Ramcharan-Crowley

Mathias Dietsch, the youngest child of Georg, came into the world on the 8th of May, 1689. He had as 'Godfathers Joh Georg Wolff and Georg Strauel and as Godmother Katharine Jehl, wife of Joh Georg Ehringer, the town Mayor.

Simon Dietsch married on May 2nd with Anna Seelig, the daughter of Johannes Seelig. Mathias Dietsch, the brother of Simon, was a witness to the marriage, and on the 4th of November, 1709, he, Mathias was married. ... Simon Dietsch died on the 30th of March, 1720. "He was a young person himself, being about 50 years old, The mill was now taken over by his younger brother, Mathias.

MATHIAS DIETSCH THE MILLER,BROTHER OF SIMON He was born on the 8th of May,1689, as the son of Georg Dietsch and of Maria Klingler. He died on the 6th of June,1759, in his 70th year. He was married in 1709 when he was 20 to Katharina Untz of Hessenheim, whose brother Johann Caspar was Mayor in 1759. Their marriage took place in Hessenheim. Eight children were the fruit of this marriage: ... Mathias was a devout man. He assumed the responsibility of being God-father for at least 50 poor children. During 1739 and 1740 he is the Holy Protector of the parsonage, a sure sign that he has the trust of the parish priest. He often makes many pilgrimages back and forth to the Ill wood chapel of Maria of the Snow /this was a chapel shrine/. On 14.3.1741 he received from the manager of the chapel 150 Gulden, which he was to repay yearly at 7 Gulden and 5 Schillinge to the chapel. The interest on the capital was in-creased in 1772 for Michael Dietsch. Of his /Mathias/ Fuedal tenure lien, he owed the church factory of Grussenheim in 1736; 1 viertel 5 sester 1½ corn, further 1 viertel 4 sester l½ barley, further 3 Gulden, 8 Batzen, 6 Rappen interest. In 1739 he owed of 73 Gulden capital from the obligation from 11 April 1737, 3 Gulden, 8 Batzen, 5 Rappen... In the developing years he owed exactly the same as in 1736. Before his death in the year 1759, he made this testament in the presence of a Notary, written by himself /Mathias/: "I am lying in bed, my body is sick. I commend my soul into the hands of my Redeemer and Maker, Christ Jesus, as soon as it separates from my dying body. My dead body I commend to Mother Earth's womb from which it came and it is to be buried according to Catholic Ritual." He donated money for masses to be said forever and ever, "Each year on the 8th of June a singing Mass is to be celebrated for the deceased Mathias Dietsch, miller, and for Catherine Untz, his wife... according to his will; 60 Livres French, which the priest received ½ Imperial. Established 6.6.1750 The Priest Scheuermann." After his death an inventory of his holdings ordered on the 21st of June, 1759, favored his children: Anna-Maria, Johannes of Ebersheim, Michael, the miller of Grussenheim, Salome, the wife of Joseph Allon and Mathias Dietsch, all the children. Mathias was there during the beautification of the church by the Baroque artists Ketterer and 3uob, also he was there curing the rebuilding of the church in 1750. He was witness to the building of a new parish house in 1747. His wife died early, probably after the birth of the last child. It can be assumed that after her death Anna-Maria, the sister of Mathias, remained single so that she could care for the household /Anna-Maria is the child born on 30.9.1710/.

In the year 1744 came the legal division of property between Mathias Dietsch, the father, and his children. In the accounting of his holdings that is ordered, it says, "The father must pay to his son Michael 104 Gulden, 2 Batzen, 5 Rappen as payme nt for lodging and for housing. On the other hand Michael must give his father 860 Gulden to pay for the flour mill. The 860 Gulden had been a marriage gift. The mill would be given to him when he becomes a master miller. /Apparently Michael had been given a gift of cash upon his marriage under the assumption that the older brother Mathias would inherit the mill. For some unknown reason the brother Michael returned from his brother's mill in Ebersheim, and in order to inherit the mill he had to forfeit and return his wedding gift. At the same time the father was now placed in the position of a rentor until the matter was resolved./ Further, Michael owes his brother Mathias 143 Gulden, 5 Batz because he assumed the mill; for l/3 part of a ½ Juchert field he owes him 15 Gulden and for the millwork's inventory he /Michael/ owes him /the brother Mathias/ 1 Gulden, 12 Batzen, 5 Rappen; because of the wooden inventory 1 Gulden, 6 Batzen; because of a two year old male horse 7 Batzen, 5 Rappen; because of his old negro 14 Batzen /this seems almost unbelievable until you realize that about this time France had spent a lot of time plundering its way through Egypt where there were a number of black slaves!/ This makes a total of 163 Gulden, 10 Batzen. He must in the same way settle accounts between himself and Johann, the Miller of Ebersheim, also between himself and Theresia and Salome. Each of these siblings he owed about the same sum. When Mathias the father died in 1759 of his holdings there is the following remarks in his will, "Inventory and orderly portioning at the time of the honest and modest Mathias Dietsch, citizen and miller to all here in Gruss-enheim; My worldly goods are left to my children and children's children...platters and plates made of English pewter as well as ordinary tin,.. 4 new hemp shirts...4 hemp table cloths...candlestick of English Pewter... a copper oil kettle...a wooden tub...an old oaken arm chair, and old spruce stool, a spruce chest, a spruce bed with storage box, a spruce trough /a type of box for making bread/. From the deceased himself remains; a new hemp shirt, a woolen kamisol, a used blue woolen coat, an old ribbon or tie /often used as arm bands to signify a death/." His remark about the Baroque builder, Joseph-Michael Schnoller, the lyroler, from the parish church: "About Joseph-Michael Schnoller, the mason, for all here to use him further." /This statement of recommendation was probably to aid the non-citizen to be accepted by the community./

MATHIAS DIETSCH, Miller of Grussenheim. Born 8 May 1689. Died 6 June 1759 Married Katharina Untz of Hessenheim on 4 November 1709 Children: Anna Maria, Mathias, Johann Georg, Johann, Johann Michel, Katharina, Theresia, Maria Salome