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Hans Joseph Fabian (AKA Joseph)
6-1-3 Hans Joseph Fabian (AKA Joseph) Married Maria Dorothea (Miiller) Fabian
B- 4 Mar 1700, Mauer, GR 20 Feb 1719 ' fi 17^
Joseph was baptized at the Mauer ERC on 7 Mar 1700. His sponsor was Joseph Kirsch, Burger, Cooper (barrel £•'
maker) of Dielheim, GR (a town southwest of Mauer). k
If a person's social prominence can be measured by the number of children that were named after you, or the number ;, JjJ
of times you were the baptismal sponsor for children of other families, then Hans Joseph Fabian would have been a very prominent |
individual in the town of Mauer. To substantiate this fact, I list three paragraphs where he, and/or his wife, were the baptismal '£•.
sponsors for quite a few children at the Mauer ERC. Ji
lt appears that Hans Joseph and Maria Dorothea were going together for some time prior to their marriage. The V'
Mauer ERC records stated that Hans Joseph and Maria Dorothea, the bereaved dau of Hans Steffan Miiller, were the baptismal r
sponsors on 1 Aug 1717 for Joseph (B- 29 Jun 1717), the son of Andreas Diirr, a day laborer, and his wife Anna Barbara from |; 6-1
Dierbach in the Rhineland. It appears the child died shortly thereafter because Hans Joseph and Maria Dorothea were again the "*:
sponsors on 5 Dec 1718 for a Joseph Diirr (B- 4 Dec 1718) born to the same parents. ;'
Joseph and Maria were married in Mauer, GR. Both Maria Dorothea Miiller and Joseph's brother-in-law, Jacob -1 w^
Miiller, were called children of the late Hans (Johann) Steffan Miiller in the church marriage records. The Mauer ERC records y ,,
listed Joseph Fabian, the son of Hans Jacob Fabian, an Innkeeper, married on 20 Feb 1719 to Maria Dorothea Miiller, the bereaved &.
dau of Johann Steffen Miiller. Maria Dorothea was listed in those marriage records as an Innkeeper of a beergarden who had her s* .
first child out of wedlock, stillborn, prior to her marriage. The child's father was not listed in those records. ;•;
There was a close relationship between Hans Joseph and Hans Georg Roth and his wife Maria Barbara. The Meek- |
ERC records listed Hans Joseph as the baptismal sponsor for Joseph (B-15 Jan 1722), son of Hans Georg Roth and Maria Barbara, S , .
on 17 Jan 1722. Then, Maria Barbara, Hans Georg Roth's wife, was the sponsor for Hans Joseph's second child, Maria Barbara t .
(B-15 Jul 1723), on 17 Jul 1723. On 21 Jul 1729 "Anna Dorothea", the wife of Joseph Fabian, was the sponsor for Anna Barbara f-
(B- 20 Jul 1729), dau of Master Hans Georg Roth and his wife Anna Barbara. Joseph Fabian was the sponsor for Johann Joseph | ,
(B- 29 Aug 1733), the son of Meister Hans Wolf Roth and Anna Barbara, on 30 Aug 1733.
"Anna Dorothea", wife of Joseph Fabian, was the sponsor of Anna Dorothea (B- 12 May 1734), dau of Joh. Michael
Filfinger from Darbach and wife, on 13 May 1734. Maria Dorothea, wife of Joseph Fabian, was the sponsor of Maria Dorothea
(B- 8 Oct 1737), dau of Johann Jacob Wolf and Anna Eva, on 9 Oct 1737. Joseph Fabian and Maria Dorothea were the sponsors |r: -
for Joseph Kohler [E-E-1-1] on 4 Feb 1738. Maria Dorothea was the sponsor for Maria Dorothea (B- 12 Nov 1738), dau of j
Valentin Zweisig and Maria FJisabetha, on 14 Nov 1738. Maria Dorothea was the sponsor for Maria Dorothea (B- 28 Mar 1740),
dau of Valentin Zweisig and Maria Elisabetha, on 29 Mar 1740. I
There was also a close relationship between Joseph Fabian, Johann Balthasar Fabian [C-l(2)-4], and Maria (Fabian) f. ^
Kohler, all of Mauer, as Joseph and J. Balthasar took turns being the baptismal sponsors for Maria's children. Perhaps they all £ ...
had the same grandfather. "•.
