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Notes for Adam Neff and Regula Ruff

1613 On May 13, Adam Naf was baptized at Kappel. [1]

1634 Adam Naf was age 21, living with Heinrich Naf. [2]

1637 Adam Naf was age 24. [3]

1656 On 14 November, Adam Naf was an Anabaptist in Alsace. [4]

1659 On 10 November, Adam Naf lived at Ohnennheim, Alsace with five children. [5]

1664 Adam Naf died in Alsace. [6]

Research Notes:

Notes from Richard Davis, MennoSearch.com:

1634 Regula lived with her parents at Maschwanden.

1648 On 26 October, Hans Jacob Schurtzer, Amtmann of Kappel wrote that Adam Naf of Kappel who was living in the lower part of Canton Zürich came to him asking for part of Hans Muller's inheritance. Hans was the brother of Regula.

1668 On 9 July, Pastor Rudolph Witz of Kappel made a remark in the church book that because of his bad behavior (with respect to the Dordecht confession), Adam Naf had been excluded from the Anabaptist community in Alsace.

1664 Adam Naf died 1664 in Alsace, announced in the Kappel book 1668. After his death his farm was taken over by Ludwig Stahli.


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.

[2] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.

[3] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.

[4] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.

[5] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.

[6] Jane Evans Best, "Näf/Neff (NF) Family: An Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (April, 1993), 25-30, at 28, person NF1223.