+++24-Dec-2009
Happy Holidays and a Great Year 2010

May the coming year be filled with joy and happiness for You and Yours!

+++ 11-Apr-2009
Gravestones from Martin's USA Emigrants and their Descendents


Joseph S. Martin 1810 - 1854
Mary Ann Price Martin
Emaline C. Leader, daughter

Our Cousin and US-Moderator Ken Scarpinato has collected an impressive list of burial places of our relatives in USA. With the help of other descendents he compiled some photos from gravestone of Martin's and descendents an offered them for publishing on this website.
Thank you, Ken!
USA Gravestones PDF

+++ 25-Mar-2009
The Schultheissen from Helmstadt 1359 - 1813
Bernd Schaetzlein and Claus Mueller compiled for us this list of the Schultheissen.
Among them we can identify five from our Martin's family roots

1635 Hans Martin
1709 Andreas Martin
1739 Michael Martin
1743 Georg Martin
1775 Sebastian Martin

The complete list, with additional information, you can find at the martin-bavaria.de Forum

+++ 24-Dec-2008
May our mouths be full of laughter and our tongues full of praise ...
JS Bach Cantata BWV 110

We wish all close and distant Martin's and loved ones, our friends and you visitors of
www. martin-bavaria.de
Merry Christmas to you and
your family and a peaceful, prosperous and successful
year 2009, in good health and with good spirit!

Don't let you distract from all the unthrifty and bad news, we have 365 days to make 2009 a good year for us, for our family and friends. In this spirit,

Respectfully yours
Hugo E. Martin

+++ 4-August-2008
† Al Scarpinato (63)

Alfred Scarpinato lost his last fight but he is lives on in our memories, his marks and seeds he left for his family, his friends, his colleges and his students. We remember his visit in 2004 joining the Martin Reunion and his presentation about the fate and fortune of the Martins and other emigrants in America. Now he is on a new journey, to unfamiliar terrain and left us behind. (See also Forum USA)

+++ 17-May-2008
Barthel Martin founded the Martin's branch in Rettersheim
Claus Mueller recently studied the Helmstadt account books for 1783 / 84 and found an entry about Barthel (Bartholomaeus) Martin; he paid 3 fl. 5 bz. for the permission to move out from Helmstadt to Rettersheim (with his wife Sabina).

+++ 25-Dec-2007
† John Scarpinato (59)

To, My family and friends,
My brother John Scarpinato after a very long illness has passed away on December 25, 2007. John was 59 years old and was living in Florida at the time of his death. John was car mechanic since he was 18 years old. John enjoyed going fishing. During the last year of his life he hoped he would get well enough to go fishing one more time. He also loved his dogs named Ratchet and Doc. John is survived by his mother Virginia, brothers Al, Ken, Gary and sister Diane. John was buried on December 29, 2007 at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Suffolk Co., NY. He will be missed very much by all.
Ken

+++ 27-Nov-2007
Hans Martin * 1916 - † 2007 Hans Martin, Wuerzburg left us behind. He died after a severe illness.

His wife, Lilo, the children, family and friends are mourn the loss but draw strength from what they have experienced and shared, from so many hours of joy and happiness, but also hours of sadness, bitterness and desperation and from what he meant for us and those who have known him. The composer, organist, choir director, conductor and teacher Hans Martin stood over 70 years in the church music service and has composed many church and secular works. His church music works church songs, chorales, psalms, motets in Latin and German, cantatas including two sacrament cantatas, Advent cantata and the Atkarsk Christmas cantata, masses in Latin and German and passions and over 120 secular songs, to texts by Clemens von Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wolfgang Salm, Theodor Storm, Johanna Wolff and his own poems as well as music plays. As a young student, he had searched the roots of the Erlenbacher line of Martins back to the year 1800 (in Trennfeld). Through this pedigree, we found 2001 the connecting lines and the origin the Martin's in Helmstadt, the branches in Homburg and Rettersheim and many emigrated Martins in the USA and Australia. He kept his interest and joy in the family history and news from the places he worked as teacher, organist, choir leader until the very last days. A very special event this year was, that his Atkarsker Christmas cantata found its way back to Atkarsk (Russia) and is now on display and audio at the Atkarsker museum of local history, as a sign of friendship between peoples, but also as a reminder of the injustice and the suffering of the war and as a warning against and to prevent any future war.

