==family==
Matthias Theiss Fischbach 1, 2 was born about 1535 in , Oberfischbach, Westphalin, Germany. He died before 1619 in of, Freudenberg, Nassau-Sigen, Germany. Matthias married Elsa or Treina in Freudenberg, W. Phalia, Germany.
Elsa or Treina was born about 1539 in Freudenberg, W. Phalia, Germany. She died on 9 Oct 1615 in Freudenberg, W. Phalia, Germany. Elsa married Matthias Theiss Fischbach 1, 2 in Freudenberg, W. Phalia, Germany.
They had the following children.
# M i Theiss Wilhelm Fischback was born in 1578. He died after 1630.
# M ii Johan Fishback was born about 1565. He died in 1641.
# M iii Johann Fischbach was born about 1570 in Alchen, , Germany.
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# Holtzclaw, B. C. (Benjamin Clark), Nassau-Siegen immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750, Ancestry and descendants of the (Harrisonburg, Va. : Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, c1964 Staunton, Va. : McClure Printing Co.), p.145, FHL US/CAN 975.5 D2gd no. 5. "The following section on the earliest Fischbachs in Nassau-Slegen by Mr. Emit Flender traces the line of the Niederschelden Fischbachs as follows: Til van Fishbach (b. ca. 1415, d. ca. 1487) ; Johann van Fischbach (b. ca. 1440-50, d. ca. 1493) ; Johann Fischbach (b. ca. 1475-80, d. ca. 1546) (all these three men being owners of the ironworks at Niederndorf in the Fischbach parish, and the first and last being Schultheiss of the district of Freudenberg-representative of the Count and chief justice of the district court) ; Theiss (i.e., Matthias) Fischbach of Oberfischbach (b. ca. 1515, d. 1564/5) ; Johann Fischbach the elder of Niederschelden."
# Holtzclaw, B. C. (Benjamin Clark), Nassau-Siegen immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750, Ancestry and descendants of the, p.150. "Theiss Fischback of Freudenberg had in 1599 a net taxable property in Freudenberg of 188 1/2 Gulden, in 1594 he was subject to a levy of only a few pence (Batzen). His wife was named Elisa and she died at Freudenberg Oct. 9, 1615. Theiss Fischbach is not mentioned in the special land tax of 1619/20, and must have died before 1619."
==links==
* http://tmason1.com/pafg148.htm#5285
* http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Theiss_Oberfishbach_%281%29
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