l5:

Hans Pfrimmer and Eva: Brigida."

2-7. Odilia Pfrimmer. Born Oct. 7, l576. Birth record: "l576, Oct. 7:

Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Odilia."

2-8. Nicolas Pfrimmer. Born Oct. l3, l577. Birth record: "l577, Oct. l3:

Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Nicolas."

2-9. Georg Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l, l579. Birth record: "l579, Feb. l:

Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Georg." Married Agnes NN. According to the inventory

for Jorg (Georg) Pfrimmer, on St. Peter and Paul's Day, l6l4 they had child

ren, Lorentz, Claus, Jorg, Hans, Jacob, Veltin and Catharina, of whom Claus

died in infancy. [See further under the family of Jorg Pfrimmer in the main

family genealogy]. There are two George Pfrimmers listed in the birth

records, this one, son of Hans Pfrimmer and Maria and another one, son of

Wolff Pfrimmer and Catharina, born l576. Based on available evidence we place

the Jorg Pfrimmer whose family is well recorded in the l7th century as the son

of Hans Pfrimmer Jorg Pfrimmer appears as a godparent in l595, l60l, l604,

l608 and l609. Agnes Pfrimmer, identified as "wife of Jorg Pfrimmer" is a

godparent in l60l, l604, l605, l606 and l608.

3-1. Hensel Pfrimmer. Death record: "Joergen Pfrimmer, a son named

Hensel, died June l7, l603."

3-2. Lorentz (Laurentius) Pfrimmer. Born July 26, l604; died April

l6, l658. Married Anna Weyl. Five children, Johannes, Gertrude, Lorentz,

Agnes and Veltin.

3-3. Claus Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 3l, l606. Died infancy.

3-4. Georg Pfrimmer. Born July ll, l607; died Apr. 3, l682.

4-l. Michel Pfrimmer. Born Oct. l640.

4-2. Eva Pfrimmer. Born June 8, l647. Baptized June 8, l647 at

Young St. Peter's in Strasburg.

4-3. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born Aug. l7, l649.

4-4. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born Mar. 24, l650.

4-5. George Pfrimmer. Born Oct. ll, l653.

4-6. Maria Pfrimmer. Born Feb. 5, l657.

4-7. Valentin Pfrimmer. Born Sept. 25, l659.

3-5. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born Mar. l, l609.

3-6. Jacob Pfrimmer. Born l6l0; died June 1, l675.

3-7. Velten Pfrimmer. Born l6l2.

3-8. Catharina Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l, l6l3.

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2-10. Jacob Pfrimmer. Born June l9, l580. Birth record: "l580, June l9:

Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Jacob."

2-l1. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 2l, l582. Married Anna Thunwart Aug.

22, l6l4. Birth record: "l582, Jan. 2l: Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Johannes."

In the death inventory of Georg Pfrimmer, Johannes is indicated as a younger

brother, named Hensel. This seems to refer to the same person as Hensel, the

Pfrimmer who married Anna Thunwart, Aug. 22, l6l4. His older brother, Jorg,

died in l6l4; the inventory was taken on St. Peter and Paul's day.

3-l. Jorg Pfrimmer. Born Apr. l0, l6l5. His birth record in Eck-

wersheim: "l6l5, Apr. l0: Jorgen, son of Pfrimmer Hensel. Godparents: Hensel

Tunwart; Anna, Veltin Zimmer's wife; Dorothea, Jorgen Jacob's daughter."

2-12. Anna Pfrimmer. Born May l9, l583. Birth record: "l583, May l9:

Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Anna."

2-13. Margaretha Pfrimmer. Born Nov. 8, l584. Birth record: "l584, Nov.

8: Hans Pfrimmer and Maria: Margaretha."

1-2. Wolff Pfrimmer. Estimated birth in l538 since the birth of his oldest

recorded son, Erhard, is estimated to have been l558. Married Catharina. She

died Dec. 24, l605. They had seven recorded children: Margaretha, Johannes,

Barbara, Georg, Brigida, Anna and Velten and two other children recorded as

godparents with births presumably prior to the beginning of the records. Death

record for Catharina Pfrimmer: "l605, Dec. 24: Catharina Wolff Pfrimmer's

wife."

