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Person · Anna Maria Busch
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationAnna Maria Busch
- 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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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
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
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
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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no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
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- Parents
- Johann Michael Pröger
- Married
- Johann Leonhard David Prüger
- Children
- Georg Melchior Julius Prüger
- Sources
- 6
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother in her son's 1804 birth register, and as the bride in the 1796 marriage register, both read from the images
S591S595. Added 26 September 2026
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1796
Married
Johann Leonhard David Prüger in
November 1796: banns at Ellrichshausen, wedding at Triensbach. She was 30, so born about
1766, the youngest daughter of the late
Johann Michael Busch, a
Halbbauer (smallholder); his village reads as Beu[e]rlbach, which is
Probable confirm or correct → S595Parents1797
🆕 Mother also of Johann Michael Pröger, her first son, born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 April 1797 Confirmed S623. Both registers of his marriage to Anna Barbara Hübner at Großaltdorf on 17 June 1829 name him the son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger and “the late Anna Maria geb. Busch”, a second record naming her S737S779. Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Not found
She died between July 1804 and early 1806: her husband married again as a widower on 4 March 1806
S592. Her burial has not been found. Her son was raised by his stepmother,
Eva Barbara SchmidtIn the record
Generation 7 — Earl's earliest known
- S591Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Triensbach, births 1804, p. 9, no. 10: Georg Melchior Julius Proeger, 25 July 1804. Ancestry record 16796853, image 1860313-00512. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Johann Leonhard David, Tüncher Mstr. at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Maria geb. Büschin (Anna Maria Busch); born at Erkenbrechtshausen. This is his birth register, and it names his mother as Anna Maria Busch, not Eva Barbara Schmid. The 1835 marriage index and the 1870 burial name Eva Barbara, his stepmother, who raised him.
- S592Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Rot am See/Gerabronn, marriages 1806, pp. 128–129, no. 2: Johann Leonhard Pröger and Eva Barbara Schmidt, 4 March 1806. Ancestry record 14580649, image 1528601-00416. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed The groom a master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, ein Wittwer (a widower); the bride the single daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld. Married at Triensbach on 4 March after three banns; the index's 2 March is the last banns.
- S595Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Ellrichshausen, marriages 1796, pp. 187–188, no. 9: Johann Leonhard Pröger and Anna Maria Büschin. Ancestry record 16728664, images 1859439-00674/-00675. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Banns November 1796, wedding at Triensbach. The groom 24, master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, the only son of the late Johann Michael Pröger; the bride Anna Maria Büschin, 30, youngest daughter of the late Johann Michael Busch, Halbbauer at a village read as Beu[e]rlbach (uncertain).
- S623Triensbach (Württemberg) parish register, Bd. 6, baptisms 1797, pp. 210–211 — Johann Michael Pröger. Image
1860313-00311. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Born 15 April 1797 at 4 a.m. at Erkenbrechtshausen and baptised that day; son of Johann Leonhardt David Pröger, citizen-resident and master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Anna Maria, née Busch. Godparents Johann Julius Schn[a]r of Erkenbrechtshausen, Johann Michael Schäffer, and Johann Melchior [Kunzig?]. The godfathers' names Julius and Melchior were current in the family before Georg Melchior Julius was named in 1804; that they are the source of his name is only probable. - S737Triensbach marriage register, Bd. 12 p. 8, 1829: Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers, Ancestry record 16798699, film 1860313, image 00881. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Johann Michael Pröger, Taglöhner in Großaltdorf”, son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger, weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and Anna Maria n. Busch, born 15 April 1797; bride Anna Barbara Hübner of Großaltdorf, born 27 April 1801, daughter of the late Johann Georg Hübner, farmer; married at Großaltdorf “d. 17. Juny 1829”. The Großaltdorf index (record 11997540) gives 17 January; the banns Sundays fit June only.
- S779Großaltdorf marriage register, Bd. 7 p. 21, 1829 no. 1: Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner, 17 June 1829. Ancestry record 911997540. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed The Großaltdorf copy of the marriage in S737: Johann Michael Pröger, born 15 April 1797 at Erkenbrechtshausen, son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger and “weil. Anna Maria geb. Busch”; bride Anna Barbara Hübnerin, born 27 April 1801, daughter of the late Johann Georg Hübner, farmer, church-council member and Heiligenpfleger, and Anna Catharina Frinauer (reading uncertain) of Hohnhardt (reading uncertain). A second register for the same wedding, and a second source for his mother Anna Maria Busch (S623). The index's 17 January is wrong here too. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers.