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THE FISHBURNS
, by John E. FISHBURNThe Fischborns came from Friesland. One of them supposedly came a few hundred years ago with a helper and brought a herd of cattle. They seemed to have stayed in this fertile vicinity as there was plenty of feed. This Fischborn married and had only sons. If this is true?
In searching for the earliest Fischborns in the Planig area, we find that certain land records in the state archives at Darmstadt predate those in the archives of the Lutheran Church in Bad Kreuznach which began in 1663. These records show that in 1578, Hans Mund and Hans Diel each received a quarter lease interest for eight years in the Gauer Hof, a royal domain in Planig owned by the von Dalberg family in Worms (see Appendix 1). The other two leaseholders are not mentioned. Hans Mund renewed his contract for another eight years in 1586, while Hans Diel's quarter was now given out to a Hans Fischborn. It appears that in 1594, both Hans Mund and Hans Fischborn each renewed their contracts again. Two years later, however, Hans Mund asked to be relieved from his contract as he and his family wanted to leave Planig and move to Volksheim (see Appendix 2). Hans Fischborn declared his willingness to take over Hans Mund's quarter and this request was granted. The contract was valid until 1602, and in that year Hans Fischborn's leases for his two quarters were extended another eight years (see Appendix 3).
It appears that in the contract renewals of 1610 or 1618, probably one or both quarters held by Hans Fischborn went to his son, Philipp. It is to be assumed that Hans had either died or reached an age that he could not work the properties any longer. The contract of 1618 should have run to 1626, but Philipp lost his two quarters as early as 1621. They were taken over by a Nickolas Meyer. This was probably due to the occupation of the Palatinate by the Spanish in 1620-21. They at that time had begun a rigorous re-Catholicization of the area. Also, the von Dalbergs, who owned the property, had returned to the same faith. Philipp, who was Lutheran, was apparently in disagreement with this family. In 1629, however, through the intervention of the local Hans Wolf von Lewenstein, who had nominated Philipp as Fauth of Planig in that year, the latter once again received his two quarters of the property from 1629 to 1636, and worked them with Velten, his younger brother.
In 1636, the Swedish forces under Bernhard von Weimer had to vacate the Palatinate, and Philipp lost his leases frcm then on. He, and presumably his family together with his brother, Velten, fled to Holland in 1637 to escape punishment by the Abbott of the Cloister of Saint Jacob in Mainz who was attempting to reintroduce Catholicism in the area. Philipp had apparently been a strong supporter for the Lutheran cause. There is a record of the "List of Paupers" for the Municipality of Utrecht, June 6, 1637, which shows Philipp and Velten each received a viaticum or traveling money. Philipp did not return to Planig until after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648. Nothing more is known of Velten.
The records which follow, starting with Philipp's son, Johannes, have been painstakingly researched at the Lutheran Archives in Bad Kreuznach and elsewhere by Hans-Christian Brandenburg, minister and archivist. Taken from the old German script, the total genealogy which he produced for the author represents twelve generations comprising some ninety pages. He explains that the earliest entries were baptisms, followed later by marriages, with death entries generally recorded about one hundred years after the event. Even after these church records began, there were omissions due to improper recording and lapses between tenures of those in charge, not to mention the effect of wars in the area.
A reproduction of Brandenburg's entire genealogy would require a separate volume. The tables which follow, therefore, include only those names having a bearing on the ancestry of Philip the Pioneer with the direct line of descent from father to son leading to Philip indicated by Arabic numerals in parenthesis. Charts from Hans Fischborn to the author are presented in Appendix 4.
NOTE: No Family Charts from the book are presented here or elsewhere.
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