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Material Traces of a Religious Trial | 75www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 67–93 parents, Jakob and Anna Teschler. Jakob was the local shoemaker and had contact with other leather workshops in the region: Ludwig’s godfather was Adam Zeisser [Geisser], shoemaker in Schladming. Two of the three witnesses to Jakob and Anna’s marriage are also identified in the records as shoemak- ers. Ludwig’s elder brother Rupertus, born 1614, is identified as shoemaker too; Ludwig himself is called a “Riemer”, a person who manufactures leath- er items for everyday use in rural communities, such as belts, straps, laces, harnesses, and horse-gear. The family is not poor; in a sidenote and in the later version of the main text of the interrogation protocol (#10), Widman mentions that Teschler’s mother possesses 1,500 gulden. On 19 August 1643 Teschler married Elisabeth Pernung [?], the daughter of a servant of the arch- duke. Michael Schwaiger, the municipal judge at Haus, is recorded as a wit- ness to the marriage. Teschler’s surely sensational trial had taken place only a few months earlier, but it does not seem to have compromised his standing in the community. According to baptismal records for Haus, the couple had at least six children, with three sons and three daughters born between 1644 and 1660. After 3 June 1660, the date of the baptism of his youngest daughter, Bar- bara, there is no further trace of Ludwig Teschler, neither in parish records nor in other sources. He has no entry in the local listing of deaths, although his brother, his wife (1684), and at least two of his children were buried in Haus. The entries in the parish records differ in form and style. Whereas entries made before Albert Widman was parish priest are clear and well structured, his entries between 1633 and 1648 are hard to read and in part lack clear structure, a problem also found in all his notes in the finding volume other than those directed to his superior authority. Barbara Schlemmerin Information about Barbara Schlemmerin (who is once called Barbara Kramer- in, #110, a name possibly related to a farm where she used to live16) is sketchy. The only entry that concerns her dates from 8 March 160217 and lists her as a legitimate daughter of Anna and Andreas Schlemmer. For her godmother, Anna, the record notes, “She does not know neither her nor her husband’s 16 A property known colloquially as Kramer is still found in Oberhaus. It was purchased by the current owners in the 1970s and they know nothing of the property’s earlier history or of the case discussed here (information by phone, 22 September 2020). 17 Archive of the Archdiocese Salzburg: Matriken der Pfarre Haus im Ennstal, Taufbuch I (1586–1629), 40.