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Maria Charlotta Amalia Hartwich

Female 1720 - 1779  (58 years)


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  • Name Maria Charlotta Amalia Hartwich 
    Born 24 Jun 1720  Steinbach, Michelstadt, Erbach, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 8 Feb 1779  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I81  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Georg Andreas Hartwich,   b. Abt 1666, of Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jun 1734, Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Dorothea Sophia Schumacher,   b. Abt 1682, , , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1740, Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Married Bef 1700  of Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F84  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Johann Michael Römer,   b. 3 Sep 1715, Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Nov 1800, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Married 18 Jul 1736  Birkenau, Heppenheim, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Johanna Magdalena Römer,   b. Abt 1738, of Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Anna Barbara Römer,   b. Abt 1739, of Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 16 Oct 1768 to 15 Feb 1769, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 29 years)
     3. Römer,   b. Abt 1741, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Feb 1779, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years)
     4. Römer,   b. Abt 1742, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Feb 1779, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years)
     5. Maria Barbara Römer,   b. 20 Jul 1744, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1776, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)
     6. Elizabeth Römer,   b. 25 Jul 1747, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Aug 1841, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years)
     7. Johann Conrad Römer,   b. 8 Sep 1750, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Feb 1779, of Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 28 years)
     8. Christina Römer,   b. 18 Jul 1752, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Nov 1808, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F82  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. From an article entitled: "Michael Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." Even though Elayne has done a wonderful job with her book, I believe the following quote has deficiencies in regards to the unproven marriage date for Michael Stocker and Anna Barbara Römerin and the dismissal of a second wife Catherine Kemp for John Michael Römer. See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part of the overall quote:
      "Some records have a difference in spelling for the last name of Ana Barbara: Romer and Romerin. In the German language "in" was added to females names. This is evidenced in the names of the sponsors for the children in the baptismal records of the children of Michael and Ana Barbara...
      Michael's first official record found, to date, is that of his marriage on July of 1757 to Ana Barbara Romerin in Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland, as recorded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Ana was the daughter of Michael Romer (Roemer) and Charlotta Amalia Hartwich. Her father was from Buerkenau, Germany. His obituary listed in the church record states that he immigrated to America in 1738. (There are conflicting records on his immigration date.) In the History of Carrollton Manor it states that "tradition says that Michael Romer married Catherine Kemp." However, it is recorded within Charlotta's burial record of the Evangelical Church that she was the wife of Michael Romer. I have, at this time, not researched the Evangelical Church Records for more details on his family. It is unclear if the marriage of Michael and Charlotta was in Germany or in the United States. I have found no church records for a marriage to Catherine Kemp."

      2. From the newspaper "Frederick News-Post" of Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Sep. 10, 1980, in a genealogical article about the Ramsburg and Trail Families. Source: Website http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10025/newspaper-archive?itemId=378740882&action=showRecord accessed 22 Feb 2015:
      "...two pioneer Lutheran leaders at Frederick, Michael Roemer and Conrad Grosch and their wives. Most of the early Ramsburgs and Remsbergs of Frederick County belonged to the German Reformed Church. However, Jacob mentioned in the will above married Charlotta Amalia Grosch, granddaughter of the early Lutheran elder at Frederick, John Conrad Grosch and wife Maria Sophia Gutenberg ... Lutheran records show that Chariotte Amalia was born July to Michael and Christina Grosch, the sponsors being Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer, the parents of Christina. Michael Roemer (Raymer) was the leading elder of the early Lutheran Church at Frederick and at Monocacy Church of the Muhlenberg Articles of 1747. His worn gravestone with inlaid letters remains..."

      3. FHL book 975.287/F1 K28n "Maryland German Church Records," vol. 5, "Records of the Evangelical Reformed Church (a congregation of the United Church of Christ), Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland 1746-1789," translated by William J. Hinke, edited by Frederick S. Weiser (Hist. Society of Carroll Co., Westminster, MD), baptisms, first number is the book's page number and number in parentheses is the church book page number:
      P. 3 (11): "Charlotta, dau. of Jacob and Maria Benedicta Storm, b. [not given], bp. 11 Aug. 1751. Sponsors: Michel and Charlotta Römer."
