Thank you. I am not familiar with locations and how near areas are. I am searching through church records and seelenregisters and the further back I go the handwriting is harder to decipher on my own.
To date I have as far bacj as Johann Peter Welsch b 1792 in Oberlind.
I have a record
http://www.archion.de/p/c733899535/
Which leads me to Johann Peter Welsch b 1792
Seelenregister_1860-190___2_Bild237 (1).pdf
ttp://www.archion.de/p/e154c1526a/
Archion, digital image, Mitteldeutschland: Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach: Kirchenkreis Sonneberg: Oberlind: Seelenregister [family book] 1860-190. #2, image 237, page 473, www.archion.de/p/e154c1526a/ (accessed 9 December 2020).
Info:
o FATHER of August Friedrich Welsch: Johann Friedrich Welsch, carpenter, born here [Oberlind] 29 July 1828, died 30 Jan 1865, son of J. Peter Welsch from here and Margaretha Tauer from Neustadt (closest Neustadt is
https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20300010)
His wife: On 24 April 1844 married Anna Barbara Meusel from here [Oberlind], born 29 Dec 182?, died 10 Feb 1906 (entry 9), daughter of J. Heinrich Meusel from here and Sophie Margaretha Mäder from Rottmar
Children:
1. August Friedrich (see his family below), born 30 May 1858
2. Caroline Catinka, born 29 May 1860, died 7 Dec 1893 (entry 173)
3. Lorenz, born 4 Oct 1862, married 18 April 1886, see page 474
17:18:06 From Charlotte Champenois : Here lived in retirement and died 3 March 1879 at age 28 weeks Max Marcus August Brückner, son of unmarried Marie Brückner in Sonneberg [not sure why this note is here, as it does not seem to pertain to this family]
17:18:13 From Charlotte Champenois : o August Friedrich Welsch, called Ferdinand, carpenter, born 30 May 1858 in Oberlind, died 29 Dec 1899 (entry 1 in 1900)
1st marriage: in Mupperg with Anna Barbara Engel, daughter of Georg Michael Engel, weaver in Mupperg, and of deceased Elisabeth Bauer; born 18 Feb 1856, died 15 Sep 1889 (entry 129)
Children:
1. August Emil Carl Gustav, called Gustav, born in Mupperg 10 July 1881
2. Louis Marcus Bernhard Ernst, called Louis, born 4 May 1883
3. Georg Carl Hermann, called Georg, born in Lauscha 15 Feb 1887
4. Caroline Bertha, called Bertha, born 21 March 1885
5. Mathilde Laura, called Laura, born 21 Dec 1888 (entry 11); gave birth to illegitimate Clara Anna Berta born 25 Aug 1906 (entry 144)
17:18:40 From Charlotte Champenois : 2nd marriage: 1 March 1890 (entry 5): Eva Margarethe Steiner, born 20 March 1859 in Forschengereuth, daughter of farmer there Adam Johann Steiner and wife Eva Barbara Fleischmann
Children:
1. Ida, born 16 March 1890 (entry 81); father of this child is NOT August Friedrich Welsch; died 9 May 1890 (entry 58)
His father-in-law, the deceased Georg Michael Engel, linen weaver from Mupperg, born 11 Dec 1819, died 5 June (Jan?) 1888 at 4:30 p.m., lived here [in Oberlind]
17:22:26 From Charlotte Champenois : - Other Welsch families on images 236-237; suggest subscribing to Archion for 1 month or 3 months and posting images for translation to Community
- From info in family book record, can find Friedrich’s 30 May 1858 birth:
http://www.archion.de/p/9b51a5579e/ August Friedrich Welsch, called Ferdinand
17:25:32 From Charlotte Champenois : FamilySearch Community; can post translation requests:
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