Valentin Bohn ⁵⁷

  General Notes:

Notes for VALENTIN BOHN:

Comment on the list of Valentin Bohn/Margaretha nee Loeffler children: No convincing reason has been found yet to explain the very strange way of counting the children of Vincent (Vincent Bohn should be Valentin Bohn/typed Vincent since Ms.Pfister typed Vincent)

Bohn's second marriage (6th September 1997 ?), even the experts at the Mainz archives could not explain the extraordinary way of counting the children in this marriage.

The first child, a girl, is not baptized, so apparently it is not counted Anna Margaretha, born a year later, in 1844, is called the third child, the first gir. Only the way of the counting the female offspring of Vincent (Valentin) and Margaretha Bohn seems to make sense.

As to the male children, there are some questions: 1. Why is the girl, Anna Katharina Bohn, born two years after the wedding of her parents calaled the third child? Could there have been other children - two sons - of Vincent (Valentin) and Maigaretha nee Loeffler born out of wedlock, i.e. before they could get married? As Valentin Bohn's first wife is a Luthem, her death could not be researched in the Mainz archives. But assuming the existence of two pre- marital sons why weren't they mentioned in the marriage register as eg. Vincent (Valentin's illegitimate son CHRISTIAN with Maria Magdalena Krichbaum? Is it possible that Vincent had another son with Magdalena nee Krichbaum that would have been counted? According to the Mainz archivists that was never the custom: the children of the first marriage were counted separately from those in a second marriage. So even if Vincent (Valentin) had had another son in his first marriage, the children of his second marriage should have been counted from the beginning, i.e. first child, first daughter, etc.

2. Why does JOHANN ADAM BOHN (=JAB), born in August, 1847 (?) not figure in the Waidmichelback church register of baptisms: we did not find him either in the church book of his mother's village (it might have been that she went home to have her child there and have it baptized in the Catholic church of Raubuck). We calculated Johann Adam Bohn's birthday thanks to the detaailed data on his age in his marriage register in which his parents names are clearly given. So there is no doubt at all that he is a son of the Vincent (Valentin) see name page 5, Bohn and Margaretha nee Loeffler marriage. Moreover, JAB fits in according to the data we found in the Waidmichelbach church registers there is a span of five years between the birth of Anna Margaretha Bohn * 1844 and Nikolaus Bohn * 1849, the latter is mentioned as the fifth child, third boy, whereas Anna Margaretha * 1844 is called the third child, first girl.

3. It is not easy to understand: - why Nikolaus Bohn* 1849 p. 107/5 and Anna Katharina *1851 p.572/5 are both called the fifth child of their parents - whyMariaElisabethBohn *1853 p.273/5 andGeoigLeonardBohn *1855 p.360/5 should both be called the sixth child - why a seventh child (Anna Elisabeth Bohn), *1858 p.431/5 is mentioned and a ninth child Elisabeth Katharina Margaretha Bohn * 1859, but no eight child. Having in mind the every-two- year-a-child-rhysthm of the marriage we do not think that there was another unregistered (cf.2) child born in the meantime.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 25 Jan 1816, Wahlen, Germany.

Valentin married Maria Magdaenal Krichbaum, daughter of Philipp Krichbaum and Juliana Krichbaum, on 14 Apr 1839 in Wald Michelbach, Hessen, Germany. (Maria Magdaenal Krichbaum was born on 9 Feb 1813 in Langen Brombach, Hessen, Germany and died about 1841.)

Valentin also married Elizabetha Margaretha Loeffler, daughter of Georg Loeffler and Eva Sattler, on 3 Jul 1842 in Wald Michelbach, Hessen, Germany. (Elizabetha Margaretha Loeffler was born on 12 Nov 1812 in Raubach, Hessen, Germany.)