St. Nazianz colony

Date: 1854
Location: Town of Eaton, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States
Surnames/tags: Manitowoc County Wisconsin settlers

Here for the moment there only are lists to be linked with profiles of these people coming from Baden, mainly from the Black Forest area, and settling in Manitowoc County, WI.^[1] For history of the place please refer to the chronicle "St. Nazianz, 1854-1954" by the St. Nazianz Centennial Committee or the Wikipedia article about the village. If you want to, you can also write a history paragraph of course.

The settlers went by train from Straßburg to Le Havre. From there they left on board of two ships on 15 June 1845.^[2] The settlers from Le Havre arrived in New York some weeks later:^[3]

• 1 August 1854 on ship New York^[4]
• 4 August 1854 on ship Regulator^[5]

Contents 1 Colony members in October 1855 1.1 Unmarried persons 2 Arrivals by 1856 3 Voluntary departures 4 Research notes 4.1 Census records 4.2 Urach 5 Further reading 6 Sources

Colony members in October 1855

• I: Joseph Burkert^[6]
  • Mary Ann Riesterer
  • Verena Fischer (servant)
• II: Bernard Guenter
  • Ursula Guenter
  • Genevieve Guenter
  • John Guenter
• III: George Bill
  • Victoria Bill
  • Lambert Bill
  • Ferdinand Bill
  • Therese Bill
• IV: Lorenz Busam
  • Barbara Busam
  • John Baptist Halder
  • Joseph Halder
  • Victoria Huber
• V: Ulrich Kunzweiler
  • Juliana Merken
  • Juliana Merken (daughter)
  • Joseph Merken
  • Norbert Sprang
  • Stephania Sprang
  • Augustin Mayer
• VI: John Matt
  • Elizabeth Matt
  • Anna Marie Matt
• VII: Joseph Habele
  • Katharine Habele
• VIII: Victor Kaltenbrun
  • Katharine Kaltenbrun
  • Louis Kaltenbrun
  • Fridolina Kaltenbrun
  • Simon Kaltenbrun
  • Helen Kaltenbrun
• IX: Eustach Wetter
  • Marcella Wetter
  • Philomena Wetter
  • Katharine Wetter
• X: Anton Wetterer
  • Therese Wetterer
  • Katharine Wetterer
  • Rose Wetterer
• XI: Matthias Sprang
  • Anton Sprang
  • Herman Sprang
  • Therese Sprang
• XII: Valentine Goetz
  • Waldburga Goetz
  • Anselm Goetz
  • Rose Goetz
  • Caroline Herkel
  • Margaret Weber
  • Margaret Herkel
  • Caroline Berberich
• XIII: Ambrose Oschwald
  • Margaret Oschwald
  • Mary Wenziger (Father's niece)
  • Catherine Sturz
• XIV: Mary Willmann
  • Gregory Willmann
  • Genoveve Willmann
  • Anastasia Willmann
  • Johanna Willmann
• XV: Joseph Sproll
  • Victor Heitzmann
  • Luke Sohm
  • Mary Ann Sohm
  • Scholastica Sohm
  • Joseph Staehle
• XVI: Jacob Frank
  • Gertrude Frank (his wife)
• XVII: Matthias Haungs
  • Katherine Haungs
• XVIII: Magdalen Schoch
  • Caroline Schoch
  • Susan Schoch
• XIX: Genoveve Gehring
  • Therese Gehring

Unmarried persons

• XX: Christian Schaetzle
  • Nicholas Foerderer
  • Joseph Neumann
  • Florentine Woelfle
  • Jacob Durst
  • Xaver Durst
  • Augustine Burger
  • Wunibald Neumeier
  • Simon Riesterer
  • Philipp Eisenloh
  • Paul Trost
  • Martin Zaehringer
  • Anton Stoll
• XXI: Carl Beidel
  • Theckla Beidel
  • Wilhelmina Beidel
  • Joseph Karl
• XXII: Magdalen Wochner
  • Theckla Nierenberger
  • Mary Ann Karl
  • Gertrude Karl
  • Katharine Mohr
  • Mary Ann Gulden
  • Magdalen Stiegeler
  • Francisca Heinewetter
  • Nannette Wohlfart
  • Helen Jutlikofer
  • Mary Muehlhaupt
  • Francisca Muehlhaupt
  • Eva Straub
  • Mary Heizmann
  • Rose Kleisser
  • Elizabeth Ebler
  • Philippina Ebler
  • Rose Faessler
  • Rose Zaehringer (* ca. 1819)^[7]
  • Waldburga Baehringer
  • Therese Herder
  • Caroline Bank
  • Therese Bank
  • Justina Bank
  • Mary Ursula Schilling
  • Mary Schaf

