Johann "Hans" Adam Edelmayer / Edelmeier

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!NAME: Also found as Jean Henry EDELMEYER.

!BIOG: Johann Adam was a Calvinist, born near Heidelberg, Germany. He ws a

cooper by trade. he converted to catholicism on 10 May 1743 at St. Charles

Borromeo Church, Destrehan, LA.

!SOUR: Tassin, Anthony. 1990. Tassin-Breaud Genealogy. In Les Voyageurs, v.

XI, no. 1. p. 24-31.

!SOUR: Conrad, Glenn. 1972. St. Jean-Baptiste des Allemands, Civil Records

1753-1803

!BIRTH SOURCE: Robichaux, Jr., Albert J. ; "German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana" Author: Publication: Published in 1997, Hébert Publications. pp. 160 & 164.

Hans Adam EDELMAIER was baptized on January 22, 1671. The witness was Hans Adam KILLINGER, lawyer of Sintzheim. Hans Adam EDELMAYER was confirmed at Reihen on April 19, 1685 at the age of 14 years.

Before immigration to Louisiana, it is certain that Hans Adam EDELMAYER returned to Reihen, because a child was baptized there in the latter part of 1719. Although the notations was not found, Hank Z. Jones, in his book "More Palatine Families", states, "In the registers of the church at 6920 Reihen (near Sinsheim), the Pastor noted that one Hans Adam EDDELMEYER was a emigrant 1720/21.

Henry Z. Jones, Jr. More Palatine Families (San Diego: Hank Z. Jones, Jr.,, 1991) p. 516.

On the 1724 Census the following information about Jean Adam EDELMAYER was recorded:

    No. 57: Jean Adam EDELMAYER, 50, native of Reihen in the Palatinate, Calvinist, cooper; his wife; two sons, one of fourteen years, the other, ten; two hogs; three arpents of terrain. He has harvested about twenty barrels of grains. He is a very good worker who merits attention. His is a destroyer of birds. His daughter is married with Lionnois, a sailor, son of a butcher from the slaughter house of St. Paul at Lyon.

On Janauary 1, 1726, Jean Adam EDETMEN, wife, and three children were enumerated at the German village called Allemands.

From Les Voyaguers by Eileen L. Behrman

iNFORMATION OBTAINED FROM FOLLOWING SOURCES:

D DEILER-"SETTLEMENT OF THE GERMAN COAST OF LA."

LRC LITTLE RED CHURCH RECORDS (ST. CHARLES BORROMEO, DESTRAHAN, LA.)

DV DEVILLE -"NEW ORLEANS FRENCH"

DVR DEVILLIER-"OPELOUSAS pOST"

G GIANELLI- "D'AVERSBOURG RECORDS"

C-SC CONRAD -"ST. CHARLES PH., LA. CIVIL RECORDS 1770-1803"

C-SJB CONRAD-"ST. JOHN BAPTIST PH., LA. CIVIL RECORDS 1753-1803"

B BODIN-"ACADIAN & LOUISIANA CHURCH RECORDS"

F-P FORSYTH-PLEASONTON-"LA. MARRIAGE CONTRACTS"

SJA ST. JAMES CHURCH RECORDS, ST. JAMES, LA.

SJ ST. JAMES PARISH, LA. COURTHOUSE RECORDS, CONVENT, LA.

SL ST. LANDRY CHURCH RECORDS, OPELOUSAS, LA.

Title: German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana Author: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. Publication: Published in 1997, Hébert Publications Note: LCCN: 96078542 Dewey: 929/.3/089310763 LC: F380.G3 R63 1997

Johann Adam Edelmayer (Edelmeier, Hedelmayer, Aidelmayer, Delmire) the

progenitor of this family in La., was born 23 January 1671 in Reiheim,

Palatinate, Germany, son of Abraham Edelmayer and Verena Hirtzel (German

Coast Records). Quoting from Hanno Deiler's "Settlement of the German Coast of La., 'the Palatinate of the eighteenth century was much larger than the present Palatinate (1909) and included the northern portions of Baden and Wurtemberg

The first record I have found on Johann Adam Edelmeier is the official census for the German Coast of La., taken in Nov. 1724. It states he is 50 years old, and a cooper (barrel maker) by trade. This census gives his religion as Calvinist, but the records of ST. Charles Borromeo

Catholic Church, St. Charles Parish, La. show that on 10-May-1743 ther was a profession of faith" by Jean Adam Edelmeier (Lrc p22) and on 8-June-1743 (LRC p22 1/2) one by his wife, Anne Catherine Kaime (Klein).

The census of 1731 states the couple had five children, one negro

and two cows.

Jean Adam Edelmeier died 8-June-1747 (LRC P 44 1/2), and his widow married on17-February-1749 to Bernhard Anton. Jean Adam married first in Germany 2-Nov.-1701 (GERMAN CHURCH RECORDS) to Marie Barbara Lautermilch. I have not found a record of her death, nor of his second marriage, Of the children listed below Marie Barbara was definitely of the first marriage (her marriage record) and it is possible that the second and third children were also. At the time of the 1724 census, they were 14 and 10 years old.

The date of Jean Adam Edelmayer and Marie Dorthea Lautermilch's immigration to Louisiana is not known for certain, but they were among the first settlers on the German Coast. It is possible she died during the journey. He settled at the lower end of the German village in an area just below present-day Hahnville, on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. the 1724 census lists him as living on Lot No. 57 with his wife, two sons ages ten and fourteen, and a daughter, Marie Barbara, married to Lionnois, a sailor from Lyons. He is listed as a cooper with three arpents clear, two pigs and "a very good worker, worthy of attention."

In the 1726 census he was living with his wife and three children and had six arpents of land cleared. Sometime after 1731, an undated list of landowners shows him as having eight arpents. in the Little Red Church, during May 1743, Jean Adam Edelmayer made a profession of faith from Calvinist to Catholic. His wife made her profession of faith on 8 Jun 1743.

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1724 German Coast census (Deiler: German Coast, p. 89): "Johann Adam Edelmeier, of Reiheim Palatinate. Calvinist; 50 years old. Cooper. Two boys, 10 and 14 years of age. A daughter, Maria Barbara, married Lionnois, a sailor from Lyons. Three arpents cleared. Two pigs. 'A very good worker, who deserves attention.'" "1726: Six arpents cleared." "1728: Marie Christine Edelmeier baptized." "1731: Five children. One negro; two cows."

1726 Louisiana census: "At the village called Allemands: Jean Adam Edelmen, wife, 3 children."

Maduel: Census Table (144), p. 42, 53.

!SOURCE: Robichaux, Jr., Albert J. ; "German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana" Author: Publication: Published in 1997, Hébert Publications. pp. 161.

Johann EDELLMAYER was baptized on January 11, 1680. The witnesses were Johann Georg HILSPACH and Anna BRENNEYSIN.