      P. 4 (19): "Maria Anna, dau. of Jacob and Eleonore Jung, b. 8 Apr. 1752, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Georg Mich. Jesser. and Charlotta Römer."
      P. 14 (65): "Charlotta Amalia, dau. of Joh. Georg and Lisabetha Leu, b. [not given], bp. 26 June 1758. Sponsors: Michael and Charl. Amalia Römer."
      P. 16 (75): "Johan Michael, son of Jacob and Catharina Huber, b. [not given], bp. 8 June 1760. Sponsors: Michael and Charlotta Römer."
      P. 18 (78): "Michael, son of Johannes and Anna Maria Lingefelder, b. 29 Nov. 1761, bp. 10 Jan. 1762. Sponsors: Michael Römer and wife."
      P. 19 (79): "Scharlotta Amalia, dau. of Valentin and Elisabeth Schreiner, b. 5 Feb. 1762, bp. 14 Mar. 1762. Sponsors: Michael Römer and wife."

      4. FHL Typescript 975.287/F1 K2wf v.1 "Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick, Maryland. Parish Records, Books I and II, 1743-1811," entries with mentions of Roemers:
      - Joh. Michael Teuffel, a son Hanns Michel, b. 13 Feb 1748, bp. 19 Feb 1748, sponsors Michel Römer and wife.
      - Joh. Heitzman, a daughter Gertraut, b. 17 Mar 1744, bp. April [?] 1744, sponsors: Peter Apel and wife Catrina, Johan Michel Römer.
      - Peter Appel, a daughter Maria Charlotha, b. 1746, bp. 31 Oct 1746, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife Maria Charlotha.
      - Georg Michael Zesserong [?], a dau. Charlotta, b. 15 Jan 1747, bp. [not given], sponsors: Michael Römer and wife, and Peter Schmiedt's wife.
      - Georg Michael Zesserong [?], a dau. Elisabetha, b. 5 Oct 1748, bp. 8 Nov 1748, sponsors: Robert Döbes and wife and Michael Römer's wife.
      - Conrad Gropf, a son Johann Michael, b. 11 Sep 1749, bp. 17 Sep 1749, sponsors: Joh. Michael Römer and wife.
      - Georg Nagel, a dau. Scharlotta, b. 18 Dec 1749, bp. 7 Jan 1750, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife.
      - Valentin Krafft, a dau. Charlotta, b. 19 Sep 1750, bp. 23 Sep 1750, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife, Charlotta.
      - Bernhard Michael Hausihl and wife Sybilla Margaretha, a dau. Amalia Sibylla, b. 1 Feb 1754, bp. 3 Feb 1754, sponsors: Michael Roemer and wife Charlotta Amalia.
      - Johanni Nicol, a dau. Charlotta, b. 4 Mar 1754, bp. 15 Apr 1754, sponsors: Michael Römer and his wife Charlotta Amalia.
      - Joh. Adam Ebert, a dau. Charlotta Amalia, b. 21 Dec 1754, bp. Sunday after the Festival of the Circumcision [i.e., after New Year's Day, 1755], sponsors: Michael Römer and wife Charlotta Amalia. [KP note: This equates to 5 Jan.]
      - Georg Jacob Trautwein and wife Elisabetha, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 22 Feb 1755, bp. 4 Sep 1755, sponsors: Johanna Magdalena, Michael Roemer's single daughter.
      - Jacob Bernhard, a son Michael, b. 28 Apr 1755, bp. 12 May 1755, sponsors: Joh. Michael Römer and wife Charlotta Amalia.
      - Valentin Schreiner, a son Michael, b. St. John's Day [Dec. 27] 1755, bp. 14 Dec 1755, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife Charlotta Amalia. Child died Jan. 11, 1756.
      - Joh. Ludwig Jung and his wife Magdalena, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 28 Mar 1756, bp. 1756 Palm Sun. [Kerry note: Apr. 11], sponsors: Joh. Adam Maug and Michael Römer's daughter Johanna Magdalena.
