one of our great-great grandmothers (paternal side)
(Click for a chart showing her relationship to us)

  Sister Magdalena Isele (-4G) born 16 Jul. 1822 in Brenden
  Sister Nothburga Isele (-4G) born 12 Feb. 1824
  Sister Katharina Isele (-4G) born 4 May 1826
  Sister Maria Josepha Isele (-4G) born in 1828
  Mother dies before Maria's marriage

  Married to Andreas Jaeger* (-4G), 15 October 1840 in Grafenhausen, Bonndorf, Baden
  Daughter Emilie Jaeger* (-3G) born 10 September 1841 at Grafenhausen, Bonndorf, Baden
  Father married to third wife, Martina Isele (-5G), on 28 June 1842 in Grafenhausen, Baden
  Son Joseph Jäger (-3G) born 23? March 1843 in Grafenhausen
  Father probably died in 1845
  Daughter Louisa Amalia Stephania Jäger (-3G) born in 1846 in Grafenhausen
  Son August Jäger (-3G) born 8? July 1847 in Grafenhausen
  Son Fridrick Jäger (-3G) born 7? Sept. 1848 in Grafenhausen
  Son Fridrick died 25 Sept. 1849
  Son ? Jäger (-3G) born in 1852 in Grafenhausen
  Daughter ? Jäger (-3G) born in 1853 in Grafenhausen
  Daughter Katharina Jäger (-3G) born 8 Aug. 1858 in Grafenhausen
  Daughter Josepha Jäger (-3G) born 6 March 1860 in Grafenhausen
  Died 2? Feb. 1874 in Grafenhausen

  The surname Isele
  Listed on the Grafenhausen page
  Parents included on the Isele-Haefele Chart
  The given name "Maria"

*my direct-line ancestors. The (-4G), etc., after the names indicates the number of generations before Erven Thoma.

From the dates of her parents' marriage and the time of Maria's birth, it can be assumed that there were siblings born before her.

Maria had not been married before her marriage to Andreas Jäger.
Her mother, Magdalena Haefele, and father are cited in Maria's marriage record. But there are some confusing data that I have not sorted out yet. Her father, Josef Isele, was evidently married three times, first to Maria Albert (-5G) in Brenden. There is a record of a Maria Albert's death on 28 Oct. 1820 in Brenden (LDS film #1046727) . But if Josef Isele was Maria Isele's father, then it looks like Maria Albert was her real mother because Maria Isele was born before Maria Albert's death.

According to her marriage record (LDS film #0938923) with Andreas on 15 Oct. 1840 at the catholic church in Grafenhausen (Waldshut, Baden), her husband's father, Andreas Jäger (-5G), was the innkeeper of the Kronen Inn in Grafenhausen. That inn is still in existence today, but its name has been changed to "Titanic". Click here for the picture, description and prices. Her husband Andreas Jäger (-4G) took over the business later, definitely by 1874 (recorded on her marriage record), but probably when the father died in 1856. No doubt Maria assisted her husband at the "Kronen" Inn/Guesthouse which they operated in Grafenhausen.

Maria is also cited in her daughter's (Emilie) marriage record but Maria was deceased by then. Unfortunately she died 3 days before the wedding of her daughter. The death is recorded in the SterbBuch (years 1861-1900) of the catholic church at Grafenhausen (Gemeinde Grafenhausen), the original of which is in the Archbishoprich Archives (Erzbischl. Archiv) in Freiburg. The book has been microfilmed by LDS with other materials from the same church on film #

Created Mon., 8 May, 2000.  Updated on 14 Apr. 2004.