1848 Map of Zurich canton [8]
Mettmenstetten is at lower left.
Wald is at lower right.
1620 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer was baptized on January 23 in Wald, Switzerland. [1]
1626 Anna Buchmann, of Mettmenstetten, daughter of Caspar Buchman and Vreni Wyss, was named on December 27. [2]
1634 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer was age 13. [3]
1641 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer was age 20. [4]
1644 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer was listed in the census. [5]
1646 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer and Anna Buchmann(of Mettmenstetten von Afholteren) were married on January 27 at Wald, Zürich, Switzerland. [6] [7]
1651 In the parish of Wald, Hans Jacob Oberholtzer, 26 years old, was named as a married man. With Ann Buchmann, his wife and children: Hans Jacob age 4, Samuel age 3, and Regel age 2. They went to Sintzheim in Curfurst, Pfalz. (Verziechnisse von Ausgewanderten der Zurcher Landschaft). [9]
1657 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer, at the age of 32, emigrated from the Wald and moved to the Palatinate, Germany. [10]
1663 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer was listed as an Anabaptist in the Palatinate. [11]
1674 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer's family were among the Anabaptists living near Sinsheim on the Immelhouser Hof. [12]
1683 Hans Jacob Oberholtzer died after 1683. [13]
1685 Jacob Oberholtzer (Nr 127) and Samuel Oberholtzer (Nr 128) were named on the Immelhausen Palatine Mennonite Census. [14] [15] [16]
See also [17]
Research Notes:
The parish records of Zurich canton, Switzerland are at the Staatsarchive of Zurich. Only marriages have been abstracts, as far as I can tell. [18] Other records, cited above, are perhaps available on-site in Zurich.
See [19]
Comment:Available at UM CS 627 .K73 S381 1983 Buhr call Hatcher 764-0401
see pages 203-204
https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog?library=All+libraries&query=Schweizer+Einwanderer
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261, citing Diefenbacher, Pfister, and Holtz. Schweizer Einwanderer, p. 203, (no. 5292).
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[5] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[6] State Archives of Zürich, Switzerland, Wald, [Zürich State Archives].
[7] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[8] Heinrich Keller, Samuel Scheuermann, Canton Zürich (1848), [Old Maps Online 1848], [Map 1848], [Old Maps Online 1765].
[9] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 419.
[10] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[11] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[12] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[13] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA261.
[14] Hermann and Gertrud Guth, Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1793 (Mennonite Family History, 1987), 15, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Miscellaneous church records, tax lists, warrants, surveys, wills, deeds etc. pertaining to early settlers of Lancaster county, Pa - families, Vol. 1, 20, [FHLCatalog].
[16] According to Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 77/4337, Specification der jenige Mennonisten so sich in Churpfaltz Landen, befinden als, im Oberamt Heydelberg (Heidelberg today), folio 71.
[17] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer A261; Buchman A18, [Website].
[18] State Archives of Zürich, Switzerland, Wald, [Zürich State Archives].
[19] Karl Diefenbacher, Hans Ulrich Pfister, Kurt H. Hotz, Schweizer Einwanderer in den Kraichgau nach dem Dreissigjährigen Krieg (1983), 203, [GoogleBooks].