Source: Records of St. Martin and St. Severus Catholic Church in Muenstermaifeld. Source of the information about his male baptismal sponsor: FB Muenstermaifeld.
His baptismal sponsors were a single man, Johann Ackermann of Sevenich, [possibly his father’s first cousin, the son of Leonard Ackermann and Margarete Sevenich], and Anna Maria [Ackermann], the wife of Adam Huerter.