Antonius and Anna Maria Schardt and daughter

The daughter of this couple, Elizabeth Schardt, married into the Barnhisel family that you have been reading about in our family history for the past year or so.  The information about  17th century folks is quite scanty, as happens when a family historian like me reaches back this far in time. As I mentioned to you recently, I will be closing this particular Mackey Family History blog as soon as I finish writing about a few of our 9th Great Grandparents. Not only are records scarce for the people who lived in the 1600s and further back in time, but to find what records are available, it's necessary to know the language of the country of any ancestor's residence.  In the case of the Barnhisels, The Hysell/Hisel Group hired a German professional genealogist (Andrea Fink) who lives near Bad Kreuznach, to find the church records that I cite in this story. [Many of the Barnhisel descendants shortened their name to Hysell or Hisel, thus the name of the Barnhisel family association of the United States is called "The Hysell/Hisel Group".] I was a member of this helpful group c. 1990-2015.

Antonius and Anna Maria were married around 1615 in probably Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany (pictured above, as it looks today. Bad signifies that it is a spa town...bad=bath, I think) and had at least one child, our ancestor, Elizabeth Schardt, who was born in 1617 in  Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany. Elizabeth and her future husband and family were members of the Lutheran Church in Kreuznach. 
  
ANTONIUS SCHARDT
BORN: 1585 in   ,Rheinland, Germany
MARRIED:  c. 1615 in Kreuznach, Rheinland Germany
DIED: aft 1629 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany

ANNA MARIA (unknown surname)
BORN: 1587 in   ,Rheinland, Germany
DIED: unknown death information
SOURCES: Hisel/Hysell Genealogy Group; Pg. 48 of researcher, Charlene Bernheisel's copies of Connie Boyer's compilation: Hans Bernard Hausele, Elizabeth Schardt's husband, is mentioned in "Beed- und Zinssbuchern" and information about his widow in 1675 and 1689 in Kreuznach; Update of Connie Boyer, "Bernheisel/ Barnhisel Families" to include the research of German genealogist, Andrea Fink re Lutheran Church records of the Barnheisels of Kreuznach, Germany.