Moving on through the Weiß lineage, after the vicar's and the destiller's we now arrive at the teacher's family. * * * **Christian Gottlieb Weiß (1782-1867) and Anna Gertrud Keuert (1777-1858)** Christian Gottlieb Weiß was born 12.5. 1782 at Pferdsfeld as the sixth of the seven children of the mayor / teacher / distiller Johann Gottlieb Weiß and his wife Anna Katharina Andrae. He is the earliest born ancestor of whom we have a photo. Like both his (older) brothers, he became a teacher. This may mean that he studied at university, which I consider likely given the abundance of vicars in his ancestry, many of whom worked as teachers before finding a church job. However it wasn't a given at the time, as there were village school teachers without academic education. He had his first teaching position in Hellenthal (Eifel). This is where he seems to have found his wife. On 13.7. 1806, he married Anna Gertraud Käuer (1777-1858; alternative spelling: Keuert) at Kirschseiffen. Her parents, Tilmanus Keuert and Regina Catherina Freischmid were from Hellenthal and her ancestry is solidly from that area. The first two children, Karoline and Maria Magdalena, were born at Hellenthal in 1807 and 1809, respectively. In 1809/10 the family moved to Raversbeuren (Hunsrück), where the next five children were born between 1810 and 1819 (see the list below). The last of the eight children, Henriette, was born in 1822 at Simmern unter Dhaun, where Christian Gottlieb taught from 1819 until his retirement in 1853. This village is today known as Simmertal, renamed to avoid confusion with the main town of the region which is also called Simmern. They are both on the same little river, the Simmerbach, but Simmern unter Dhaun is close to where it joins the Nahe river (near Kirn), while the town of Simmern is upstream, on the highlands of the Hunsrück. Relative to Christian Gottlieb’s home village of Pferdsfeld, Simmern unter Dhaun is just 5 km SSE, so he may have jumped at this opportunity to work closer to his family home, after the previous jobs were much farther away. The school at Simmern unter Dhaun can be traced back to 1563, for which year the village chronicles record that a teacher’s salary was paid. In 1824, five years into Christian Gottlieb’s tenure, the “protestant elementary school” had 126 pupils. The following year, 14 Jewish children joined them as well. In 1838, the position of a second teacher was approved, and in 1841 a Mr Schneider was hired. The school at Simmern unter Dhaun, now a private residence. Photo by Jörg Groß. In 1846, the school house, dating back to 1747, was extended with a second storey. Since then, it had two classrooms and two flats for teachers, plus a barn and stables. However, as these buildings were too small to get a proper farm going, the school's land was leased to local farmers. We don’t know whether either of the flats was occupied by the Weiß family (whose children were all grown up by then). Christian Gottlieb’s earnings at that point were: * 47 Thalers from the Fabry foundation * free residence, firewood, small amounts of natural produce; * as a sacristan, bell-ringer, and organist for the local church he also got 1 Thaler in cash and * 22 Thalers worth of natural produce. In 1851, Christian Gottlieb built a house with barn and stables where he then lived with his wife and the growing family of his daughter Henriette, who had six children with her husband Friedrich Kaiser. One of them, Johann Kaiser, moved into the house of his parents in 1913, after retiring from his job as a teacher in Cologne. The house stayed “in the family” for more than a century, until 1961. In 1852, the government of the Kingdom of Prussia, of which the Hunsrück area was now a part, politely enquired whether Christian Gottlieb didn’t want to retire from his teaching job, as he was already 70 years old, and there had been complaints about him. He retired the following year, after 34 years as a teacher at this school. Mr Schneider took over as first teacher for a year, but in 1854 new teachers were appointed to both positions. He received a decent pension and was able to celebrate his golden wedding anniversary in 1856. Anna Gertraud died in 1858, aged 81. Christian Gottlieb died in 1867, aged 85. The school house survives to this day, but is in residential use today. Portrait of Christian Gottlieb Weiß taken in 1866, at which point he was retired, widowed, and a little bit forgetful, but otherwise fine, I guess. Christian Gottlieb and Anna Gertraud had eight children and at least 20 grandchildren. The fifth, and to some extent also the second child will be of interest for further developments, while the seventh is the author of the Weiß chronicles. 