Week 14 2023: Begins with a Vowel #52Ancestors

Coming from a Catholic family, I’ve lots of Anns, Annas, and the like in my tree. But just two Anthonys – one my paternal grandfather, Anthony Joseph Glacy (who went by “Tony”) and the other my fifth great-grandfather, “Antonius Schilling.” Because I am regularly confused (hence this blog’s name), it wasn’t until recently that I realized that Antonius Schilling is my ancestor on two of my branches which merge with the marriage of my great-grandparents Joseph Glacy and Anna Marie Müller (Anthony’s parents) in New York City.  

 Antonius was the son of Johannes Adam Schilling and Lucia Hentgenin.[1] Born in Wernersberg, Germany, in 1711 (and, yes, FamilySearch has a copy of his baptismal record!), he married Maria Katharina Müller (the daughter of Johannis Valentini Müller and Anna Eva Thinsein) in 1737.[2] Their daughter Maria Catharina and her husband Johannes Thomas Masser had two daughters: Christina and Anna Barbara (my fourth and third great-grandmothers respectively) whose decedents married one another about 150 years after Antonius was born.[3] This is too hard to explain without a chart.

 Enjoy.

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[1] Catholic Parish, Wernersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Tauf.-Sterbe-Ehe-Register (1688-1786), p. 26, baptism of Antonius Schilling (14 September 1714); image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJB-D3G5-Z?i=22&cat=86308 : accessed 23 April 2023), digital film 008110704 > image 23 of 254.

[2] Catholic Parish, Wernersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Tauf.-Sterbe-Ehe-Register (1688-1786), p. 383, marriage of Antonius Schilling – Maria Katharina Müller (30 April 1737); image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJB-D3G5-N?cat=86308 : accessed 23 April 2023), digital film 008110704 > image 216 of 254.

[3] They were second cousins, once-removed.