Johann Albrecht Spiegel (1605 - 1683)

Born 4 Aug 1605 in Nagold, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire

Ancestors

Husband of Margaretha (Stengel) Spiegel — married 3 May 1625 in Nagold, Wuerttemberg, Germany

Descendants

Died 5 Jul 1683 at age 77 in Nagold, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire

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Biography

Johann Albrecht Spiegel was born at Nagold in 1605, son of Hans Spiegel and Anna Baur He lived at Nagold, Württemberg, where he was a "Bader" (barber surgeon) and may have apprenticed with his older half-brother, Ludwig, who was also a "Bader" at Nagold. Albrecht married twice and was father of 17 children, many of whom died in infancy. Two died in a plague epidemic in the fall of 1635 (one of the worst years of the Thirty Years War), then his first wife and two more children died in January, 1638. All of his surviving sons became barber-surgeons, the oldest son remained in Nagold, the others settled in nearby towns.

Sources

• Taufbuch und Ehe Buch (Baptismal and Marriage Register), 1560-1626, Evangelische Kirche Nagold, 1560-1898, LDS film #1201923, p. 191 in Register. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61023/1201923-00195?pid=9497151&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EVG21331&_phstart=successSource#?imageId=1201923-00190
• Totenbuch (Death Register), 1628-1893, Evangelische Kirche, Nagold, 1560-1898, LDS microfilm #1201925, p. 131 in Register, Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61023/1201925-00957?pid=10490045&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EVG21335&_phstart=successSource#?imageId=1201925-00972
• Prof. Dr. Burkhart Oertel, Ortssippenbuch der Oberamtsstadt NAGOLD, Kreis Calw in Württemberg, Teil I: Die Kernstadt 1560-1910. Neubiberg (1991), #5512, p. 319.