Wolff Pfrimmer is listed as a godparent in l57l, l584, l584 and l585. His

wife, Catharina is a godparent in l572, l578, l583 and l586. A servant of

Wolff Pfrimmer is a godparent in l572 and his son, Hans, is a godparent in

l596.

2-1. Erhard Pfrimmer. Estimated birth in l558 since he was listed as a

godparent in l578. There is no birth record of this Erhard Pfrimmer, but he is

listed as Erhard Pfrimmer, "the young" as a godparent for Gallus Pfrimmer, son

of Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara, baptized Oct. l9, l578; and Erhardt, "Wolff

Pfrimmer's son" is listed as a Godparent for Georgius, son of Lorenz Bentz,

the mayor and Margretha, baptized June 8, l578. This would place his birth at

around l558 and could well be the oldest child of Wolff Pfrimmer and Cathari

na. This is the only Erhard Pfrimmer in the record besides the older Erhard

Pfrimmer born about l549.

2-2. Apolonia Pfrimmer. Birth approximately l56l. She is listed as a

godparent, "Wolff Pfrimmer's daughter," in l58l.

2-3. Anna Pfrimmer. Birth approximately l562. Married Hans Jorg, son of

Wolff Jorg, Jan. 30, l582. Marriage record: "l582, Jan. 39: Jorg Hans son of

Wolff Jorg and Anna, daughter of Wolff Pfrimmer." Anna Pfrimmer is listed as

a godparent in l578, l580 and l58l.

a. Apolonia Jorg. Born Apr. l6, l584; died Aug. 25, 1592. Her birth

record in Eckwersheim: "Apr. l6, l584: Apolonia, daughter of Hans, son of Jorg

and Anna. Godparents: Andreas Barkes, woolstroker of Altzheim; Barbara, wife

of Hans Stettman; Otilia, wife of Hans, son of Michel.

b. Valentinus Jorg. Born Sept. l4, l589. Her birth record in Eck

wersheim: "Sept. l4, l589: Valentinus, son of Hans Jorg and Anna. Godparents:

Vix son of Michel; Jacob Zimmer; Catherina of Geidertheim, stepdaughter of Vix

Hirtt."

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c. Catharina Jorg. Born Aug. l5, l59l; died Aug. 20, 1597. Her birth

record in Eckwersheim: "Aug. l5, l59l: Catharina, daughter of Hans Jorg and

Anna. Godparents: Jacob Jorg; Anna, wife of Claus Jacob son of Marx;

Elisabeth, the preacher's daughter.

d. Theoboldt Jorg. Born Feb. ll, l595; died Aug. 23, 1597. His birth

record in Eckwersheim: "Feb. ll, l594, baptized Feb. l6, l594: Theobaldt son

of Hans Jorg and Anna. Godparents: Lorentz Michel; Hans Stobbe of Schwowayler,

servant of Hans Pfrimmer; Anna, the smith's sister.

e. Barbara Jorg. Born Apr. l2, l597; died Aug. 25, 1597. Her birth

record in Eckwersheim: "Apr. l2, l597, baptized Apr. l4th: Barbara, daughter

of Hans Jorg and Anna. Godparents: Martin Klein; Catharina, wife of Daniel

Ethel, the preacher; Anna, wife of Hans Thunward."

f. Agnes Jorg. Born Jan. l0, l599; died Nov. 3, l607. Her birth

record in Eckwersheim: "Jan. l0, l599; baptized the following Sunday: Agnes,

daughter of Hans Jorg and Anna. Godparents: Hans Bentz; Otilia the miller's

wife; Gertrudt, daughter of Mathis Pfrimmer." Her death record in Eck

wersheim: "l607, Nov. 3: Agnes, daughter of Hans Jorg, age 8 years minus l0

weeks."

g. Jacob Jorg. Died Aug. 28, l597. His death record in Eckwersheim:

"l597, Aug. 28: Jacob, boy, son of Jorgen Hans.

