Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

WürttembergProbable

4th great-grandfather · 1804–1870

Born

25 July 1804, Erkenbrechtshausen, Württemberg

Died

4 February 1870, Württemberg

Parents

Johann Leonhard David Prüger & Maler

Children

Julius Karl Proeger

Sources

5

Images

1

Research status

Evidence: His son's 1844 baptism and his own 1870 burial entry, both read from the register. Weak or missing: His 1804 birth register has now been read too; it names his mother as Anna Maria Busch, so the parents on his burial entry are his father and stepmother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1804

Born 25 July 1804, Erkenbrechtshausen, Württemberg S12

Death1870

Died 4 February 1870, Württemberg S12

Work1844

Bürger und Schuhmachermeister

citizen and master shoemaker — on his son's baptism register, Kirchberg an der Jagst, 28 April 1844 S69

Burial2026

🆕 A shoemaker at the end of his life too — his own burial entry says so, 21 September 2026. Image 639 of the same register has now been read at his own row: burial entry no. 3 of 1870, which names him Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J. S135. That resolves the conflict this card carried for a day. Three parish entries name his trade: his son's baptism in 1844 S69 and his own burial in 1870 S135 both say shoemaker; only his widow's entry of August 1872 S133 calls him a Schullehrer — a schoolteacher — and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The Schullehrer reading stays on this page as a recorded variant; it is not deleted, and a village schoolteacher really was often a tradesman with letters. But the trade this page carries for him is master shoemaker

Death1870

🆕 The 1870 entry checks its own arithmetic. It gives his age at death as 65 years, 6 months and 10 days

which counts forward from the birth it records, 25 July 1804, to exactly 4 February 1870, the death date it records. Birth and death corroborate each other inside a single record, which no index can do. He was buried on 7 February 1870 at ten in the morning S135

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents—

Father: Johann Leonhard David Prüger Confirmed

Parents1804

Mother: Anna Maria Busch Confirmed

named in his own 1804 birth register S591. His father's second wife, Eva Barbara Schmidt, was his stepmother

Children—

Father of Julius Karl Proeger (the immigrant) S12

Parents2026

🆕 His parents are no longer index-only. Until 21 September 2026 their names sat on this card on the strength of a transcription. They have now been read off the register image, and it gives more than the index held: his father Johann Leonhard David Prüger was a Maler

a painter — in Erkenbrechtshausen, the same village recorded as Georg's own birthplace S12; the entry names as his mother Eva Barbara, née Schmid, a maiden name no index carried. Both were marked dead by February 1870. ⚠️ Eva Barbara was his stepmother: his 1804 birth register, read 25 September 2026, names his mother as Anna Maria Busch S591. ⚠️ Her surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt — the last stroke does not decide it, and it is not forced here S135

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Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

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Burial register, Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn) — Heiraten u. Tote 1784-1896, image 639 of 706 · full resolution 5041 × 4061 px — page img 639/706

Parish register — burial · 7 February 1870

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In the record Generation 6 — earliest known

1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
2. S69Carl Julius Prüger — Lutheran baptism, Kirchberg an der Jagst (Oberamt Gerabronn), Württemberg, 28 April 1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023), retrieved 16 September 2026. Born 15 April 1844, between 11 and 12 noon, baptised 28 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. (today Baden-Württemberg); father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister dahier; mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Entry no. 22, original scan 5759 × 4607 px. The record that ended the "somewhere in Germany" wall on this line, and the origin of the Prüger spelling that was anglicised to Proeger in America. The identification rests on an exact birth-date match with S68, not on the name alone. ⚠ Superseded note, corrected 20 September 2026: this entry previously said the mother's name was lost in the binding fold and that her surname came from S68 alone. That was a limitation of a low-resolution screenshot, not of the record — at full resolution the line is legible, and the Schrift im Falz verdeckt flag on the film refers to a gutter this entry sits clear of. The register names the mother, and it is the best of the three readings of her given name — see S122. The parish is Kirchberg an der Jagst and the Oberamt is Gerabronn: the siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave Kirchberg as his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865.
3. S133Elisabetha Sabina (Lösch) Prüger — burial register, Kirchberg u. Oa., 14 August 1872. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 656 of 706, burial entry no. 534; Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195655). Read from the register image at full resolution, 4796 × 4013 px, 21 September 2026. Died 12 August 1872 at five in the morning, a Wittwe (widow) of Kirchberg; buried 14 August at ten; age at death given as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister of Crailsheim, marked deceased; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck, marked deceased; her late husband named in the entry as a Schullehrer in Kirchberg. The register settles a surname, a death date and a trade, and refuses to settle a birth date. The Ancestry index of this same entry reads her surname as something else entirely — a misread of the Kurrent. The register names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is the birthplace the German deaths index independently gives her, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate [S68] gives his mother's maiden name as Loesch. Two record images, two continents, one surname. On the death date the two Ancestry indexes disagreed — 13 August in collection 61023, 12 August in collection 9868; the image says 12 August, and collection 9868 is the one that was right. On the birth date the stated age counts back to late April 1803, against the index's 26 May 1803; those digits are at the edge of legibility even at 4796 px and are not forced here. The record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in this corpus. ⚠ Read at full resolution on purpose. At the 600 px tier this page was illegible and an earlier pass misattributed the parents' column to her husband; the correction is what the full-resolution image is for.
4. S135Georg Melchior Julius Prüger — his own burial register entry, Kirchberg u. Oa., 7 February 1870. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 639 of 706, burial entry no. 3 of 1870 (page column 634, running no. 205); Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195522). Read from the register image at full resolution, 5041 × 4061 px, 21 September 2026. Named Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J.; born 25 Juli 1804; died 4 February 1870 at seven in the evening, buried 7 February at ten in the morning; age at death 65 years, 6 months, 10 days. Parents, both marked deceased: Johann Leonhard David Prüger, Maler (painter) in Erkenbrechtshausen, and Eva Barbara geb. Schmid. Wife named as Elisabetha Sab[ina] geb. Lösch. This is the entry that settles his trade, and it settles it against the schoolteacher. Three register images now name his occupation: his son's 1844 baptism [S69] and his own burial here both say Schuhmachermeister; only his widow's 1872 entry [S133] says Schullehrer, and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The 1872 reading is kept on this page as a variant and is not deleted. ⚠ The entry also checks itself. The stated age of 65 years, 6 months and 10 days counts forward from the stated birth of 25 July 1804 to exactly 4 February 1870 — the stated death date, to the day. Birth and death corroborate each other inside one record, which no index can do. ⚠ The parentage is no longer index-only. It was carried here from Ancestry's transcription until this reading; the names are now off the image, and the image adds a trade and a maiden name that no index held. The father's residence, Erkenbrechtshausen, is the same village this page already records as Georg's own birthplace [S12] — independently recorded, and the match is what confirmed the reading of a difficult compound. The mother's surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt; the terminal stroke does not decide it and it is not forced here. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
5. 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.