before 1614 Oswald Bar was born. [1]
Oswald Bar married Anna Ringger. [2]
1635 Barbara Ringger was still alive on August 6. [3]
1638 Oswald Bar married Elisabeth Lamprecht on May 30. [4] [5]
1640-42 Oswald Bar lived in Eberswil, where he kept Katharina Meili, daughter of Hans Meili. [6]
1643 Oswald Bar moved to Chneus, Richterswill. [7]
1649 Oswald Bar sold the farm on Ober Albis. [8]
1661 Oswald Bar lived in Ittlingen, Kraichgau, Germany and attended the Steinsfurt meeting. [9]
1662 Oswald Bar had emigrated to the Palatinate with a household of 6 persons. [10]
1668 Oswald Bar lived in the Palatinate with 5 children. [11]
1679 Oswald Bar converted young lads from the Reformed to the Anabaptist religion. Martin Bar was his servant. [12]
"This was the time of a tax revolt in the area, and in 1646 the Zürich government advanced by force of arms and occupied Wäldenswil, the town north of Richterswil on Lake Zürich. In February 1647 the Anabaptists left the Zürich area in the direction of the Rhine River (Map of the Kraichgau). This was near the end of the 30 Years' War (1618-1648) which had left much of Germany depopulated. A map of deaths due to war and desease has been created. Pfalz, in particular, had suffered population losses exceeding 50%. Because Oswald Bär sold his farm in Albis in 1649 and his family is not on the 1650 census of Richterswil, they probably joined the older children." [13]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[5] Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A Continuing Saga, Vol. 2 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 21, 23, person BA12, [GoogleBooks], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[7] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[8] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[9] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[10] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[11] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[12] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA12.
[13] Jane Evans Best, "A Bear Saga: Albis to America," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October, 1986), 14-25, at 16.