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From: David CARTWRIGHT <>
Subject: WEBER of Alsace to 1793
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:57:22 +1000 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <044101c5f8eb$00688520$5c406c18@MOMSI>

I posted a request similar to this about a year ago, but I haven't made much progress since then, so any help would be appreciated.

I have a very poorly-defined problem to find a WEBER ancestor from Alsace.
Family lore says that he had a "castle" in Alsace, but gave up his title and "castle" in about 1793 so that he wouldn't have to fight against his "German brothers". He also changed his name to Johann David DIEBEL. He died in Wesselburen, Schleswig-Holstein, 21 Jan 1828, aged 49, so, if the age given was correct, he would have been born about 1779. I don't know whether he also changed his forenames.
I have a letter written to my great grandmother by her sister, Anna Magdalena DIEBEL in 1873 (when she returned to Melbourne, Australia from a visit to Germany ) in which she says "I have seen grandfather's castle and it is beautiful".

As a (new) staring point, I thought it might be helpful to have a list of nobles in Alsace for the years just before 1793; does anyone know if such a list exists and if so, how I might obtain a copy of it.

I have spent almost a year tracing the family of Michel Phillipe de WEBER, 1697 - 1877 from Wissembourg/Germersheim/Zweibrucken and Mannheim, but eventually found that he had only 2 daughters who survived to adulthood, so he can't be "mine" . As part of this, I have copied the WEBERs who appeared to be of high rank from the parish reisters for the Roman Catholic churches for Germersheim, Wissembourg, Zweibrucken/Deuxponts and one for Mannheim; if anyone is interested in this or related families, I would be pleased to share this information.
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From Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Cheers
David

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