The Lineage of Christian Schulz of Hohenselchow
Christian Schulz, born 1759, died 1809 Christian Schulz was born 1759 and was a farmer in Hohenselchow. He married Luise Witt. Christian died at age 50, on 28 Jun 1809 and was buried on 1 Jul 1809. They had four children:
- Christian Friedrich Schulz, born 20 Apr 1796 in Hohenselchow. Christian Friedrich Schulz, son of the deceased farmer Christian Schulz in 6 Hohen- selchow and his wife Louise Witt, born on 30 Apr 1796 in Hohenselchow, married on 14 Nov 1825 Beate Dorothee Luise Stuck, daughter of bricklayer Mr. (?) Stuck in Penkun and his wife Hanne Luise Schulz, born on 26 Feb 1805 in Penkun.
- Gottlieb Schulz, born on 19 Aug 1798 in Hohenselchow, baptized 26 Aug. He died 8 Mar 1800, he was nearly 2 years old.
- Daniel Schulz, born 8 Dec 1801 in Hohenselchow, baptized 13 Dec.1801. Farmhand Daniel Schulz, son of the deceased farmer Christian Schulz in Hohen- selchow and his wife Louise Witt, born on 8 Dec. 1801 in Hohenselchow, married on 17 Mar 1831 Marie Lenore Zuehlsdorf (Zühlsdorf), daughter of farmer Michael Zuehlsdorf in Hohenselchow and his wife Anne Dorothee Dehr, born on 18 Dec 1806. According to records, Daniel was a worker and a night watchman in Hohenselchow. Five children are listed:
- Carl Friedrich, born 10 Mar 1833 in Hohenselchow, baptized 24 Mar.
- Wilhelmine Luise Schulz, born 14 Nov 1835 in Hohenselchow, baptized 22 Nov, Wilhelmine (at the age of 25), married farmhand, Christian Friedrich Konrad, age 26, on 24 Nov 1859. They had two daughters.
- Auguste Karoline Wilhelmine Konrad, born on 1 Jan 1860 in Hohenselchow, baptized on 15 Jan 1860.
- Bertha Albertine Wilhelmine Konrad, born on 19 Feb 1863 in Hohenselchow, baptized on 1 Mar 1863.
- Christian Friedrich Schulz, born on 20 Mar 1838 in Hohenselchow. He died on 24 Sep 1840, age 2 years/6 months/4 days, buried on 26 Mar 1840.
- August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schulz, born on 16 Nov 1846 in Hohenselchow, baptized on 29 Nov 1846. Records indicate that he was a horseman in Hohenselchow and at the age of 27, married on 21 Sep 1874, Emilie Auguste Karoline Jahnke, born on 23 1851, (age 22), daughter of the deceased Johann Jahnke, coachman in Gramenz.
- Karoline Friederike Schulz, born on 11 Feb 1851.
- Martin Friedrich Schulz, born on 23 Dec. 1805 in Hohenselchow, baptized 30 Dec 1805. (Martin) Friedrich Schulz, bachelor, age 30, son of the deceased farmer Christian Schulz in Hohenselchow and Luise Witt(e), married on 5 Jun 1836 Miss (virgin in Ger.) Wilhelmine Eleanor (Lenore) Schulz, age 26 (born 26 Nov 1809), daughter of the deceased Daniel Schulz (born 7 Feb 1770) in Hohenselchow. They appear to be first cousins, as their fathers were brothers, and the sons of Gottlieb Schulz, born 1729. Three children listed:
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz, born on 18 Mar 1837 in Hohenselchow, baptized on 27 Mar 1837. He died on 29 Mar 1837, (11 days old).
- Carl Friedrich Erdmann Schulz, born on 23 Oct 1847 in Hohenselchow, baptized on 31 Oct 1847. He was recorded as being a worker in Hohenselchow and at the age of 26, he married Wilhelmine Luise Henriette Klemcke, age 24, born on 20 Mar 1850, daughter of Johann Gottlieb Klemcke, worker in Hohenselchow.
- August Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz, born on 29 Oct 1849, in Hohenselchow. He was confirmed (according to church records), 27 Sep 1863 in Hohenselchow. August, a horseman in Hohenselchow, age 24, married (his first cousin) on 22 Sep 1874 Karoline Friederike Schultz (#1.3.5), age 23 born on 11 Feb 1851, daughter of Daniel Schultz, owner and night watchman in Hohenselchow.
Donald Albert Schultz
I am Donald A. Schultz. I was born and raised mostly in eastern Iowa, except for a few years in Winona County, Minnesota, the home of the Schultzs that immigrated there in 1885 from Pomerania. I majored in biology and chemistry in college and was especially interested in genetics and my family heritage. I worked many years as a medical technologist in the Dayton Ohio area and in an area paternity lab. (I relocating there after my marriage to an Ohio girl, who I met in college.)
My father was a first-generation American, while my mother's people (Pennsylvania Dutch, immigrants of Switzerland and southern Germany) have been in America since the early 1700s. Once I retired, I took the time to investigate, record, and write my family line (genealogy). I thought it was important for my children to know, who we are, how and why we got here. The Schultz family history proved difficult for me. Consequently, I hired a German genealogist to help me with this quest. Although I had studied two years of German in college, it just wasn't good enough to read the old German Gothic or fraktur script. I learned that our surname was changed from "Schulz" without the "t" to "Schultz" with the "t" once in America. Also, Schulz or Schultz is a very common German surname, especially in northern Germany.
Donald Schultz of Dayton, Ohio, [email protected]