1. Karoline (Kornelia) Weiß, 1807-1877, married farm labourer and coachman (Georg) Philipp Fuchs, at Simmern unter Dhaun. Reportedly, there have been troubles related to alcoholism and tuberculosis in that family, but they still managed to have 11 children, born 1829-1851. 2. Maria Magdalena Weiß, 1809-1885, married Peter Schmidt from Hahnenbach. They had one daughter, (Caroline) Wilhelmine Schmidt, * 1848, who married Ferdinand Weirich, and from whom the Weirichs and Giloys at Hahnenbach are descended, who who kept the village inn until the late 20th century. 3. Johannetha Weiß, 1809-1879, married Friedrich Dick from Monzingen, reported to have set sail for America with “a stable full of children.” (Possibly because of the famine of 1845/46 triggered by potato blight.) 4. Karl Weiß, a railways man at Hamm (Westfalen), married Wilhelmine Schmidt from Hamm, had one daughter. 5. Katharina Sophia Weis * 25. 3.1815 Raversbeuren + 8. 1.1862 Simmern, married the shoemaker Mathias Kauer in Simmern, at which point our lineage becomes the Kauer clan. All their descendants are listed here. 6. (Regina) Wilhelmine Weiß, 1817-1865, did not marry. (the birth and death year are from the residents book of Simmern unter Dhaun, suggesting she lived to 47 or 48. Johanna Kauer wrote that Regina died at age 20. Not sure who is right. 7. Christian Gottlieb Weiß, born ca. 1821, in 1844 married a widow, Maria Katharina Kessel, had two sons and two daughters. He is the author of the Weiß Chronicles written in Eckweiler in 1891. His daughter Sophie Weiß married a Mr Kehrein. Their son Karl Kehrein (1880-1942) married his second cousin Lina Martin, also a great-grandchild of the teacher C. G. Weiß (via his 5th child, Sophie, see here). Through Karl Kehrein, who was a baker at Kirn and knew my great-great aunt Johanna Kauer, the Weiß chronicles came to our knowledge. Sadly, however, Karl Kehrein’s descendants don’t know what happened to the original. 8. Henriette Weiß, 1822-1895, married Friedrich Kaiser, had 6 children: Karl, Fritz (2 children), August (3 children), Johann, Hermann ... Note that Christian Gottlieb is the last academically educated ancestor in my lineage, after ten generations with lots of vicars and teachers (often connected matrilinearly). After him we have three less than academic generations ending with Helene who wanted to be a teacher but wasn't allowed to study - for economic reasons mainly. She made sure that all her three children (including two daughters) got the opportunity she missed out on. Helene's lifespan did not overlap with that of her great-grandfather Christian Gottlieb, but she would have known that he was a teacher, and others in the extended family were teachers as well, including her uncle, the pioneering special needs teacher Friedrich Kauer. Friedrich is a grandson of Christian Gottlieb via his 5th child, Katharina Sophia Weiß. Also, thanks to Anna Gertrud Keuert, I have 1/64 of Eifel ancestry, which I should subtract when I say that 3/16 of my ancestry is from the Hunsrück. Together with 1/64 from Idstein, this is the biggest outside influx absorbed into the Hunsrück family tree, leaving me with 5/32.) * * * My famlily history index pages: people -- surnames -- places -- migration events

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In a letter about the discovery of the Weiß Chronicles, Johanna wrote that the teacher Christian Gottlieb Weiß (1782-1867) had his first teaching job in "Höllenthal" - which would suggest the etymological interpretation as "Hell's Valley". I had always assumed that this was the historic name of the village now known as Hellenthal (Eifel), but Wikipedia seems to think it's got nothing to do with hell, and that it's all about the _Hall_ you hear in the valley, ie the echo (Old High German _hellan_ , to sound, resonate). As there was a lot of mining and metalworking in the area, the valley may have been echoing with the clanging of hammers and anvils. Anyhow, Christian Gottlieb, who is also the earliest