Margaretha Christmann

1799-1842 · Schwedelbach

Born 1799, Schwedelbach

Died 1842

Children include Johann

Margaretha Christmann was born about 1799 at Schwedelbach, by her age and birthplace in her burial entry. The entry places Schwedelbach in Baden. A Peter Christmann of Schwedelbach, born about 1796, was also a colonist at Alt Elft and Neu Elft and died at Neu Elft in 1837; he was probably her brother, though the entries do not say so.

She married Andreas Riethmüller, a colonist from Hopfau in Wurttemberg, before 1818, and they settled at Alt Elft in southern Bessarabia, one of the German colonies founded on the Black Sea steppe after 1814. Her son Johann Friedrich was baptized there on 15 February 1818. Georg was born about 1821, Katharina on 18 February 1824 and Magdalena on 10 August 1826. The family then moved to the daughter colony of Neu Elft, where she bore Anna Maria in February 1829, Peter in May 1831, Maria Elisabeth in July 1832 and Johann on 10 February 1838.

In April 1842 her daughter Katharina married Johann Martin Irion. Three months later, on 14 July 1842, Margaretha Riethmüller, born Christmann, wife of Andreas, died at Neu Elft, aged 43. Her youngest son Johann was four.

Children

Johann Riethmüller b. 1838

Sources

Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885: Neu Elft baptisms 1838, no. 3, FHL film 1882648 item 2, p. 27; Bessarabian Village Birth Records 183x, Odessa3.

Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885: Neu Elft burials 1842, no. 4, FHL film 1883193 item 2, p. 91; Bessarabian Village Death Records 184x, Odessa3.

Early Bessarabian births 1817 to 1832, FHL films 1198663, 1768092, 1767871 and 1766533, Odessa3 (odessa3.org/collections/bess/link/early/births.txt).

Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885: Neu Elft burials 1842, no. 4 (FHL film 1883193 item 2, p. 91), 1837, no. 6 (film 1882647 item 3, p. 66), and Neu Elft baptisms 1838, no. 3 (film 1882648 item 2, p. 27), in the Bessarabian village birth and death extractions, Odessa3; Early Bessarabian births 1817 to 1832 (FHL films 1198663, 1768092, 1767871, 1766533), Odessa3.

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Cite: Heirology, "Margaretha Christmann (1799-1842)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/margaretha-christmann-1799-1842-57345f.