The family of the composer Richard Wagner:
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary,
∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she married the painter Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821), whose rumoured paternity of Richard Wagner is neither substantiated nor eliminated).
Much of the content of this article comes from (retrieved September, 2007).
Carr, Jonathan: The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007.