born ancestor of whom we have a photo, found himself a wife at Hellenthal. In 1806, he married Anna Gertraud Käuer, (1777-1858; alternative spelling: Keuert), whose ancestry is solidly from that village. Coming out of the Weiß family that is crawling with clergymen (up to 13 among his direct ancestors, many more in the extended family), he is the first in our lineage to leave that tradition behind and marry somebody with no church family background whatsoever. Also, he married outside the (former) Sponheim territory, where the whole clergy marriage network operated. And she was four years older than him. Back in the noughties, my father hired a professional genealogist to look into the Hellenthal ancestry. He drew up a report on Anna Gertraud's family and found 14 of her 16 great-grandparents. No academics in sight but a few metalworkers. And a very tightly knit community where the family names like Vader(s), Pieroth and Bastert occur in duplicate in the generation of the great-grandparents. I was reminded of that fact when I updated my list of family names recently, so am now looking into the Hellenthal family tree again in the hope of discovering common ancestry for those pairs of great-grandparents sharing a surname. My scan of a tourism brochure from the 1990s. So here comes a little family tree for Anna Gertraud: 1. Anna Gertrude Keuert (Kauer) * 8. 3.1778 Hellenthal; ~ Gemünd + 7. 4.1858 Simmern u. Dhaun (80) * * * 2. Keuert Tilmanus * 24. 8.1749 Hellenthal + 8.12.1819 Hellenthal (70) smith, agricultural worker } oo 29. 5.1777 Gemünd 3. Regina Catherina (Maria Catherina) Freischmid * 14. 5.1747 Hellenthal + 28. 3.1813 Hellenthal (65) * * * 4. Johann Peter Keuert * um 1725 Hellenthal + after 1759 } oo 11. 2.1748 Gemünd 5. Anna Catharina Dresen (Drees) * 4. 3.1715 Hellenthal (if no. 10. correct) + after 1759 6. Paulus Freischmid * 23.12.1696 Hellenthal + 1. 5.1752 Hellenthal (55) } oo 21. 5.1724 7. Maria Piroth (Pyroth) * 25. 4.1705 Hellenthal + Hellenthal (73) [] 3.10.1778 * * * 8. Mattheis Keuer * 27. 8.1690 Hellenthal + after 1737 Hellenthal } oo 29. 5.1719 Gemünd 9. Elisabeth Bruch (Bruich) * 26.12.1698 Kirschseiffen + after 1737 Hellenthal 10. Jacob Drees * 9. 2.1681 Hellenthal + } oo 1. 5.1708 Gemünd 11. Gertrud Lüperts * um 1685 Hellenthal + before 1748 12. Paul Freyschmidt * around 1675 Hellenthal + 1724 Hellenthal } oo 13. Elisabeth Pyroth * 1676 + 1705-1724 14. Johann Pyroth * 9. 1670 Hellenthal + after 1715 } I.oo around 1704 II.oo around 1707 Maria Hellenthal in Hellenthal 15. Elisabeth Thus (Theissen) * 10.12.1677 Hellenthal + 1705-08 * * * 16. Tilmann Keuer * around 1660 + after 1696 } oo before 1682 17. Gertrud Vader * around 1660 + after 1696 18. Peter Bruch * around 1660 Heimbach ? + after 1702 } oo 1683-87 19. Ida Bastert * 8. 3.1662 Kirschseiffen + after 1702 20. Johann Drees * around 1650 Bronsfeld + I.oo before 1672 Catharina Huperts }II.oo 1680 21. Margaretha Kuhl 22. Arnold Lüperts * around 1650 Bronsfeld + 1688-1708 } oo before 1672 23. Maria Huperts * around 1650 Hellenthal + after 1688 24. (Freischmidt) } oo 25. 26. Firmondt Pieroth } oo 27. Cathrin Basters 28. Paul Pyroth (junior) * before 1650 Hellenthal ? + after 1678 } oo before 1668 29. Johanna Balters * + after 1678 30. Heinrich Thus * + after 1686 } oo around 1675 31. Maria Vader * before 1660 + after 1709 * * * 38. Johann Pastart (ert) * } oo vor 1660 39. Elsgen Bungart 40. Thonnes Dreßen * Bronsfeld near Schleiden (recorded as a godfather in 1671) 56. ?Paul Pyroth (seeing that 28. was referred to as Paul Pyroth Junior?) Note that there is a family tree on familysearch which is much less complete and deviates in the paternal grandparents and their parents. They also have a wrong year of birth and death for 2. Tilmanus - according to them he would have been 9 years old at the birth of his daughter. My guess is they picked another person also called Tilmanus Keuer and thus ended up with a different set of ancestors on the paternal side. So I guess we can safely ignore that dataset. * * * A few leads for further investigations: Bastert (yes, the name means exactly what you think): There is a Pastert ironworks tradition in this area, see for instance Peter Pastert (1641-1728) in Schleiden (northern neighbour of Hellenthal). Also, a Bastardt family near Schleiden has been involved in a long running inheritance