GOERSDORF TOWN RECORDS.

Record 8 E 159

Register of payment of Royal contributions in hay.

1745 burghers : HANS GEORG BIESSER pays 39 Gulden.

HANS JACOB BIESSER pays 25 Gulden.

No BÜRGER payers.

Only one : Nicolaus BURGEN’s widow mentioned pays l6 Gulden.

Unverburgerte (Not burghers, also submitted to this contribution or tax)

Same year :

JACOB BÜRGER pays 3 Gulden.

JOHANNES BIESSER’s heirs pay : 5 Gulden.

In DIEFFENBACH

Same year same tax :

ANTON HÜTTLER pays 2 1/2 Gulden.

GUNSTETT

Hans HÜTTLER pays l Gulden.

Town accounts : HEIMBURGER RECHNUNG :

In year 1738 mention of :

Nicolaus BÜRCK payment of interest received on loaned town land.

In year 1760 : same tax : Allmend Zins

Named :

Georg BIESSER and

JACOB BÜRGER on 3 pieces of land pays : 3 Gulden.

Consequently to auction and account rendered in year 1757 :

An interest on town land loaned for 9 years by : JACOB BÜRGER

Will be charged : 15 Gulden.

(These accounts and taxes do not continue from year to year ; only some have been kept ; they do not seem to concern all persons in the community).

Again it names JACOB BÜRGER only after his arrival in GOERSDORF

(as we know from previous research).

It mentions the HITTLER family in both DIEFFENBACH and GUNSTETT.

It does have some doubtful BURG, BURCK probably not to be confused with BÜRGER.

WISSEMBOURG, WEILER notary records : (72) contracts

1736 :

Johann Michael BÜRGER, burgher here buys property described as one part near Jacob BÜRGERS widow.

1734 :

sale by JACOB BURG of RECHTENBACH and Margaretha his wife for themselves and for their heirs. Could be a connection.

1733 Philipp BURG in Rechtenbach ; acquires goods for 80 Gulden

Same :

Johann Christoph BURG from Rechtenbach acquires property in Wissembourg.

WISSEMBOURG catholic records :

Parish St Jean.

Baptism record :

In year 1748 the 24th of October was baptized by the undersigned vicar JOANNES NICOLAUS legitimate son of JOANNES JACOB BÜRGER, cattle shepherd in WEILER and to his wife Maria Magdalena BÜSSER. Godfather is Joannes Nicolaus Münch, young man in Weiller, godmother is Dorothea Stapfer, young girl in Weiller, undersigned.

Signature of : Hans Jacob Bürger

Johann Nicklaus Mingig

Checked marriages there : no marriage for them.

GUNSTETT Catholic Records :

One Johann GEORG HÜTTLER born 1717, on the 26th of December son of Johann HÜTTLER and Maria KUNTZ.

He is found married : in 1740, on the 31st of May to Catharina PHILIPS, daughter of Adam Philips in Gunstett.