Life as we know it, for my family at least all leads back to a man by the name of Zacharias Wegerle aka Zacharia Weigel or Zacharias Wegerlin. He is my 8th great grandfather and he was born in or around 1638 in Lampertheim, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany which turns out means he was born in the town of Lampertheim within Bergstraße district. Lampertheim is a town in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany. You can click here to view the map of the town as it exists today.
What makes doing research on the Wegley family line so complicated is that there are so many spellings and misspellings of the last name. Here are just some of the ways people have spelled the Wegley name over the years.
- Wegley (1900s)
- Weighley (1800s)
- Weigley (1700s)
- Wageli (1600s)
- Weigel (1600s)
- Weichel (1500s)
- Weigle
- Weigel
- Weagley
- Wegerlin
- Wagerline
- Wegerle
- Weygell
- Weigele
- Wegerle
- Weckerly
- Freigley (obvious typo)
I haven’t proven who his father is yet but it looks like it may be a man by the name of Hanß or Hanss, Han or Hana. Hanß could have been known by the last name of Wegerlin or Wageli. To avoid confusion for now we are going to call him Han Wageli as this is what most of the other researchers are calling him. The only thing I can really do now is get all the records from the 1600s for the town of Lampertheim within Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany.
So what do we know about Zacharias?
We know that he died and was buried in Germany (1638-1695)
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Zacharias Wegerlin
| BIRTH |
Lampertheim, Kreis Bergstraße, Hessen, Germany
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|---|---|
| DEATH | 1695 (aged 56–57)
Lampertheim, Kreis Bergstraße, Hessen, Germany
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| BURIAL |
Lampertheim (Friedhof Huettenfeld)
Kreis Bergstraße, Hessen, Germany |
Zacharias Wägeli was born in 1638 in Lampertheim, Germany and died in 1695, in Lampertheim, Germany. He appears to have married a woman by the name of Anna Elisabeth Treiber (1636-1720) on May 8, 1660 when he was 20 years old.
They possibly had 14 children.
- Han Philipp Wegerle (1664 – 1747)
- Anna Catharina Wegerlin (1665 –)
- Han Georg Wegerlin (1667 – 1668)
- Nicolaus Wegerle (1675 – 1731)
- Johann Heinrich Wageli (1678 – 1678)
- Johann Peter Wegerle (1678 – 1678)
- Johann Martin Wageli (1679 –)
- Paulus Wegerle (1684 – 1684)
- Euphrosina Wegerle (1686 – 1686)
Zacharias Wegerlin was born in 1638 in Lampertheim, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt the only known child of Hana Wegerlin and his wife (UNKOWN NAME??). He married Anna Elisabeth Treiber on May 8, 1660 in Lampertheim, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt in the Lutheran Church. They had four children in 14 years. He died in 1695 in Lampertheim, at the age of 57.