      - Matthia Kint and his wife Eva Cath., a dau. Maria Barbara, b. 12 Apr 1758, bp. 1758 Jubilate, sponsors: Maria Barbara, Michael Römer's daughter and Adam Mantel, single. [Kerry's note: bp. Apr 16.]
      - Mich. Stocker and wife Anna Barb., a dau. Anna Barba., b. 1 Apr 1858, bp. 1758 Pentecost, sponsors: Maria Barbara, single daughter of Mich. Römer. [Kerry's note: bp. May 15.]
      - [Marriage] Michael Grosch and Christina Roemerin by license. June 17, 1771.
      - [Marriage] Michael Roemer and Susanna Margareth Voltz by license. 23 January 1791.
      - [Marriage] Jacob Römer and Maria Zimmermännin by license at the house of William Merkles in the presence of Abraham Schäffer, Valentin and George Thomas Peter Wolf. [Kerry's note: Probably a grandson through Michael's son Conrad.]

      5. FHL book 975.287/F1 K28we "Maryland German Church Records," vol. 3, "Baptismal records of the Monocacy Lutheran Congregation, and its successor, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1742-1779," translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser; mentions of Roemers (the initials in [brackets] probably refer to the minister who made the record):
      - Joh. Michael Teuffel, a son Hanns Michel, b. 13 Feb 1748, bp. 19 Feb 1748 [K], sponsors Michel Römer and wife.
      - Johan Michel Römer, a daughter [not named], b. 25 Jul 1747, bp. [not given], sponsors: Michel Jesrang and his wife Lisabet.
      - Johan Michel Römer, a son Johann Conrad, b. 8 Sep 1750, bp. 14 Sep 1750, sponsors: Conrad Grosch and wife Sophia. [K]
      - Peter Appel, a dau. Maria Charlotha, b. 1746, bp. 31 Oct 1746, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife Maria Charlotha. [X]
      - Georg Michael Jesserong, a dau. Charlotta, b. 15 Jan 1747, bp. [not given], sponsors: Michael Römer and wife, and Peter Schmiedt's wife. [X]
      - Georg Michael Jesserong, a dau. Elisabetha, b. 5 Oct 1748, bp. 8 Nov 1748, sponsors: Robert Döbes and wife and Michael Römer's wife.
      - Conrad Grosch, a son Johann Michael, b. 11 Sep 1749, bp. 17 Sep 1749, sponsors: Joh. Michael Römer and wife. [K]
      - Georg Nagel, a dau. Scharlotta, b. 18 Dec 1749, bp. 7 Jan 1750, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife.
      - Valentin Kraft [the clergyman], a dau. Charlotta, b. 19 Sep 1750, bp. 23 Sep 1750, sponsors: Michael Römer and wife, Charlotta. [K]
      - Bernhard Michael Hausihl and wife Sybilla Margaretha, a dau. Amalia Sibylla, b. 1 Feb 1754 Fritlay [The days of the week here are expressed by symbols], bp. 3 Feb 1754 Sunday, sponsors: Michael Roemer and wife Charlotta Amalia. [H]
      - Johanni Nicol, a dau. Charlotta, b. 4 Mar 1754, bp. 15 Apr 1754, sponsors: Michael Römer and his wife Charlotta Amalia. [H]
      - Georg Jacob Trautwein and wife Elisabetha, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 22 Feb 1755, bp. four days after a week from the birth of the daughter 1755 [Hausihl sometimes expresses dates in confusing Latin and uses symbols for days.] [i.e. bp. March 5], sponsors: Johanna Magdalena, Michael Roemer's single daughter. [H]
      - Jacob Bernhard, a son Michael, b. 28 Apr 1755, bp. 12 May 1755, sponsors: Joh. Michael Römer and wife Charlotta Amalia. [H]
      - Joh. Ludwig Jung and his wife Magdalena, a dau. Johanna Magdalena, b. 28 Mar 1756, bp. 1756 Palm Sun. [H] [Kerry note: Apr. 11], sponsors: Joh. Adam Mang and Michael Römer's daughter Johanna Magdalena.
      - Matthia Kint and his wife Eva Cath., a dau. Maria Barbara, b. 12 Apr 1758, bp. 1758 Jubilate, sponsors: Maria Barbara, Michael Römer's daughter and Adam Mantel, single. [H][Kerry's note: bp. Apr 16.]
