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Notes for Hans Herr

Research Notes:

There is little documentation to support the various oral traditions about Hans Herr, whose descendants settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

1639 Hans Herr was born on September 17, in Töss, near Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland. [1]

Five of Hans Herr's sons went to America, although It is not known if this Hans Herr ever went to America.

1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Hans Herr may have been on one of the ships. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Uncertainty about the identity of Hans Herr's wife:

c 1679 Hans Herr [9] may have married Barbara Kundig [10], born 1643 (age 7 in 1650), sister of John Jacob Kundig, and a daughter of Hans Jacob (Jagli) Kundig.

Hans Herr may have married Elizabeth Kendig, daughter of John Jacob Kendig and Jane Mylin. [11] [12] [13]

c 1673 Hans Herr may have married Elsbeth Lotscher. [14] [15].

1672 An account of expenditures made by Dutch Mennonites on behalf of Swiss Anabaptists in the Palatinate listed Hans Herr, age 20 and wife Elsbet Lotscher, age 22, no children. These people can feed themselves from their linen weaving. Dated April 6. [16] [17]


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, HH1, citing LDS film 0923500.

[2] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15.

[3] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 13.

[4] Daniel K. Cassel, History of the Mennonites (1888), 298, [InternetArchive].

[5] Steve Friesen, A Modest Mennonite Home (1990), 23-33, 35-39, 110-113.

[6] I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (1844), 74, 76, 77, 80-82, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[7] Alexander Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (1879), 281, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[8] Oscar Kuhns, The German and Swiss settlements of colonial Pennsylvania : a study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch (New York: Eaton & Mains, c1914), 47, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[9] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, HH1.

[10] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 9, KA36.

[11] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants (1908), 1, person (1), [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[12] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants, Revised (1980), 786, Addenda II, person (1), [GoogleBooks].

[13] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 14, sorts out some Kendig relationships.

[14] Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A Continuing Saga, Vol. 2 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 35, [GoogleBooks], [FHLCatalog].

[15] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Herr, 2, [Website].

[16] 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), 455, [GoogleBooks].

[17] Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A Continuing Saga, Vol. 2 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 35, [GoogleBooks], [FHLCatalog].