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Mathias Fehrenbach

Male 1800 - 1855  (55 years)


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  • Name Mathias Fehrenbach 
    Born 17 Feb 1800  , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1852  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    farmer 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-30267 
    Died 10 Aug 1855  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Buried Saint Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery, Maryhill, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I30267  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Family Mary Agnes Lauli,   b. 1802, , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1864  (Age 62 years) 
    Children 
     1. Johanna Fehrenbach,   b. 1826, , Bavaria, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1851  (Age 25 years)
     2. John Fehrenbach,   b. 1826, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1899  (Age 73 years)
     3. Marianna Fehrenbach,   b. Abt 1830, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1850, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 20 years)
     4. Catharine "Catherine" Fehrenbach,   b. 18 Aug 1833, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Nov 1887, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
     5. Mathias "Mathew" Fehrenbach,   b. 12 Jul 1835, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1908, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     6. Magdalena Fehrenbach,   b. 30 Sep 1841, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jan 1893  (Age 51 years)
     7. Joseph L. Fehrenbach,   b. 11 Sep 1843, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Dec 1893, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F7977  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Nicholas Kartes and wife Catharine Derr Doerr abt 1790 arrive in New York September 4th 1826 on the ship Elizabeth with the Mathias Fehrenbach and Felix Scharbach families and the Trendels and Hohlrads.

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      A-1-73 Matthias Fehrenbach, Probate of Will of Matthias Fehrenbach, formerly of the Township of Waterloo, Yeoman, deceased, granted the thirteenth of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Five. The petition of Jacob Borho and Joseph Scharbach, named Executors therein.

      [Names are transcribed as spelled.. For ease of reading some correction have been done, i.e. "wider" = winter, "paster" = pasture, "Gardain"= garden…etc.]

      I Matheas[sic] Faerenbach [sic] of the Township of Waterloo, Yeoman,, being weak in body…

      (1st) commit my Soul to the hands of my Redeemer and my Body to buried in a Christian order…

      (2nd) Is my will that the Farm I own now shall after my decease belong to my son Matheas Faerenbach that is to say after he doth arrive to the age of twenty one years, and hath conditions and the consideration sum of Four Thousand Dollars, of the above said sum my son Matheas Faerenbach shall not pay anything till after the decease of my beloved wife Angnes[sic] or so long as she remaineth in the state of widowhood, and after her decease or second marriage the above said sum of $4000 shall be paid by my son Matheas followeth that is to say it shall be equally divided in five equall parts and my son Matheas shall take his part first, then the remainder that is to say $3200 to be paid as follows: Two hundred dollars shall be paid by my son Matheas one year after the death or second marriage of my widow and so yearly and every year till the above said sum of $3200 are paid, in manner as followeth. The first termeen[?] to be paid to my son John, and the second is to be paid to my daughter Catharin, and the third is to be paid to my daughter Magtalina[sic] and the fourth is to be paid to my son Joseph, and so alternately beginning at the oldest and so on to the youngest, without any interest on any of the termeens.

      (3rd) Is my will that my wife shall have a right to life in the house or my son shall build a convenient house for her near my house and convenient to the spring, and my son Matheas shall keep a cow for my widow and stabling in the winter and feed it, and in pasture in the summer, and also she shall have the right to put her milchze[sic] in the celler, and the easterly part of the garden including one third part of said garden with a parthage[sic] to and from it and cellar room for her vegetables, and also my son shall furnish my widow with 200 pounds of pork or a fattened hog weighing 200 pounds, and also she shall have a right to keep a pig although she shall find fodderage for it and feed it.

      (4th) Further, it is my will that my son Matheas shall give to my widow one third part of all the grain and produce that is raised on said far, during her natural life or state of widowhood.

      (5th) It is my will that my son Matheas shall furnish my widow with a sufficient quantity of wood for fuel or firewood fit for the use in the house.

      (6th) Is my will that my son Matheas [___?] widow shall have my kitchen cupboard, and also my cloth "drest" for to keep her clothes in it, also two beds ["bets"] with bedsteads and bed clothing, and coverlets.

      (7th) It is my will that [ after the decease of my widow or second marriage stroked out] all my moveable property shall be sold by publication and the proceeds thereof shall be equally divided among all my children and my widow so as to make it equal shares of it, that is to say at the time my son Matheas doth take the farm on his own hand.

      (8th) It is my will that my son Matheas shall have one yoke of oxen with thes[sic] or to the above said farm, without further charge.

      (9th) I declare this my Last Will and Testament and appoint for my Executors my trusty friends Jacob Borho and Joseph Sharbach.

      Witnessed by Gottleib Kurz and Bernhard Rich
      Will dated 10 August 1855
      Proved 13 September 1855
      Inventory £371/12/6

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      Mathias is reported to have been born in Reute, Biberach, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, documentation is needed

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  • Sources 
    1. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 2 Pg 79.

    2. [S93] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich, Maryhill - Saint Boniface Roman Catholic - www.findagrave. com.

    3. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100644068/mathias-fehrenbach.

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 17 Feb 1800 - , Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 10 Aug 1855 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Saint Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery, Maryhill, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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