      - Mich. Stocker and wife Anna Barb., a dau. Anna Barba., b. 1 Apr 1858, bp. 1758 Pentecost, sponsors: Maria Barbara, single daughter of Mich. Römer. [Kerry's note: bp. May 15.]
      - Johannes Haass and Maria Barbara, a little son Michael, b. 18 Nov 1767, bp. 26 Dec 1767, sponsors: Michael Johan Michel Römer, and Charlotte.
      - Johannes Haass and Maria Barbara, a little dau. Christina, b. 13 Feb 1770, bp. 11 Mar 1770, sponsor: Christina Romerin.
      - All recorded at once:
      - Maria Barbara, dau. of Michael Stocker, b . 1 Apr 1758 (+), bp. 15 May. Sponsors: Mar. Barb. Römerin [now] deceased.
      - Johanna Magdalina, dau. of [parents names not given] b. 1 Jan 1760, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Heinrich and Magdalena Fauth.
      - Michael, son of Michael Stocker b. 20 May 1762, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Michael and Scharletta Amalia Romer.
      - Elisabetha, dau. of Michael Stocker b. 26 Aug. 1764, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Elisabetha Romerin.
      - Maria Barbara, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Johannes and Maria Barbara Haass.
      - Christina, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Christina Römerin, single.
      - Christina, dau. of Friederich and Elisabetha Riehl, b. 12 Jun. 1770, bp. 1 Jul 1770, Sponsors: Johannes Huber and Christina Römerin, both single.
      - Susanna Amalia, dau. of Johann Andreas and Henrietta Elisabeth Krug, b. 1 Aug 1773, bp. 8 Aug 1773. Sponsors: Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer and Susanna Barbara Handschue.
      - Eleonora, dau. of Joh. Mich. And Eleonora Wittmeyer, b. 24 July 1773, bp. 10 Oct 1773. Sponsors: Michael and Christina Grosch.
      - Elisabeth, dau. of James and Charlotta Hoper, b. 24 Jul 1773, bp. 24 Oct 1773. Sponsors: Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer.
      - Maria Barbara, dau. of Joh. Michael and Elisabeth Stocker, b. 23 Dec. 1774, bp. 16 Apr. 1775. Sponsors: Johannes and Maria Barbara Haass.
      - Charlotta Amalia, dau. of Michael and Christina Grosch, b. 9 July 1775, bp. 13 Aug. 1775. Sponsors: Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemar.
      - Fridrich, son of Johannes and Maria Barbara Haas, b. 14 Nov. 1775, bp. 10 Dec. 1775. Sponsors: Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer.
      - Johann Georg, son of Joh. Andreas and Henrietta Elisabeth Krug, b. 16 Aug 1776, bp. 1 Sept. 1776. Sponsors: John Michael and Charlotte Amalia Roemar.

      6. FHL book 975.2 D2se v.1 "Monocacy and Catoctin. Some Early Settlers of Frederick and Carroll Counties, MD and Adams County, PA also Descendants 1725-1985," vol. 1, by C.E. Schildknecht, has two entries for Charlotta:
      "Charlotta (Hartwick) Roemer (1720-1779) was b. in Michelstadt, Odenwald, and was bur. in Frederick Luth. Graveyard. (Source: Burial Records, Monocacy and Frederick, MD, Luth. Chruches (at Adams Co. Historical Society); also book by Fred S. Weiser, National Genealogical Society, 1972, DC.) Her husband (Johan) Michael (1715-1800) from Burkenau was leader in early Luth. Church in Frederick.
      "Charlotta (Hartwich) Roemer was from Michelstadt in Odenwald. (Source: Burial Records, Monocacy and Frederick, MD, Luth. Chruches (at Adams Co. Historical Society); also book by Fred S. Weiser, National Genealogical Society, 1972, DC.)"
      Note there is another Hartwich in Frederick which does not appear to be a relative due to varying birth locations: "John Christopher Hartwich, b. at Molschleben nr. Gotha in Thuringen, in 1714, was briefly Luth. pastor in Frederick in 1762."

