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Family of Count de la Chorle

Almost all of our information comes from Gustav Schurdel's Chronicle. I have extracted the following from that paper. If any of you reading the chronicle find other facts, or come to different conclusions, please contact me at MJH. I picked out all the places named in the chronicle and tried to locate them on a map. I have identified most if not all of them, found their current Polish names and located them on a map.

Count de la Chorle - birth date unknown,
- died 1823 (Guhren?)
Wife's name is not known. - born about 1769
- died 15 November 1855.
The count was stripped of everything in France at the time of the Revolution. He (wisely) went to Prussia in 1793, and was taken in by his friend Count zu Dohna, from whom la Chorle rented the estate Guhren. His father in France died at age 108, had lived in Dauphine Province.

Children:
1. Christian Schurdel
- born 3 Dec (1808?) at Guhren, Schlobitten
- died (1880?) at Bladiau
Helped Martin with his education.
The chronicle is unclear as to which data goes with which brother.

Five children:
A. Theodor Schurdel
- died in his 30's of Tuberculosis. Died sometime after cousin Gustav's wedding, which was in 1869.

B. Gustav Schurdel
- born 1860-70
- died 1900
His cousin Gustav Schurdel, the chronicler, says he died "just last year."
He left a wife with 4 children, who were all attending the best of Berlin's higher schools. They were able to do so because Gustav had married a very rich girl. He died of a liver disease, very young, while in his 30's.

C. Wilhelmine Schurdel married Heinrich Schlenger, from Bladiau, a noble estate owner who died around 1880 or earlier. She lived with her son in Klein Alschrangen near Udertrangen in Eastprussia, Kreis Koenigsberg. Her daughter was for many years substitute 2nd post of teacher in Steegen/ Bladiau.

D. Auguste Schurdel married a Mr. Wiede who taught at Labiau. When Auguste died in childbirth, he went out of his mind and died at a mental hospital.

E. Friedericke Schurdel married Heinrich Lottau who taught at Prunaue, Heiligenbeil. He wrote elementary school books, retired at Koenigsberg, now Kaliningrad.

2. Brother Schurdel
- birth date unknown.
- died 1860 Schornstein-Muehle, near Marienwerder.
- buried at Marienwerder, now Kwidzyn, Poland.
He was a bricklayer.

3. Martin Schurdel
- born 7 January 1816 at Guhren, Schlobitten.
- died 13 December 1874 (at Podangen?) of a liver condition and kidney infection.
- m. 7 November 1838 at Marienfelde
Elisabeth Ehlert
- born 9 August 1820 at Steegen, Prussian Holland

Martin attended teachers' college at Pr. Eylau from 1836-38. He first taught at Steegen, then Podangen near Koenigsberg, East Prussia.

Ten children:

A. Gustav Ernst Schurdel
- born 25 August 1840 Steegen, Prussian Holland
- died July 1903 (at Friedheim?) (Information from family records.)
- m. 28 December 1869 at Friedheim, Wirsitz,
Amalie Ernestine Radke
- born 19 March 1848 Schneidemuehl, now Pila, Poland.

Gustav wrote the chronicles that are the source of most of the information about this family. He was a teacher and organist who served at several places, including Doebern and Friedheim in Wirsitz, and was also in the military.

B. Christian Schurdel
- born about 1841
- died about 1842.
- buried at Marienfelde or Dobern

C. Adolf Schurdel
- born about 1843
- died about 1845.
- buried at Marienfelde or Dobern

D. Friedrich Wilhelm Schurdel
- born 15 December 1844.
He was twice with the 24th Regiment. Not married at time his brother wrote the chronicle in 1901. He was a Schmeidemeister (master blacksmith) at Podangen near Koenigsberg.

E. Otto Adelbert Schurdel
- born 23 August 1846.
In 1901 he was a forest overseer and gardener at Iserlohn in Westfalen. He had been with the 3rd Huntersbattalion, 1870-71.

F. Marie-Auguste Schurdel
- born 19 June 1848.
She was housekeeper for Fritz at Podangen.

G. Ferdinand Schurdel
- born 25 May 1850
In 1901 he was working for the railroad in Berlin; had been with 1st Hunters Battalion in 1870-71. He had only one son who was in Berlin in 1901, working for a big book company.

H. Edward Schurdel
- born 12 September 1852
In 1901 he was a gardener for the Reichsbank in Berlin. He had been with Kaiser Alexander's Regiment No. 1 in the 1870-71 War. Tallest of the family. No children.

I. Elisabeth Schurdel
- born 27 February (1853?)
She fell down stairs at age 15 and was in much pain and ill health since. Lived with Fritz. Gustav's chronicle gives her birth date as 1853, but if Edward was born in September 1852, she could not have been born the next February.

J. Fredericke Schurdel
- born 27 January 1855
m. August Krueger
They were living in Koenigstrasse in Berlin in 1901. She was a saleslady in Adlerstrasse in Berlin. She had a nervous breakdown after having a baby, and spent 2 years at the Dalldorf sanitorium in Berlin, and had recovered completely before 1901.

4. Sister Schurdel
- birthdate unknown
- died 1861-1871
- buried at Schornstein-Muehle, near Marienwerder.
Gustav writes that she married a blacksmith, became a Baptist, and the family ignored her after that. Marienwerder is now Kwidzyn, Poland.

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