__ | __| | | | |__ | _Jaques François BAATARD _| | | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Rose Marie BAATARD | | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_Marie Salomé JOLY _______| | | __ | | |__| | |__
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_____________________ | _____________________| | | | |_____________________ | _Raymond BABB _______| | m 1911 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--J. Gilbert BABB | | _Joseph A. SMITH ____+ | | (1825 - 1913) m 1849 | _John M. SMITH ______| | | (1864 - 1956) m 1886| | | |_Martha Ann HOGGATT _ | | (1828 - 1887) m 1849 |_Martha W. SMITH ____| (1891 - 1979) m 1911| | _____________________ | | |_Mary A. MARTIN _____| (1868 - 1960) m 1886| |_____________________
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__________________________ | _____________________| | | | |__________________________ | _Clifford Linus BABCOCK __| | (1866 - ....) m 1889 | | | __________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__________________________ | | |--Douglas BABCOCK | | _Alexander Wood CHAMBERS _ | | (1803 - 1876) m 1826 | _Francis CHAMBERS ___| | | (1834 - ....) m 1857| | | |_Sarah MCDOUGALL _________+ | | (1800 - ....) m 1826 |_Marie Reynolds CHAMBERS _| (1868 - ....) m 1889 | | __________________________ | | |_Esther Ann ENNEY ___| m 1857 | |__________________________
__________________________ | _____________________| | | | |__________________________ | _Clifford Linus BABCOCK __| | (1866 - ....) m 1889 | | | __________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__________________________ | | |--Grace Ellen BABCOCK | (1892 - ....) | _Alexander Wood CHAMBERS _ | | (1803 - 1876) m 1826 | _Francis CHAMBERS ___| | | (1834 - ....) m 1857| | | |_Sarah MCDOUGALL _________+ | | (1800 - ....) m 1826 |_Marie Reynolds CHAMBERS _| (1868 - ....) m 1889 | | __________________________ | | |_Esther Ann ENNEY ___| m 1857 | |__________________________
__________________________ | _____________________| | | | |__________________________ | _Clifford Linus BABCOCK __| | (1866 - ....) m 1889 | | | __________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__________________________ | | |--Leah Fay BABCOCK | (1894 - ....) | _Alexander Wood CHAMBERS _ | | (1803 - 1876) m 1826 | _Francis CHAMBERS ___| | | (1834 - ....) m 1857| | | |_Sarah MCDOUGALL _________+ | | (1800 - ....) m 1826 |_Marie Reynolds CHAMBERS _| (1868 - ....) m 1889 | | __________________________ | | |_Esther Ann ENNEY ___| m 1857 | |__________________________
Son of Pierre Baccon.
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Pierre BACCON ______| | | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Jean BACCON | (.... - 1549) | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_____________________| | | __ | | |__| | |__
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There are at least five documents pertaining to his testament, not all of them completely copied and deciphered. Images of these documents and additional information about the current state of research can be found on this web page: www.realmac.info/bachoffen.htm. In the course of these documents and others from the Protocolls of the Chancelry of Bischwiller, it is clear that he is called Abraham Dufour when the record is written in French, and, usually, Abraham Bachoffen when it is written in German. The occurrence of the names of witnesses and relatives make it clear that we are indeed dealing with the same Abraham in all cases. One example that proves the equivalency of the names is an original testament in French , 10 apr 1682, by Susanne Mercier, widow of Claude Ribelet, of which one of the witnesses is "Abraham Dufour", who makes his mark (AB, not AD!). Later, 26 jun 1684, the same testament was copied into the Protocoll of the Chancelry of Bischwiller, in German. At the end, the names of the same signers are given, except that Abraham is now called Bachoffen.
The documents that have been discovered are from the registers or Protocolls of the Chancelry of Bischwiller, now at the Archives Départementales de Bas-Rhin (ADBR) in Strasbourg, France, in a box labeled 6E5.2/166:
These documents seem to confirm several points: First, Abraham's own children by his two wives are not mentioned and are presumed to have died before 1684 without issue. Second, the siblings attributed to Abraham in the genealogies of the minister Poulet are confirmed, with the addition of a second sister Anna. Abraham's father is not named, so Poulet must have had additional sources. Third, the equivalence of Bachoffen and Dufour in Bischwiller is clearly demonstrated. Fourth, the origin of the family in Westrich, a region to the west of Alsace but whose boundaries are difficult to define, is stated directly, a fact not found in the Poulet genealogies. Evidently the search for the origins of the Bachoffen family must now move into "Westrich", and most likely to a Protestant parish about 1600.