      7. Research summary on the Hartwich family by Rose Green, a Stoker/Roemer descendant and excellent German researcher. Rose provided the following by email 26 Apr 2015:
      "I read original German records. My husband is a German professor and we lived in Germany for a number of years, so I learned German. When I was working on the Roemers, I ran into a guy who was born in Birkenau. He isn't blood related to us, but a number of his family members married a number of ours, so we had common interests. He picked up a number of historical booklets for me from the city that had articles about our family in them. Yes, I could get the bare bones out of the church records, but it was so interesting to read about these people. Apparently Johannes Roemer was a tanner and also owned a mill (which is still there). He was quite well respected (a ton of people came to his funeral) and he had the mixed-religion marriage. When issues came up later in town with mixed-religion marriages, he was sort of held up as a standard of, well, he managed to do it, so it must be possible.
      Schooling was compulsory from 1705(?). Joh. Michael Roemer who came to America was quite literate -- his signature on his will is in lovely perfect German script.
      Joh. Michael Roemer and his wife Charlotta Amalia Hartwich were apparently the first people from Birkenau to emigrate to America.
      Charlotta Amalia comes from a really interesting family. The earliest record we can find of her dad, Georg/Jurgen Andreas Hartwig/Hartwich, is that he was a lieutenant in Wolfenbüttel (then part of the country of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) in 1701. In 1703, Georg hired on as a Rittmeister [Cavalry Captain] for Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, which was then part of Denmark, to command a regiment in this War of Spanish Succession. (It had something to do with Hapsburgs and was fought all across modern Germany.) He served until 1715, and then moved down to the Odenwald in southern Hessen, first to Michelstadt, then Reichelsheim, and finally Birkenau. In Reichelsheim, he was asked to move because he was training soldiers at a barracks and was apparently too violent with them.
      His wife, Dorothea Sophia Schumacher -- I had someone search a series of printed marriage registers for northern Germany for me once, and they did not find a marriage for these people. I have read about a couple of Schumacher families that was sort of middle class in Schleswig-Holstein (i.e. a similar class that Georg was part of -- commissioned army officer, owning land, getting an education), but Schumacher is an awfully unspecial name ... I would really love to nail these people down and find out where they ultimately came from.
      With a lack of personal records on him, I turned to the people he knew and where they came from, which is how I traced him to northern Germany. One such person is the Graf (Count) von Erbach. He was a student at the Ritterakademie (Knight's Academy) in Wolfenbüttel at the same time Georg was in town, and he was also I think in the cavalry in this same war. I think he's the one who got the Hartwigs [aka Hartwichs] down to Hessen after the war. His wife, the countess Charlotta Amalia von Erbach, was the godmother of Charlotta Amalia Hartwich (who married Johann Michael Roemer).
      The other interesting northern connection is a professor by the name of Johann Justus Bode. He was from Bodenburg (again, up in the Wolfenbüttel area), the inventor of a traveller's sundial and a math and religion professor in Coburg, which is quite far away in today's Thuringen north of Nurnberg. He was the godfather for Charlotta's next older brother, Johann Justus. He didn't show up for the christening, but had a proxy stand in his stead. Why did these people know each other? I don't know.
      When Georg came to Birkenau, he bought the Carlebach mill, which is also still standing. It had formerly belonged to the von Bonn family (Lords of Birkenau), but the Lord died and his sisters ended up with it, and they decided to sell it. The new Lord, by the way, was not Lutheran but Catholic, which apparently caused instant friction with the Lutheran Georg Hartwich. (That, or Hartwich's er..."friendly" personality.) (Remember, this was not horribly long after the 30 Year's War--a war between Catholic Hapsburgs and northern Lutherans, devastated the area.) Georg Hartwich started selling I think alcohol without a permit, or else was fishing without a permit, or something -- essentially, he was baiting the lord, who tried to fine him. Georg's oldest son, Georg Ernst Andreas, went to complain, and got to spend a night in jail to cool his heels over it. Things escalated until all the Hartwichs holed up in a mill in an armed standoff. Charlotta was nine. Things did eventually cool down, but let's just say the Hartwigs were not quiet, unassuming people. When Georg died, his funeral text was the hymn "Auf Christenmensch, auf auf zum Streif" (something about, good Christian men, to the fight! to the fight!). Appropriate, I think.
