Individual Details
Johann Fuchs
(June 11, 1777 - July 14, 1847)
Baptism: 12 JUN 1777 Saint Quirinus catholic Church, Langenfled Note:
His baptism sponsors were his uncle, Johann Haensgen (Hengsen) from Nitz (Wanderath parish) and Sopia Wirth, his father's cousin.
He pursued a career in agriculture (Acker). Their house and attached barn was located in the village, while the land that they worked was situated outside of the village perimeter. Of course, this was in contrast t the typical Midwestern farm in the United States, where isolated farmsteads were sometimes miles apart.
As a youngster, Johann must have received some formal education, since he was able to sign his name and write letters to his daughters after he immigrated the USA.
Shortly after his 12th birthday, French citizens stormed the Bastile in Paris (July 14, 1789), setting off an eventual revolution that would have great implications for his Rhenish homeland. His father said that French troops occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine River in 1797. And with the arrival of the French, Johann Fuchs became a citizen of the Canton of Virneburg, Arrondisement Bonn and Department fo the Rhine-Mosel, French Empire.
It was during this period of French occupation that the 28-year-old Johann Fuchs married his 17-year old cousin, Anna Maria Schueller. Father Johann Adam Weynandt performed the ceremony.
After the birth of their son, Mathias, the jurisdiction of Langenfeld was transferred from France to Prussia, and the parish became apart of Kreis Adenau Regierungsbezirk Koblenz, Province of the Rhine, Prussia. And the Germanic Confederation replaced the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved by Napoleon in 1806.
Another casualty of the French Revolutionary era were the former archbishoprics of Trier, Mainz,a nd Cologne, whose property had been confiscated by the French and then transferred to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna. "Only five of the German biships's sees were occupied by a bishop in 1815, numerous monastaries had been dissolved and educational and charitable activities brought to a sudden halt. After all of the realignments had been completed by the Congress of Vienna, the only two Catholic states that emerged were Bavaria and Austria. And the predominatly Catholic Rhineland was now under the dominion of Protestant Prussia, and the once powerful Rhenish Catholic Church was too.
His baptism sponsors were his uncle, Johann Haensgen (Hengsen) from Nitz (Wanderath parish) and Sopia Wirth, his father's cousin.
He pursued a career in agriculture (Acker). Their house and attached barn was located in the village, while the land that they worked was situated outside of the village perimeter. Of course, this was in contrast t the typical Midwestern farm in the United States, where isolated farmsteads were sometimes miles apart.
As a youngster, Johann must have received some formal education, since he was able to sign his name and write letters to his daughters after he immigrated the USA.
Shortly after his 12th birthday, French citizens stormed the Bastile in Paris (July 14, 1789), setting off an eventual revolution that would have great implications for his Rhenish homeland. His father said that French troops occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine River in 1797. And with the arrival of the French, Johann Fuchs became a citizen of the Canton of Virneburg, Arrondisement Bonn and Department fo the Rhine-Mosel, French Empire.
It was during this period of French occupation that the 28-year-old Johann Fuchs married his 17-year old cousin, Anna Maria Schueller. Father Johann Adam Weynandt performed the ceremony.
After the birth of their son, Mathias, the jurisdiction of Langenfeld was transferred from France to Prussia, and the parish became apart of Kreis Adenau Regierungsbezirk Koblenz, Province of the Rhine, Prussia. And the Germanic Confederation replaced the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved by Napoleon in 1806.
Another casualty of the French Revolutionary era were the former archbishoprics of Trier, Mainz,a nd Cologne, whose property had been confiscated by the French and then transferred to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna. "Only five of the German biships's sees were occupied by a bishop in 1815, numerous monastaries had been dissolved and educational and charitable activities brought to a sudden halt. After all of the realignments had been completed by the Congress of Vienna, the only two Catholic states that emerged were Bavaria and Austria. And the predominatly Catholic Rhineland was now under the dominion of Protestant Prussia, and the once powerful Rhenish Catholic Church was too.
Events
| Birth | June 11, 1777 | Langenfeld, Germany | |||
| Marriage | February 17, 1806 | Langenfeld, Prusia - Anna Maria Schueller | |||
| Death | July 14, 1847 | Westphalia, Michigan |
Families
| Spouse | Anna Maria Schueller (1788 - 1860) |
| Child | Maria Fuchs (1806 - 1881) |
| Child | Elisabeth Fuchs (1808 - 1895) |
| Child | Johann Joseph Fuchs (1810 - ) |
| Child | Anton Fuchs (1811 - 1892) |
| Child | Maria Catharina Fuchs (1813 - ) |
| Child | Mathias Fuchs (1814 - ) |
| Child | Johann Joseph Fuchs (1816 - ) |
| Child | Paul Fuchs (1818 - ) |
| Child | Peter Joseph Fuchs (1820 - 1891) |
| Child | Infant Fuchs (1823 - ) |
| Child | Infant Fuchs (1825 - ) |
| Child | Stephen Fuchs (1827 - ) |
| Child | Johann Peter Fuchs (1830 - 1901) |
| Father | Johann Michael Fuchs (1745 - 1817) |
| Mother | Marie Haensgen (1746 - 1823) |
| Sibling | Lucia Fuchs (1773 - ) |
| Sibling | Anna Fuchs (1774 - ) |
| Sibling | Paul Fuchs (1779 - 1852) |
| Sibling | Anton Fuchs (1781 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Nicolaus Fuchs (1783 - 1837) |
| Sibling | Mathias Fuchs (1787 - 1790) |
| Sibling | Infant Fuchs (1789 - 1789) |
| Sibling | Maria Catharina Fuchs (1792 - 1866) |