~1800-1810, Middle Franconia, weaponsmith, likely location?
J Michael Schmetzer, born 1777 in Feuchtwangen, (records fully researched) to a long line of blacksmiths and weaponsmiths (Waffenschmied). Family records were there only through 1783. In 1792, this area became Prussian; in 1806, became Bavarian (Napoleon). In 1810, J Michael Schmetzer, weaponsmith, bought a blacksmith shop in Gunzenhausen, was already married elsewhere, and had 3 children born elsewhere. The Gunzenhausen archive has his arrival record; it says he was from Feuchtwangen. His wife, A Barbara Rühl, was also born in Feuchtwangen. Where would a weaponsmith have likely gone to work as a master after ~1800 or to gain weaponsmith training? I have checked available online (Archion) sources in Dinkelsbuhl, Rothenburg, Ansbach, Nuremberg (partial). I cannot find a marriage record 1800-1808 or birth records 1804-1810 (or any other related Schmetzer records) in any of these cities. Perhaps someone knows where weaponsmiths likely worked during the Napoleonic Wars.
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He might have worked in the prussian army.
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