2-4. Margaretha Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 2, l569. Birth record: "l569, Jan 2:

Wolff Pfrimmer and Catharina: Margaretha. Godparents: Ottilia von Brumath,

-servant of Martin Zimmermand and Magdalena from Geudertheim, servant of Vix

Hirt and Adam Claus, son-in-law of Diebold Rost."

2-5. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born July 22, l57l. Birth record: "l57l, July

22: Wolff Pfrimmer and Catharina: Johannes."

2-6. Barbara Pfrimmer. Born Aug. 23, l573. Married Hans Hirtt July 8, l606.

Birth record: "l573, Aug. 23: Wolff Pfrimmer and Catharina: Barbara." Their

marriage record in Eckwersheim: "l606, Hermonats 8: Hans Hirtt and Barbara

Pfrimmer." Listed as a godparent l59l, l59l, l598, l599, l60l and l604.

[There are two Barbara Pfrimmer's, this one born in l573 and the other one,

daughter of Mathis Pfrimmer, born in l670, either one of whom could be the

Barbara in this marriage record. The Barbara Pfrimmer of this marriage record

has been placed here arbitrarily as the daughter of Wolff Pfrimmer but could

just as easily be the daughter of Mathis Pfrimmer].

2-7. Georg Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l9, l576.

2-8. Brigida Pfrimmer. Born July 7, l577. Birth record: "l577, July 7:

Wolff Pfrimmer and Catharina: Brigida."

2-9. Veltin Pfrimmer. Married Maria, daughter of Sixt Pfrimmer, l608.

After the death of Veltin Pfrimmer she married Hans Schneider Apr. 27, l634.

Marriage record of Veltin Pfrimmer and Maria Pfrimmer: "l608, Advent Monday

the lst: Veltin Pfrimmer son of Wolff Pfrimmer and Maria Pfrimmer, daughter

of Sixt Pfrimmer." Marriage record of Maria Pfrimmer and Hans Schneider:

"l634, 27 April: Hans Schneider and Maria, Veltin Pfrimmer's widow." Veltin

Pfrimmer was listed as a godparent in l60l, l607, l609 and l628.

3-1. Catharina Pfrimmer. Born May l7, l6l4. Birth record: "l6l4, May

l7: Veltin Pfrimmer: Catharina." A death record identified only as "child

of Veltin Pfrimmer" in Eckwersheim, l6l7, no further date.

3-2. NN. No date: “child of Velten Pfrimmer.”

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1-3. Erhard Pfrimmer. On the basis of the birth of his oldest child in l569 we

place the birth of Erhard Pfrimmer at l549. Married Catherine [See under

Erhard Pfrimmer family in the main family genealogy]. Erhardt Pfrimmer is

identified as a tailor when listed as a godparent in two entries, one in l572

and the other in l578. He is listed as a godparent in two other cases, one in

l578 and the other in l580. Catherine was listed as a godparent in l584, l586

and l595. There is one other Erhard Pfrimmer in these years, son of Wolff

Pfrimmer and listed as "the young." For further details see under Wolff

Pfrimmer.

2-l. Georg Pfrimmer. Born Apr. l3, l569. Married Otilia Duringer, daugh-

ter of Lux Duringer July l2, l608. Birth record: "l569, l3 Apr.: Ehrhardt

Pfrimmer and Catharina: Georg. Godparents: Jorg Roth, Lorentz Gotz from

Strasbourg, mayor here and the hat-maker's wife from Strasbourg, too." Mar

riage record: "l608, l2 July: Georg Pfrimmer, son of Erhard, of Ottilia

Duringer, daughter of deceased Lux Duringer. no festival because of the

recent death of the girl's sister."

3-1. Margretha Pfrimmer. Died Aug. 4, l609. Death record in Eck-

wersheim: "l609, Aug. 4: Margretha, daughter of Jorg Pfrimmer, Ehrhard's

son."

