For me that region around Hambach is quite
mythical!
I am since quite some years working on my genealogy. It begun, because I have a huge portrait of a certain "Stéphanie Maiglet" and I knew only it was the grand-mother of my Walloon grand-mother, but it stopped there!
And to make the story very short (searching wasn't easy and long, but I had luck): Stéphanie was the daughter of Frederick Maiglet or Megle or Megeli, who was a glassmaker and son of ...
I am therefore a descendent of some very famous glass making masters originating from the Black Forest (D) and Switzerland (they usually married between each other's families): Megely, Hockenmüller, Faller, Bonhomme, ... and some of them were working for a short period in the region around Hambach: 1620 Forbach (FR), 1694-1743 Creutzwald (FR), 1730 Köllerbach (D), 1750 Illingen (D), ... Glass needs fire, forest equal wood, therefore fire. Once the wood was burnt, they had to move. Deforestation!!!!!!
And later (1760) they or there descendants (my ancestors) moved to the region of Charleroi in Belgium, still famous for the glass factories. Coal there, mines, ... they almost didn't move anymore, the mines lasted "forever".
And to make it more special, my first job as a "junior consultant" in 1985 was in Charleroi in two glass factories (providers of the automobile industry), but at that time I didn't know I had some "glass making blood" in my veins!
(PS: I have in some other branches of my genealogical tree some famous gadabouts (beggars) and even a (Flemish) deserter of the Napoleon army, condemned to death, but he could escape, otherwise I wouldn't be here
)
(PS2: You don't have to donate for my fuel, I ask some wood and coal to my ancestors)
