MATHILDA, born Mueller,Oct.17.1851 died 1918, wife of Franz-Xaver. She was the youngest daughter of a millers family, who owned the upper mill in Buelach. Her father also boat the land and buildings of the former monastery of Wettingen. Her father was protestant but later converted to catholicism. She was baptised in Baden, godfather was the lawyer Joseph Kellersberger,,godmother Maria Blum-Gehli. Marriage to Franz Xaver Jab.9,1851. She went to public school in Baden and then in 1867 for one year to Fribourg for her French to a family Baemey after which she returned home and helped her ailing mother,who died Aug.28,1868 when she had to take over the household. She joined the churchchoir. In 1870 she attened for the first time the carneval ball and met Franz Xaver, who sent her afterward a bouquet of flowers for which she could thank him at the occasion of the churchchoirs journee to the Habsburg castle. On June 1, they got engaged when her father told her:”You coul’nt have brought me home a nicer son!” Franz then had to go for 3 weeks into the Service “Grenzschutz” for the defence of Switzerland during the French-German war. The wedding took place on Jan.9,1871 Mathilda wrote the lifestory of her father in law,Carl, of her parents and her husband. Then she started her anual New Years Eve diary , which Gertrud Huber (her granddaughter) lent to me in about 1946.

It is written in the old German writing which I was able to copy and typed it down on my typewriter. In 1997 I got a surprise when I received the booklet: “Das Sylvesterbuch der Mathilde Borsinger;Mueller “(Familienchronik der Borsinger zur Blume in Baden) by her great granddaughters husband Kurt Mueller-Huber. It is allready in our Borsinger Chronik edited by my brother Mario in 1975 and in my English translation. It is beautiful written like a Novel in the old costum, sitting down at New Years eve to put down the events of the past year. I was able to use many events and dates in descpription of Borsinger lifes, but it is too extensive to enter it here,b ut I try to bring some excerpts like: On March1,1873 her first child was born, the name Paul was given but he died 2 days later of the “Gicht” 1874 Sept, 26 Anna. 1876 March 25, Ida, 3 days later she came down with a fever which kept her in bed for 2 weeks after which she went to the Seelisberg for recovery followed by a Solbadkuhr in Rheinfelden. Nov.21,1878 the birth of Max. Dec.31,1880 the begin of the “Sylvesterbuch” (new years diary) with a misscariage in March which kept her in bed for 5 month due to overuse of Jodoform, after which she moved into the care of her sister Emma, followed by a Sulfurbathcure in Muri and then her brother in Law Caspar,M.D. brought her up to Grindelwald where the “Alp Air” brought her full recovery. 1881 the 50 000 Fr. “Buergschaft”(Guaranty) for the Truttmanns at Seelisberg brought financial headaches,the had to comeup with the money. The same year while working in the garden Franz found a Roman bronce figurine “Hymanaeus” in the area of the former excavations. In 1900 Max,her son, went to Rome to the Hotel Russie til Eastern and Gertrud was born. In November she came down with Diphtheria and was isolated for 3 weeks. In 1905 she visited her brother Arnold in Munich who was dying from cancer spread throughout his body. 1905 Sale of the old doctorshouse, Febr.28, death of uncle Truttmann from the Seelisber and on Sept. 27 death of the Senior of the Borsinger family, uncle city councilman Borsinger-Rohn. In 1906 the new doctorhouse of Dr.Jann was built in the flowergaren, and in the Blume the Centralheating was installed. In 1907 a new, very capable officegirl was hired, Bertha Walser from Solothurn, she and her son fell in love and their wedding took place at the Cathedral in Solothurn on April 23,1909, the reception at the Hotel Krone. She sold the Blume including the barn,stable,garden,ice cellar,and the vineyards at the Scharten and the Wettinger mountain for 250 000 Fr and moved into the doctorshouse. May 22, there was a severe blizzard. In 1910 Jan. 27. the appearance of a comet. On Jan. 30, her grandson Juerg Jann died of encephalitis. On April 2nd her granddaughter Maria Josepha was born premature at 7 month at the Blume and on May 19, the Comet Halley appeared (after an interval of 76 years and less shiny than the comet on Jan. 27.) This year brought a terrible flood and there was Cholera in Bari Italy. On Sept.24 George Chavez as the first crossed the Alpes by plane from Brig over the Simplon to Domodossola but crashlanded and was killed. In 1911 Graf Zeppelin flue his dirigible “Schwabe” over Baden and on Nov.16, there was an enormous Earthquake. 1912 was a bad summer with steady overcast, it was the year of the womens liberation and the sinking of the Titanic. On Sept 3, Kaiser Wilhelm,the German Emperor visited our maneuvers in Wil, and on Oct 15 there was a peace treaty in Lausanne between Italy and Turkey but at the same time war was in the Balkan between Bulgaria,Serbia,Montenegro Greece and Turkey and in 1914 after the assassination of Prince Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria gave an ultimatum to Serbia which was backed by Russia and W.W.I broke out. General Mobilisation in Switzerland on Aug.3-5. Panik until the Banks gave out 5,10 and 20dollar bills. Mathilde was not well and homebound for the last two years, made no anual reviews since Dec. 1905 and died in 1918.