Person:Johann Bartolf (18)

In the Izmény Evangelische Familienbuch the following information is recorded for Johann Georg:

The family emigrated in 1721 from Mosbach/Schaafheim (which is near the Bavarian Border)* to Hungary and established themselves in Ismény in 1723. Edith Schutt has documented that Georg left Mottgers for Hungary in 1721 with 20 Florins in his possession. There was a large scale immigration from the area around Mottgers in the 1720s and many of the immigrants left illegally. Apparently he appears (assuming this is our Georg) in the Stader records as: Bardorf Georg from Mottgers, South East from (SE) Schlühtern, 1721 to Hungary and Bardorf Georg from Mosbach, East from Dieburg, 1721 to Hungary.

Johann Georg appears in 1724 and 1725 in the "Kommitatssteuerliste" (tax list) and it mentions that he arrived in Izmény in 1723.

All of the children of Johann Georg and Anna Katharina were born before they came to Izmény.

In 1737 or 1738, the family moved on to Tófö, Hungary. We know Johann Georg was still alive and must have moved with his children because I found his death recorded in Mezöberény? Apparently there was no Evangelische Church in Izmény at the time. Lutherans were victims of intolerance at the time and it is possible they went to Tófö so that they might worship easier. While in Izmény, two of Georg's children were married in Kismányok; some of his grandchildren had to be baptized in that same village. The Hungarians, a Catholic country, were trying to drive out the Protestants or to convert them to Catholicism. It was a practice for priests to come into the villages to burn their prayer books and defile their places of worship; it was also the practice in some villages for Lutherans to have to pay the priest for each church-related service--marriages, baptisms, and funerals.

• In Adam Bartolf's history of Semlak, he lists Schweinfurt, Bavaria as the origin of the Bartolfs.

If Johann Georg was Born in Schaafheim, he would have been born from 1675 on since there are no Johann Georg records before then.

In the append book, Johan Georg is listed as dying at the age of 67 or possibly 77.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Izmény Evangelische Familienbuch.
2. ↑ Edith Schütt.

   Edith Schütt sent this information to Henry Fischer.