2-2. Jacob Pfrimmer. Born Nov. l5, l573. Married Veronica Beuerlin May

l6, l6l3. She was born Aug. 9, l590 and died Apr. ll, l657. Jacob Pfrimmer

birth record: "l573, l5 Nov.: Ehrhardt Pfrimmer and Catharina: Jacob."

Veronica Beuerlin birth record: "l590, Aug. 9: Birth of Veronica Beuerlin,

daughter of Hans Beurlin and Gertruda who were married in l578. Godparents:

Conrad Haberbusch, Elisabeth the preacher's daughter and Anna, Marxen, Clau-

sen, Claus's daughter." Their marriage record: "l6l3, l6 May: Jacob Pfrimmer

and Veronica Beuerlin." Her death record: “April 11, 1657, Veronica, widow of

Jacob Pfrimmer.”

3-1. Gertrudt Pfrimmer. Born Sept. l4, l623.

3-2. Margreth Pfrimmer. Born Nov. 9, l626.

3-3. Catharina Pfrimmer. Died Nov. 30, l633. Her death record in

Eckwersheim: "l633, Nov. 30: Catharina, daughter of Jacob Pfrimmer."

3-4. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born Nov. ll, 1635.

3-5. Georg Pfrimmer. Born Sept. l6, l649.

2-3. Andreas Pfrimmer. Born Dec. 4, l575. Birth record: "l575, 4 Dec.:

Ehrhard Pfrimmer and Catharina: Andreas." [See further under Erhard Pfrimmer

family in the main family genealogy].

3-1. Anna Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 2l, l62l.

3-2. Eva Pfrimmer. Born Oct. 12,l623.

3-3. Erhard Pfrimmer. Born Jan. l5, l626.

3-4. NN. Born Mar. 2,l629.

2-4. Margaretha Pfrimmer. Born Aug. 31, l578; died June 15, 1608. Married

Wolfgang Zimer of Olwisheim, May l2, l607. Margaretha Pfrimmer birth record:

"l578, l3 Aug.: Ehrhardt Pfrimmer and Catharina: Margaretha". Their

marriage record, Eckwersheim: "l607, l2 May: Wolfgang Zimmer, widower

in Olwishehim and Margaretha Pfrimmer, daughter of Erhard Pfrimmer here.”

Her death record: “June 15, 1608: Margretha, daughter of Erhardt Pfrimmer.

Had been married 1 year, 4 weeks, 5 days.”

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2-5. Appalonia Pfrimmer. Born Feb. 23, l584. Birth record: "l584,23

Feb.: Ehrhardt Pfrimmer and Catharina: Appolonia."

1-4. Claus Pfrimmer. On the basis that his oldest child was born in l570 we

place the birth of Claus Pfrimmer at l550. Married Barbara. She died Sept.

6, l608. Her death record in Eckwersheim: "l608, Sept. 6: Death of Barbara,

widow of Claus Pfrimmer."

Claus Pfrimmer was a godparent in l572, l574, l757 and l580. Barbara Pfrimmer

was a godparent in l573, l575, l579, l587 and l59l. A servant was a godparent

in l57l and l579. [This family continues into the l7th century.]

2-l. Nicolaus Pfrimmer. Born May 7, l570. Birth record: "l570, May 7:

Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara: Nicolas. Godparents: Georg son of the mayor here;

Wolff Roth, son of Jorg Wolfflin; witness: Agatha from Gries, Wolff Pfrim-

mer's serving girl."

2-2. Margretha Pfrimmer. Born Apr. l7, l575. Birth record: "l575, Apr.

l7: Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara: Margaretha."

2-3. Gall Pfrimmer. Born Oct. l9, l578; died Feb. 20, l604. Birth

record: "l578, Oct. l9: Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara: Gall." Death record in

Eckwersheim: "l604, Feb. 20: Gallus Pfrimmer, son of Claus". Gallus Pfrim-

mer was a godparent July 7, l599.

