Maria Elisabetha Schindler

Brief Life History of Maria Elisabetha

When Maria Elisabetha Schindler was born on 7 October 1816, in Tumringen, Lörrach, Kreis Lörrach, Baden, Germany, her father, Johann Martin Schindler, was 38 and her mother, Anna Maria Gempp, was 37. She married Johann Jakob Pfunder on 13 December 1849, in Tumringen, Lörrach, Kreis Lörrach, Baden, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 16 February 1898, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Rockville, Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Johann Jakob Pfunder
1820–
Maria Elisabetha Schindler
1816–1898
Marriage: 13 December 1849
William Pfunder
1839–1917
Maria “Minnie” Elisabetha Pfunder
1845–1869
Ludwig Pfunder
1850–1881

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  • Maria Elisabetha Schindelerin, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
  • Mary E Schindler Pfunder, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • Elisabeth Scholer in entry for Franz Josef Heitz and Elisabeth Pfunder, "Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau, Catholic Church Records, 1678-1930"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1826

"In 1726, Samuel Grant traded his farm in Bolton for 500 acres (2.0 km2) in the northern part of Bolton. This included the area which is now known as ""Rockville"" and for about the next century it was a nameless village"

1848 · Slavery is Abolished

In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Guenter, Reinhardt, Frieda, Horst, Rainer, Bernhard, Florian, Fritz, Gerd.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who made or laid wooden roof tiles, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’.

South German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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