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Hausch Family History
Our direct immigrant ancestor for this family was Anna ?Barbara? Hausch. While her family name is spelled fairly consistently throughout the German records, once in the United States, we find it misspelled as Haush, Hauch, Hause, House, Haus, etc. She was bom on December 31, 1836 and died on November 3, 1911 as listed on her headstone in the Bayou La Croix, MS Cemetery. The headstone lists her name as ?Barbara M. Zengarling,? and she is buried next to her husband, ?John Zengarling.? With this cemetery information, we tried for years to locate where in Germany she came from.
One day in 2004, we were searching the internet and found one of her sisters listed, which soon led us to Barbara Hausch, her siblings, parents, grandparents, etc. A very nice lady, Kathy Brant Bonnell, had translated many of the church records in Jebenhausen and nearby villages in the Goppingen District which is part of the German State of Wurttemberg. Mrs. Bonnell is a Hausch descendant and lives in Social Circle, GA. She has a copy of these church records that she obtained from the Latter Day Saints. While we obtained some records directly from the Lutheran Church in Jebenhausen, her excellent research takes us back several more generations in Germany. We will always be grateful for her help and her putting this information on the website ?WorldConnect.Rootsweb.com?.
We now have a photocopy of Barbara Hausch?s original baptismal record found at the Lutheran Church in Jebenhausen, Germany. The record was sent to us by the Landeskirchliches Archiv, Stuttgart, Germany. Her baptismal record clearly says her correct name was ?Anna Barbara Haush,? born on December 30, 1837 in Jebenhausen to Johann ?Michael? Hausch and Christina Friederike Schrag. This information fits perfect with the information that we have on her in the various United States records. An example is her ?re-baptism? record at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. This record says ?Anne Barbara Haush? was bom in ?Wittemberg in Germany on December 31, 1839? and baptized on April 29, 1879? (Bapt. Bk. 2, p. 135). Slight errors in birth dates are common as any researcher will attest. We will use the date on her baptismal record as her true date of birth. Her parents named were ?Michel Haush and Christana Shack?. The reason she was baptized a second time was because she was converting to Catholicism - the religion of her husband.
Barbara Hausch grew up in the small village of Jebenhausen, Germany which is located approximately 24 miles southeast of Stuttgart. Jebenhausen was first mentioned in 1199 as the domain (estate) of Adelberg. In 1467-68, Baron Conrad von Liebenstein was given ownership of Jebenhausen, and it remained in this family?s possession until 1806 when the village became part of the kingdom of Wurttemberg. The Liebenstein family still occupies the ?Castle? that their ancestors built in 1610. In 1777, 20 Jewish families were allowed to settle in Jebenhausen. The Jewish population later opened factories and other businesses in the area. By 1850 there were 550 Jews in the Jebenhausen area compared to 700 Christians. They also had become an economic powerhouse that controlled the local economy. By the end of the 1800?s, most of the Jews had moved to Filstal, a larger city in southern Germany. While few Jews live in the old village today, it is still recognized for its Jewish heritage.
Over the years, Jebenhausen and many of the surrounding villages were incorporated into the District of Goppingen. We have learned that many of the locals