dispute in 1618-1628. Pyroth / Pierot: The spelling varies wildly, but our genealogist and others have speculated that these people go back to a francophone lineage of Pierrot (derived from Pierre, the French version of Peter). As Hellenthal is a mining and metalworking town, this name could be from migrating miners coming in from Wallonia. We have some of these elsewhere too, eg in Fachbach. Vaders: The genealogist said there were several Vader families in the previous generation and he couldn't establish a specific connection to any of them. There are seven GedBas entries for a (Peter) Reinhard Vaders born Hellenthal around 1635 who in 1674 married Anna Magdalena Lang from Neunkirchen (Saar) and moved there, producing lots of Vaders descendants. Seeing that he was around 40 at the time of this marriage, he could very well have had a previous family at Hellenthal, from which 17. Gertrud or 31. Maria Vader could be his children. Or his nieces. His parents were Franz Vaders and Evgen NN. All the Gedbas profiles seem to come from Saarland descendents not too interested in Hellenthal, so this trace goes cold very quickly. * * * My famlily history index pages: people -- surnames -- places -- migration events

In a letter about the discovery of the Weiß Chronicles, Johanna wrote that the teacher Christian Gottlieb Weiß (1782-1867) had his first teaching job in "Höllenthal" - which would suggest the etymological interpretation as "Hell's Valley". I had always assumed that this was the historic name of the village now known as Hellenthal (Eifel), but Wikipedia seems to think it's got nothing to do with hell, and that it's all about the _Hall_ you hear in the valley, ie the echo (Old High German _hellan_ , to sound, resonate). As there was a lot of mining and metalworking in the area, the valley may have been echoing with the clanging of hammers and anvils. Anyhow, Christian Gottlieb, who is also the earliest born ancestor of whom we have a photo, found himself a wife at Hellenthal. In 1806, he married Anna Gertraud Käuer, (1777-1858; alternative spelling: Keuert), whose ancestry is solidly from that village. Coming out of the Weiß family that is crawling with clergymen (up to 13 among his direct ancestors, many more in the extended family), he is the first in our lineage to leave that tradition behind and marry somebody with no church family background whatsoever. Also, he married outside the (former) Sponheim territory, where the whole clergy marriage network operated. And she was four years older than him. Back in the noughties, my father hired a professional genealogist to look into the Hellenthal ancestry. He drew up a report on Anna Gertraud's family and found 14 of her 16 great-grandparents. No academics in sight but a few metalworkers. And a very tightly knit community where the family names like Vader(s), Pieroth and Bastert occur in duplicate in the generation of the great-grandparents. I was reminded of that fact when I updated my list of family names recently, so am now looking into the Hellenthal family tree again in the hope of discovering common ancestry for those pairs of great-grandparents sharing a surname. My scan of a tourism brochure from the 1990s. So here comes a little family tree for Anna Gertraud: 1. Anna Gertrude Keuert (Kauer) * 8. 3.1778 Hellenthal; ~ Gemünd + 7. 4.1858 Simmern u. Dhaun (80) * * * 2. Keuert Tilmanus * 24. 8.1749 Hellenthal + 8.12.1819 Hellenthal (70) smith, agricultural worker } oo 29. 5.1777 Gemünd 3. Regina Catherina (Maria Catherina) Freischmid * 14. 5.1747 Hellenthal + 28. 3.1813 Hellenthal (65) * * * 4. Johann Peter Keuert * um 1725 Hellenthal + after 1759 } oo 11. 2.1748 Gemünd 5. Anna Catharina Dresen (Drees) * 4. 3.1715 Hellenthal (if no. 10. correct) + after 1759 6. Paulus Freischmid * 23.12.1696 Hellenthal + 1. 5.1752 Hellenthal (55) } oo 21. 5.1724 7. Maria Piroth (Pyroth) * 25. 4.1705 Hellenthal + Hellenthal (73) [] 3.10.1778 * * * 8. Mattheis Keuer * 27. 8.1690 Hellenthal + after 1737 Hellenthal } oo 29. 5.1719 Gemünd 9. Elisabeth Bruch (Bruich) * 26.12.1698 Kirschseiffen + after 1737 Hellenthal 10. Jacob Drees * 9. 2.1681 Hellenthal + } oo 1. 5.1708 Gemünd 11. Gertrud Lüperts * um 1685 Hellenthal + before 1748 12. Paul Freyschmidt * around 1675 Hellenthal + 1724 Hellenthal } oo 13. Elisabeth Pyroth * 1676 + 1705-1724 14. Johann Pyroth * 9. 