1631 Melchior Brönimann/Brenneman was born about 1631. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Melchior Brenneman "appears to have lived in Ober-Diessbach, a small village not far from Bern." [5]
1659 Melchior Brenneman was of Steffisburg, Bern, Switzerland when he was in jail at Thun on 28 Oct 1659 for his Anabaptist faith. [6] [7] "He was sent free with probation. He promised only to attend preaching services in the state church. If he did not give up the Anabaptists he was to be exiled and if he returned he was to be beaten with rods and driven out again." [8]
1663 "Melchior Brönnimann and Hans Bieri paid money to the government of Signau to settle in the village of Buchholterberg in the parish of Oberdiessbach." [9]
Melchior Brenneman was married to Christina Reusser/Risser, probably the daughter of Steffan Reusser of Steffisburg. [10]
Melchior Brenneman was a weaver. [11]
1671 Melchior Brenneman "was exiled from Oberdiessbach in 1671 and lived at Kriegsheim in the Pfalz in January 1672, age 40, with his wife, age 35 and seven children, ages 15 to 1 ½." [12] [13] "He was exiled with his wife and children to the Palatinate in southwestern Germany because of his refusal to give up his faith." They lived in Griesheim, northwest of Worms. [14]
1672 On 1 January, Melchior Brenneman "was listed as a Swiss Anabaptist refugee living at Fischbach, Bayern, Germany on 6 April 1672, age 40 with his wife Stiene Russer, also nearly 40. It stated that they have seven children of which the oldest is 15 years and they have her mother with them who had been in prison." [15] [16]
1688 Melchior Brenneman lived at Klostergut in Enkenbach near Fischbach in 1688 with Christian Steiner." [17]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].
[2] John W. Heisey, "Brenneman Genealogy and Heirlooms," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 (July 1981), 20-22, at 20.
[3] Albert Horwell Gerberich, The Brenneman History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1938), 1, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Risser B117, [Website].
[5] John W. Heisey, "Brenneman Genealogy and Heirlooms," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 (July 1981), 20-22, at 20.
[6] John W. Heisey, "Brenneman Genealogy and Heirlooms," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 (July 1981), 20-22, at 20.
[7] Albert Horwell Gerberich, The Brenneman History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1938), 2, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].
[9] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].
[11] John W. Heisey, "Brenneman Genealogy and Heirlooms," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 (July 1981), 20-22, at 20.
[12] Albert Horwell Gerberich, The Brenneman History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1938), 2, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].
[14] John W. Heisey, "Brenneman Genealogy and Heirlooms," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 (July 1981), 20-22, at 20.
[15] James W. Lowrey, translator, David Smucker and John Ruth, eds., Documents of Brotherly Love, Dutch Mennonite Aid to Swiss Anabaptists Swiss Migration to America: the Swiss Mennonites, Vol. 1 (Millersburg, Ohio: Ohio Amish Library, 2007), 465, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Albert Horwell Gerberich, The Brenneman History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1938), 1, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brenneman A, [Website].