NOTES

    Wives are listed under their married names, with the family name appearing second to last.  Note that the female form of a family name (surname) was sometimes used in the original church records.  So with the addition of "in" to the family name a daughter of Michael Bartsch, for example, might be recorded as Barbara Bartschin.  In this listing Barbara Weigang, née Bartsch,  then appears as Barbara Bartsch(in) Weigang, or, as the case for Maria Elisabeth Mader, née Zeissberger, requires, Maria Elisabeth Zeissberger(in) Mader.

    The early spelling of Weigang was sometimes rendered as Weÿgang in the Habelschwerdt church records.  That was the case for Anton Florian Weigang (d.o.b. 19-AUG-1749) in the records of his marriage and of the birth of most all of his children. It appeared also, but rarely, in the records for Anton Florian's father, Joseph Weigang (d.o.b. 01-FEB-1723).   But it appeared not at all in the records for Joseph's father, Casper Weigang (d.o.b. ca. 1675). 

    The variations in spelling raises the question of relationship between the Silesian Weigang's and the Weygang's of Bautzen and Öhringen.  For an outline (in German) of this Weygang family and its history up to the modern era, see the website for the Villa Weigang (follow the link for "HAUS", then for "FAMILIE").

    Profession and Status:  "A 'stückmann' is a farmer who owns only one, sometimes several small 'stücke' (pieces) of land.   He is less than a rich 'bauer' but more than a 'gärtner'. A 'gärtner' (not a mere gardener) is a poor man who owns just his house, a vegetable garden and some fruit-trees. He cannot survive on what he possesses but must work for someone else."   "'Ausgedinger' is a parent still living that has passed on the estate to the son."   (European Cousins, Paris, France and Bremen, Germany)

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Thanks are due for:

    Information and stories saved and shared among many cousins of the Silesian Texas Weigang's.

    The Family History Center of Orange Grove, Mississippi.  Their able assistance provided for access to the following microfilms of the Habelschwerdt Katholische Kirchenbuch, 1691-1870:

        1048597 through 1048609.

    Information and genealogy shared by the European cousins of Leipzig, Germany   Their assistance led to the microfilms of the Habelschwerdt Kirchenbuch, 1691-1920:

        1608685 through 1608687, 1957294, and 2102070,

accessed through the Family History Center of Bangor, Maine.

    Information and genealogy shared by the European cousins in Paris, France who gave permission also for incorporating the link to the GeneaNet webpage for the Simon family  -- and  their friends in Bremen, Germany, who kindly shared photocopies of microfilm records for the Lorentz Prause family from the microfilms of the Habelschwerdt Kirchenbuch, 1691-1920:

        1608681 and 1608686.

    (See http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp for library catalog entries for all the microfilms.)

    The many corrections to spellings of family names generously offered by the European cousins in Paris and Bremen, while the errors undoubtedly remaining are the responsibility solely of "oweigang", the webmaster.

    Information about the Weygang family and its history shared by Peter Weygang and his cousin Adolph Weygang.