• Born: Feb. 9th, 1854 in Pfunds (Austria)
• Died: Dec. 11th, 1911 in Innsbruck (Austria)

Parents:

• Father: Josef SCHUCHTER 1820-1886
• Mother: Maria Magdalena MANGWETH 1823-1886

Marriage:

• on Apr. 29th, 1878 in Pfunds with Ferdinand PATSCHEIDER born Oct. 28th, 1849, Pradl near Innsbruck (Austria)

Children:

• Therese PATSCHEIDER born 1879 in Pfunds, marries Albin REDL from Linz, +1961
• Anton PATSCHEIDER born Dec. 12th, 1882 in Berwang near Reutte (Austria)
• Richard PATSCHEIDER born Dec. 17th, 1883 in Berwang near Reutte (Austria)
• Maria Magdalena PATSCHEIDER born 1887 in Klausen (South Tyrol, Italy), died 1937 Hall i.Tirol (Austria)
• Ida PATSCHEIDER born Aug. 9th, 1892 in Mayrhofen (Austria), died June 26th, 1964

(Author's note: my great-grandmother always paternal)

Ferdinand Patscheider (1848-1897) married Adelheid Schuchter (1854-1911) in Pfunds on April 29, 1878. Ferdinand, a civil servant forester, and Adelheid had a turbulent life as he was always assigned to new posts, and they had to move frequently with their children. The birthplaces of their five children reflect these moves:

• Therese, born in 1879 in Pfunds, married Albin Redl in Linz in 1910 and was the mother of Gundl Janota.
• Anton and Richard, born in 1882 and 1883, respectively, in Berwang (Lechtal).
• Maria Magdalena, born in 1887 in Klausen, became a teacher in Sterzing but developed a nervous condition that brought her to Hall in Tyrol. Her trace disappeared in 1938.
• Ida, born in 1892 in Mayrhofen, became a teacher and married Heinrich Müller, a stage designer in Bern (their son Berthold was born in 1923).

Ferdinand was feared as a forester but was a very welcome guest as a private citizen. He had a love of singing, which he passed on to his children, and often embellished village festivals. As the financial situation of a small civil servant was very tight at that time, Therese and Anton were given to their mother's sister, Aunt Therese, who was married to Dr. Niederleitinger, the oldest wound surgeon in Austria in Rohrbach (Upper Austria). The Niederleitinger couple had no children of their own, so the two Forester children received an excellent education with their foster parents. Anton spent the first years of secondary school in Freistadt.

In 1897, Ferdinand died in Mayrhofen in the Zillertal. The cemetery where he was buried no longer exists. Adelheid faced hardship and struggle to raise their children on her own, but with God's and the help of sympathetic people, she was able to provide all of her children with an education. The two sons even began and successfully completed their studies.

End of chronicle excerpt (written in 1988 by Mag.^a Giselheid Patscheider-Riedmann)