NICHOLAS FIRESTONE, BORN FEUERSTEIN, DESCENDANTS AND RELATED FEUERSTEINS/FIRESTONES
  • FIRESTONE HOMEPAGE
  • JOHANNES FEUERSTEIN
  • NICHOLAS FIRESTONE
  • NONNENMACHER IN-LAWS
  • GUESTBOOK & GOOD LINKS
  • BERG CHURCH RECORDS ABSTRACT
  • COUSIN IMMIGRANTS
    • MISC ATTACHMENTS
  • FIRESTONE HOMEPAGE
  • JOHANNES FEUERSTEIN
  • NICHOLAS FIRESTONE
  • NONNENMACHER IN-LAWS
  • GUESTBOOK & GOOD LINKS
  • BERG CHURCH RECORDS ABSTRACT
  • COUSIN IMMIGRANTS
    • MISC ATTACHMENTS
  NICHOLAS FIRESTONE, BORN FEUERSTEIN, DESCENDANTS AND RELATED FEUERSTEINS/FIRESTONES
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​​​​​NONNENMACHER-IN-LAWS

The head of the Nonnenmacher family in Berg was Marcel and his wife was Catharina. Marcel was a clerk in Berg, in addition to several other occupations over the years. He is mentioned in more than 50 baptismal records. It appears that he was the son or nephew of Martzel Nonnenmacher, a farmer in nearby Rexingen. (A stepdaughter of the late Martzel Nonnenmacher was married in Rexingen in 1715.)

At this time, Nonnenmachers lived in the nearby villages of Weyer and Rexingen. They appear in the records of Berg, Drulingen, Boquenom/ Bockenheim, Lorentzen, and Weyer. Marcel seems to be the first to live in the village of Berg. The earliest record of him is in the registers of the Drulingen church where the Berg and Thal Parish records were set down in the years between 1703 to 1712. It seems most likely that he was born in Rexingen.

New Information on Marcel.  In the hope of finding Marcel's parents, I researched the records of several churches near Berg. My findings are mixed. I found the February 1666 marriage record (recorded in Bockenheim/ Bouquenom) of a Marcel (spelled variously) Nonnenmacher and Catharina in the parish of Weyer of the right age to be our Marcel's father. This couple had a son christened Hans Nickel in November of 1666, but then they disappeared from the Weyer records. By 1670, a Marcel and Catharina Nonnenmacher appear in nearby Rexingen. In December of 1702, a Martzloff Nonnenmacher and wife Barbara have a son baptized. In 1715 a stepdaughter of the late Martzel Nonnenmacher was married. This is likely the same Marcel that lived in Weyer, and he's pretty likely to be the father of our ancestor. It doesn't look like there are any surviving church records to prove this possibility.
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The document below shows the first appearance of the Berg Nonnenmachers and their children as witnesses at baptisms in Berg. The witness is the first name on each line. Next is their relationship to the head of the house, Marcel, followed by his occupation, town, and the date of the baptism. The last three columns provide the location of the source in the Berg Church records (on-line): the digital book (B 1712 - 1749), the page number, and the record number:  SOURCE: BERG CHURCH RECORDS ON-LINE, JUMP TO THE LINKS PAGE

FIRST APPEARANCE OF NONNENMACHERS AS BAPTISM WITNESSES

Name Relation Head of House Occupation Town Date Book Page Record
Marcel self Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer Berg 20 Feb 1716 B1712 -1749 17 8
Catharina  wife of Martzloff Nonnenmacher farmer Berg 25 May 1717 B1712 -1749 23 8
Anna Christina daughter of Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer Berg 12 May 1721 B1712 -1749 37 13
Hans Martin son of Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer Berg 21 Nov 1721 B1712 -1749 40 27
Catharina  daughter of Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer Berg 27 Apr 1728 B1712 -1749 79 14
Joseph son of Marcel Nonnenmacher innkeeper and schoffen Berg 16 Sep 1731 B1712 -1749 99 16
Hans Theobald son of Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer and innkeeper Berg 23 Aug 1733 B1712 -1749 112 17
​NOTES
     Marcel Nonnenmacher of Berg may have been married twice.  A 1702 baptismal record in Lorentzen for Marcel and Anna Barbara Nonnenmacher's son, Hans Caspar, was witnessed by Hans Feuerstein, carpenter of Thal.  The other possibility is that Anna Barbara is the second wife of an older Marcel Nonnenmacher of Rexingen who was probably in his early 60s at the time.
     Later, in the registers of the Berg Church, Marcel's wife appears only as "Catharina", but her name is written Anna Catharina on some of the records of the nearby Drulingen Church.  It's a pretty good bet that her birth name was Anna Catharina.

The burial records of Hans Martin and his wife record him as Johann Martin, but he was baptized "Hans Martin".  
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​Hans Conrad does not seem to appear anywhere except in his baptismal record.  He most likely died during the "Drulingen years" and it appears that the burials recorded in Drulingen for the Berg and Thal Parish have not survived.

