Revisiting the Schwarzlose family

 

Daily Republican-Register. 25 Jul 1939.

Back in 2016, I wrote about the family of Allison's 4th-great-grandparents, John William Schwarzlose and Maria Elizabeth Hesse. As Maria is on the maternal line path working backward from Allison, her Mom and her Memaw, and our daughter is taking a mtDNA test to verify the mtDNA haplogroup for this line, I thought it would be timely to revisit the available records on the family while we await the results of the test.

Allison's line descends from Mary Elizabeth Schwartzlose Koehler. A Genealogy of John William and Maria Elizabeth Schwarzlose was published in 1989 by Judy L. Schwarzlose, and a digital version is available on FamilySearch. I'm hoping new records have become available since this family history was published, which will allow us to push the maternal line back into Germany.

FamilySearch. Edwards, IL. 17 Jan 1877.

John William and Maria Elizabeth were married on 14 November 1852 in the village of Roxförde, located south of Gardelegen in the present-day state of Sachsen-Anhalt. At the time this would have been part of Saxony in the Kingdom of Prussia.