      We have no record of the births of the other children, but judging from marriage records, they must have been born during this war. Here is who I've found:
      1. Georg Ernst Andreas, b. about 1700? When living in Reichelsheim, he produced an illegitimate child, Johann Peter, with Anna Elisabetha Friedrich of Brensbach. They did not marry, and the child died at age 5. Georg Ernst suffered from depression ("melancholie") and actually shot himself inside the mill. The entry is quite sad; it explains that they knew he had had deep bouts of depression, but that lately he'd been doing better. It also said he was a law student, but I have not found his matriculation records. My husband says that university matriculation records often have gaps, though, and it's quite possible to be true, even if they didn't write him down. In any case, it was believable to the people at the time that he would be in college.
      2. Nicholas Adolph married Maria Sophia Hedwich Mettenius in 1739. She was a widow from Rimbach. I found a couple of children for them.
      3. Johanna Friderica married Johann Ernst von Hitzacker in 1730, had a child in 1732, and died in 1735. The von Hitzackers were from up north, and they were a lesser branch of the Welf dynasty that ruled Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel. They were a big military family, with holdings in Ascherode and Luneburg. Their child's christening record reads: "The 22nd of October was born and the 24th baptized the son of well-born Mr. Johann Ernst von Hitzacker, royal Prussian officer, and his wife, Mrs. Johanna Friderica. The son, named Andreas Christoph Wilhelm Otto, was lifted from the holy baptism by [the father's] father-in-law, [cavalry] Captain Georg Andreas Hartwig, as well as Mr. Christoph von Hitzacker, royal Prussian Hauptmann (a military title of some kind of leader) in the Litauisch regiment and heir of Ascherode, and also by Mr. Otto von Hitzacker, heir and Lehnsherr of Lüneburg." Unfortunately, this family has since died out; I've been trying to pursue them and find out what their connection to the Hartwigs might be. And to find out whatever happened to husband and son after Johanna died.
      4. There's a Peter Hartwich living in Birkenau in 1741. Hartwich is a northern name and I haven't found anything more about him other than I think paying taxes that year. Is he a relative? Possibly/probably. In 1741, Peter Hartwig contributed money to build a new gallows in Birkenau. (Source: Einwohnerlisten der Zent Birkenau 1439-1841, by Rudolf Kunz and Karl-Ludwig Schmitt, published in 1988) This is the only mention of this person I can find. There are no other Hartwigs in the area, so I assume he is part of our family.
      5. Conrad Friedrich married Maria Cordula Walter in 1735 and had children. She was Catholic.
      6. Franz Christian married a Maria Magdalena. I don't have a marriage date, but they had a child in 1742.
      7. Anton Joachim. Anton's death record lists his age as 62 at time of death; however, this seems to be an estimate, since most entries give the age to the day. Since he was not from the area originally, it would be understandable that his age be only approximated. According to this estimate his birth would have occurred in 1710. He was confirmed in 1727 in Reichelsheim. Lutheran confirmations tend to occur between 12 and 14 years of age, which would move his birth year up to 1713-15, at the end of his father's military service, and in any case, probably predating the family's move to the Odenwald. Anton was a tanner's apprentice, according to his marriage record, but he also ran the family mill (Carlebachmuehle, today Firma Frank on Weinheimerstr. 6). This mill he ran until December 1742 (1200 Jahre Birkenau, p. 241). He also was in charge of the Donels or Nikolai-Muehle (mill) on Lindenstr. 3 jointly with Hans Michael Nikolai (1762 -- see p. 244 of 1200 Jahre Birkenau). Anton also shows up in historical archives because he tried to convince the pastor's daughter to elope with him when she was only 16. The pastor took out a restraining order on him. Later, he married Eva Katharina Romer, the sister of Joh. Michael Roemer. Their kids' christening records play hopscotch in the Catholic-Lutheran records, but Anton actually grew up to be quite respectable. He became a Lutheran church elder. Later, there was a case of a teenage girl whose family was Lutheran and she wanted to be Catholic, or Catholic and she wanted to be Lutheran. At any rate, she actually tried to run away so she wouldn't be forced into the religion not of her choice. Anton intervened, calmed everyone down, pointed out that his father-in-law Johannes Roemer managed to deal with the whole two-religions-under-one-roof thing just fine, and that the girl should be free to follow her own conscience. Anton had a hairy start to life, but it sounds like he grew up to be a wise and respected kind of guy.
