They had one son, Nicholas, in October of 1812, and Angela died during the birth of their next child in December 1813. The second child who died was not recorded with a name. Paul was left with a 14-month-old to take care of, and he found a caretaker in his town, Anne-Marie Weis. She was the same age as Paul and the daughter of a tailor, Johann Weis and his wife Maria Elisabeth Gustinger-Weis.
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| Civil registry of the Paul Reiner and Anne-Marie Wies marriage. |
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| Parish registry of the Paul Reiner and Anne-Marie Wies marriage. |
Anne-Marie would give birth to four boys and six girls, although only one, my 2nd great grandfather Johann (1822-1871), is known to have survived beyond childhood, along with his step-brother Nicholas (1812-1865). Johann Reinert followed his father's occupation, growing and processing flax into linen rope and cloth until he took his wife and family to America in 1867.
Paul and Anne-Marie remained in Wasserbillig while their son Johann relocated to Igel, Germany and married there. Paul died about 1842 in Wasserbillig. Certainly his death occurred before Johann's 1866 marriage, as he is mentioned as deceased in the marriage record. Anne-Marie moved to Igel to live with her son in her advancing years. She died there on 2 May 1866, at age 81.
* I use modern names for countries, states, and counties to simplify cross-reference to maps that are more likely available to non-specialists. I also tend to use standard German spellings of town and river names.
Both Filzen and Hamm are historical "suburbs" of today's Konz, Germany.