The entire village of Mauer and adjoining villages were destroyed by fire on 10 Aug 1689 by the French during one J
of the many wars in that area. In 1730 a large home was built in the center of the town for Hans Joseph, which still stands today | 6-1
inhabited as a private residence. That home was a large two-story stucco-over-wood frame home with a high "A" frame wood :l
shingle roof. The roof covered an additional two stories of rooms. The house was approximately 20 by 40 feet with a central brick ~
chimney. There was a stone over the door engraved "J & M F 1730". The size of the house constructed during that period again •]••. ^
attested to the prominent social and economic status of this Fabian family in Mauer. .:-
The records of the 18th-century heads of households who desired to emigrate from Mauer, in the current state of £
Baden-Wiirttemberg, GR, are located in the state archives at Karlsruhe, GR. Joseph Fabian's emigration (#41) was found in an * .-,,
article in those records, "Zur Amerikauswanderung aus dem kurpfalzischen Oberamt Heidelberg 1741-1748". >%
The last records located in Mauer pertaining to Joseph were the church records dated 2 Feb 1741, recording the birth | of their last child. In the book, New Worlds Immigrants, Vol. 2, by Michael Tepper, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, f " on page 18, Joseph Fabian was shown as an emigrant from the County of Heidelberg, Germany. Mauer was in that county, slightly | -^ southeast of the city of Heidelberg. On page 23 of the earlier referenced PA Folklife article, published in 1975, on page 25, Joseph if; Fabian of Mauer (Kreis Heidelberg) was listed. It stated only a request for emigration indicated in the protocols (Protocol 6187, |;.Page 811)' IP be
Joseph was documented as having arrived in America on 16 Oct 1741. His reason for leaving his home in Germany j|f gfl.
is not known. Documentation of his arrival in America was found in the book, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Original Lists of I:
Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia, 1727-1808, by R.B. Strassburger, published by the PA German Society, 1934, page 310; List87A, |;v pal
"A list of all the men 16 years and upwards, on board the Ship Molley, Thomas Olive, Master, qualified 16 Oct 1741." The list starts |l-
with the name Joseph Fabion, age 41. Since his name appeared first on the list he was probably the leader of the immigrant group.
There was no mark affixed to his name on that list which indicated he was literate. On page 311, List 87B, "Palatines imported
in the ship Molley, Thomas Olive, Commander, from Rotterdam, qualified 17 Oct 1741," Joseph Fabion heads the list. On page
312, List 87C," at the Courthouse, Philadelphia, 17 Oct 1741, Present: William Alien and Samuel Hasel, Esquires, The Palatines*i1 whose names are underwritten, Imported in the ship Molley, Thomas Olive. Commander from Rotterdam, but last from Deal, did this day take the oaths to the Government, vix:", Joseph Fabian once again headed the list.
.» '<:.• The article in PA Folklife, Summer 1975, Vol XXIV, No 4. pertaining to the Palatine emigration materials from the
• Ne'clcar Valley, 1726-1766, stated that a Michael Miller of Mauer was permitted to emigrate to America with his wife and five
children, on payment of 6 Florins emigration tax (Protocol 6187, pages 813 and 814) in 1741. That Michael Mtiller was the son
;ofDietrich Miiller, who was born in Mauer on 7 Apr 1678. Michael, aged 60, arrived at Philadelphia on the Ship Molley. 16 Oct
|; 1741 (List 87A-C). He was the second to sign the emigrant list in Philadelphia after Joseph Fabion. the article stating his son-in-
^- 14W, which may mean that he was one of the leaders of the emigration party. The article's conclusion, that since Michael Miiller
was from the same town as Joseph Fabion, with Joseph's wife being a Miiller. that would make Joseph his son-in-law, does not
appear to be correct. I stated earlier the church records in Mauer recorded Joseph's father-in-law as a Hans (Joh.) Steffan Miiller.
These Miillers were most probably related, though that fact has not been researched.
The next record of Hans Joseph in America was as baptismal witness for Joseph Kolb, son of Georg Michael Kolb and Elizabeth at New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church. PA. on 4 Sep 1742, per the Goshenhoppen church records.
Joseph and Maria had 9 children in Mauer, GR (1720-1741). No records have been located to indicate they had any .'• additional children after arriving in America. See 6-1-3-1 through -9.
From The Faubion Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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