Maria Schaitberger *c.1654.
Married Simon Lindtner, Berchtesgaden 1680
+1714 in Nürnberg. 9 children (3 held back).
She accompanied Joseph into exile with her
husband, Joseph's prison mate.

Katharina Schaitberger *ca.1657.
Married Hans Schnaidmann 1685.
+1723  Berchtesgaden. 8 children.
Did not emigrate, but her husband remarried
upon her death and was part of the group
that went to Holland.

Anna Schaitberger *1667.
Married Michael Lindner 1692.
+17.10.1737 in Schwabach (by Nürnberg).
7 children. Emigrated to Nürnberg.

Magdalena Schaitberger *1673.
Married Thoma Kranzbichler 1692.
+8.11.1711. Magdalena and her husband had 11
children. They didn't emigrate, but after her
death her husband remarried and some of the
family left in the later exile for Holland.

Ursula Schaitberger *c.1650.
Married Philipp Grueber, Berchtesgaden 1683.
+1704 Berchtesgaden.
6 children. Also 1 illeg. child (w/Hädl)
Ursula never left, and took care of their
aging mother who also stayed behind.
Hanns Schaitberger *1648.
Married c.1674  Maria Hirschpichler.
+1713 in Ollon/Schweiz. 9 children.
Hans and his family moved initially to
Regensberg then to the Swiss Canton of Vaud
(Waadt) which was largely French-speaking. By
1694, he was listed as a miner/Bergmeister and
alternately known as Hantz Scheyperger. The
name of his Dürrnberg-born son, Eustachius
Josef, appears in regular mine accounts as Josef
Cheiberg (the phonetic French spelling of
Schaitberger), Bergmeister, in 1731. He is listed
as having died in 1740.
It is unknown if he has name carriers.
Balthasar Schaitberger *1669. Married:
(1.)Sophia (Kambel) Brochenberger 1695. (2.)
Catharina Wiendl. 1724
+20.02.1743 in Nürnberg. Balthasar had two
sons with his first wife and two with his second
wife. He died in Nürnberg in poverty.
The childrens' fates are unknown.
Georg Schaitberger *ca.1665.
Married Margarethe Stangassinger 1702,
Berchtesgaden. +1726 Nürnberg. 5 children.
According to records, Joseph's younger brother
Georg was apparently well-respected in
Nürnberg and was buried at Johannisfriedhof.
He was a farmer and mountain man before
emigration, and then became a Sweepmaster.
Joseph's Siblings
Balthasar was still in his homeland at the end of
the year 1704 when the authorities detained him
for questioning as to his religious beliefs. He was
secreted out of Berchtesgaden to Nürnberg by
his brother Joseph around 1705/1706.  
Balthasar apparently went too close to home
on another occasion as well.
In 1707, Georg Mezger, owner of the St. Paul
Mezgerischen silver wire drawing company in
Nürnberg, the firm which employed Joseph,
expressed concern to the Nürnberg city council
that his faithful employee of twenty years,
Salzburger Simon Khambl, journeyed to Hallein
to visit his children who were living there with
his sister. Khambl, together with Balthasar
Schaitberger, was arrested and detained for six
weeks in Hallein.  
The Familie Schaitberger
After Joseph's exile, the family broke up and dispersed as so many others did. Almost all of his
immediate family found refuge in Nürnberg. This lengthy section follows the footsteps of Joseph's
descendants through the generations from their exile in their homeland to the twentieth century.
In 1683, Joseph married Magdalena Khaembl of Berchtesgaden, and they had two little girls. He and
Magdalena were forced to give up their children went sent into exile, and Magdalena died of a broken
heart. In 1692, Joseph remarried fellow exile Catharina Brochenberger, 1670-1697, of Berchtesgaden
and they quickly had four sons. Three died as infants and only one outlived his father, Philippus,
born in 1692. Catharina died in 1697, after only five years of marriage. Joseph never remarried.  
The Schaitberger family may have originated in the shadow of the Schaidberg mountain in the cold,
rugged Radstädter Tauern and they may have been miners long before written records mention
Caspar Schaitp(b)erger, born around 1565, almost twenty years after the death of Martin Luther.
Caspar was a woodcutter and mountain worker in the mining village of Dürrnberg, and his work, like
others in the area, was centered around the salt mines where many skills were necessary to the
operation of the mines. In old church records, Caspar married Dorothea Hadl in 1590. Caspar's son
Johann, born in 1591, also devoted his life to "work in the mountain".
The Mining Family Schaitberger: A Summary
Johann Schaitberger married Margaretha Moser in 1618 and they had at least four children, the
eldest being Hanns,  the father of Joseph, who was born in 1620. In 1629, Johann bought a large
Alpine house, and he died when the home burned in 1651. The turbulent Thirty Years War was
entirely encompassed in Johann's lifetime. It might be mentioned here that the mining cultures of
Dürrnberg and neighboring Berchtesgaden were one and the same, in fact, one tunnel deep in the
Dürrnberg mine actually went through the mountain to Berchtesgaden!
Joseph Schaitberger was born in Dürrnberg in 1658, the middle of twelve children sired by salt miner
Hanns Schaitberger and his wife Magdalena (Thanner) of Berchtesgaden. At age eighteen, Joseph
thus inherited the debt-ridden family home worth 1,000 thalers upon his father's death.