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Notes for Oswald Landis and Margaret Schneveli

c 1570 Anna Schappi was born. [1]

1577 On 31 March, Oswald Landis was baptized, son of Rudolph Landis and Anna Bruggbacher, at Horgen, Switzerland. [2] [3] [4]

1578 On 12 July, Margaret Schneveli was baptized. [5]

c 1599 Oswald Landis and Margaret Schneveli were married. [6] [7]

by 1633 Oswald Landis and Anna Schappi were married. [8] [9]

1633 Oswald Landis, age 60, had been an Anabaptist for 30 years in Moosacher, Hirzel, Switzerland [10]. Anna Schappi Landis age 63, had been an Anabaptist for 20 years [11].

1640 Oswald Landis was jailed in Oethenbach prison in Zurich with wife and 2 daughters-in-law. [12]

1646 Oswald Landis lived in Mosarger, Hirzel. [13]

1650 On 4 March, Oswald Landis died in Hirzel, Switzerland. [14]


Footnotes:

[1] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.

[2] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16, person LS34.

[3] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20, person LS22.

[4] Samuel E. Wenger and Werner Baumann, A Combined Landis/Landes Genealogy Report of the Descendants of Hans Landis and Katharina Schinz (Akron, Pa.: 2005), 25, person 1.3.4.

[5] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.

[6] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.

[7] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20.

[8] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.

[9] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20.

[10] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20, person LS22.

[11] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.

[12] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20.

[13] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 20.

[14] S. Michael Wilcox, "Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18 (January 1995), 13-19, at 16.