1663 Ulrich Schürch was born on March 9 at Sumiswald, Switzerland. [1] [2] [3]
1672 Barbara Grunbacher was born on November 5. [4] [5]
c 1695 Ulrich Schürch married Barbara Grunbacher. [6] [7] [8] [9]
1710 Ulrich Schürch was an Anabaptist in jail in Bern. [10] [11]
1711 Ulrich Schürch and his wife Barbara Grumbacher, with three sons and one daughter, of Sumiswald, were among the Mennonites who left the Emmenthal valley, on the ship Emmenthaler, from Basel Switzerland to Holland. On 3 August, they arrived in Holland from Sumiswald. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
1728 Ulrich Schürch arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse on August 23. Different transcriptions have been made of the names:
Uli Schürch, Johannes Schorck, and Udry Schürch. [18]
List-A: Uldrick Shurk, Uldrick Shurk, and Johan Shurk. List-B: Uli Schürch, Johannes Schorck, and Udry Schürch. [19]
Valentine Schurch, Uli Schurch, Johan Scharch [20]
Uldrick Shurk, Johan Shurk, Uldrick Shurk [21]
1728 Uldrick Shurk, Uldrick Shurk, Jr. and Joannes Shurk were listed in the Philadelphia Council minutes, on August 24, among Palatines who came on the ship Mortonhouse. [22]
1735 Ulrich, Peter, and John Schurch [Sherrick] received warrants and patents for large tracts in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] One survey, dated 1813, for a tract of George Reddig [29], adjacent to that of Ulrich Schurch, reported Ulrich's tract as owned by Joseph Shirk in right of Ulrick Shirk.
1736 Barbara Grundbacher Schurch died on February 11, in Schoeneck, Pennsylvania. [30] [31]
1739 Ulrich Shirk's death has been reported on July 3 at Cocalico Twp, Pennsylvania. [32] [33]
[1] John S. Shirk, "Queries Lead to New Shirk Family Information," Mennonite Family History 25 (2006), 72.
[2] Thomas Albert Sherk, The Sherk Family (1982), 14, Table 2.
[3] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].
[4] Thomas Albert Sherk, The Sherk Family (1982), 14, Table 2.
[5] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, 4, [FHLBook].
[6] John S. Shirk, "Queries Lead to New Shirk Family Information," Mennonite Family History 25 (2006), 72.
[7] Charles Fahs Kauffman, A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937 (1940), 184, see person A57, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[8] Thomas Albert Sherk, The Sherk Family (1982), 14, Table 2.
[9] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Schurch A331, [Website].
[11] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].
[12] Ernst Müller, Geschichte der bernischen täufer. Nach den urkunden dargestellt, 307, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[13] Henry Frank Eshleman, Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: 1917), 184, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[14] Oscar Kuhnz, "The Homeland of the First Settlers in Lancaster County," Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society 21 (1917), 23-28, at 26, [HathiTrust].
[15] Oscar Kuhns, "Some Lancaster County Families from the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland," The Pennsylvania German 11 (1910), 733-5, at 734, of 734-5, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Prof. Oscar Kuhns, "Some Lancaster County Families from the Canton of Berne, Switzerland," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 8 (October 1919), 39-41, at 40.
[17] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].
[18] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 56, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[19] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 17, 19, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[20] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 12, bottom, right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[21] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 13, lower, right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[22] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 328, [HathiTrust].
[23] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A1-263, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[24] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C185-149, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[25] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C185-247, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[26] Pennsylvania Land Patent, AA6-23, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[27] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A17-276, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[28] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A14-371, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[29] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C41-196, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[30] John S. Shirk, "Queries Lead to New Shirk Family Information," Mennonite Family History 25 (2006), 72.
[31] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].
[32] John S. Shirk, "Queries Lead to New Shirk Family Information," Mennonite Family History 25 (2006), 72.
[33] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 3, [FHLBook].