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Notes for Valentin Walthi Gutt

1565 Walthi/Valentine Gutt was baptized on December 16. [1]

1604 Walthi/Valentine Gutt and Elsbeth Lochman/Lohman of of Eggberg were married on January 29. [2] [3]

1612 Son Toni Gutt was baptized at Bimensdorf. [4] [5]

Research Notes:

We are researching the ancestors of Peter Good (c 1688-1754) [6], who emigrated from Europe to Pennsylvania in the early 1700's.

Several Good immigrants came to Pennsylvania in the early 1700's. Genetic testing of their descendants suggests that they were all descended from a common male ancestor, as are Good descendants currently living in Switzerland, and that they share the Y-DNA L2b haplogroup subclade, which is rare in Europe [7]. The specific relationships among these Good immigrants are uncertain and there is some disagreement among researchers about their relationships [8] [9].

One plausible European lineage, shown here, is based on two researchers. The ancestry back to Andreas Gutt (born 1532) is based on Jane Best [10]. The ancestry before Andreas Gutt is based on the research of Therese Leuzinger-Kamber of Switzerland. [11]

The births of several children to Waltin Gut were extracted from the Birmendorf Taufbuch Church Records and were recorded in a notebook. [12]

Walthi Gutt married twice, and from the first wife (unknown) there were five children, and from the second wife, Elsbeth Lohman, three more children. The family relocated to Birmensdorf, Switzerland. [13] [14]


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Guth Families of Ottenbach, Switzerland, Part II," Mennonite Family History 9 (1990), 22-27, at 27, GG5.

[2] Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Guth Families of Ottenbach, Switzerland, Part II," Mennonite Family History 9 (1990), 22-27, at 27, GG5.

[3] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 2, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].

[4] Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Guth Families of Ottenbach, Switzerland, Part II," Mennonite Family History 9 (1990), 22-27, at 27, GG58.

[5] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 1, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].

[6] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Peter Good, [JRWolfeGenealogy].

[7] Darvin L. Martin, "Unveiling the Deep Ancestry of Swiss Anabaptist Forebears," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 33 (July, 2010), 2-17, at 14.

[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good, [Website].

[9] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 11.

[10] Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Guth Families of Ottenbach, Switzerland, Part II," Mennonite Family History 9 (1990), 22-27, at 27, GG.

[11] Herbert Good, ed., Good/Gut/Guth Newsletter, 15.

[12] Familysearch.org. Switzerland, Church Book Extracts, 1550-1875. Heft Knecht 167, image 13-14, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] Family History Library microfilm, 458771, [FHLFilmCatalog].

[14] Family History Library microfilm, 453791 has information for a different Welthi Gut, son of Rudolf Gut and Elisabeth Staehli, [FHLFilmCatalog].