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About Hans Matter
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RESEARCH NOTES FROM SALLY BECKSTINE GLISAN, PORTLAND, OR (1997) ON THE EARLY MATTER FAMILY: I have done research on the Matter family in Alteckendorf, the Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) area of Germany, now France. I have found Matters in Alteckendorf, Reitham, Buschwiller (now Bouxwiller), Dutzenheim, Neuwiller, and Hurtigheim before 1700. The ones from Reitham, Alteckendorf, Buschwiller, and Neuwiller are all related. You must watch for last names since some men had the first name of Matter also. The Buschwiller records show Matters back to 1580 and I hope to do more work on the Matters there. In 1653, when the church records start, there were two families of Matters. Adam and Margaretha Matter had four children and Hans and Catharina Matter had seven. I have been able to follow these children, their children, their grandchildren, and sometimes their great-grandchildren through the next 100 years. I have all the marriages of the children, and all of the children of the men. I have some of the children of the women but they are harder to follow in the old German language. The name MATTER is easy to spot in old German.
Hans Matter, born about 1614, and his wife Catharina, born in 1616, had 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls. All of their children stayed in Alteckdendorf and raised their children there. Only the last one, Andreas' birth was recorded in the church records because the church records only had 1 birth recorded before 1659. I found Andreas' birth record by using his age at death. The five boys had 12 sons who lived to manhood (no death records found). I do keep looking in all towns around. In the next generation, I have four missing. I believe that three of them came to America in 1751 on the ship Edinburgh.
The records say "the Schrifthansel and his wife Catharina had a young son and gave him the worthy name of Andreas." The Schrifthansel, I interpret as the writer Hansel. Hans is often referred to as the Schrifthansel and his death record says Matter Hans otherwise the Schrifthansel named Gerichtschoffen (court juror) from Eckendorf. The pastor at that time was a poor speller, a poor writer, and gave few facts. Little is known about Hans. He was educated and probably worked in the civil court. His children could write and at least two were "court jurors" also. Catharina lived until she was 82. Her death records state that she had a worthy burial in Eckendorf and was the widow of deceased Hans Matter. It was signed by Andreas and Jacob, two of their sons. Hans and Catharina lived through the Thirty Year War (1618-1648) when half of the German population died from war or plague. They probably married late since Catharina was 28 when the first daughter recorded was probably born. All of their children's marriages and death dates are recorded in the church records.
There were two towns, Altdorf and Eckendorf, which I found had merged to form Alteckendorf. The Matters belonged to a Reform Church in 1662 and probably as early as 1547 when the church in town turned Reform. During the 30 Year War the churches were burned or its records were. The records of a neighboring town go back to 1580 and there are Matters there but I can't find a connection to ours. Our Matters could write in the 1600's as there are a lot of signatures in the records. Since the church at Alteckendorf was destroyed during the Thirty Year War, their records do not begin until 1659 except for one birth record in 1653. The church at Buschwiller had some records of people from Alteckendorf but not a lot. I was in hopes of finding Hans and Adam had been born there but it was not so[1] About Alsace- Lorraine
Sources ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cramer/matter.htm
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Hans Matter's Timeline
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1614
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Altdorf Alsace-Lorraine, Germany/France
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1644
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1646
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1648
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Eckendorf Altdorf Alsace-Lorraine, Germany/France
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February 1650
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June 29, 1657
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Alteckendorf, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France
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1657
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April 1658
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Eckendorf, 67, BAS RHIN, FRA
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January 31, 1660
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