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Currently, I am researching the line of my ancestor, Ulrich Hochstädter, who died in 1739 in Herbitzheim, Alsace, aged 77 years and 8 months, ancestry unknown. He was a melcker/milker which I assume means dairy man. He married Anna Maria MNU. She died after 1746.
His son, Christian circa 1700-1771, married Gertrudt, daughter of Jean Vautrin, miller of Keskastel, at Keskastel in 1724. Gertudt's mother possibly Eleanor Grosjean. Jean died 1745 and Eleonor in 1734, both in Keskastel.
Christian worked as a melcker in the 1720s and 1730s and was possibly itinerant as he returned to Herbitzheim several times to sponsor baptisms, but none of his children were baptized there during this period. No idea where he was during this time.
After his father died, he settled down in Herbitzheim and became a bestander, tenant farmer, and four of their children were baptized there before the family emigrated on the ship Phoenix in 1749, settling in York County, PA. They were members of the Church of the Bretren.
Researching these families in Herbitzheim and Keskastel, Alsace and Willerwald, Moselle.
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