The part of France often known today as Westrich is centered approximately at Sarralbe, in the Département of Moselle. There are only a few surviving church records of any denomination from this area for the period when Abraham Bachoffen would have lived there. The few survivals include protestant records from Fénétrange, Mittersheim, and Hangviller, plausibly near enough to be called Westrich, plus the voluminous registers of Metz (probably not considered part of Westrich during the period of interest to us). So far, we have found no mention of this family in those records. Internet sources, not yet verified, tell us that Abraham's sister Judith and her husband lived at Kirberg, near Fénétrange, until they moved to Bischwiller about 1650, along with other families displaced by political developments in Lorraine. Even if this migration scenario is correct, there must be more to the story, since Abraham Bachoffen and his wife Jeanne Luroth (from a family that seems to have followed a different path to Bischwiller) baptised a daughter Anne Marie in the Eglise Réformée in 1645. It was not the case that the entire extended family moved to Bischwiller at the same time.
(Where is Westrich? One list of the "principal towns" mentioned by Goethe: Ses bourgs les plus importants étaient, à l'époque de Goethe qui en parle dans son ouvrage "Dichtung und Warheit" ( Fiction ou réalité) en 1770: Saarbrücken, Sarrebourg, Fénétrange, Sarrewerden, Sarre-Union, Sarralbe, Sarreguemines, Sarrelouis, Blâmont, Badonviller, Faulquemont, Morhange, Phalsbourg, Bitche, Landstuhl,... pour ne citer que les plus importants. Another explanation is that it is the area to the east of the Moselle (river) and west of the Vosges (hills).)
Internet sources also provide a possible connection between the Abraham and the "Nivard" family. Abraham's sister Judith "DuFour" had married Jean Vautrin; their last child Jean Pierre is supposed to have been born at Bischwiller 18 nov 1657 (only the records of the Eglise Réformée go back that far) and married as his first wife Elizabeth Nivard. Elizabeth could easily have been the one who was baptised in the Eglise Réformée of Bischwiller 23 dec 1659, daughter of Nicolas Nivard and Jeanne Paris.
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Abraham BACHOFFEN | (1600 - 1696) | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_____________________| | | __ | | |__| | |__
His birthdate is given in the Poulet genealogies, but we did not spot it in the registers of the French congregation of Bischwiller. He apparently died young, since there seems to be no later mention of him.
__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | |__ | _Abraham BACHOFFEN __| | (1600 - 1696) m 1645| | | __ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__ | | |--Abraham BACHOFFEN | (1648 - 1659) | __ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_Jeanne LUROTH ______| (.... - 1659) m 1645| | __ | | |_____________________| | |__
_Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _____+ | (1648 - 1709) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _| | (.... - 1709) m 1702 | | |_Margaretha THURING _________+ | (.... - 1725) m 1668 _Johann Peter BACHOFFEN _| | (.... - 1765) m 1732 | | | _Jean Pierre (Peter) HEUSCH _+ | | | (1633 - 1702) m 1666 | |_Anna Maria HEUSCH ______| | (1681 - ....) m 1702 | | |_Elizabeth MICHEL ___________+ | m 1666 | |--Abraham BACHOFFEN | (.... - 1744) | _Jacob GSELL ________________ | | m 1667 | _Johann Conrad GSELL ____| | | (1677 - 1752) m 1707 | | | |_Anna KREISS ________________ | | m 1667 |_Maria Elisabetha GSELL _| (.... - 1765) m 1732 | | _Jean PRÉVÔT ________________+ | | (1625 - 1692) m 1653 |_Maria Esther PRÉVÔT ____| (1677 - 1714) m 1707 | |_Anne HOUSSEL _______________+ (1632 - 1705) m 1653
_Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _____+ | (1648 - 1709) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _| | (.... - 1709) m 1702 | | |_Margaretha THURING _________+ | (.... - 1725) m 1668 _Johann Peter BACHOFFEN _| | (.... - 1765) m 1732 | | | _Jean Pierre (Peter) HEUSCH _+ | | | (1633 - 1702) m 1666 | |_Anna Maria HEUSCH ______| | (1681 - ....) m 1702 | | |_Elizabeth MICHEL ___________+ | m 1666 | |--Abraham BACHOFFEN | (.... - 1746) | _Jacob GSELL ________________ | | m 1667 | _Johann Conrad GSELL ____| | | (1677 - 1752) m 1707 | | | |_Anna KREISS ________________ | | m 1667 |_Maria Elisabetha GSELL _| (.... - 1765) m 1732 | | _Jean PRÉVÔT ________________+ | | (1625 - 1692) m 1653 |_Maria Esther PRÉVÔT ____| (1677 - 1714) m 1707 | |_Anne HOUSSEL _______________+ (1632 - 1705) m 1653
She is mentioned in the testaments of her brother Abraham Dufour/Bachofen, but nothing else is known about her.
