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Person · Hans (Johannes) Gronbach
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationHans (Johannes) Gronbach
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
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what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
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testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
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it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
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was read for it S46.
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- Married
- Eva Kreber
- Children
- Anna Maria Gronbach
- Sources
- 3
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Anna Maria Gronbach. The Lendsiedel marriage register of 29 February 1676 names the bride as “Anna Maria, Hannß Gronbachs deß jüngern, [Bauers] zu großen Allmerspann, ehelich ledige Tochter”, the legitimate daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, farmer at Groß-Allmerspann
S805; and the Langenburg baptism register for December 1652 records
Anna Maria, child of
Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and
Eva S837. Both were read from the register images. Added 29 September 2026
Life in the order the records give it
Birth—
His baptism and burial appear in card indexes, but those register images have not been read, so no dates are given here
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1649
Married
Eva Kreber (Kerber), surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann, on
27 November 1649, by the Langenburg marriage register
S836Marriage1649
Called “the younger” because his father was also a Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann: the 1649 marriage calls him the legitimate son of Hans Gronbach
S836Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Open question
⚠️ Not the Hans Gronbach who was a baker at Untermünkheim. That man’s daughter Anna Maria, christened 28 December 1653, had a mother named Margaretha, and FamilySearch indexes an Anna Maria Gronbach, born 1653, daughter of Johann, who died at Hall on 20 November 1669 (1:1:QP5Q-VYQK), years before the 1676 marriage
In the record
Generation 12 — Earl's earliest known
- S805Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Lendsiedel, marriages 1676 (image 1528571-00015): Hans Schuster and Anna Maria Gronbach, 29 February 1676. Ancestry record 914964776. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable Read at full resolution: "d. 29. febr. sind copulirt worden Hannß Schüst[er] bey undern Schmerach … u. Anna Maria, Hannß Gronbachs deß jüngern, [Bauers] zu großen Allmerspann, ehelich ledige Tochter": Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach married Anna Maria, the single daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann. The same hamlet as Elisabetha's 1736 burial (“born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach”, S608) and the same parish as her 1678 baptism, which calls her mother simply Maria (S609). A margin insertion probably names the groom's late father as Michel Schuster, a farmer at a place beginning with K; that reading is tentative; the site gives it as Probable, accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A crop of the entry is in documents/schuster. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985.
- S836Langenburg marriage register, p. 536 — Hans Gronbach and Eva Kreber (Kerber), 27 November 1649. Ancestry record 914633326 (image 1528570-00508). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “Hanß Gronbach, Hansen Gronbachs [wirts?] zu großen Allmerspach fil. legit. und Eva, Jörg Krebers [or Kerbers] zu großen Allmerspach filia relicta”: Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, married Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann. Read at full resolution. The surname can be read Kreber or Kerber. The register calls her only Eva. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
- S837Langenburg baptism register, p. 348, line 13 — Anna Maria, daughter of Johannes Gronbach and Eva, December 1652. Image 1528570-00417. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “Johannes Gronbach zu Großallmerspach | Eva | Anna Maria”. The same father, hamlet and given name as the Anna Maria, daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger of Groß-Allmerspann, who married Hans Schuster in 1676 (S805), who would then have been 23. No document names Eva as the 1676 bride's mother. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.