Anna Elisabetha Ritthaler was born on 9 Dec 1772 in Ellerstadt, Neustadt, Kurfürstentum Pfalz (Electoral Palatinate[1] - nowadays Ellerstadt (Wachenheim), Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She was the daughter of Jacob Ritthaler and Susanna Metzger. Evangelical lutheran baptism took place in Ellerstadt, Neustadt, Kurfürstentum Pfalz on 13 Dec 1772.
After the death of her mother 1780 in Ellerstadt, she emigrated with her father and siblings to Brigidau, Galicia.From 1788 they are listed as a family in Brigidau.[2] She belongs to the first Ritthalers, who emigrated as colonists from the Palatinate to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (today Ukraine)[3] to Brigidau, Falkenstein and other places and founded the Ritthaler family line of Galician-Germans there. Their descendants eventually emigrated to America and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries.
She married Johann Georg Täuber (1769-1809) in Brigidau=Laniwka, Stryj, Galizien on 14 Sep 1790.[4]
She remarried Johann Martin Heuchel (1761-1831) on 27 April 1819 in Brigidau=Laniwka, Stryj, Galizien.[5]
She passed away on 13 Aug 1820 in Brigidau=Laniwka, Stryj, Galizien.
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