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From: Brendan Wehrung <>
Subject: Dintenger
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:36:09 -0700 (PDT)

This name was asked about a little while ago. I only
researched what I needed for my family history, and
since it is short I decided to paste it into an e-mail
and send it. Corrections or additions would be
appreciated.

Brendan Wehrung

DINTINGER

While not a chain of absolute proof, the line of
ancestry of Anna Dorthea, wife of Johann Dietrich Bach
of Voellerdingen is reasonably clear. Their marriage
is preserved in the church book of Drulingen, which
for a 10-year period was responsible as well for the
church function in Berg and Thal, tiny hamlets mid-way
between two larger villages. The names of parents of
a bride or groom were not considered necessary in
early church records, but there seems only one
candidate actually living in the tiny village of Thal.
To learn more, it became necessary to discover which
churches had been responsible for Berg and Thal prior
to 1705 (when Drulingen assumed responsibility), and
these proved to be, successively, Diemeringen (LDS
film # 072365 and Bockenheim (LDS film # 0799587).
The order proved to be unfortunate, in that
Bockenheim's records are incomplete from the
mid-1680's until 1698, so that a gap in documentation
exists. But names are consistent on both sides of the
hiatus, and such small localities offer no alternative
families from which to construct an alternate lineage.
This listing was prepared with the aid of Gerhard
Hein's invaluable indexes.

NICLAUS DINTINGER
d by 1670
m Johanetta

Among other interesting assertions Hein discovered is
one he found in a book by Gustav Matthis, saying that
Niclaus Dintinger came to the area in 1644, in the
company of two or three other families. Some of these
proceded on the Eywiller, while, while Niclaus settled
in Mackwiller. The Dintinger family saga, what there
is of it, begins with this "meier" (dairy farmer) of
Mackwiller, Berg and Thal--that is, he was identified
with these places in succession. No baptismal records
cover the period after 1650, and when his name appears
again (when his children married), Niclaus was
deceased, the late "meier" of Berg.
It is entirely possible that he shared some
relationship with the Dintinger family of Wolfskirchen
(some distance from Thal, not so far from Eywiller).
issue:
a) SIMON DINTINGER (see below)
bp the Sunday after Christmas 1645
(Diemeringen?, Alsace)
m ANNA KUNEGUNDA FRANTZ, 9 Oct 1666

b) Anna Dintinger
m Theobold Hckel, 20 Oct 1665
(Wolfskirchen, Alsace)

c) daughter
bp 17 Mar 1647

d) Agnes Dintinger
bp 2 Feb 1649

e) Anna Dorthea Dintinger
bp 29 Dec 1650
m Andreas Schoenenberger, 9 Mar 1670

f) Anna Barbara Dintinger
m Simon Schaefer, 29 April 1670
b Harskirchen, Alsace

g) Anna Catharina Dintinger
m Caspar Freund, CFeb 1681 (Berg)

* * * * *

SIMON DINTINGER [ ]
bp the Sunday after Christmas 1645
m ANNA KUNEGUNDA FRANTZ [ ], 9 Oct 1666

Always admitting that surviving data is minimal, it
seems possible to establish several things. First,
Simon Dintinger was probably the eldest of his name in
Thal. He (and/or his wife) only appear as godparents
there. Had he been a contemporary of Caspar, just
below, he would have appeared as a father as well.
More telling is the appearance of two of his children
as godparents in 1710. Since a child was not usually
given the honor of being a godparent until after being
confirmed about age 14, Simon's named children could
have been born no later than 1696. Thus I establish
him as putative paterfamilias.
It is interesting to note that there were more than
one established Dintigen families in Berg (during the
1704-1712 period of Drulingen record-keeping Theobold
and Jacob Dintinger were fathering children), and
Dintingers of Berg appeared as godparents for the
baptism of Caspar of Thal. Simon was almost certainly
born in Berg, although his christening was recorded in
the Diemeringen church book. One oddity is that when
his second child was baptized, Simon was mentioned as
being "the younger," suggesting that an elder of the
same name (an uncle?) lived nearby. It is a pity
records don't exist to connect these loose threads.
Like his father, Simon Dintinger was a dairy farmer.
issue:
a) Hans Martin Dintinger
b 30 Oct (bp 3 Nov) 1667 (Berg)
bur 31 May 1681 (Diemeringen)

b) Anna Catharina Dintinger
bp 8 April 1670 (Berg, Alsace)

c) Caspar Dintinger
m ?
issue:
a) Eva Elisabetha Dintinger
b 17 July 1705 (Thal)

b) Hans Georg Dintinger
b 23 July 1709 (Thal)

c) Anna Catharina Dintinger
b 21 Oct 1711 (Thal, Alsace)

d) ANNA DORTHEA DINTINGER ?
m JOHANN DIETRICH BACH, 15 Mar 1708(Berg)
bp 8 Oct 1680 (Voellerdingen)

The first mention of Anna Dorthea was
when she appeared as a godparent on
December 11, 1701 in Dehlingen, there
referred to as Catharina Dorthea, daughter
of Simon Dntinger, "meyer" of Thal.
No birth record survives.

e) Peter Dintinger

Peter, son of Simon Dintinger,
appeared as a godparent on Nov. 1, 1710.

f) Anna Maria Dintinger

Anna Maria, daughter of Simon
Dintinger, appeared as a godparent
on October 17, 1710.


g) OTHERS ?

It seems likely that there were
other children, not recorded in the
Drulingen church book.

* * * * *

ANNA DORTHEA DINTINGER
m JOHANN DIETRICH BACH, 15 Mar 1708 (Berg, Alsace)
bp 8 Oct 1680 (Voellerdingen, Alsace)




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