2-4. Matheus Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l8, l58l. Married Margaretha Flach

Feb. 27, l6l0. She was born Nov. 9, l589 in Eckwersheim. His birth record:

"l58l, Feb. l8: Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara: Matheus." Her birth record in

Eckwersheim: "l589, Nov. 9: Margretha, daughter of Simon Flach, mayor and

Anna. Godparents: Hans Haberbusch, Eva, Martin Zimmer's widow, Catherina,

Theobald's Jacob's wife." Their marriage record: "l6l0, 27 Feb.: Mathis Pfrim-

mer and Margaretha Flach."

3-1. Claus Pfrimmer. Born June l3, l6l7. Married Margaretha. Birth

record: "l6l7, June l3: Mathis Pfrimmer's son, Claus." [For further informa

tion see under the family of Claus Pfrimmer later in this genealogy].

4-1. Hans. Born l642.

4-2. Anna Pfrimmer. Born l650; died l706. Married Hans Schneider

in Weitbruch. Mar. l6, l669. He was born l650 and died l7l2. Was described

in l659 as widowed to Hans Schneider in Weitbruch.

4-3. Andreas Pfrimmer. Born l645 and died l706. Mentioned in

father's estate in l679 as living in Gries at Kurzenhouse. Married Anna, born

l643 and died l723.

4-4. Margaretha Pfrimmer. Born May 9, l647.

4-5. Claus Pfrimmer. Born July l, l649.

4-6. Velten Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l6, l65l; died Feb. 23, l65l.

4-7. Diebold Pfrimmer. Born Feb. l6, l65l and died May 25, l65l.

4-8. Aurelia Pfrimmer. Born Oct. l0, l652; confirmed Dec. l5,

l667.

4-9. Martin Pfrimmer. Born Nov. l2, l654; died May 22, l655.

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4-l0. Jacob Pfrimmer. Born May 23, l658; died Jan. 29, l723.

Married (l) Eva Hirt, daughter of George Hirt, justice, July 7, l68l and (2)

Anna Zimer, dughter of Diebold Zimer, May 3, l695.

2-5. Ottilia Pfrimmer. Born Feb. 5, l584. Birth record: "l584, Feb. 5:

Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara: Ottilia."

2-6. Balles Pfrimmer. Died l604.

An unplaced inventory record, Eckwersheim, Jan. 20, l60l: "Guardianship of

Jacob Zimmer over Ottilia Pfrimmer, child and heir; and her rights received by

Jacob Zimmer and paid by Gall Pfrimmer and Mathis Pfrimmer to her." [This

group of related individuals would place Ottilia Pfrimmer in the family of

Claus Pfrimmer and Barbara in which Gall Pfrimmer and Matheus Pfrimmer were

sons and Ottilia Pfrimmer, aged l7 in l60l was a daughter]. Jacob Zimmer died

in Eckwersheim, May l9, l624, and is identified as "mayor."

1-5. Mathis Pfrimmer. Born in l549. The oldest child of Mathis Pfrimmer,

Catherine, was born in l569. Hence we place the birth of Mathis Pfrimmer bout

l549. Died after l583 and before l588. Married Catharina. Note that the only

identified survivors of Mathis Pfrimmer are female, but that marriages of four

of the five, Catharina, Barbara, Gertrud and Ottilia are on record; only for

Anna is there no further record beyond her birth. Mathis Pfrimmer was a god

parent in l57l and l572; his wife, Catherina, was a godparent in l58l l585,

l586, l587 and l588.

2-1. Catharina Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 30, l569. Married Vix Michel, son of

Conrad Michel, Oct. 22, l588. Birth record: "l569, Jan. 30: Mathis Pfrimmer

and Catharine: Catharina. Godparents: Agatha, widow of Hans Weber, Marga

retha, widow of Hans Shaffers and Urban Jung, carpenter here." Their marriage

record in Eckwersheim: "Oct. 22, l588: Vix Michel, son of Conrad Michel and

Catharina, orphaned daughter of Matthis Pfrimmer."

3-1. Gertrude Michel. Born Sept. 2l, l589. Her birth record in Eck-

wersheim: "Gertruda, daughter of Vix Michel and Catharina, Sept. 2l, l789.

