THE SUNDGAU:
The Dangel - Dengel - Dengelin - Dangeli
The Arms of the Dangel of Entlebuch
The Arms of the Dangel of Entlebuch
This family name, always well represented in high (upper or South) Alsace (Haut-Rhin presently) and particularly in Largitzen (near the river Largue), its origin from the action probably of hammering, in the former "tengeln" dialect. One recovers the etymology (word origin) of the Dangel in the surname Dangeleisen, which represents the small anvil of the forge used to hammer. Some authors, like Joseph Karlmann Brechenmacher, see a diminutive of the Daniel forename in Dangel, and gives some strong credentials formerly in Germany. But most of the Dangel of high Rhine come from Switzerland where the name meets also under the shape of Dangeli. The Dangel name has elsewhere given birth to some names of like Dangelsgarten and Dangelsmatten of Moernach or Dengelhag of Muespach-le-Bas (Georges Stoffel, Topographisches Worterbuch of the Ober-Elsasses).
ILLFURTH
AND THANN
Thanks to the works of the vicar
Kayser,
we know that a former Dangel family lived in Illfurth. In 1589 a
Chrischona
Dangel married in the village Valentin Ross. Later the couple Christian
Dangel
and Eve Harnist, who were united in June 1614, had six children born
between
1617 and 1630. Two boys, Jean Jacques and Jean Henri, assured the
progeny
of name in Illfurth. The first married Anne Merckle in 1648, the year
Alsace
was reattached to the crown of France. She gave him three sons, but
died
after the birth of last in 1655. Jean Jacques got remarried then to
Madeleine
Fechter who gave him seven children again. The second son of Christian,
Jean
Henri, married Marie Schlicker, then a widower, he married in 1671
Odile
Krust. During of numbering (census) of 1698 of the lord of Altkirch,
two
Dangels were noted by the registrar: two sons of Jean Jacques: Henri
and
Abraham, both heads of family. Another anterior branch from the Thirty
Years
War, the one of Thann is known for 1617, the date the vicar registered
the
death one Jean Dengeli. The name is also known some years later and
Andre
Rohmer lists some [bangards] in the name of Jean Dangel in 1647.
SOME
MILLERS OF
SWITZERLAND
The different branches have two
common
features: they come both from Switzerla nd and exercise the profession
of
miller. The historic and biographic Dictionary of the Precise
Switzerland, for this family, that came from the canton of Lucerne in
the fourteenth century.
The first branch, who gave birth to the millers of Cernay, is
originally
of Ruswil in the Entlebuch. Two brothers, Melchior and Charles, came to
Alsace
after the treaty of Munster of 1648. They were sons of Jean Dangel,
also
a miller. Charles came to old Vieux-Thann and married Lucrece Kreitler
of
Cernay. His wife having died on him leaving three children, he got
remarried
in 1684 to Anne Bores Fries. His house was the mill near the Suburb of
Cernay.
The mill was named the "Michels Millen". In 1691 their goods were
valued
at thousand five hundred books, currency of Bale, a considerable sum.
He
is stipulated in the inventory of sharing that this mill must pay
annually
to the Lords of Ferrette, a royalty in the nature of eight quartauts
(quarter
cask of 72 pints or 9 gal.) of flour, plus that sixteen quartauts to
the
city of Cernay. Several descended sons left branches in Cernay. A girl,
Anne
Marie, married Joseph Herisse Melchior, the brother of Jacques, married
in
1665 to Cernay with Madeleine Keller, Hassenburger widow. She gave to
him
several children, including a girl named Barbe, who married Jacques
Schultz
the miller of Winckelmuhle to Cernay, and a daughter Eve, who married
Balthazard
Sontag, the innkeeper of the Cerf of Uffholtz. After the death of
Madeleine,
Melchior got remarried with Marie Bores Gissinger who gave him two
girls.
The mill of Melchior, named "Nidere Millen", was valued in 1687, with
the
garden and the dependences, to the sum of a thousand hundred books.
This
produced yearly royalties of twelve quartauts of maslin (a mixture of
wheat
and rye) to the nobles of Hungerstein, a sum of eight soils (fields
might
be better) to the convent of Schoenensteinbach, and eight soils to the
city
of Cernay.
OF CERNAY
TO ENSISHEIM
Originally of "Senhemensis", the
vicar
of Ensisheim, that is Cernay, Simon Dangel married in 1722 Francoise
Schaub.
The couple had several children. Among them a son Francois Ignace who,
after
some theological studies, was made a priest in 1749. Priest of
Gueberschwihr
then of Reguisheim, he managed the parish of Galfingue until the
Revolution
and died in Ensisheim in 1810 (works of Louis Kammerer). During his
ministry
to Galfingue, he had the pleasure of marrying his sister and his
brother.