      8. Johann Justus, b. 16 Oct 1717 in Michelstadt: "On the 16th of October (1717) a little son was born to Georg Andreas Hartwig, cavalry captain, and his beloved wife Dorothea Sophia, born Shumacherin, and the ____ ____ (a date, unreadable) was Johann Justus baptized. The godfather was Mr. Johann Justus Boden, a theology professor in Coburg. In his place stood Mr. Buttner, former chamberlain in Fuerstenau." He d. there 2 Aug 1720: "The 2 day of August (1720), Johann Augustus, age 2 years and 9 months, little son of Mr. Georg Andreas Hartwig, cavalry captain, and his beloved Dorothea Sophia, was buried in the still of the morning at 5 o'clock."
      9. Charlotta Amalia (and BTW there is no Maria in her name in any document except for Familysearch): "Steinbach (an area in Michelstadt), 1720: On the first day of July, a little daughter was born to Mr. Georg Andreas Hartwig, cavalry captain, and his beloved [wife] Sophia, nee Shumacher, and on the 5th Charlotta Amalia was baptized. The godmother was Lady Countess Charlotta Amalia, noble wife of Count Philip Carl in Fuerstenau."
      Anyway, they were all very interesting people -- and a little notorious sometimes too. I keep coming back to take a stab at the Hartwigs. There were a ton of Hartwig families paying taxes in a printed record in 1678, but I don't know if Georg was attached to any of them. Part of the problem is simply access to the records. I'm sure that if I was in Wolfenbüttel, I could go to the archive and spend a year searching, and find him ... much of the information in these articles about the Hartwich family antics came from the Archiv des Freiherrn Wambolt von Umstadt, apparently..."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. The following two entries are back to back in the Lutheran church record of Birkenau, Kreis Heppenheim, Hessen. They represent a brother and a sister in one family marrying a brother and a sister in another:
      "143. Den 18 Jul. [1736] hat sich copulieren lassen Anton Joachim Hartwich, des Rothgerbers Handwerks mit Eva Catharina Römerin, des __ Joh. Römers Rothgerbers u. Gerichtmannes allhier nachgelassene Tochter." [Translation: On the 18th of July [1736] was married Anton Joachim Hartwich of the tanner's craftsmanship (specifically, he's a leather dyer), with Eva Catharina Römerin, the surviving daughter of Joh. Römer, red tanner and judge of this place.]
      "144. Eodem sind auch copuliert worden Joh. Michael Römer des Rothgerbers Handwerks, und Charlotta Amalia Hartwichin, des Ehr? Rittmeisters Hartwichs nachgelassene Tochter." [Translation: On the same day [18 Jul 1736] were also married Joh. Michael Römer of the tanner's craftsmanship (also specifically a leather dyer), Charlotta Amalia Hartwichin, the surviving daughter of Captain Hartwich.]

