Return page Alsace, 18th century (2)-----Common lineage family tree-----Map of Alsace

Revolution and emigration to Russia

NON-EMIGRATED LINEAGE 

JOSEPH-ANDRE HORRER AND HIS FAMILY 

The Knight JOSEPH-ANDRE HORRER (or Jean-André) is the fifth chilf of Georges-Joseph HORRER, who precedes,  and the young brother of  PHILIPPE-XAVIER HORRER, who follows, . He is the founder of the non-emigrated lineage, established especially in Lorraine and still well represented there nowadays.

André Horrer was an advisor and lawyer at the Sovereign Council of Alsace in Colmar, later imperial attorney general of department Bas-Rhin, member of the Legion of Honor and dean of honor of the Disciplinary and Teaching Council of the Special School of Law. He was baptized in the Saint-Martin parish of Colmar on October 11, 1746.  He was received as a counsellor in the Sovereign Council on March 8, 1781, having been chosen by the King from among three candidates who had been presented to him following the deliberation of the Council on the previous December 23 (Journal de Holdt, vol. 5, pp. 34 and 36). He died widower in Strasbourg, aged 60, on July 1, 1807. An inventory of his assets was made on August 25, 1807 by Lacombe, a notary in Strasbourg.

He married in Colmar, on January 26, 1773, Jeanne-Marie-Françoise de ZAIGUELIUS, said d'Altenach (1) , born in 1746 and died in 1807. She was Jean-Ulrich-Thomas de Zaiguelius's minor daughter, and he was an honorary advisor to the King at the Sovereign Council of Alsace. Her mother was Marie-Françoise-Judith Klötzlin d'Altenach.  From this union were born four children:

1° The Knight Charles-Joseph-Alexis HORRER, born in Colmar in 1773, employed in the Military Administrations. He entered the 'Etat Militaire de France' in 1793 (by L'Heunet, Paris 1903) as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 1st battalion of Custine. He then became a fur inspector of the 4th military division resident at Toul. He died at Gentilly on May 10, 1824. He married Françoise BATELOT, died in Vic-sur-Seine (Department Moselle) aged 47 years, on October 24, 1823, daughter of Jean-François Batelot, owner, and Catherine Desfrères. We know the three children who follow: 

1. The Knight EUGENE HORRER died in Paris around 1890. He married Hortense SANTERRE. Without descendants.

2. The Knight MARIE-LOUIS-AUGUSTE HORRER, born in Toul on February 27, 1802 (Doc-3, birth certificate), industrialist in Blamont (department Meurthe) in association with his uncle Christophe Batelot, and deputy mayor of this city, later manufacturing in Nancy (1842), where he died on August 24, 1872. He had married in Vic-sur-Seille, on February 11, 1828, Louise-Suzanne-Joséphine-Léonie ROZAT DE MANDRES (2) , born in Donnelay (Department Meurthe ) on November 20, 1808, daughter of Nicolas-Félix Rozat de Mandres, Knight of the Empire, former colonel of Dragons, officer of the Legion of Honor, Knight of Saint-Louis and of the Royal Order of Military Merit of Charles-Frédéric, and of Marie-Thérèse de Mandres. She married the Marquess Pierre-Francois de Vaucourt for the first time. We know the following two children:

a. MARIE-THERESE HORRER, born in Blamont on January 2, 1829, and died in Nancy on January 2, 1842.

b. The Knight FELIX-ALFRED HORRER, born in Blamont on May 9, 1830.

3. CELESTINE HORRER, died in 1900 without descendants. 

2° The Knight LOUIS-ANDRE-HENRI HORRER, born in Colmar on 16 April 1775, was baptized the same day at the Saint-Martin parish. Head of department in the military administrations in Nancy, then receiver of the lottery in Nancy, he died there on August 16, 1831. He married Barbe-Suzanne Ferry (daughter of Pierre Ferry, and Françoise Harmand), died in Nancy on April 16, 1831.

3° The Knight GEORGES-JOSEPH-ULRICH HORRER, born in Colmar on November 23, 1776, was baptized the same day at the Saint-Martin parish. He entered the Society of Jesus.  He was the first of the family to enter into a relationship with Russia: as a Jesuit, he had to leave France after 1789; the Czarina Katherine II, like her son after her, favored the presence of the Jesuits in Russia, because they were considered excellent teachers. That is why the doors of a monastery in Drinsk, returned to the Jesuits, were opened to him. He was professed in the convent Dunabourg and died on January 15, 1812 at the Jesuit College Polotsk (Belarus). At that time, this city was the center of fierce fighting between, on one side, the army of Marshals MacDonald and Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, and on the other side the Russian army, the French seeking to go to St. Petersburg.

4° MARIE-FRANCOISE-ANTOINETTE HORRER, born in Colmar on April 26, 1778, was baptized at the  Saint-Martin parish on May, 2. She died on 11 August 1832. 

She married in Nancy around 1800 Jean-François-Etienne-Antoine CETTY, military intendant and commissioner of wars in Strasbourg, officer of the Legion of Honor, Knight of the order of Saint-Louis, mayor of Sélestat (1830-1834), born in Sélestat on June 23, 1772, son of François-Louis Cetty and Agnès du Chiron de Saint-Martin. After his wife’s death, intrigues about his private life led to the resignation of most of the councillors. He resigned himself and retired to Strasbourg, where he died on November 14, 1857. He was buried, with his wife, in the northern cemetery of Sélestat. They had 8 children, 6 of whom died young. The other two were:

1. ANTOINETTE JOSEPHINE CETTY,  born in Strasbourg on November 23, 1802, died in Nancy in 1874. She married in Sélestat, on January 5, 1829, Félix-Joseph DUMAY, Colonel of the Engineer, who died in 1875. They had children.

2. ANTOINE-JOSEPH-EDMOND CETTY, intendant general inspector, president of the permanent administrative committee, commander of the Legion of Honor, died in Paris on July 5, 1868. He married on June 1st, 1843, Mathilde Le Marchand, born on June 10, 1822, died at Fontainebleau on August 6, 1851. They had children.

NOTES

1/ de Zaiguelius : This family, still existing at the Restoration in 1815, would have died out before the end of the 19th century. Joseph-Georges-Ulrich, baron de Zaiguelius, director of the French national church and parish priest of St. Anne of Vienna (one of the brothers of Jeanne-Marie-Françoise Horrer) was created baron by Letters Patent dated 11 June 1819.

2/ Rozat de Mandres, in Lorraine : Knights of the Empire in 1810.