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Notes for Johannes Oberholtzer and Anna Frey

1651 Anna Frey, daughter of Felix Frey, was baptized on February 16, at Ottenbach, Zürich, Switzerland. [1]

c1660 Johannes Oberholtzer was born about this time. [2]

1683 Johannes Oberholtzer, son of Jacob, farmer and Widertauffer at the Immenhauser Hoff, married Anna Frey, daughter of Felix Frey, former (deceased) farmer and Widertauffer, on March 13 at the Immenhausenhoff, Birckenhoff. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Johannes Oberholtzer, Jacob Oberholtzer, Hoffbauern und Widertäuffers auff dem Immenhaußer Hoff Sohn.

Anna Felix Freyen geweßenin hoffbauer & widertauffer auf den birckenhoff hinderlaßen tochter

… post trinam proclamen … den 13th Martÿ copulati ImmerHaußenhoff.

Research Notes:

The farm at Immelhausen had to pay tithes to the Stift at Sinsheim. The Stift employed accountants whose books are archived at Karlsruhe. The accounts record the family name but no personal details. The farm at Immelhausen became a hereditary tenancy in 1704, it was auctioned off and Hans Jacob Kendig and Martin Frey got it. Before that it was a temporary tenancy, last held by Oberholtzer. [9]

There have been conflicting reports about the parents of Anna Frey. Felix Frey, son of Jacob Frey and Barbara Hoffstetter, with wives Anna Sidler and Anna Schandler has also been reported as the father of this Anna Frey. We seek documentation regarding her ancestors.

Geneanet. [10]


Footnotes:

[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 OA2615.

[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 OA2615.

[3] Germany, Baden, Hilsbach-Weiler, Taufen, Heiraten, Tote, Kommunikanten, Konfirmanden 1655-1730, right side, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[4] Germany, Baden, Hilsbach, Mischbuch 1655-1730 1730 Febr 1732, image 100, [ArchionImage].

[5] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 427.

[6] John L. Overholt, "The Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1725) Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October 1986), 26-40, at 27, family V4.

[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 OA2615.

[8] Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985, [AncestryRecord].

[9] Personal communication.

[10] Geneanet Community Trees Index, [AncestryRecord].