1706 On 19 December, Hans Schürch was born at Sumiswald. [1] [2]
Hans Schürch married Barbara Yoder (d. 1790), daughter of Christian and Barbara Yoder. [3] [4]
1711 Ulrich Schürch and his wife Barbara Grunbacher, 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. [5] [6] [7] [8]
1728 On 23 August, Uldrick Shurk and Johan Schürch arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse. [9] [10] Johan Schürch arrived in Philadelphia with his father. [11] Another list named Uly Schürch, Udry Schürch,and Johannes Schorck. [12]
1735 On 7 April, Hans Schürch patented 300 acres in Cocalico Township. [13]
1751 Hans Schürch was taxed at Cocalico. [14]
1789 Hans Schürch died at Cocalico Township, Lancaster County. [15]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].
[2] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 4, [FHLBook].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].
[4] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 4, [FHLBook].
[5] Henry Frank Eshleman, Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: 1917), 184, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[6] 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].
[7] 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].
[8] Prof. Oscar Kuhns, "Some Lancaster County Families from the Canton of Berne, Switzerland," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 8 (October 1919), 39-41, at 40.
[9] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 18, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] 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].
[11] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].
[12] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 19, list 6B, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].
[14] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].
[15] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3315, [Website].