      2. FHL book 975.287 V2p "Frederick County Maryland Marriages References and Family Relationships 1748-1800," by Henry C. Peden, Jr. & Veronica Clarke Peden, (Colonial Roots, Lewes, Delaware, 2012). This volume is a "comprehensive compilation of marriage references, actual and implied, in early Frederick County, Maryland from its formation in 1748 through 1800. Marriages were gleaned from published license books, land records, probate records (wills and administration accounts), court records (judgments and indentures), military pension records, church records (marriages, births and baptism), bible records, newspapers, some family histories and other documented secondary sources." Note some duplicate individuals due to surname spelling variants, i.e: Raymer/Roemer/Römer:
      P. 223:
      -Raymer, Michael, m. Charlotte (no maiden name) before 21 Mar 1770 {ref: Frederick County Land Records (see abstracts of Frederick County Land Records, 1752-1772, by Patricia Abelard Andersen, 8 vols. (1995-2003), N:78}
      -Raymer, Michael, Susanna Margaret Fultz circa 22 Jan 1791 (date of lic.) {ref: Frederick County Marriage Licenses (see "marriage Licenses of Frederick County, 1778-1810," by Margaret E. Myers, 1986)}
      P. 233:
      -Roemer, Michael (also shown as Michael Römer), m. Charlotte Amelia (no maiden name) before 3 Feb 1754 at which time they sponsored the baptism of Amalia Sibylla Hausihl {ref: Monocacy Lutheran Congregation of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, MD (see "Maryland German Church Records," Vol. 3, translated by Frederick S. Weiser, published by Noodle-Doosey Press, 1987)}
      -Römer, Michael, m. Charlotta Amalia (no maiden name) before 14 Dec 1755 at which time they sponsored the baptism of Michael Schreiner {ref: Monocacy Lutheran Congregation of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, MD (see "Maryland German Church Records," Vol. 3, translated by Frederick S. Weiser, published by Noodle-Doosey Press, 1987)}

      DEATH:
      1. FHL book 975.287 K2w "Records of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, Maryland 1743-1811," translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser, Special Publication No. 38, The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 96:
      "Feb. 8, 1779: Church elder Michael Roemer's wife Charlotta Amalia, born June 24, 1720 in Michelstadt [in Kreis Erbach]. Father was Georg Andreas Hartwich and mother Sophia. Married 1736 her surviving widower with whom she had 2 sons and 6 daughters, of whom 3 daughters are still alive. She had 26 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren, died of a feverous typhoid fever on Feb. 6, aged about 58 years."

      BURIAL:
      1. Findagrave Website accessed 23 Feb 2015 for burials at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, 35 East Church Street, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 21701, (301) 663-6361. "Very few stones remain, as the cemetery was removed to nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery (area NN) in the early 1900s. The remaining stones have all been placed against the stone wall behind the church building and have been photographed." Memorials of interest:
      A. Memorial #39820508:
      "Johann Michael Roemer
      Birth: Sep. 3, 1715, Germany
      Death: Nov. 24, 1800
      Born in Buerkenau, Germany and came to America in 1738. Had with his married wife 2 sons and 6 daughters, of whom however both sons and 3 daughters together with the mother have already died. The deceased had the good fortune of experiencing in the course of his life a descent of 37 grandchildren and 51 great grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild of whome some preceded him into eternal rest. He died peacefully from the weakness of age.
      Spouse: Charlotta Amalia Hartwich Roemer"
      B. Memorial #39354225:
      "Charlotta Amalia Hartwich Roemer
      Birth: Jun. 24, 1720
      Death: Feb. 8, 1779
      d/o Georg Andreas & Sophia Hartwich, born in Michelstadt (in Kreis Erbach)
      1736 md. Michael Roemer, 2 sons & 6 daughters
      Typhoid fever
      Spouse: Johann Michael Roemer (1715 - 1800)* (*Calculated relationship.)"
      C. Memorial #39321807:
      "Maria Barbara Roemer Haas
      Birth: Jan. 20, 1744
      Death: Sep. 12, 1776
      d/o Mich. & Charlotta Roemer.
      10 Oct. 1762 md. Johann Haas
      6 Children
      Consumption
      Family links:
      Spouse: Johannes Haas (1735 - 1779)*
      Children: Johannes Haas (1772 - 1773)*
      (*Calculated relationship.)"
      D. Memorial #39354388:
      "Johannes Haas
      Birth: Nov. 8, 1735
      Death: Feb. 20, 1779
      Born in Baumholder in Zweybrucken to Nicholas & Catharina Haas.
      16 Oct. 1762 md. Maria Barbara who died 12 Sept. 1776. 6 children.
      Family links:
      Parents:
      Nicholas Haas (1706 - 1771)
      Spouse:
      Maria Barbara Roemer Haas (1744 - 1776)
      Children:
      Johannes Haas (1772 - 1773)*
      Sibling:
      Johannes Haas (1735 - 1779)
      Nicholas Haas (1745 - 1771)*
      (*Calculated relationship.)"