NOTARY RECORDS OF WISSEMBOURG

9^th of December, 1746 :

Compares JACOB BÜRGER, presently resident in BOBENTHAL, concerning his claim against his father : PETER BÜRGER in GOSSERSWEILLER (Pfaltz jurisdiction) ; concerning his heritage. As on the time of death of his mother MAGDALENA GAHLA, wife of PETER BÜRGER, the inheritance record passed on the 29th of August, 1737, referred to a donation made by his mother in his favour on house and several other properties ; as he did not receive these since that time, he made a claim on the subject in front the Sovereign Alsace Council (Conseil souverain d’Alsace at residence of Colmar) on the subject ; but was not given right to this in lifetime of his father, and reminded to his filial duties.

He has accepted the sentence and renounced any right on the house and goods so far, except those he already received in money at time of his mother’s death. In presence of his father, here in Wissembourg notary court undersigned : JACOB BÜRGER, PETER BÜRGER.

This is a record that is not for sure referring to your JACOB BÜRGER but could so ; as we know his father was in Weiler, Langenburg, and around in the period 1746 ; a child may have been born in Bobenthal ( ?) not far from Wissembourg, or in Pfaltz, depending on the Wissembourg jurisdiction at that time.

As we know he had to buy a house in Goersdorf, about this period. The inventory of Magdalena GAHLA may have been passed later than her death took place, as usual (one year eventually) ; with a sum of money, Jacob BÜRGER could have left Gossersweiler, in conflict with his father about the house, and settled in Goersdorf ?

This is not for sure as there is no other clue as to Jacob’s wife in this document or other.

The rest of my continued research in notary records of WISSEMBOURG, inventories of WEILER, brings more BÜRGER results with no JACOB heir, or contracts in Rechtenbach, Schweighoffen, with no further Jacob in any of those.

The WOERTH notary records do not bring evidence (checked again contracts of period 1760 to 1765) of novelties concerning Jacob and family ; some obviously missed and I supposed they could have been joined to later records, or remembered in the children’s records. Not so far.