{"id":9096,"date":"2023-03-19T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2023-03-19T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:56:05","slug":"leaving-schonecken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/leaving-schonecken\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Sch\u00f6necken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OldestIn a recent series of posts about the deep history of Sch\u00f6necken, Germany, I covered the human history and prehistory of the area from when Neanderthals roamed the area in the Middle Paleolithic (roughly 200,000\u201340,000 years ago) until the European Potato Failure of 1845\u20131846 caused famine across the continent. You can review that history here: Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0Part 2<\/a>, and\u00a0Part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now that we know what was happening and when in Sch\u00f6necken’s history, let’s review my Franz Gores’ decision to emigrate from the land where his forebears had lived for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.<\/p>\n

Franz Gores was born on June 2, 1826, in the Sch\u00f6necken area to Nicholas Gores (1800\u20131867) and Susanna (Wallerius) Gores (1799\u2013?). The Gores, like everyone in Sch\u00f6necken, were Catholic, and they had young Franz baptized at the church in Wetteldorf the day after he was born, on June 3, 1826.<\/p>\n

Before we go any further into Franz’s life, let’s take a look at the lives of his parents: Nicholas Gores and Susanna Wallerius, who\u00a0were both born at the very end of the 18th century in Sch\u00f6necken.<\/p>\n

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The oldest known photograph of Sch\u00f6necken, taken around 1880\u20131890. From https:\/\/www.schoenecken.com\/HTML\/bellacosta1b.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

His father Nicholas Gores (1800\u20131867)<\/h1>\n

Nicholas was born on March 29, 1800, during the period in which Sch\u00f6necken was part of France, in the D\u00e9partement de la Sarre. French nobility flocked to Sch\u00f6necken and surrounding areas in 1791 to escape the French Revolution, and by 1792, the area around Sch\u00f6necken was under French occupation. The area would formally be annexed by France in 1797 as a result of the\u00a0Treaty of Campo Formio<\/a>. Sch\u00f6necken would remain under formal French control until 1814, but under practical French control until 1818, so for the entirety of Nicholas’ childhood, he was a German-speaking citizen of France.<\/p>\n

Nicholas was the fourth child and third son of Martin Gores and Anna Catharina (Gottlein) Gores, who themselves had been born and married in Sch\u00f6necken. Martin and Anna Gores had nine children together:<\/p>\n