Jacob was born after 1650 in Spiesen, France, the son of unknown parents.
He died about 1 FEB 1731 in Spiesen, Saarland, Germany.
His wife was Margaretha Kling, who he married in ABT 1690 in Spiesen, France. Their four known children were Hans Jacob (>1680-1735), Michel (c1690-1749), Johannes (c1701-1762) and Anna Margaretha (c1707-1762).
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| Birth | AFT 1650 |
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| Death | ABT 1 FEB 1731 |
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Note 1
!Notes: Other spelling Eserineur. Name changed after Peace of Westphalia to a German form, Hans Jacob Greber.
!Notes: From A History of the Greber / Graeber / Graber Family 1680 - 1980, by K. N. Graber 1981: The name of Hans Jacob Greber first appeared in Spiessen in "Die Salzliste von 1701." labeling him as a resident of that village. The same list recorded that he married Margaretha Kling in about 1680 [actually between 1690 and 1701].
|P: The village of Spiesen, which in the early 1600's was a part of the German Empire, had been totally depopulated and almost completely destroyed by the plundering armies of the Thirty Years War, which ended in 1648, and the Dutch Wars, which dragged on until the late 1670s. The "Peace of Westphalia" had taken Alsace, Lorraine, and the Saare area from the German Empire in 1648 and then given them to France.
|P: When the wars were over, repopulation of Spiesen had gradually taken place. Some of the former residents had probably returned plus a number of new residents, some who were German and others who were French. |P In early Spiesen records [1680s to 1690s] there were a number of French names. One of these was Jacob Escriveur, or perhaps Eserineur. He was married to Margaretha Kling. By 1701, Hans Jacob Greber was married to Margaretha Kling and Jacob Escriveur had disappeared. Almost all of the Frenchmen had disappeared and Germans with similar names had appeared in their places, married to their former wives. The Frenchmen of Spiesen had become Germans, absorbed into their culture. By 1701 they were probably speaking German with a French accent and their German children had no accent at all.
|P: Alois Lorscheider, a geneological researcher in Saarland, has gathered together information from some early church records plus ten lists of Spiesen inhabitants [1701, 1707, 1730, 1733, 1737, 1741, 1748, 1763, 1771, and 1778] and has produced a record of family relationships for persons residing in Spiesen between 1688 and 1788. This information was published in "Saarlandische Familienkunde, Band 2, Jahrgang VII-1974, Heft 27, Saarbrucken, Saarland, Germany, 1974. From this arcticle, the Greber family in Spiesen can be traced back to Hans Jacob Greber [Jacob Escriveur] who was born in the 1650s, most likely in France....