The Family Of: Joseph Schlegel (Josef, Colonist) ______________________________________________________________________ Birth: - -1735 Mutschelbach, Schwaben, Germany Marriage: - -1760 Death: - -1801 Neuborm Burial: Father: Mother: ______________________________________________________________________ Wife: Maria Eva Scholl Schlegel ______________________________________________________________________ Birth: - -1733 Baden-Durlach Death: - -1822 Freidrichs Wiese Burial: Father: Georg Scholl Mother: Eva Scholl ______________________________________________________________________ Children ______________________________________________________________________ Margaretha Schlegel Gasmann (M. Babara) [F] Birth: - -1759 Death: - -1849 Spouse: Hans Jurgen Gasmann Maria Cathrina Schlegel [F] Birth: 07-OCT-1766 Neuborm, Schleswig-Holstein Death: Spouse: Juergen Wilhelm Schlegel [M] Birth: 08-NOV-1769 Fockbeck, Schleswig-Holstein Death: 05-MAY-1852 Neuborm, Schleswig-Holstein Spouse: Anna Ketelsen Schlegel Eva Cathrina Schlegel [F] Birth: 12-MAR-1771 Neuborm, Schleswig-Holstein Death: Spouse: Johann Schlegel [M] * Mother: Maria Eva Grosser(?) Schlegel Birth: 18-FEB-1774 Neuborm, Schleswig-Holstein Death: Spouse: Christina Schlegel [F] Birth: 22-JUL-1778 Neuborm, Schleswig-Holstein Death: Spouse: Comments for: Joseph Schlegel (Josef, Colonist) Acquired plot G 18/7 in Aug. 31, 1766, moving from Julianenebene G 14/16. Letter of Sept 8, 1991 from Werner Tams: 230 years ago the Danish King Friederick the V opened up new territory in the Schleswig part [of Schleswig- Holstein]. He had advertised far south in Germany and in the Reinland and Hessen area. He set aside free land. The people came [including] our ancestor Josef Schlegel with his wife. They first settled in Fockbek, near Rendsburg; then came to Neuborm. Came from Muschel Back, Baden-Baden, near Carlsruhe, the trip taking five weeks with oxenwagons, pots, tools, and plows. They spoke Schaebish ["Schwabish", i.e., dialect of Schwaben region], a dialect of southern Germany completely different from Plattdeutsch (Low-land German). The newcomers had to learn Low German, the language of that region. "But we are all Bormer" -- "Schlegels" would be Colonists of the Mierhof (pp. no. 3, 4) Letter of Renate Marquardt (22 JUL 2002): Joseph Schlegel was a tailor. He came to Rendsburg on 8 AUG 1761, then to Gottorf 20 MAY 1763 as a reserve colonist. He got his first place on 6 SEPT 1763 in Julianenebene G 14/16 up to 14 AUG 1765. Then he went "out of land" because he was afraid [he could] not earn his bread. [He] probably [went] to Dithmarschen (not far away), because there farm laborers were [sought(?)]. He came back and got G 18/7 in Neuboerm on 31 AUG 1766. .... Most of the colonists -- 108 -- came from Durlach. Comments for: Maria Eva Scholl Schlegel Margaretha Schlegel Gasman may be only a stepdaughter ("stieftochter"). Apparently moved to live with Margaretha in Fr. Wiese when husband Joseph Schlegel died. She later died there.