Anna Eva Heÿer's Father, Nicolaus Heÿer

From the Back Burner:
This post probably should have preceded my last post about Anna Eva Heÿer's mother. In that post I alluded to the fact that the records of the village of Kalkobes, where the Heÿer family resided were hidden in the much larger Bad Hersfeld Church records. In this post I am concentrating on Anna Eva's father, Nicolaus Heÿer.

This an example from the KB of Bad Hersfeld (1765-1779). It shows that the birth (symbolized by the "*"), death (†), marriage (∞) and Confirmation records of Bad Hersfeld, Allmershausen, Heenes and Kalkobes are found in this book.

At first the task was daunting, because the records from each village are not separated into different sections but are all just listed chronologically. And Bad Hersfeld is a city with many entries to wade through to find one from Kalkobes. I had to search through 46 pages of baptismal records in the aforementioned Church book before I found the first reference to Kalkobes. It took me a while (like 8 hours, but I finally realized that some kind soul had thoughtfully and consistently written the village names of Allmershausen, Heenes and Kalkobes into the margins when appropriate. Below, in an example,  you can see Kalkobes and Allmershausen underlined in red (by me):

Once I had figured that out, I saved a lot of time searching records. I had learned that, at the time of their son, Dietrich's birth in 1786, Nicolaus Heÿer was a Gerichtschöpf (still trying to nail down the exact meaning, but appears to be an unpaid lawyer or judge in a village). The point is, with several Nicolaus Heÿers living at the same time in Kalkobes, only one appears to have held this position. This eventually helped me determine which Nicolaus Heÿer who died in Kalkobes was the correct one:

Kalkobes: am 24ten Novbr. Ist der Gerichts schöpfe, Nicolaus Heÿer von Kalkobes † am 22ten Nach. um 12 Uhr alt 50 Jahr weniger 2 Wochen"

Translated, "on the 24th of November [1791], the Gerichtsschöpfe, Nicolaus Heÿer from Kalkobes [was buried]. He died on the 22nd at (I am not sure of the time--but doesn't really matter. Usually Nach. would be the abbreviation for Nachmittag which means afternoon. And I believe 12 Uhr would be twelve hours after noon. However, I need a German, familiar with these terms to help me out here); age: 2 weeks short of 50 years old". Doing a little calculating, Nicolaus would have been born about December 6, 1741.
Thus, I turned my attention to the Church Book in Bad Hersfeld, covering the years 1726-1748 to see if I could find Nicolaus Heÿer's birth record. There was no record of him in December of 1741, but on September 3rd of that same year, the baptism of Johann Nicolaus, son of Johann Geörg Haÿer of Kalkobes was recorded. And his baptismal sponsor was his father's brother--Nicolaus:

I realize that the birth date indicated in the death record is not an exact match with the baptismal record, but I have searched for a year on either side of the December 6, 1741 date and did not find any other Heÿer baptisms. So, I have accepted this baptism as the correct one and adjusted his date of birth to "about" September 3, 1741 in Kalkobes, and his father, then, would be Johann Geörg Heÿer.

And, it appears that this same Nicolaus Heÿer was confirmed in the church in 1755:

Not much new information, but since children were usually confirmed between 12-14 years of age, this is just a confirmation (no pun intended) of what has already been ascertained.

Once I had established the above facts, I continued back in the records and learned that:
1) Nicolaus' parents were Johann Georg Heÿer and Anna Gehela Deiseroth, married 28 October 1738 in Kalkobes.
2) Nicolaus had at least two siblings, Anna Margretha, baptized 7 June 1739; and Johann Simon, baptized 26 May 1744, both in Kalkobes.
3) Nicolaus' father, Johann Georg Heÿer was baptized in Kalkobes on 5 January 1721.
4) Nicolaus' mother, Anna Gehela Deiseroth was from Hilmes, in the same district, and her father was Johannes Deiseroth.
5) Nicolaus' paternal grandparents were Johannes Heÿer and Anna Elisabeth Kehlen (daughter of Nicolaus Kehlen), married 4 February 1712 in Kalkobes.

The records from which I have captured this information go back to 1611 and encompass another 3 church books. That is another 100 years from the time that Nicolaus's grandparents were married. So there is definitely more ground that can be covered here, but information tends to get sketchier and sketchier the further back one goes. And it is entirely possible that I will loose traction soon. But for now, this is what I've found.

In summary, I will leave you with a diagram that incorporates the info shared today--enjoy meeting your newly discovered ancestors!: