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Person · Johann Adam Scheuermann
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationJohann Adam Scheuermann
- 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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separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
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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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no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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- Born
- Not found
- Died
- Not found
- Children
- Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
- Sources
- 3
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED as Maria Margaretha's father — her own marriage entry in the Gerabronn register, 8 April 1766, calls her Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, the daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn
S814, and the Gerabronn baptism register for 1743 records a Maria Margaretha born to him
S815. Both read from the register images
Life in the order the records give it
Note—
A
Brandenburg subject, a
Köbler (smallholder) and the
common herdsman (Gemeiner Hirt) of Gerabronn
S815S835Birth1692
His birth and death are not documented. The years 1692 and 1744 in some trees are not supported by any record read
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1742
A
widower when he married
Eva Margaretha Stapf, daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen, on
16 January 1742, by the Gerabronn marriage register
S835. His first wife is not yet named
In the record
Generation 9 — Earl's earliest known
- S814Gerabronn marriage register, 1766, p. 53, no. 6 — Johann Georg Hartweck and Maria Margaretha Scheuermann, 8 April 1766. Ancestry record 914786966 (image 1528537-00949). Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Georg Hartweck [?] of Oberweiler marries Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn, at Michelbach an der Lücke. Read from the old German hand; the groom's surname is read with some doubt. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
- S815Gerabronn baptism register, 1743, p. 110, no. 6 — Maria Margaretha, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann. Ancestry record 164785125 (image 1528537-00586). Image examined at full resolution, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Maria Margaretha, Johann Adam Scheuermanns, Brandenburgischen Unterthanens, Köblers und Gemeinen Hirtens allhier in Gerabronn, und seiner Ehewirthin … Margaretha” (Maria struck through, Eva written above). The entry runs onto the next leaf, so the day is not on this image; the entry before it is dated 30 January 1743. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.
- S835Gerabronn marriage register, 1742, no. 1, p. 327 — Johann Adam Scheuermann and Eva Margaretha Stapf, 16 January 1742. Ancestry record 914782826 (image 1528537-00181). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Johann Adam Scheuermann, Brandenb. Unterthan, Köbler und Gemeinds Hirt allhier in Gerabronn, ein Wittwer, ist mit seiner verlobten Braut [Maria struck through, Eva in the margin] Margaretha, weyl. Andreas Stapfens, gewesenen Hochfürstl. Comburgischen Unterthanens und Bauers zu Wollmershausen … nachgelassenen ehelich ledigen Tochter … den 16. Jan. … copulirt”: Johann Adam Scheuermann, a widower, herdsman at Gerabronn, married Margaretha, the single daughter of the late Andreas Stapf, farmer at Wollmershausen. Read at full resolution from the old German hand. FamilySearch indexes the same marriage as 1:1:QPP2-DKBY (not independent), and a son Johann Georg, of Johann Adam Schuermann and Eva Margareta, as 1:1:QPP2-7PK4. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.