He was a miller at Wirfus Muehle and then Eulgem Muehle.Their wedding announcement says that he resided in Wirfus and that his wife was his fourth cousin. The records for St. Johannes Church in Hambuch say that the family lived at Eulgem Muehle.
His brother Johann married his wife’s sister Elisabeth Jungclas. His brother Peter married his wife’s first cousin Eva Jungclas, and his sister Maria married Eva’s brother Franz Jungclas.

Her baptismal sponsors were Johann Lauxen of Condtlerhof and Katharine Biersinger of Wirfus. Her parents were Jakob Jungclas and Maria Becker. Katharine Jungclas was the sister of Elisabeth Jungclas who married Johann Goebel, her husband’s brother. She was also the first cousin of Eva Jungclas who married Peter Goebel, her husband’s brother, and Eva Jungclas’ brother Franz who married Maria Goebel, her husband’s sister.