{"id":1595,"date":"2026-10-31T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1595"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:40:13","slug":"bange-walter-german-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1595","title":{"rendered":"The Walter and Buchm\u00fcller family in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">Bange family<\/a> \u203a The Walter and Buchm\u00fcller family in Germany<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">The Philippsburg and \u00d6stringen records, Cecilia\u2019s 1895 obituary, and the birth-date and surname questions still retained in the account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A promising lead for Rosa\u2019s earlier life turns up in Philippsburg. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2557469&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001222709_0037_4-1222709-37.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails&amp;groesseThumbnails=400&amp;thumbnailsProSeite=10&amp;screenbreite=1364&amp;screenhoehe=936\">contemporary Catholic register duplicate<\/a> records Anna Rosa Walter born on June 27, 1842, and baptized on June 29, daughter of Franz Walter and C\u00e4cilia. The modern municipal index says August, but the original record clearly says June. A clearer 1841 entry for the same parents supports Buchm\u00fcller as C\u00e4cilia\u2019s maiden name. These names fit Rosa\u2019s 1871 Highland marriage. Cecilia\u2019s 1895 obituary, discussed below, now strongly connects this German family with Rosa Widmer of Salisbury, Missouri. Rosa\u2019s conflicting birth dates and passenger-list age remain unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source note:<\/strong> Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 390 Nr. 3965, Catholic birth section, page 386, entry 38 (Bild 37), contemporary duplicate dated June 29, 1842. Compare the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2557469&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001222709_0004_4-1222709-4.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails&amp;groesseThumbnails=400&amp;thumbnailsProSeite=10&amp;screenbreite=1364&amp;screenhoehe=936\">1841 entry for Johann Joseph Walter<\/a>, page 359, entry 11 (Bild 4), which gives C\u00e4cilia\u2019s surname as Buchm\u00fcllerin. That spelling supports Buchm\u00fcller; the 1842 reading remains qualified. It does not resolve the ambiguous Buchm\u00fcller\/Burkm\u00fcller wording in the 1871 Highland record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can now follow this German family a little further. Franz Walter and C\u00e4cilia Buchm\u00fcller married at \u00d6stringen on November 22, 1832. A certified extract copied into the Philippsburg register calls witness Joseph Buchm\u00fcller II the bride\u2019s brother. An \u00d6stringen entry records Cecilia Buchm\u00fcller born and baptized on January 26, 1811, daughter of Joseph and Gertraud, n\u00e9e Kimling. Her name, parents and town make her a strong match for the 1832 bride, though the marriage entry gives no age. The missing link turned up in Cecilia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/louislatzermemorialpublic.historyarchives.online\/viewer?i=f&amp;d=04181895-05311895&amp;k=walter&amp;m=between&amp;ord=k1&amp;fn=highland_journal_usa_illinois_highland_18950425_english_4&amp;df=1&amp;dt=10&amp;cid=3128\">1895 obituary<\/a>: it names her daughter as Mrs. Rosa Widmer of Salisbury, Missouri, and repeats Cecilia\u2019s \u00d6stringen birthplace and 1832 marriage to Frank Walter of Philippsburg. Together, these records strongly connect the German family with Rosa in Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franz\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2557467&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001222707_0044_4-1222707-44.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails\">1832 marriage extract<\/a> also names his father, Sebastian Walter, a citizen and farmer in Philippsburg, and his late mother, Maria Eva Heilig. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2557465&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001222705_0158_4-1222705-158.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails\">Philippsburg death entry<\/a> records Maria Eva, n\u00e9e Heilig, Sebastian Walter\u2019s wife, dying on December 13, 1817, aged 33. The names and place line up. Franz\u2019s own birth record is still needed to settle the competing January 1807 dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two \u00d6stringen death entries also fill in the lives of Joseph Buchm\u00fcller and Gertraud Kimling, the couple named as Cecilia\u2019s parents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2555851&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001118874_0412_4-1118874-412.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails\">Joseph died on May 11, 1825, aged 54<\/a>; his entry names Gertraud as his wife. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2555852&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001118875_0615_4-1118875-615.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails\">Gertraud died on February 16, 1845, aged 70<\/a>, recorded as Joseph\u2019s widow. Neither entry names their parents, so these records fill gaps without taking the line back another generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2557467&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001222707_0044_4-1222707-44.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails&amp;groesseThumbnails=400&amp;thumbnailsProSeite=10&amp;screenbreite=1364&amp;screenhoehe=936\">Philippsburg register, 390 Nr. 3963, page 11, \u00a713 (Bild 44)<\/a>, preserves a certified copy of the \u00d6stringen marriage entry. December 8, 1832 is the copy\u2019s certification date, not the wedding date. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.landesarchiv-bw.de\/ofs21\/bild_zoom\/zoom.php?bestand=12390&amp;id=2555850&amp;gewaehlteSeite=04_0001118873_0027_4-1118873-27.jpg&amp;ausgangspunkt=thumbnails&amp;groesseThumbnails=400&amp;thumbnailsProSeite=10&amp;screenbreite=1364&amp;screenhoehe=936\">\u00d6stringen register, 390 Nr. 683, entry 7 (Bild 27)<\/a>, records Cecilia\u2019s 1811 birth and baptism. Joseph Buchm\u00fcller II has not been matched to a particular birth record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Bange family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1588#widmer-walter-topics\">Back to Widmer and Walter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1594\">Rosa\u2019s American marriages and children<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1583#arrival-walter\">The Walter group and John Curtis<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1605\">German places on the Bange map<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1604\">Full source notes<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Bange family \u203a The Walter and Buchm\u00fcller family in Germany The Philippsburg and \u00d6stringen records, Cecilia\u2019s 1895 obituary, and the birth-date and surname questions still retained in the account. A promising lead for Rosa\u2019s earlier life turns up in Philippsburg. A contemporary Catholic register duplicate records Anna Rosa Walter born on June 27, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595\/revisions\/1767"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}