Godparents: Hans Griessbach, Margaretha wife of Hans Lux, and Catharina, wife

of Hans Flach."

3-2. Agnes Michel. Born Nov. 2, l598. Her birth record in Eckwersheim:

"Agnes, daughter of Vix Michel and Catharina. Godparents: Georg Blach, the

mayor's sono, Barbara, daughter of Wolff Pfrimmer, and Agnes widow of Theobald

son of Jorg."

3-3. Johannes Michel. Born July 20, l600. His birth record in Eck-

wersheim: "Johannes son of Vix Michel and Catharina. Godparents: Jorg Ruff,

the smith's son; Theobalt, son of Martin son of Klein; Anna, widow of Andres

Baumer."

2-2. Barbara Pfrimmer. Born Nov. 26, l570. Married Hans Hirtt in l606.

Birth record: "l570, Nov. 26: Mathis Pfrimmer and Catharina: Barbara." Their

marriage record in Eckwersheim: "l606, Hermonats 8: Hans Hirtt and Barbara

Pfrimmer." One recorded son, Johannes. Hans Hirtt was a godparent in l609

and l624 and Barbara, wife of Hans Hirtt, in l6l0 and l6l7

3-1. Johannes Hirtt. Born Mar. 26, l607. He was a godparent in l626

and l629. His birth record in Eckwersheim: "l607, Mar. 26: Johannes, son of

Hans Hirtt and Barbara. [This was the only Hirtt family in Eckwersheim in the

early l7th century].

2-3. Anna Pfrimmer. Born Oct. 28, l572. Birth record: "l572, Oct. 28:

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Mathis Pfrimmer and Catharina: Anna."

2-4. Gertrud Pfrimmer. Born Nov. 28, l574. Married Hans Bentz, son of

Lorentz Bentz, mayor defunct, Nov. 20, l599. Birth record: "l574, Nov. 28:

Mathis Pfrimmer and Catharina: Gertrud." Marriage record: "l599, Nov. 29:

Hans Bentz son of deceased mayor Lorentz Bentz and Gertrud, daughter of de

ceased Mathis Pfrimmer, citizen here." Gertrud, listed as "Matthissen Ger-

trud, Pfrimmer Matthiss' daughter" was a godparent Apr. 29, l598 to Jacobus,

son of Michel's Pauli and Anna. Gertrude Pfrimmer was a godparent in l598 and

l599.

3-1. Catharina Bentz. Born June 22, l601. Married Hans Gartner Nov. 1,

1629. She was a godparent Jan. 23, l625 at the birth of Catarin, daughter of

Lorentz Beuerlin: "Catarina, Hans Bentz' daughter." Catherina Bentz died in

Eckwersheim Oct. 2l, l665; Hans Gartner died in Eckwersheim April 30, l67l.

3-2. Johannes Bentz. Born l603; died Feb. 26, 1675. Married Catherina who

was born in l630 and died June 25, l693, at age 63 years. Birth record in

Eckwersheim: "Johannes, son of Hans Bentz and Gertrud. Godparents: Hans

Lechner the miller; Haaten Jacob; Anna, the mayor's wife."

4-l. Maria Bentz. Born Mar. 28, l658. Her birth record in Eck-

wersheim: "l658, Mar. 28: Maria, daughter of Hans Bentz. Godparents: Antoniy

Pfrimmer; Gertrude, Hans Hickel's wife; Catharina, Gerg Giess' wife."

4-2. Johann Bentz. Born Nov. 22, l660. His birth record in Eck-

wersheim: "l660, Nov. 22: Johann, son of Hans Bentz. Godparents: Michael

Ziltzer, weaver; Hans Flach; Catharina, Hans Winter'is daughter."

4-3. Anna Bentz. Born Aug. 2l, l662 and died Jan. l6, l676. Her

birth record in Eckwersheim: "l662, Aug. 2l: Anna, daughter of Hans Bentz.

