Maria Dorothea Wolf

In the record Generation 7 — Earl's earliest known

1. S122Georg Melchior Julius Proeger & Elisabethe Sabina Lösch — marriage, Triensbach, Crailsheim, Württemberg, 1835. Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NZMF-P6V (bride's entry 1:1:NZMF-P6F), read 20 September 2026. Groom born 1804 at Ertenbrechtshausen, single; bride born 1803 at Crailsheim. His parents: Joh. Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt. Her parents: Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch and Maria Dorothea Wolf. This is the record that names a seventh generation on the Proeger side and a sixth on the Lösch side. It is an index entry, not an image: everything it supplies is Probable until a parish register page is read at Triensbach or Crailsheim. ⚠ Three readings of one woman's given name. This index says Elisabethe Sabina; the 1844 Kirchberg baptism register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina [S69]; Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate says Lossetta [S68]. The surname Lösch is identical on all three, and this record takes the contemporaneous register as primary. ⚠ The birthplace is a lead, not a finding. The FamilySearch shared tree says Schwäbisch Hall; both index originals say Erten- or Entenbrechtshausen, two readings of one hand, and Erkenbrechtshausen is a real hamlet 3½ km from the Triensbach church. The place-standardiser separately mangled the baptism entry into "Kirchberg an der Iller, Biberach", 150 km south. Always read the original place field, never the standardised one. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
2. S133Elisabetha Sabina (Lösch) Prüger — burial register, Kirchberg u. Oa., 14 August 1872. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 656 of 706, burial entry no. 534; Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195655). Read from the register image at full resolution, 4796 × 4013 px, 21 September 2026. Died 12 August 1872 at five in the morning, a Wittwe (widow) of Kirchberg; buried 14 August at ten; age at death given as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister of Crailsheim, marked deceased; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck, marked deceased; her late husband named in the entry as a Schullehrer in Kirchberg. The register settles a surname, a death date and a trade, and refuses to settle a birth date. The Ancestry index of this same entry reads her surname as something else entirely — a misread of the Kurrent. The register names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is the birthplace the German deaths index independently gives her, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate [S68] gives his mother's maiden name as Loesch. Two record images, two continents, one surname. On the death date the two Ancestry indexes disagreed — 13 August in collection 61023, 12 August in collection 9868; the image says 12 August, and collection 9868 is the one that was right. On the birth date the stated age counts back to late April 1803, against the index's 26 May 1803; those digits are at the edge of legibility even at 4796 px and are not forced here. The record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in this corpus. ⚠ Read at full resolution on purpose. At the 600 px tier this page was illegible and an earlier pass misattributed the parents' column to her husband; the correction is what the full-resolution image is for.
3. S840Ancestry index — Germany, Select Births and Baptisms: Elisabethe Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 9866, record 28291305. Probable Elisabethe Sabina Lösch; father Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch; mother Maria Dorothea Wolf. An index with no image. Ancestry's collection 9866 is the FamilySearch births and baptisms index, so it is not independent of FamilySearch; it is independent of the marriage index (S122). ⚠ Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck and her father as Johann Heinrich Melchior (S133).