His baptismal sponsors were Matthias Schneider, a single man from Greimersburg, and Gertrud Ebertz, also from Greimersburg. Matthias Schneider was born in 1761 to Johann Schneider and Barbara Castor of Greimersburg. Barbara Castor may have been the aunt of Maria Elisabeth Castor, the child’s mother. Gertrud Ebertz was either the daughter of Christian Ebertz and Anna Maria Castor (the child’s great aunt) of Greimersburg who was born in 1732 or Gertrud Thoennes of Kail, the third wife of Johann Ebertz, the son of Christian Ebertz and Anna Maria Castor.