Maria Anna Schicklgruber was the mother of Alois Hitler, and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler.
14 Facts About Maria Schicklgruber
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Maria Schicklgruber was the daughter of farmer Johannes Schicklgruber and Theresia Pfeisinger.
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Maria Schicklgruber was a Catholic; what is known about her is based on church and other public records.
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Maria Schicklgruber was one of eleven children, of whom only six survived infancy.
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In 1821, Maria Schicklgruber's mother died when Maria Schicklgruber was 26 years old.
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Maria Schicklgruber received an inheritance of 74.25 gulden, which she left invested in the Orphans' Fund until 1838.
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Maser notes that she refused to reveal who the boy's father was, so the priest baptized the baby Alois Maria Schicklgruber and entered "illegitimate" in place of the father's name on the baptismal register.
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At the time of the birth of Alois, Maria Schicklgruber was living with a Strones village family by the name of Trummelschlager.
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Maria Schicklgruber soon began residence with her father at house number 22 in Strones.
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Maria Schicklgruber was 47 years old, and her new husband was 50.
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Maria Schicklgruber then ordered a genealogist by the name of Rudolf Koppensteiner to publish a large illustrated genealogical tree showing his ancestry.
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Maria Schicklgruber died during the sixth year of her marriage, at the age of 51 in Klein-Motten, where she was living with her husband in the home of kin, the Sillip family.
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Maria Schicklgruber died of "consumption resulting from pectoral dropsy" in 1847.
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Maria Schicklgruber was buried in the parish church cemetery in Dollersheim.