I have heard it said, but I can’t vouch for it, that the ancestry of Christopher Yowell (UHL in Germany) included Swiss ancestry. The source for this was said to be the Sulzfeld Ortssippenbuch which a few of you have. If you could cite the information, either positively or negatively, it would be appreciated.
There is a strain of Swiss ancestry in Anna Maria Hengsteler, the wife of Michael Willheit, early immigrants to Virginia. One grandmother of Anna Maria Hengsteler, Salome Metzger, was the daughter of Sebastian Metzger of Altdorf, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Again, if anyone can add to this list of Germanna immigrants who have a partial Swiss ancestry, please do so.
Next, we might discuss those Germanna immigrants whose ancestry involves people who have moved a significant distance within Germany. Of course, "significant" is not a well-defined term so we will be casual about the definition.
The earliest known Rector (Richter) was Hans Richter from the city of Freiburg, near Meissen in Saxony (see Germanna Record 5 for the Rector-Richter family). The surmise is that Hans Richter was born about the year 1550. Hans paid a fee for citizenship in Siegen in 1585 showing that he was not born there. His birth information in the citizenship application gives us the information above.
Cyriacus Fleischmann was from Klings and he moved to Neuenbuerg where he married the widow Anna Barbara (Schoen/Schön) Blankenbaker Schlucter. Klings was, in recent years, in East Germany, being just over the border (not far from Luther country around Eisenach). If you visit Klings today, you will find that the most common name in the cemetery is Fleischmann.
Apparently Nicholas Yager (Jaeger) moved from Hesse to the Palatinate. There is ongoing active research into this question, but at the present it seems that this was true.
John Broyles (Johannes Breyhel) was born at Dusslingen (Dußlingen) and married at Oetisheim (Ötisheim), some distance apart. The distance was more than would be appropriate for courting, suggesting that he had moved to Oetisheim. (08 Nov 05)
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