Godparents: Jacob Bonert, the shepherd; Gertrud, late Laurentius Pfrimmer's

daughter; Anna, Claus Pfrimmer's daughter." Her death record in Eckwersheim:

"l676, Jan. l6: Anna, daughter of Hans Bentz. l3 years."

4-4. Georg Bentz. Born Mar. 4, l666; died l670. His birth record in

Eckwersheim: "l666, Mar. l0: Georgius, son of Hans Bentz. Godparents: Adams

Hans, Hans Schiffman, weaver; Apollonia, the preacher's wife." His death

record in Eckwersheim: "l670 (no month or day): Georg, son of Hans Bentz. 4

years."

3-3. Stillbirth. l608. Birth record in Eckwersheim: "l608: Easter

night. Stillborn child of Hans Bentz and Gertrud."

2-5. Ottilia Pfrimmer. Died May 25, l6l5. Married Andreas Haberbusch, son

of Hans Haberbusch and Brigida, Nov. 5, l583. They had eight children: NN,

Catharina, Matthias, Johannes, Apolonia, Claus, Andreas and Jonas. Her death

record in Eckwersheim: "l6l5, May 25: Otilia, wife of Andres Haberbusch."

Marriage record: "l583, Nov. 5: Andreas Haberbusch and Ottilia, Mathis Pfrim

mer's daughter." Ottilia Pfrimmer was a Godmother, Dec. 22, l583, a month

after her marriage. [In later years there are a number of Haberbusch families

in Eckwersheim. Hans and son Andreas are the only two families there and

Andreas and his wife, Ottilia, are the only Haberbusch parents with a succeed

ing generation of children. Andreas Haberbusch was a godparent in l58l, l583,

l588 and l596. [For descendants of this family see the larger Pfrimmer gene-

alogy].

1-6. Sixt Pfrimmer, son of Hans Pfrimmer. Born approximately in l550; his

oldest child was born in l570; hence his birth is estimated at approximately

twenty years prior to that date. Married (l) Agnes Schneider daughter of Hans

Schneider of Lampertheim, July 3, l570 and had four children, Johannes, Kun

gund, Catharina and Agnes. Married (2) Anna, widow of the mayor, Jorg

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(schultheiss), [no last name given, but records indicate the name Thomas

Jorg], June 22, l574 and had four children, Appalonia, Jacob, Wolfgang and

Jacob. [Anna, "the mayor's Jorg's wife," is listed as a godparent in February

and in April l573. Anna, Sixt Pfrimmer's wife is listed as a godparent in

July l578; their child, Jacob, was born Apr. 29, l579 with the notation on the

baptismal record that Jacob was the son of "Sixt Pfrimmer and Anna his late

wife."] Married (3) Catharina Pfetzen, daughter of Claus Pfetzen of Herdheim,

Feb. 9, l580. She died Oct. 20, l626. They had had five children, Gertrud,

Ottilia, Martin, Maria and Nicolas. Death record of Catharina Pfetzen in

Eckwersheim: "l626, Oct. 20, death of Catherine, widow of Sixt." Marriage

records: "l570, July 3: Sixt Pfrimmer, son of Hans Pfrimmer, and Agnes,

daughter of Hans Schneider of Lampertheim." "l574, June 22: Sixt Pfrimmer and

Anna, widow of Jorg, the mayor." "l580, Feb. 9: Sixt Pfrimmer and Claus

Pfetzen's daughter from Herdheim." Sixt Pfrimmer is listed as a godparent in

l569, l570, l570, l570, l572, l575, l576, l579, l58l and l582, more times in

the recordthan any other Pfrimmer. His first wife, Agnes, is a godparent in

l579; his third wife Catherina, is listed in l580, l584 and l594.