​Daughter Catharina was baptised "Anna Catharina", but she was usually recorded as just "Catharina". The birth/baptismal records of Joseph and Hans Theobald give the names Johann Joseph and Johann Theobald.  The majority of the people in Berg and Thal were known by their middle name so this repetitive use of first names caused no confusion.

​NEWS FLASH RE: CATHARINA.  In 2018, a French cousin discovered (rediscovered actually) the baptismal record for Anna Catharina in the records of the Drulingen Church.  She was born on 2 August 1711 at midday and her father was given as Marcell Nonnenmacher.  (These particular baptismal records do not give the mother's name.)  --Additional Nonnenmacher records in this church: on 10 July 1704 Hans Martin was born, on 23 October (8bris as it appears in the record) 1706 Anna Christina was born, and on 9 May 1709 near evening, Hans Conrad was born.  This seems to be the only record anywhere of Conrad, so his life was presumably pretty short.

BIRTH DATA FOR THE NONNENMACHER CHILDREN

Child Father Occupation Town Mother Birth Date Source Book Page Num
Hans Martin Martzel Nonnenmacher not given Berg not named 10 July 1704 Drulingen Baptismal Record Drulingen BMS 1704-1771 59 na
Anna Christina Martzloff Nonnemacher not given Berg Anna Catharina 23 Octobris 1706 Drulingen Baptism Record ditto na
Hans Conrad Marcell Nonnenmacher not given Berg not named 9 May 1709 Drulingen Baptism Record ditto na
Anna Catharina Marcell Nonnenmacher not given Berg not named 2 Aug 1711 Drulingen Baptismal Record ditto na
Johann Joseph Marcel Nonnenmacher farmer Berg Catharina 12 Jan 1714 Berg Baptismal Record Berg B1712 -1749 7 1
Johann Theobald Martzloff Nonnenmacher farmer Berg Catharina 4 Apr 1718 Berg Baptismal Record Berg B1712 -1749 26 9

​​​​BAPTISMAL RECORD OF ANNA CATHARINA NONNENMACHER

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TRANSCRIPTION: Anno 1711. Anna Catharina. Den 2ten Augusty ums Mittag ist Marcell Nonnenmacheren zu Berg ein Tochterlein gebohren und den 8 ejusdem in desiger Kirch getauf worden. Testes waren 1 Caspar Dintinger von Thal 2 Anna Maria, David Eulerts, jetzigen Schulmeister zu Berg ehelichen hausfrau 3 Catharina, Christophell Kleins einwohners zu berg ehelichen hausfrau empfing den Nahmen Anna Catharina. TRANSLATION: The second of August around midday is Marcell Nonnenmacher of Berg a little daughter born and the eighth of the same (month) in that Church (Berg) was baptized. Witnesses were etc. Christened Anna Catharina. NOTE: In these particular records, the mother is not identified.

​​​​MARRIAGE RECORDS OF THE NONNENMACHER CHILDREN

​This slideshow has four images showing the marriage records of the Nonnenmacher children, except Anna Catharina.  Her record is on the Johannes Feuerstein page.  You can pause the show.
A partial translation of the marriage records above

1)  Jacob Scheurer, Daniel Scheurer of Thal's legitimate son, with Anna Christina, Marcel Nunnenmacher of Berg's legitimate daughter, after three proclamations from the chancel in the Church at Berg became married.  -After many years, Christina is widowed and marries Ludwig Freund.  She lives to be 77, dying in 1783.

​2)  Hans Martin Nunnenmacher, Marcel Nunnenmacher of Berg's legitimate son, with Catharina Dorothea, the late Daniel Scheurer of Thal's legitimate daughter after three proclamations from the chancel in the Berg Church publicly became married.

3)  Joseph Nunnenmacher, Marcel Nunnenmacher of Berg's legitimate son, with Catharina, Jorg Klein of Rexingen's legitimate daughter after three proclamations from the chancel in the Berg Church publicly became married.  (Jorg is pronounced York.)  Catharina was a step-granddaughter of the late Marcel Nonenmacher of Rexingen.

4)  Johann Theobald Nunnenmacher, Marcel Nunnenmacher of Berg's legitimate son, with Anna Eva, the late Jorg Klein of Rexingen's single daughter after three proclamations from the chancel in the Berg Church publicly became married.  Interestingly, Anna Eva and her sister Catharina Klein Nunnenmacher just above were the step-granddaughters of an older Marcel Nonnenmacher of Rexingen.

​​​​BURIAL RECORDS OF CATHARINA AND
MARCEL NONNENMACHER

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CATHARINA, HOUSEWIFE OF MARCEL NONNENMACHER, BURGER AND CLERK AT BERG (MOTHER-IN-LAW OF JOHANN NICHOLAS), DIED OCTOBER 26, 1747, 65 1/2 YEARS (AND SO BORN IN 1682).​
<Marcel Nonnenmacher Burial
MARCEL NONNENMACHER, BURGER AND CLERK AT BERG (FATHER-IN-LAW OF JOHANN NICLAUS), DIED DECEMBER 2, 1753, 79 YEARS (AND SO BORN IN 1674).​
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Kirchberg from Berg
THE BERG CHURCH FROM THE WEST EDGE OF BERG


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