1670 Hellenthal + after 1715 } I.oo around 1704 II.oo around 1707 Maria Hellenthal in Hellenthal 15. Elisabeth Thus (Theissen) * 10.12.1677 Hellenthal + 1705-08 * * * 16. Tilmann Keuer * around 1660 + after 1696 } oo before 1682 17. Gertrud Vader * around 1660 + after 1696 18. Peter Bruch * around 1660 Heimbach ? + after 1702 } oo 1683-87 19. Ida Bastert * 8. 3.1662 Kirschseiffen + after 1702 20. Johann Drees * around 1650 Bronsfeld + I.oo before 1672 Catharina Huperts }II.oo 1680 21. Margaretha Kuhl 22. Arnold Lüperts * around 1650 Bronsfeld + 1688-1708 } oo before 1672 23. Maria Huperts * around 1650 Hellenthal + after 1688 24. (Freischmidt) } oo 25. 26. Firmondt Pieroth } oo 27. Cathrin Basters 28. Paul Pyroth (junior) * before 1650 Hellenthal ? + after 1678 } oo before 1668 29. Johanna Balters * + after 1678 30. Heinrich Thus * + after 1686 } oo around 1675 31. Maria Vader * before 1660 + after 1709 * * * 38. Johann Pastart (ert) * } oo vor 1660 39. Elsgen Bungart 40. Thonnes Dreßen * Bronsfeld near Schleiden (recorded as a godfather in 1671) 56. ?Paul Pyroth (seeing that 28. was referred to as Paul Pyroth Junior?) Note that there is a family tree on familysearch which is much less complete and deviates in the paternal grandparents and their parents. They also have a wrong year of birth and death for 2. Tilmanus - according to them he would have been 9 years old at the birth of his daughter. My guess is they picked another person also called Tilmanus Keuer and thus ended up with a different set of ancestors on the paternal side. So I guess we can safely ignore that dataset. * * * A few leads for further investigations: Bastert (yes, the name means exactly what you think): There is a Pastert ironworks tradition in this area, see for instance Peter Pastert (1641-1728) in Schleiden (northern neighbour of Hellenthal). Also, a Bastardt family near Schleiden has been involved in a long running inheritance dispute in 1618-1628. Pyroth / Pierot: The spelling varies wildly, but our genealogist and others have speculated that these people go back to a francophone lineage of Pierrot (derived from Pierre, the French version of Peter). As Hellenthal is a mining and metalworking town, this name could be from migrating miners coming in from Wallonia. We have some of these elsewhere too, eg in Fachbach. Vaders: The genealogist said there were several Vader families in the previous generation and he couldn't establish a specific connection to any of them. There are seven GedBas entries for a (Peter) Reinhard Vaders born Hellenthal around 1635 who in 1674 married Anna Magdalena Lang from Neunkirchen (Saar) and moved there, producing lots of Vaders descendants. Seeing that he was around 40 at the time of this marriage, he could very well have had a previous family at Hellenthal, from which 17. Gertrud or 31. Maria Vader could be his children. Or his nieces. His parents were Franz Vaders and Evgen NN. All the Gedbas profiles seem to come from Saarland descendents not too interested in Hellenthal, so this trace goes cold very quickly. * * * My famlily history index pages: people -- surnames -- places -- migration events

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A simple act of kindness turned into a real-life superhero story for one Arkansas Spider-Man fan. Just days after a viral rescue at a busy intersection, Christopher Hellenthal found himself walking the red carpet with Tom Holland and the cast of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Arkansas Spider-Man gets invited to Brand New Day Premiere Christopher […] The post Viral Arkansas Spider-Man Invited to Brand New Day Premiere After Helping a Man on Wheelchair appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Christopher Hellenthal was in the presence of "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and the rest of the movie cast as he attended the premiere Wednesday.

Dressed as Spider-Man, Christopher Hellenthal hopped out of his truck to help someone in need.

Was that Peter Parker helping a man cross an intersection? No, it was Chris Hellenthal, a college student returning from a summer job.

Christopher Hellenthal, 20 anni, ha aiutato un uomo in carrozzina ad attraversare sei corsie a Jonesboro, in Arkansas, pochi secondi prima del verde. Il giovane, ancora vestito da Spider-Man per lavoro, è stato ripreso dalle telecamere.