1639 Jost Engel was born 10 February at Grosshöchstetten, Bern. [1]
1645 Jost Engel was baptized on 6 July. [2].
1665 On 10 April, Jost Engel married Cathryn Rüsser [Rÿsser] at Grosshöchstetten, Bern. [3] [4] [5]
They lived at Schwendi Vorden in Grosshöchstetten. [6]
They moved about 2.5 miles away to Farnen in the parish of Röthenbach, north of the village of Röthenbach. [7]
1678 Jost Engel was of Farnen when he requested permission from the authorities to build an oil mill. [8]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A4, [Website].
[2] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.
[3] John E. Engle and Eugene K Engle, "A Letter from Immigrant Ulrich Engle to Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (July, 1993), 11-18, at 16.
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A41, [Website].
[5] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.
[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A41, [Website].
[7] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.
[8] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.