Short biographie Hans Martin Hans Martin Works-Catalog

+++ 22-Nov-2007
Wertheimer Gültbuch 1420: Heintz Merten
Bernd Schätzlein aus Helmstadt hat uns ein neues Fundstück zur Geschichte Helmstadt's zugeschickt (G Rep 54, Nr. 92) aus dem „alte Gültbuch“ der Grafschaft Wertheim 1420 [ständisches Steuerkataster] Dort steht u.a. auf Seite 53, die bisher älteste, dokumentierte Namensnennung eines Martin's für Helbingstat [Helmstadt]. Der Eintrag lautet: "Heintz Merten Hans Bunach und sin gesellen II s von eyn hube" ...

+++ 17-July-2007
Lilo and Hans Martin, Wuerzburg celebrating today their Iron Wedding Day - 65 Years.

We wish Hans and Lilo the blessing of the Lord and all the best for the years to come and that they can spend together many happy days in good health with their children, grand-children and friends.

+++ 5-June-2007
Soccage list from 1561
Claus Mueller discovered a list of Helmstadt owners of horses and mercenary from 1560/1561 with soccage to the cloister of Holzkirchen and gave us permission to publish this list at martin-bavaria.de.
The list shows from our lines Endres Martin (father of Hans, Georg and Bartholomaeus) and Georg Martin (the son of Andreas Martin). (PDF)

+++ 9--Jun-2006
† Robert Martin, Helmstadt (84)

Robert has died on June 9th, after a longer time of illness . Robert Martin was allways a 'fan' and sponsors of the martin-bavaria Website. He was full of joy and gratitude to have the chance to partizipate and experience our Martin's reunion in the year 2004. Our thoughts and sympathy are with his family.

+++ Martin Reunion Recollection
about 60 min. - now available!
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If you have data about your line, we are happy to publish them. Please contact: Hugo E. Martin

If you have ore seek any information in connection with the Martin's that you want us to publish, please
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martin-bavaria News Archive

This galleries contain pictures from the Martin's Family from America, Australia and Europe - from three continents:

Erlenbach, Baveria (G)
from 1880 to 1965
Pictures from the linie of Hugo E. Martin

Brooklyn, N.Y. (USA)
from 1894 to 1980
Pictures from Ken Scarpinato's line, gooing back to Adam and Ursula Martin

Pyalong & Victoria Area (Australia)
from 1864 to 1980
Pictures from Stephen Martin's line going back to Aurelius Martin and Susanna Jutt.

Diamond Wedding '02
Hans & Lilo Martin
from Wuerzburg, Lower Franconia

Family Meeting '02
in Trennfeld (G) with Martin's from Homburg, Trennfeld, Erlenbach and Wuerzburg.

Homburg, Bavaria (G)
from 1900 to2000 (D)
Pictures from Hugo Martin's line

Reunion Summer 2004

Gallery 1: Meeting Helmstadt

Gallery 2: Meeting Erlenbach

Gallery 3: Meeting Rettersheim, Trennfeld and Homburg

Biographies

Erhard Martin 1910 - 2001 (PDF)
Roman Catholic Priest

Hans Martin 1916 - 2007
Composer, Choir leader, Conductor, Organist and School teacher
Hans Martin Website

Johanna Wolff 1858 - 1943

Gustav Zeitzschel 1868 - 1951
Opera Singer, lyrical Tenor, Singing and Piano teacher
Gustav Zeitzschel Website

New Documents

Probate Dispute 1933
Martin against Schnepper
This documents confirm the early lines of Hans Martin (1600), the later Schultheiss of Helmstadt.
(StAWt-G-57 Helmstadt No 6)

New Information about early Martins
from Claus Müller (1/2006)
Martin's in The Wertheimer City books
( StAWt-S, Pr. 1-6)
Certification of marriage in the Helmstadt Court book 24-Nov-1590, pg. 587 f.

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