Dorfkirche Roxförde

 

Dorfkirche Roxförde. Built 1852-1854.

The Evangelical Church in the village of Roxförde, Saxony was built between 1852 and 1854, after a fire in the previous church in 1848. The one above was finished in red brick. Two carved wooden figures and a bell from 1505 were incorporated into the new church. Roxförde as a village dates back to 1400.

Allison's 4th-great-grandmother, Maria Elisabeth Hesse, married John William (Wilhelm) Schwarzlose in Roxförde on 14 November 1852. Thankfully we have a copy of the marriage entry from the Saxony Anhalt records on Ancestry. The first image is the left side of the record, and below is the right side of the record.

Ancestry. Saxony Anhalt marriages, 1852.

The entry shows Maria Elisabeth was 29 years old, 9 months and 7 days at the time of the marriage. It looks like her mother Dorothea Sophia is listed in the next column after Maria Elisabeth's name.

We're waiting on Sophia's mtDNA results, due any day now.