Shipp/Killham/Mais/Hyer of Kansas City:Information about Johann Otterbach
Johann Otterbach (b. Aft. 1550, d. Bef. 1599)
Notes for Johann Otterbach:
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Johann is believed to have been from the vicinity of Diserfeld in the southern part of the Nassau-Siegen area.The family name seems to have taken its form based on a farm, 'in der Otterbach' (translates to 'on otter brook') in the township of Niederfischbach, in the county of Sayn, just south of Nassau-Siegen.The area is mentioned a number of times in early records.The baptismal register of the church of Freudenberg, for example, show as late as 12 Mar 1748 the christening of a young son of Noell (i.e., Arnold) Otterbach, a citizen of Freudenberg, and his wife Catharina, the godfather being the father's brother, Weigand Otterbach, son Eberhard Otterbach "in der Otterbach." The origin of the family in the County of Sayn fits in, too, with the first appearance of the name in Eiserfeld, which was close to the border between Sayn and Nassau-Siegen. There were Otterbachs in Sayn in the 17th century, too, for on 20 Mar 1670 the court records show that Ludwig Otterbach of Herdorf in the County of Sayn, his daughter's husband, Sebastian Hoeber of Winderstein in the township of Burbach, and his two unmarried sons, Johannes and Johann Philipp Otterbach, acknowledged to their respective wife, mother-in-law and mother (name not given) that they had sold inherited property at Seelbach in Nassay-Siegen to Johannes Heimbach, Associate Justice of the Hain Court, and his wife Catharina for 220 Gulden. Though no direct kinship of this Ludwig Otterbach with the Nassau-Siegen family can be shown, it is obvious that he had married a woman from Seelbach, perhaps a member of the Spielmann family, for it is stated later on in the document that "Johannes Spielmann of Seelbach is also selling his rights to a house in Trupbach".
Children of Johann Otterbach and Demut ? are:
- +Johannes Otterbach, b. Abt. 1590, Germany2160, 2161, d. Abt. 1624, Trupbach, Germany2162, 2163.