2-l. Johannes Pfrimmer. Born May 20, l570. Married Maria Rusten, daugh-

ter of Jacob Rusten, Feb. 8, l603. She was born Apr. 2l, l583. There is a

Maria, widow of Hans Pfrimmer, who died Nov. 20, l659, recorded age of 80

years. There is no other Maria, wife of Johannes Pfrimmer, in the record, and

hence it is assumed that this Maria is wife of Johannes Pfrimmer, son of Sixt

Pfrimmer. His birth record: "l570, May 20: Sixt Pfrimmer and Agnes: Johan

nes." Her birth record: "l583, Apr. 2l: Maria, daughter of Jacob Rust and

Agnes; godparents: Martin Zimmer, Catherina, Wolff Pfrimmer's wife, Catharina,

Hans Flach's wife." Marriage record: "l603, 8 Feb.: Hans Pfrimmer son of Sixt

and Maria Rust daughter of Jacob Rusten."

Hans, "son of Sixt Pfrimmer" is listed as a godparent in l596.

a. Jacob Pfrimmer. Born July 6, l605. Birth record: "l605, July 6:

Maria, Hans Pfrimmer's wife: Jacob." [There is a Jacob Pfrimmer, for whom

this is the only closely relevant entry whose wife, Agnes, died Feb. 6, l674

in Eckwersheim, age 65 years.]

b. Agnes Pfrimmer. Born Mar. 9, l608. Birth record: "l608, Mar. 9:

Maria, Hans Pfrimmer's wife (son of Sixt Pfrimmer): Agnes."

2-2. Kunigund Pfrimmer. Born Aug. 24, l572. Married Thomas Wolff, the

younger, son of Thomas Wolff and Margretha, Sept. 2, l595. He was born Mar.

2l, l569. Her birth record: "l572, Aug. 24: Sixt Pfrimmer and Agnes: Kuni

gund." His birth record: "l569, Mar. 2l: Thoma, son of Thoman's Wolff and

Margretha. Godparents: Caspar the miller, Ulrich the smith, Agath of Griess,

Cyriar's servant." Their marriage record: "l595, 2 Sept.: Thomas Wolff the

younger and Kunigund, daughter of Sixt Pfrimmer."

3-1. Sixtus Wolff. Born Aug. 4, l597. His birth record: "l597, Aug.

4: Sixtus, son of Thoman's Wolff the young and Kunigunda. Godparents: Hanss

Thunwardt, Daniel Duringer and Catharina, Diebolt's Jacob's daughter."

3-2. Agnes Wolff. Born Sept. l599. Her birth record in Eckwersheim:

"Tuesday before St. Michael's day, baptized on St. Michael's day: Agnes,

daughter of Thomas Wolff and Kunigunda. Godparents: Daniel Ethel, preacher;

Berbel, Wolff Pfrimmer's daughter; Berbel, daughter of Jorg son of Haatt."

Agnes Wolff was a godparent in l62l.

3-3. Margretha Wolff. Born Jan. 25, l607. Her birth record in Eck

wersheim: "l607, Jan. 25: Margretha, daughter of Thomas Wolff and Kunigunda.

Godparerents: Georg Beurlin, the wheelwright's son; Margretha, Hans Lechner's,

miller's, wife; Brigidta, Hans Scholl's widow."

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3-4. Anna Wolff. Married Peter Boige in l634.

4-l. Agatha Boige. Born l633.

2-3. Catharina Pfrimmer. Born Jan. 3l, l574. Birth record: "l574, Jan.

3l: Sixt Pfrimmer and Agnes: Catharina."

2-4. Agnes Pfrimmer. Married Jacob Jacob, son of Theobald Jacob, May 20,

l606. Marriage record: "l606, May 20: Jacob Jacob son of Theobald Jacob and

Agnes, daughter of Sixt Pfrimmer."

3-1. Catherine Jacob. Born Feb. 25, l607; died Mar. l3, l607. Her

death record in Eckwersheim: "l607, Mar. l3: Catharina, child of Jacobs

Jacob. l6 days.

3-2. Theobaldus Jacob. Born Mar. ll, l608.

2-5. Appalonia Pfrimmer. Born June l2, l575. Birth record: "l575, June

l2: Sixt Pfrimmer and Anna: Appalonia."

2-6. Jacob Pfrimmer.