Hans Heinrich Holzklau (1646 - bef. 1711)

Born 1646 in Weidenau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany

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Died before 25 Aug 1711 before age 65 in Oberfischbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany

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Biography

"Hans Henrich Holzklau, son of Johannes and Hebel Holzklau, was born at Weidenau 1646/7 and died at Oberfischbach, where his son, Jacob, was then schoolmaster, in August, 1711, aged about 65 years, and was buried there Aug. 25, 1711. In 1664 he was admitted to the Guild of Smelterers and Hammersmiths, but later followed his father's original calling of schoolmaster.

"He married as quite a young man, Gertrud, probably daughter of Johann Solbach of Siegen. She died at Trupbach some time after 1683, when her youngest child, the emigrant Jacob Holtzclaw, was born, and before 1692, when the death register at Siegen begins. She was born in 1644.

"The baptismal register at Siegen shows that Hans Henrich Holzklau was schoolmaster at Trupbach 1667-70 and again after 1681, though he had passed on the office to his eldest son, Johannes Holzklau, by 1693. From 1671 to about 1680, the baptismal register of Krombach shows that he was schoolmaster at that comparatively large village in the northern part of Nassau-Siegen. There is still standing at Trupbach a very old chapel, which is probably the same in which Hans Henrich Holzklau taught, and in which his sons, Johannes and Jacob, went to school."^[1]

Children (first two baptized at Trupbach, next seven at Krombach, last two at Trupbach):

1. Catharina (1667)
2. Johannes (1670)
3. Anna Margaretha (1672)
4. Christina (1673)
5. Johann Hermann (1674; godfather, Johann Hermann Solbach, son of Hermann Solbach, pastor at Krombach)
6. Guetje (Guda) (1676)
7. Thoeniges (Anton) (1678)
8. Johann Henrich (1679)
9. Caspar (1679)
10. Clara (1681)
11. Hans Jacob (1683)

Sources

1. ↑ B.C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750 (Harrisonburg, Virginia: The Germanna Foundation, 1964), pp. 227-28.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Holzklau-3 created through the import of Comstock for Wiki.ged on Jul 27, 2011 by Kay Haden.

• WikiTree profile Holtzclaw-17 created through the import of My Ancerstors.ged on Jul 2, 2011 by Mike Snider.