The first, the above named, Marie Helen, married Ignace Hoffmann of
Ferrette,
the second, Anthony, united to Elisabeth Meyer. Without that it is
possible
to reattach it to the branch of Cernay, another Dangel family lived
Ensisheim
to the same era. They descend from the weaver, Jacques Dangel which the
son,
Jean Michel, married in 1721 Marie Derendinger under the jurisdiction
of
the Swiss canton Soleure. The son of these last, Jean Baptist Dangel,
was
registrar of the jail of Ensisheim after have married Marie Anne
Sautier.
Their Louis son, born in 1774, cobbler of profession, assured a local
progeny.
ALWAYS THE
SWITZERLAND
Other Dangel, alias Dangeli and
Dengeler,
came from Haut-Rhin. For example, the children of couples Jean and
Madeleine
Vogel staying at Schupfheim, not far from Ruswil in the canton of
Lucerne.
A son of couples, Joseph, came to establish himself in Mollau, marrying
there
in 1698 Ursule Ehlinqer. He signed the acts drawing a kind of very
stylized
anvil, probably in relationship with his name. Some years after his
marriage
he lived behind Storckensohn. The couple passed then to
Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle
where were born their children's part. Ursule Ehlinger died in 1714
aged
of only forty years. Pierre, also born in Schupfheim like his brother
of
Joseph, married in 1715 at Saint-Amarin, Catherine Christen. In 1745 he
made,
close by the chancellery of Murbach, a demand in order to be bourgeois
(citizen)
receipt of Saint-Andre. In the valley of Masevaux, the vicar Francois
Anthony
Behra has to prepare the tree of the descended Dagelin of Pierre
Anthony,
originally of the canton Lucerne. Finally, more to the north, in the
city
of Soultz is traced Jean Melchior Dengelin of Kriens in the canton of
Lucerne.
He married there in April 1657 Elisabeth Borer from the canton of
Soleure.
Before rejoining the eastern Sundgau, mentions a Dangel family again on
Willer-sur-Thur
or Jacques is city as much as miner in the earthy veins of the low
valley
to the middle eighteenth century. Spouse of Catherine Ringenbach is
unaware
us for immediately its source. The historic notice near
Schweighouse-pres-Thann,
achieved in the last century, indicates that a Dangel family arrived to
the
village in 1703, but there also we don't know of where she proceeds and
the
loss of the registers doesn't allow fixing the problem.
Detail former house in Mooslargue.
THE GRAND
FAMILY OF MOOS
Jean Dangel was a miller in Moos
when
he came to the city about 1649, the year of baptism of his son Jean.
From
his union with Anne Metzger, he had several children. Some were born
before
1646, date of opening of the parochial registers of Durlinsdorf, which
depended
upon Moos then. But he is likely that Jean that arrived toward 1649,
after
the peace which ended the Thirty Years War. He died in Bonfol in
December
1674 and was interred the twenty-first of the month in Pfetterhouse.
The
vicar of Durlinsdorf noted the death in its registers in specifying
that
the deceased was a miller in Moos. Among his children, a daughter Agnes
married
in 1669 Jacques Jaeglin of Pfetterhouse. Three sons married in
Durlinsdorf:
the first, Jean Adam, with Elisabeth Enderlin, the daughter of the
mayor
of Moernach. The second, Jean Jacques, with Agnes Lemes of Koestlach.
The
third finally, Christian, with Madeleine Menweg of Ferrette. Among the
Dangel
progeny, Jacques Joseph born in 1707, was priest in Ferrette. Another,
Joseph
Dangel, married in Koestlach in 1728 Ursule Boetsch of Moernach. Some
branches
were in Moernach, Pfetterhouse,Waldighoffen, etc. At Bendorf, Jean
Georges
Dangel and his wife Elisabeth had two sons in 1733 and 1733: Barthelemy
and
Pierre Joseph. Some years later Marguerite Fleury wife of Pierre Dangel
gave
her spouse twelve children (works of Emile Ruetsch). This branch of
Bendorf
is probably related to the one of Moos, and the works of M. Ruetsch can
explain
the relationship.
D'ANGELL DE
KLEINFELD
In Durlinsdorf was celebrated in
October
1749 the marriage of Henri Dangeli and Marguerite Hubler, of Moos. They
lived
in Levoncourt. In 1762 she put into the world a son, the aforesaid
Henri
Xavier Benoit, like his godfather, Henri Benoit Hubler. This son made a
brilliant
military career and was decorated with the Cross of Saint-Louis. He
died
in 1848 at Saint-Nom-la-Breteche. His son, Henri Alfred, born at
Bayonne
in 1798, was a general (New Dictionary of Alsatian Biography). Henri
Xavier
Benoit had changed his patronyme. He himself was called d'Angell of
Kleinfeld,
probably in memory of his native village, Moos, a canton of the name
Kleinfeld.
James R. Dangel
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