Earl Francis Bartling was born on the 18th of JUNE 1896 in Oaklyn, Camden County, New Jersey.
1896 Earl Francis was born to the parents:
August John Henry Bartling and Hannah Elizabeth Duffield.
1868 August John Henry Bartling was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
to the parents:
Heinrich Conrad Bartling and Caroline Eggers
1820 Heinrich Conrad Bartling was born in Friedrichsburg 5, Hessen, Prussia
to the parents:
Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling and Henriette Catharine Leiss
1796 Conrad Friedrich Wilhem Bartling was born in Friedrichsburg, Hessen, Prussia
to the parents:
Johann Conrad Bartling and Anna Maria Elisabeth Meyer
1764 Johann Conrad Bartling was born in Fuhlen, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia
to the parents:
Johann Hermann Bartling and Catharine Elisabeth Rese
1736 Johann Hermann Bartling was born in Reine, Prussia
to the parents:
Johann Toennies Bartling and Anna Sidonia Rsichmoeller
1694 Johann Toennies Bartling was born in Fuhlen, Hessen, Prussia
to the parents:
Johann Barthold Bartling and Anna Margaet Grawe
Johann Barthold Bartling was born in Fuhlen, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia
to the parents:
Toennies Bartling and Elisabeth Busch
Toennies Bartling was born in Fuhlen, Hannover, Prussia
to the parents:
HANS BARTLING and ILSABE GRAWER
HANS was probably born in 1585 in Fuhlen, Hannover, Prussia.
He married Ilsabe and they had EIGHT children:
Barthel Bartling
Christen Bartling
Churtt Bartling
Elisabeth Bartling
Henrich Bartling
Ilsabe Bartling
Johann Bartling
TOENNIES BARTLING (whose wife Elisabeth Busch was born in 1620)
This all comes to us from familysearch.org and obviously some serious research for which we are so grateful!
So far the only thing older than Hans that we're finding to connect into this research (trying to expand just genealogical facts) is the old news that...
On the 23rd of January 1579 there was a historic agreement. This was called the Treaty of Utrecht or the Union of Utrecht. And not unlike what we found in early America when the colonies united there were deputies from six different provinces who met at the talking tables and pledged they would act together as allies in the event of war.
Apparently the agreement also provided that each province of the Hapsburg Netherlands should be able to govern itself in its own way suggesting further similarity between old Europe and early America. In the United States it took the fevered for workable governance people a few years to accomplish individual constitutions for each state and each one was slightly different than the next.
Here's a little bit more about the Union of Utrecht.
Meanwhile I was reading more about the history of the Lutherans in Darke County, Ohio.
Why? You ask.
From the information gleaned from familysearch.org it became apparent that though Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling was born in Friedrichsburg (city, village, farm, etc.), Hessen (Province), Prussia...he DIED and was BURIED in OHIO, USA.
A note tells us he was buried in a Lutheran Cemetery in Greenville Township, Darke County, Ohio State. While I find mention of two Lutheran cemeteries in Greenville--Wakefield and St. John's and reference to several volumes of the interned, the inscriptions are not transcribed and online.
I also found some great photography of several of the graves in both cemeteries but this site is less archival than enticing.
What I did find online and am perusing at a Google place to read "free" books is THE HISTORY OF DARKE COUNTY OHIO (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880).
In it we find out that the first religious meetings in Darke County were, much the same as in New England and the northern frontiers, held in the cabins of settlers. Their pioneer preacher was Jacob Ashley of the Lutheran Church who earned a salary of $12 a month for his work. He came once a month from Germantown to hold services.
After him David Miller (son of Jacob Miller) and Benjamin Bowman came from Indiana. They were ministers of the German Baptist Church.
The first church built in the township of Greenville was called "St. John's" and its original structure (erected in 1826) was formed of tree trunks taken from the nearby forest on land owned by John Ketring. When they made a new structure in 1868, it was not as crude.
1868. It was 1863 when Conrad Heinrich Wilhelm Bartling up and died in Greenville. 1863 right smack in the middle of the US Civil War.
I was able to save time by someone else's taking the time to index the Darke County Censuses for 1850, 1860 and 1880 and in those indices I find no Bartling in 1850, but THERE IS A Bartling in 1860, and again I do find a C.F. Bartling in the US Census 1880.
C.F. Bartling, Cabinet Maker
born in 1830/31 in Germany as were his parents
In 1880 he reports being married to Clara Bartling.
In 1860 he was in Butler Township, but in 1880 he was in Greenville Township. I'd have to do some more digging to find out if he moved or if the names of places changed while he stayed in place.
In 1860 the C.F. Bartling in Darke County Ohio was 29 years old, so that means he wasn't Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling born in 1796.
Looking more closely at the information gleaned from familysearch.org brings up another challenge to logic as well!
There they show Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling as having three wives...
Henriette Catharine Leiss
Dorothee Pauk
Dorothee Caroline Henriette Rahm
Bartling had four children with Henriette. Three with Dorothee Pauk. And four with Dorothee Caroline.
And we were focused on those children Conrad had with Henriette:
1. Heinrich Conrad Bartling born 4 NOV 1820 in Friedrichsburg, Prussia
2. Friedrich Conrad born 26 JAN 1822
3. Johann Friedrich born 26 JAN 1825 but died the following JAN (18 JAN 1826)
4. Conrad August born 11 JAN 1829
Because the information was telling us HEINRICH CONRAD was then the father of August John Henry Bartling born in Philadelphia in 1868 to he and his wife, Caroline Eggers.
But when we looked at this information a little more closely we found what seems to be a discrepancy, sort of...
