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Person · Johann Caspar Pröger
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationJohann Caspar Pröger
- 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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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
- 21 March 1714
- Parents
- Hans (Johann) Pröger
- Married
- Margaretha Bullinger
- Children
- Johann Michael Pröger
- Sources
- 5
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, marriage, his children's baptisms and his burial read from the register images; the burial age counts back to the baptism day
S599S600S602. Added 26 September 2026
Life in the order the records give it
Work—
A farmer at Triensbach and a subject of the
Castenamt Crailsheim (Brandenburg-Ansbach)
S599S602Residence1767
Moved from Triensbach about 1767 and gave up his farm for a retirement settlement. Died a widower of a fever on
21 July 1777, aged 63 years 4 months, and was buried at Rot am See on 23 July
S600Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Children1740
the "Melchior" of Georg Melchior Julius — and Johann Georg (1751); three more children died as infants: Anna Ursula (1755, baptised 4 August, buried nine days later), Johann Michael (baptised 20 April 1754, buried two days later) and Anna Maria (1762, aged five weeks)
Probable confirm or correct → — the 1754 burial page is bled through and the 1762 entry's "daughter" is a probable reading
S596S602Siblings1734
His brothers: Johann Michael, married 1734
Probable confirm or correct →, and Georg Michael, married 1746, both sons of Hans Pröger of Triensbach
In the record
Generation 9 — Earl's earliest known
- S596Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1740, p. 78, no. 8, and burials 1795, p. 336, no. 70: Johann Michael Pröger. Ancestry records 16644716 (image 1860322-00703) and 16795410 (image 1860313-00186). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 28 April 1740, son of Johann Caspar Pröger, farmer at Triensbach, and Margaretha; the pastor wrote his death, 20 April 1795, in the margin. The burial calls him a master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, aged 55 years less 8 days, buried 23 April. Indexed as "Tröger".
- S599Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1714, p. 160, no. 6, and Lendsiedel, marriages 1737, p. 649, no. 3: Johann Caspar Pröger. Ancestry records 16642861 (image 1860322-00440) and 14971270 (image 1528571-00374). Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Baptised 21 March 1714, son of Hans Preger, farmer at Triensbach, and Elisabetha. Married Margaretha Bullingerin von Eichenau at Triensbach on 12 March 1737 after banns at Lendsiedel; her parents are not named.
- S600Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Rot am See, burials 1777, p. 24, no. 16: Johann Caspar Präger, 23 July 1777. Ancestry record 14578838, image 1528601-00185. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A widower, formerly a farmer, who had moved from Triensbach ten years before and lived on a retirement settlement; died of a three-day fever on 21 July, aged 63 years 4 months, which counts back to his 1714 baptism.
- S601Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, burials 1762, p. 237, nos. 10–11: the infant Anna Maria and Margaretha, wife of Johann Caspar Pröger. Image 1860313-00133. Images examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 30 August 1762: Johann Caspar's youngest daughter Anna Maria, five weeks old. 9 September 1762: his wife Margaretha, geborne Bül[l…]in of [Eichenau?], died 7 September in childbed. Probable for her identity: the husband's surname initial and the village word are hard to read, and her age cannot be read.
- S602Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, baptisms 1746–1754 and burials 1755: children of Johann Caspar Pröger and Margaretha. Images 1860322-00720, 1860322-00727, 1860313-00012, 1860313-00127; Ancestry records 16644822, 16644919, 16794059, 16794769. Read 25 September 2026. Johann Caspar (bapt. 24 February 1746, index only), Johann Melchior (bapt. 14 December 1748; the index's 1747 is wrong), Johann Georg (bapt. 25 November 1751), Johann Michael (bapt. 20 April 1754, buried two days later), Anna Ursula (buried 13 August 1755, nine days old) and Anna Maria (buried 30 August 1762).