When Johann Christoph Schuchardt was born on 15 November 1824, in Schernberg, Schernberg, Kyffhäuserkreis, Thüringen, Germany, his father, Johann Heinrich SCHUCHHARDT, was 32 and his mother, Susanna Dorothea RITTER, was 30. He married Martha Caroline Schade on 26 October 1845, in Kleinwelsbach, Langensalza, Saxony, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 23 October 1859, in Thamsbrück, Langensalza, Saxony, Prussia, Germany, at the age of 34.