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Carol, now it's clearer. I was going to send you a detailed e-mail directly, but when I clicked on your name to get your e-mail address, it came up as "hidden", which means that when you posted your query, you failed to check the box "Display my e-mail address for all of my messages". Unfortunately, I can't go into the detail in a reply here on the message board that I could in an e-mail. So I'll give you the information in "bare bones" version:
There is no such place as an "Obernerich". And a vitally important question: Are you sure that Conrad Bahr's friend wrote in his note that he was from a town called "Moellrich". In other words, are you sure you're reading the handwriting correctly? I ask because there is no village called simply Möllrich (Moellrich).
First of all, Carol, "Ober" does not mean "town". "Ober" means "upper". If the friend actually did write that he was from a Möllrich -- or if written without the "Umlaut" (two dots) over the "o", Moellrich -- then the village actually meant would have to be either Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich; Upper Moellrich) or Niedermöllrich (Niedermoellrich; Lower Moellrich), because there is no village called simply Möllrich (Moellrich). But it strikes me as very odd that Conrad Bahr's friend would have written "Möllrich" ("Moellrich"), when there actually was no village of that name. That's why I asked if you're sure you're reading the handwriting correctly.
Neither village is an independent village any longer. Back in 1974, Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich; Upper Moellrich) was annexed by the nearby city of Fritzlar, and Niedermöllrich (Niedermoellrich; Lower Moellrich) was annexed by the nearby town of Wabern. So today, Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich) is a section of Fritzlar.
Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich) is an Evangelical Lutheran village. Are you thus sure that Conrad Bahr was Catholic, or is it possible that he simply married a Catholic woman and then perhaps converted?
Fritzlar happens to be a Catholic city. You could call Fritzlar a "Catholic island in a Protestant sea", because all the towns and villages around Fritzlar are Protestant. (In 1974, Fritzlar annexed a number of the surrounding Protestant towns and villages.)
You ask for e-mail addresses. In German genealogy, church records are really all that are available. You would thus have to contact either the Archives of the Evangelical Church of Electoral Hesse-Waldeck (Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck) or the Archives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda, depending on what Conrad Bahr's birth denomination turns out to have been. And needless to say, you have to absolutely sure that Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich) is the village he was actually from or you'll find yourself on a real wild goose chase. It's just that it's highly unlikely that he would have been a Roman Catholic if he was born in Obermöllrich (Obermoellrich).
It would make a message board reply to lengthy if I were to explain to you here what Kurhessen was, so I'll have to let that go.
(My background, by the way, includes six years studying history at the University of Munich in Germany, and thus my historical knowledge.)
Robert
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