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Anna BACHOFFEN | | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_____________________| | | __ | | |__| | |__
Following Poulet's genealogical table of 1753, we assign her as another daughter of Jacob Bachoffen. She is apparently the Marie daughter of Jacob du Four who appeared as a sponsor for a baptism at the French church in Bischwiller, 07 feb 1683. She may be the Maria Bachofen who died 24 mar 1723 at Olwisheim, wife of Jacob (illegible) des alter, herrschaftl. Muller. Jacob's surname was apparently indexed as Foltzel, but that reading does not seem plausible.
__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | |__ | _Jacob BACHOFFEN ____| | (1613 - 1693) | | | __ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__ | | |--Anne Marie BACHOFFEN | | __ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_____________________| | | __ | | |_____________________| | |__
She is the subject of the earliest surviving baptismal record for the French congregation at Bischwiller. The church was established in 1618, but the earlier records were lost as a consequence of the Thirty Years' War.
__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | |__ | _Abraham BACHOFFEN __| | (1600 - 1696) m 1645| | | __ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__ | | |--Anne Marie BACHOFFEN | | __ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_Jeanne LUROTH ______| (.... - 1659) m 1645| | __ | | |_____________________| | |__
[4277] Recorded in the Lutheran congregation.
_Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _____+ | (1648 - 1709) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN ______| | (.... - 1709) m 1702 | | |_Margaretha THURING _________+ | (.... - 1725) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _| | m 1731 | | | _Jean Pierre (Peter) HEUSCH _+ | | | (1633 - 1702) m 1666 | |_Anna Maria HEUSCH ___________| | (1681 - ....) m 1702 | | |_Elizabeth MICHEL ___________+ | m 1666 | |--Catharina BACHOFFEN | (1735 - ....) | _Samuel LANX ________________ | | (.... - 1696) | _Anthonius LANX ______________| | | m 1706 | | | |_Anna Christina BEY _________ | | (1639 - 1697) |_Susanna Dorothea LANGS _| (1708 - ....) m 1731 | | _Dietrich KLEINHANSS ________ | | (1641 - 1725) |_Susana Magdalena KLEINHANSS _| m 1706 | |_Anna Maria _____ ___________
[4279] Baptism is November, but death record appears to belong in October.
_Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _____+ | (1648 - 1709) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN ______| | (.... - 1709) m 1702 | | |_Margaretha THURING _________+ | (.... - 1725) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _| | m 1731 | | | _Jean Pierre (Peter) HEUSCH _+ | | | (1633 - 1702) m 1666 | |_Anna Maria HEUSCH ___________| | (1681 - ....) m 1702 | | |_Elizabeth MICHEL ___________+ | m 1666 | |--Christian BACHOFFEN | (.... - 1741) | _Samuel LANX ________________ | | (.... - 1696) | _Anthonius LANX ______________| | | m 1706 | | | |_Anna Christina BEY _________ | | (1639 - 1697) |_Susanna Dorothea LANGS _| (1708 - ....) m 1731 | | _Dietrich KLEINHANSS ________ | | (1641 - 1725) |_Susana Magdalena KLEINHANSS _| m 1706 | |_Anna Maria _____ ___________
[4280] Recorded in the Lutheran congregation.
_Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _____+ | (1648 - 1709) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN ______| | (.... - 1709) m 1702 | | |_Margaretha THURING _________+ | (.... - 1725) m 1668 _Johann Georg BACHOFFEN _| | m 1731 | | | _Jean Pierre (Peter) HEUSCH _+ | | | (1633 - 1702) m 1666 | |_Anna Maria HEUSCH ___________| | (1681 - ....) m 1702 | | |_Elizabeth MICHEL ___________+ | m 1666 | |--Dorothea BACHOFFEN | (1746 - ....) | _Samuel LANX ________________ | | (.... - 1696) | _Anthonius LANX ______________| | | m 1706 | | | |_Anna Christina BEY _________ | | (1639 - 1697) |_Susanna Dorothea LANGS _| (1708 - ....) m 1731 | | _Dietrich KLEINHANSS ________ | | (1641 - 1725) |_Susana Magdalena KLEINHANSS _| m 1706 | |_Anna Maria _____ ___________
__ | _Joseph BACHOFFEN ___| | | | |__ | _Jacob BACHOFFEN ____| | (1613 - 1693) m 1654| | | __ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__ | | |--Elisabetha BACHOFFEN | (1666 - ....) | __ | | | _Jean DROUIN ________| | | (.... - 1648) | | | |__ | | |_Elisabetha DROUIN __| (.... - 1667) m 1654| | __ | | |_____________________| | |__