Arrivals by 1856

• Martin Durst
• Martin Carl
• Anton Zaehringer
• Leonard Frey
• George Woelfle
• John George Sonner
• George Grieshaber
• Bartholomew Baechle
• Peter Neiss
• Joseph Fessler
• Therese Sonner
• Victoria Zaehringer (actually came with New York in 1854 already)^[8]
• Mary Krieber
• Mary Profazi
• Mary Ann Reichert
• Juliana Mezger
• Agatha Mezger
• Jacob Mezger
• Josephine Mezger
• Margaret Goetz
• Carl Goetz
• Alois Goetz
• John Goetz
• Sebastian Goetz
• Margaret Goetz
• Caroline Goetz
• Frances Baechle
• Max Baechle (her son)
• Caroline Karcher
• Therese Karcher
• Caroline Neumaier
• Waldburga Neumaier
• Joseph Stahl
• Waldburga Stahl (his wife)
• Ernestine Stahl (children)
• Gregory Stahl
• Cyriac Stahl
• Maria Stahl
• Francis Joseph Stahl
• Anton Roth
• John Pflueger
• Rose Pflueger
• One Child Pflueger
• Henry Neiderprim
• Sebastian Clarer
• Lorenz Wiesler
• Eugidius Grotzinger

Voluntary departures

Besides ten others who remained here only a short time

• N Wilt
• Joseph Clausmann
• Lorenz Buersten
• Sebastian Clarer
• A sister from Münstertal
• Thaddaeus
• Joseph Buehler
• Ignatz Zuegler
• Benjamin Mayer
• Francis Joseph Yony
• Alois Heitzman
• John Annen
• Katharina Chesmaregg
• Leonard Mayer
• Anna Maria Mayer (his sister)
• Anselm Netzhammer

Research notes

• check passenger lists to separate actual first settlers from New York and Regulator from later arrivals
• wikipedia:de:Hundsbach (Forbach) claims that a lot of people emigrated to Manitowoc
• Big fire at St. Nazianz recalls unique history, Milwaukee Evening, 9 April 1918

Census records

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW93-987 : 18 March 2020), Mary Zunger in entry for Patrick Shea, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN9P-MVJ : 19 March 2020), Verena Fischer in entry for Joachim Kostermann, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN4B-YXD : 14 September 2017), Mary Priffets, Eaton, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district ED 63, sheet 68B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,434.
• United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMV8-ZTV : accessed 23 August 2020), Rosa Kleiser in household of Helena Klausman, Eaton township, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 65, sheet 13B, family 228, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,797.

Urach

Walter Fauler lists the following people as immigrated with Ambros Oschwald:^[9]

• Leo Heizmann (* 24 February 1839)
• Alois Heizmann (* 10 May 1833)
• Isidor Heizmann (* 2 April 1832), his brother
• Monika Willmann (* 27 April 1804)
• Anastasia Willmann (* 6 December 1815), her sister
• Pius Weißer (* 11 July 1825)

Further reading

• Hubert Treiber: Waiting for the End of the World at the End of the World: Millenarianism Miles from Nowhere. St. Nazianz (Wisconsin), online
• Walter Fauler: Urach im Schwarzwald - die Geschichte einer Talgemeinde, Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1996, p. 170–175

Sources

1. ↑ The lists were copied from a subpage of the website Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Genealogy that used to be maintained by Shari Milks. The list can also be found in St. Nazianz Centennial Committee: St. Nazianz 1854-1954, p. 23-25.
2. ↑ Johannes Werner: Vater Ambros Oschwald. Ein Leben als Priester, Heiler, Seher und Gründer in Baden und in Amerika. 2014, p. 41
3. ↑ Charlie Hessler: Re: %5BOrtenau%5D Fr. Oschwald and St. Nazianz, 17 October 2006
4. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-5NGV-Q : 21 May 2014), 143 - 25 Jul 1854-13 Aug 1854 > image 151 of 685; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-5N24-B : 21 May 2014), 143 - 25 Jul 1854-13 Aug 1854 > image 318 of 685; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ "Deutschland, Baden, Erzbistum Freiburg, katholische Kirchenbücher, 1678-1930," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WF8W-F16Z : 17 September 2019), Joseph Burgert, 29 Jan 1841; citing Marriage, Obermünstertal, Staufen, Baden, Deutschland, , Erzbischöfliches Archiv Freiburg (Archbishop's Archives), Germany.
7. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27RM-4LW : 12 March 2018), Rosa Zähringer, 1854; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 175,499.
8. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27RM-4VH : 14 August 2020), Victorine Fahringer, 1854; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 175,499.
9. ↑ Walter Fauler: Urach im Schwarzwald - die Geschichte einer Talgemeinde, Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1996, p. 175