There were many Bayerls in Gundelsdorf in the 18th Century and certainly before. I have not yet made a direct family connection between my Bayerls of Affing and Edenried, and those of Gundelsdorf. The only reason I have so far to suspect there is a connection is the fact that there were so many of them early -on in Gundelsdorf, and that one of them (Carolina) became a next-door-neighbor to my ancestor in Affing. If there is a connection, it is early-on as Michael Bayerl of Edenried was born around 1684 in a place as yet unknown.  For those reasons, I want to pay attention to what I can find in the event I start running into dead ends in Edenried where my 6G Grandparents Michael and Ellzabetha were having children as early as 1720.  Also, by putting this information on the web site, perhaps a distant Bayerl relative will find it and come to our aid. In any event, this is a reminder to myself of what I have determined already.

I have indexes to the church records of Gundelsdorf beginning in 1700. From the very first years, there are dozens of Bayerls. There were many in the early 1800s as well, but by the second half of the 1800s, there were fewer. I have all the individual sacramental records on microfilm in hand, but there are no 18th Century family registers to help me easily tie things together. Without those guides, organizing the Bayerls of Gundelsdorf will be a major task that I will defer until pressed by need or request.

Information from Gundelsdorf is somewhat better organized in the 19th century. I found three sets of censuses of communicants taken in 1794, 1797, and 1800. These are simply body counts of people living in the numbered houses but without dates or other information. Nonetheless, these are important because they place Xaver and Apollonia Baierl, the parents of Carolina Baierl of Affing, in house number 49 of Gundelsdorf. We had learned from the church records of Affing, that Carolina had living siblings in the mid 1800s including Leonhard, Anton, Viktoria, and Christina. We are able to follow this family well into the 1800s through the more extensive family registers that were maintained at that time.

House number 49, inhabited by Xaver, was renumbered as House Number 53. By 1832, the head of the House becomes Leonhard whose first son, Anton is born in 1832. In 1862, Anton is married and becomes head of the house. By 1881, another family is living there.  I am assuming that Leonhard is a son of Xaver and Apollonia.

Leonard's second son, Jacob, is born in 1833 and eventually becomes head of House Number 54. His first son, Stephan, born in 1860, becomes head of House Number 28. He and his wife Maria Anna are having children there through the mid-1890s.

In the early decades of the 1800s, there is another Bayerl family living in House Number 3 in Gundelsdorf. Born in 1798, Anton Bayerl (who is named as a sibling of Carolina of Affing) is certainly another son of Xaver and Apollonia, and therefore brother to Leonhard above.

(In the earlier census or 1800, there were two additional Bayerl families living in Gundelsdorf. In House Number 13 lived Joseph Bayerl and his wife Maria Anna. In House Number 25 lived Leopold Bayerl and his wife Elizabeth. There seems to be at least one child listed for Joseph, but I have not yet found a trace of any of these people in the more extensive family registers of later years. The houses they lived in were no longer inhabited by Bayerls. I suspect that if I wade through the individual birth and marriage records that I might link them with the others, but that is a task for another day.)

My initial images of the registers were not of good quality. I linked some above as placeholders to give an idea of the activity of the era.