Henriette had married Conrad on the 21st of September 1820 and you can see from the list that the four children attributed to them were born between 1820 and 1829.
But, the information says that Conrad married Dorthee Pauk on the 7th of October 1827.
Conrad and Dorothee had a child named Dorothee Wilhelmine Bartling on 21 OCT 1828 but she died in August of 1828? They also had Friedrich Conrad Bartling in January of 1830 and lastly Carl Conrad Leopold Bartling on the 28th of MARCH 1831--this child apparently died in May of the following year (15 MAY 1832). And it seems plausible that Dorothee may have died at the same time, like maybe they were both sick, and why I say that is because on Christmas Day of 1831, Conrad married Dorothee Caroline Henriette Rahm and had four more children:
Christian Gottlieb Edward (born 1833)
Charles Julius (born 1834)
Caroline Amalie (born 1836)
Hermina Charlotte (born 1839)
Hermina Charlotte's birthdate is the last time in this batch of information that we SEE Conrad in the records until we hear of his death in Ohio in 1863.
While we don't find a C.F. Bartling on any of the lists of children born to Conrad in Prussia, he had a Friedrich Conrad Bartling born in 1822 AND a Friedrich Conrad Bartling born in 1830. He was the one child of three to SURVIVE past infancy when Conrad was married to Dorothee Pauk.
1830! That is the birth year of the C.F. Bartling we find in Ohio.
There had to be some reason why Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling came from Prussia to OHIO and I want to know what it is! Might he have been visiting one of his sons, the Conrad Friedrich who didn't stay in Prussia perhaps?
I'm not allowed to tell any cockemaney stories about family due to the fact that genealogical research is such a serious subject matter so I don't want to get too excited about a Prussian Cabinet Maker in Ohio. But finding the puzzle piece did have me remembering Nana--Althea Elizabeth Bartling and while I was very young when I got to know her, visit her and Pop Pop's Tudor home in Merrick, Long Island, New York I do recall distinctly Nana's love of finely carved wood. Whether it was a gilded golden elaborately carved frame that she put around her own oil painting or furniture with rolling curls and wild flourishes, Nana had a thing for finely crafted fancy. Maybe it was in her blood! An appreciation and attraction to that "style" of craftsmanship. Or the family memories on her side of things handed down to her an actual inheritance of these crafts...
Maybe it was important to Nana to bring her FATHER'S heritage to life in the home she shared with her husband. It's hard to tell some of these things without people and I was far too young when I hung out with Nana Beth to understand or ask about the objects in her life. I see WE did inherit from Nana Beth the golden fancy patterned phone that she kept on her nightstand! That's why we named this website what we did.
No, I don't find any Bartlings in the Biographical Sketchs of THE HISTORY OF DARKE COUNTY. But I did some more digging around in the mentions of C.F. Cartling at familysearch.org
Found out his wife Clara's maiden name was Hartzell. And I wanted to look at the US CENSUS 1900 for them because the 1900 census records how many children a mother has given birth to and how many of those children were still living at the time. Clara Bartling had FIVE children but in 1900, only two were still living. That census shows a granddaughter living with the aging couple, little Clara and she's ten.
familysearch.org also mentions the birth records of an Augustus N. Bartling (born 1859) and directs us towards his marriage records as well. Back in the US CENSUS 1880, we didn't see an Augustus N. but the birth records put this child in Darke County and with C.F. and Clara as his parents. So he's presumably one of the five children Clara records in 1900. The 1900 Census also clarifies birthdays better than just knowing the year. Clara was born in August of 1833 in PENNSYLVANIA. But C.F. Bartling was born in Germany like his folks. And the 1900 US CENSUS tells us he was born in JANUARY of 1830. January is the hot clue there and matches up C.F. to the child named Friedrich Conrad Bartling on the list of children born to Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling and his second wife Dorothee Pauk. Friedrich Conrad born 2 JAN 1830 was a step brother of Heinrich Conrad Bartling (born 4 NOV 1820) and through whom we trace our direct ancestry.
C.F. Bartling was married to Clara for 43 years in the US CENSUS 1900, so they would've gotten married in 1857. Six years before we find Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling being buried in Greenville.
Another thing to put on the study list today is the name Augustus. I'd learned that the name August means fresh or new. And on some of these children lists of the Germans there seems to be a trend of using Augustus or August to mark a fresh or new event, like a new family or a new place of life. There's plenty to learn!
So it seems that Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Bartling had one son who landed in Ohio and one who died in Philadelphia. Heinrich Conrad Bartling the elder of the two step brothers married Caroline Eggers and they gave birth to ONE CHILD. Amazing how one generation can have a bulge of children and then in the next the family lines get so narrow! Heinrich Conrad and Caroline had August John Henry Bartling on the 27th of July 1868 in Philadelphia.
Kicking around in some Philadelphia research I found the death of Heinrich Conrad recorded in the Registry of Philadelphia Deaths, 1889. There he's written up as Henry C. Bartling, Sr.
It seems he had pneumonia. And he passed away on the 5th of January 1889.
How do we know it's OUR Henry?
Clues like...his residence at the time of his death was Camden, New Jersey not Philly and in our family tree we pick up Nana's story in Camden after August John Henry Bartling marries Hannah Elizabeth Duffield.
Also the estimated age of the Henry C. Bartling, Sr. at the time of his death, 68, matches up pretty well with the birth date of our Heinrich Conrad Bartling born 4 NOV 1820! And Dr. Carmen's patient Henry was...born in Germany.
His place of burial is listed as German Lutheran and he was laid to rest on the 13th of January. But I can't tell if the German Lutheran cemetery mentioned was in Philadelphia or in Jersey.
Here, have a look at the Registry...
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