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Christina Spath - wife of Matthias Dold. Christened on September 7, 1746 in Haigerach, Germany. This is a small community two miles northeast of Gengenbach. Her named is spelled various ways to include Speth, Spaeth, etc. Her parents listed on her marriage record are Johannes Jacob Spath and Catharina Hermann. She died on March 17, 1805 in Schwaibach.
Joseph Dold - father of Matthias Dold and husband of Anna Maria Schweissen.
Anna Maria Schweissen - mother of Matthias Dold and wife of Joseph Dold
Johannes Jacob Spath - father of Christina Spath and husband of Catharina Hermann. Christened on March 23, 1687 in Haigerach, Germany. He died on July 27, 1758 in Haigerach. He married Catharina Hermann on August 16, 1728 in Gengenbach. Johannes Jacob was first married to Lutgardis Gisler on November 2, 1726 in Gengenbach.
Catharina Hermann - mother of Christina Spath and wife of Johannes Jacob Spath. She was born c. 1707 (if age 21 at time of marriage) probably in Haigerach. She died on December 21, 1773 in Haigerach. After her husband died, she remarried on May 10, 1762 to Franciscus Joseph Armbruster.
Johannes ?Hans? Spath - father of Johannes Jacob Spath and husband of Catharina (maiden name unknown). He was born c. 1654 in Gengenbach. He married on June 17, 1679 in Gengenbach. Note that ?Hans? is a shortened version of Johannes as used in Germany.
Catharina (maiden name unknown) - mother of Johannes Jacob Spath and wife of Johannes ?Hans? Spath. She was bom c. 1658. My source for some reason, failed to get her maiden name that should be on her marriage record.
Barbara Maile - wife of Michael Heitzmann and mother of Ildephons Heitzmann. She was born on October 25, 1755 in Germany. She was the first wife of Michael Heitzmann, married on April
13,	1779 in Gengenbach. She died on November 15, 1788 in Dantersbach, Germany.
Anna Maria Bihler - wife of Johann Adam Heitzmann and mother of Michael Heitzmann. She was bom June 20, 1702, in Germany and died January 2, 1789 in Germany.
Katharina Lutz - wife of Johann Martin Heitzmann and mother of Johann Adam Heitzmann. She was bom on October 23, 1686 in Germany and died in Dantersbach.
Katharina Schrempp - wife of Zacharias Heitzmann/Heizmann and mother of Johann Martin Heitzmann. She was born January 31,1654 in Dantersbach, Germany and died there.
Maria Lehmann - wife of Christophorus Heizmann and mother of Zacharias Heitzmann/Heizmann. She was born and died in Germany.
Andreas Lehmann - father of Maria Lehmann. Bom and died in Germany.
Now that we have covered Carl Heitzmann's ancestors, we will now cover his life in America and his many descendants. With his arrival in New Orleans on June 5, 1854, he began his life as a poor immigrant after leaving his family behind in Germany. He was fortunate in that he did have a trade as a
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