Looking for a Baptism Record
I am looking for a Baptism record for my 5th great-grandmother, Schalotta Julianna Frantz. As per her headstone, she was born in 1747; this is consistent with the birth dates of her other siblings, as well. Her parents were Johann Heinrich Frantz and Maria Susanna Girardin. The family was Reformed. The Frantz family arrived at the Port of Philadelphia aboard the Two Brothers on 15 September 1748 meaning that a Baptism in Europe is a foregone conclusion.
The Frantz and Girardin families were from Rauwiller and Diedendorf in Bas-Rhin, Alsace. I have checked the parish registers there and in the surrounding parishes, but to no avail. I also looked over the Departmental line to Moselle where the extended family had ties to Lixheim and its vicinity. I did not find anything there. Schalotta does not appear in Annette Kunselman Burgert’s authoritative tome, “Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America,” but her parents and older brother, Peter, are listed therein. The family is recognized as Huguenots by the Huguenot Society of America, so I also checked as the records of various Huguenot churches in the Low Countries, also known as the Leiden Rolls, on FamilySearch to see if she was Baptised en route to America, but I found nothing there either.
Thank you for your thoughts and assistance!
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I did a search on meyersgaz.org for Rauwiller as you spelled it, and I found nothing, so I tried Diedendorf, and found this. https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10340058. By zooming out, we see Rauweiler south east from Diedendorf. I clicked on the Protestant churches box, in the toggle bar, and can see which churches are nearby. Based on your post, I don't know which of these you have searched. I did another search and found a journal article, "Origine des familles huguenotes de Bischwiller: d'après le pasteur J.-F. Poulet (1753)." The article is online, at the JStore, and is from this publication, Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (1903-2015). Vol. 113 (Janvier-Février-Mars 1967), pp. 61-65 (5 pages). Published by: Librairie Droz. On page 62 the 2 entry reads,
"quelques familles huguenotes etablies au XVI siecle en terre alsacienne, mais sur les confins lorrains et s'y sentant mal a l'aise (Kirrberg, Rauwiller, Altwiller). Neither of your family names are mentioned on the following page for Bischwiller. I thought perhaps, with Rauwiller being mentioned, for these Huguenot families from Bischwiller, you might check Kirrberg, and Altwiller, if you haven't already. I checked the church books for Reformed and Lutheran, not much there. There is more for the civil registration, but they start too late. It might be worth checking.
Kirrberg church books: https://archives.bas-rhin.fr/registres-paroissiaux-et-documents-d-etat-civil/ETAT-CIVIL-C240#search-results
Kirrberg civil registration births: https://archives.bas-rhin.fr/detail-document/ETAT-CIVIL-C240-P1-R156526#visio/page:ETAT-CIVIL-C240-P1-R156526-1591682
I also found an article, that mentions your ancestral home towns, and thought it might have some useful place names for you to compare to where you have already searched. Here's the link.
http://bibliotheque.ruedeleglise.net/wiki/Rauwiller,_paroisse_r%C3%A9form%C3%A9e
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Thank you for all of your thoughtfulness and time, Annette. I truly appreciate your assistance and very much look forward to investigating the leads you kindly provided.
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Thank you, Matthieu. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and assistance.
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