Jacob Detzler

1793 - 1852  (58 years)

• Name	Jacob Detzler
  Born	1 or 2 Oct 1793	Dirmingen, Saarland
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Jul 1852	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., ON
  Person ID	I24000	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2016

  
  

  Father	Johann Detzler
  Mother	Catherina Cannive
  Family ID	F9251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Riehm,   b. 4 Feb 1791, Hahn, Saarland ,   d. 18 Mar 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., ON  (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Barbara Detzler,   b. 5 Feb 1813/14, Dirmingen, Saarland ,   d. 2 Jun 1843, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., ON  (Age 29 years)   2. Catherina Detzler,   b. 8 Aug 1816, Dirmingen, Saarland ,   d. 2 Oct 1877, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., ON  (Age 61 years)   3. Margaretha Detzler,   b. 22 May 1819, Dirmingen, Saarland ,   d. 8 May 1883, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., ON  (Age 63 years)   4. Anna Maria Detzler,   b. 16 Oct 1823, Dirmingen, Saarland ,   d. Aft 1901  (Age 78 years)   5. Nikolaus Detzler,   b. 15 Nov 1826, Dirmingen, Saarland ,   d. 31 Mar 1878, Remus, Michigan, USA  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F9250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Information from Donna Haid of St. Clements, Ontario, 2016 The Detzlers came from Dirmingen, Saarland, Germany. At that time Saarland was a stand-alone country (disputed time and again by Germany and France for ownership) under the rule of Prussia. This small country was rich in forestry, minerals, salt, coal and steel as major manufacturing assets for economies. Anna Maria was the fourth daughter born to Jakob Detzler and Anna Riehm. Two years later the couple was blessed with a son, Nikolaus Detzler. The story goes, to avoid their son being conscripted to the Prussian army, the family emigrated from Germany to North America. Perhaps they travelled with like-thinking neighbours and families. The port of departure in August 1836 was Le Havre, France on the ship Rochinshon (spelling hard to decipher from the ship on-board ticket copies), arriving in New York the same year. Menno Hoover's poem is a romanticized version of what next transpired for your branch: a wonderful heirloom. The family left New York and arrived in Rainham, Ontario, Canada following word from fellow Mennonite travellers of available land in Queen's Bush, Wilmot Township, Ontario, Canada; many settled here. They established a Roman Catholic church and Catholic school in the hamlet named New Prussia, they farmed side by side. Quoted from More Than A Century In Wilmot Township: New Prussia settling in the north-west corner of Wilmot Township: "Immigrants of Roman Catholic faith from Rhenish Prussia named their new community New Prussia after the homeland they had just left. A Mission of St. Agatha was organized and Jesuit priests started a separate school in the latter 1840?s. With the outbreak of Saugeen Fever in the 1850's the colony's population was greatly diminished." The Roman Catholic History in Waterloo County states that as late as 1860 a three-day mission was conducted by a priest during the Easter season. Shortly after this time the church was dismantled and services ceased. Family names in use at this time were: Brick, Detzler, Schmidt, Lienhardt, Fritz, Casper and Bucheidt. We know "Saugeen Fever" was the name of the rush to move to new farmland in the Formosa, Ontario area, not a disease. In the farmhouse where Michael and Anna Maria (Detzler) Brick lived, at New Prussia in Wilmot Township, the current occupant, Ohmar Jantzi, has discovered the original deed to this land from the township and he kindly allowed me to copy it. .