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 1 Samuel P. Hays 4900 Thunderbird Drive, Apt. #611 Boulder, CO, 80303 303-554-6560 e-mail: [email protected] 2 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 3 4 Table of Contents (Revised) Introduction 6 I. Pfrimmer Families of the 16th Century 18 Descendants of Mathis and Catherine Pfrimmer 29 II. Pfrimmer Families of the l7th-l9th Centuries 39 Descendants of Anton and Catherine Pfrimmer 39 Velten Pfrimmer (l658-l726) 45 Eva Pfrimmer (l687-l746) 45 George Pfrimmer (l689-l756) 46 Velten Pfrimmer (l692-l764) 62 Johannes Pfrimmer (l696-l738) 74 Descendants of Claus and Barbara Pfrimmer 94 Hans Pfrimmer (l642-l694) 94 Claus Pfrimmer (l649-l7l2) 99 Jacob Pfrimmer (l658-l723) 105 Descendants of Erhard and Catherine Pfrimmer 116 Johannes Pfrimmer (l653-l725) 118 Andreas Pfrimmer (l655-l722) 157 Descendants of Jorg and Agnes Pfrimmer 213 Johannes Pfrimmer (l634-l700) 214 Lorentz Pfrimmer (l642-l7ll) 217 Velten Pfrimmer (l647-l7l4) 224 Michel Pfrimmer (l640-l692) 227 Georg Pfrimmer (l653-l733) 236 Valentin Pfrimmer (l659-l725) 267 George Pfrimmer (l648-l7l3) 273 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 6 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