Family Group Sheet
Subject:
Jean Baptiste
SPETTEL
Birth: 23 Feb 1825 Heiteren, Haut Rhin,
Alsace, France.1
Passport: 14 Sep 1846 Heiteren, Haut Rhin, Alsace,
France; # 8:3106.2
Immigratn:
1 Jan 1847 Galveston, Galveston County, Texas; departing Antwerp 15 Nov
1846 on the "Schanunga."3
Marriage: 1 Sep 1852 St Louis Catholic Church,
Castroville, Medina County.4
Census: __ ___ 1854 St Louis Catholic Church,
Castroville, Medina County; family #35 (1 child).5
Natlzation:
15 May 1854 Medina County, Texas; Dist Ct Min No 1, p 185 (intent).6
Death: 7 Feb 1857 Medina County, Texas.4
Burial: __ ___ ____ St Louis Catholic
Cemetery, Castroville, Medina County.7
Deed: 17 Feb 1860 File 5704, Section 1479
(Abstract 905) 320 acres; Grantee - Jean Spettel. Patentee - Joseph Ball.
CC Cert. #24.8
Father:
Mother:
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Spouse:
Marie Anne
HABY
Birth: 20 Dec 1828 Oberentzen, Haut Rhin,
Alsace, France.9
Immigratn:
24 Dec 1846 (w); Francois Joseph HABY Sr and Marie Anne MEYER; Galveston,
Galveston County, Texas; departing Antwerp Oct 1846 on the "Duc deBrabant."10
Census: __ ___ 1850 (w); Francois Joseph HABY Sr
and Bernhard BECK; Medina County, Texas; household #5 Medina River above
Castroville.11
Marriage: 26 Aug 1866 Jacques KOENIG (25 Jul 1837-15
Nov 1927); St Louis Catholic Church, Castroville, Medina County.4
Death: 1 Jul 1903 Medina County, Texas.1
Burial: __ ___ ____ St Louis Catholic
Cemetery, Castroville, Medina County.1
Father:
Francois Joseph HABY Sr (31 Jul 1793-2 May 1866)
Mother: Marie
Anne MEYER (16 Mar 1796-1846)
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Three Known Children
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M
John Baptist SPETTEL
Birth: 26 May 1853 Medina County, Texas.4
Marriage: 12 Sep 1876 Theresa LEBOLD (15 Jun
1854- ), daughter of Jean LEBOLD and Therese HAEGELIN; St Joseph
Catholic Church, San Antonio, Bexar County.4
Daughter:
circa __ ___ 1878 Paulina SPETTEL;
4
Death: 7 Nov 1909 Medina County, Texas.4
Burial: 8 Nov 1909 St Louis Catholic
Cemetery, Castroville, Medina County.4
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F
Mary SPETTEL
Birth: 5 Sep 1854 Medina County, Texas.4
Marriage: 8 Jan 1883 Louis SCHORP (18 Jun 1853-29
Dec 1932), son of Joseph SCHORP and Marie Louise TONDRE; St Louis Catholic
Church, Castroville, Medina County.4
Death: 13 May 1905 Medina County, Texas.1
Burial: __ ___ ____ St Louis Catholic
Cemetery, Castroville, Medina County.1
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M
Francis Joseph SPETTEL
Birth: 16 Apr 1856 Rio Medina, Medina
County, Texas.12
Marriage: 7 May 1881 Mary Catherine SCHORP (11 Jan
1862-25 Apr 1951), daughter of Joseph SCHORP and Marie Louise TONDRE; St
Louis Catholic Church, Castroville, Medina County.13
Death: 22 Dec 1939 Medina County, Texas.4
Burial: 24 Dec 1939 St Louis Catholic Cemetery,
Castroville, Medina County.4
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Endnotes
1.
LDS microfilm, compiler, St Louis Catholic Cemetery, Castroville, Medina
County, Texas (n.p.: GEDCOM by an unknown person). Hereinafter cited as
St Louis Cem.
2.
Clifford Neal Smith, compiler, Emigrants from France (Haut Rhin
Department) to America Part 2: 1845-1847 (McNeal, Arizona: Westland
Publications, 1989). Hereinafter cited as Emigrnts from France 2.
3.
Talisman, Diamont and Schanunga, Ship Passenger Lists, departing 1846, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
4.
LDS Microfilm, compiler, St Louis Catholic Church, Castroville, Medina
County, Texas (n.p.: GEDCOM by an unknown person). Hereinafter cited as
St Louis Church Gedcom.
5.
Ted Gittinger, Connie Rihn, Roberta Haby and Charlene Snavely, compiler,
St Louis Church, Castroville, Texas (San Antonio, Texas: Graphic Arts,
1973). Hereinafter cited as St Louis Church.
6.
WPA Index to Texas Naturalizations 1846 - 1939; (Medina County: WPA:
Texas District & County Courts). Hereinafter cited as Medina Co Natlztn.
7.
Carol Keeney, "Descendants of Francois Joseph Haby and Magdalen Brieden,"
e-mail message from ckeeney@eircom.net to Margaret Simpson, December 21,
1999. Hereinafter cited as "Haby Family."
8.
Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search, online http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/LandGrantsWorklist.cfm.
Hereinafter cited as TX GLO.
9.
unknown, Oberentzen, Alsace Civil Registration to Marriages, Births and
Deaths 1793 - 1872 (n.p.: LDS microfilm, n.d.). Hereinafter cited as
Oberentzen BMD.
10.
Ruth Curry Lawler, compiler, The Story of Castroville (Lacoste,
Texas: Lacoste Ledger, 1974). Hereinafter cited as Story of Castroville.
11.
Family Quest, 1850 Census of Medina and Other Counties in Texas.,
CD-ROM (n.p.: Family Quest), Medina County. Hereinafter cited as 1850
Census.
12.
Family Search - Labs, online http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/#p=0.
Hereinafter cited as Family Search - Labs.
13.
Castro Colonies Heritage Association, compiler, The History of Medina
County, Texas (Castroville, Texas: Castro Colonies Heritage
Association). Hereinafter cited as Hist Medina Co. |