Generation Two
2. Franz HOLTZKLAU
(5072); born between 1545 and 1550 (of Weidenau, Germany);[1]
died circa 1600 in Weidenau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[2]
He lived in 1583 in Weidenau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[3]
He was one of three "Elders" or assistant administrative officers in
1595 in Weidenau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[4]
Children of Franz Holtzklau
(5072) and an unknown spouse were:
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i. Wilhelm
(4996), born between 1573 and 1574 in Weidenau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany; married ? Flender (4997).
3. Johann HOLTZKLAU
(5298); born circa 1555 (of Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany);[5]
died 1626 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[6]
He lived in 1577 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany, acquiring
Siegen citizenship.[7]
He "had suffered great damages in the great city fire of 1593." "Until 1593 he had lived on the
Marburger Strasse in a house that was destroyed in the 1593 fire" in
Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[8]
He was an iron merchant and member of the Toolmakers Guild between 1599 and
1625 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[9]
He lived in 1609 at Loehrstrasse, Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany ("a
house, yard, barn, and a new house").[10]
Children of Johann Holtzklau
(5298) and an unknown spouse both born in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany, were as follows:
8. i. Ebert (5302); born circa 1579; married Elisabeth Kreuz (5303) circa 1604; died September 7, 1629 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[11]
He was 1606/7-Treasurer of the City; 1608-Town Councilor;
1608/10-Superintendent of church property (?); second mayor in 1614, 1617, and
1620; first mayor in 1625 and 1629 in 1606 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[12]
He was an iron-merchant and also a member of the Toolmakers Guild in 1608.[13]
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ii. Johannes
(5304), born circa 1583; married Kathrin ? (5305).
4. Johannes Hans HOLTZKLAU (5156); born 1560 (of Siegen, Germany); married Treina Bingener
(5157) circa 1582; died 1608.[14]
He belonged to the Bakers Guild, was a beer brewer and host of
an inn, "At the Lamb" after 1582 on New Market in Siegen,
Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[15]
Treina BINGENER
(5157) was born circa 1560. She died
in 1598.[16]
Children of Johannes Hans Holtzklau
(5156) and Treina Bingener (5157) were:
10. i. Thomas (5308); born circa 1585 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany; married Cathrin ? (5309) 1608; died 1633 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany (will opened and
read May 29, 1633).[17]
He was a middleman in the Guild of ironworkers in 1617/18 in
Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[18]
He was a member of the Bakers Guild between 1621 and 1633 in Siegen,
Nassau-Siegen, Germany.[19]
He began military service between 1631 and 1633 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen,
Germany, a member of the militia.[20]
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[1]B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc, 1964), p. 195, 219. Hereinafter cited as Nassau-Siegen Immigrants.
[2]World Family Tree, Vol. 7, #4580.
[3]Holtzclaw, Nassau-Siegen Immigrants, p. 219.
[4]Ibid.
[5]Ibid.
[6]Ibid., p. 195, 201.
[7]Ibid., p. 195.
[8]Ibid., p. 201-202.
[9]Ibid., p. 195, 201.
[10]Ibid., p. 202.
[11]Ibid., p. 207-208.
[12]Ibid., p. 207.
[13]Ibid.
[14]Ibid., p. 204.
[15]Ibid., p. 203.
[16]World Family Tree, Vol. 14, #1473.
[17]Holtzclaw, Nassau-Siegen Immigrants, p. 210-211.
[18]Ibid., p. 211.
[19]Ibid.
[20]Ibid.