c1595 Hans Muller was born. [1]
1597 Catherina Vollenweider was born. [2]
1619 Hans Muller and Catherina Vollenweider were married on December 5. [3]
1630 Hans Muller was called a "Täuffer" at the baptism of his daughter Barbara. [4]
1639 Hans Muller was in jail in Zürich for two years. His wife and children were fined because they helped him after his release. He died shortly thereafter. [5]
1640 In the census of Uitikon, Zürich, Switzerland, Hans Muller was a teüffer in Ottenbach prison. [6]
1643 Hans Muller was called a taüffer when he was living at Uitikon. He did not have a wife listed. [7]
1646 Catherina Muller was listed as a taüfferin widow, age 49 at Uitikon. [8]
1650 Catherina Muller lived at Uitikon as a widow with her son Moritz. [9]
1639 A story bout Hans Muller reports the following [10]:
Another Hans Müller of Canton Zürich Suffers. ... The Mirror under date of 1635 (p 1050) refers to this pillar of faith as defending the "poor fund" of the Church, which they tried to make him give up. His home was in Grüningen, about 12 miles southeast of Zürich. He was released but 4 years later was again imprisoned, viz: in 1639. He was a powerful factor in the Mennonite Church and so zealous were the officers to find him a second time, that like ravening wolves they ran through his neighbors houses to find him. He had escaped from his house and when they came to it and broke it open and found he was gone, they broke open chests and drawers and took all the property they could get. They threatened his little children with bare swords that they would kill them if they did not reveal his whereabouts. They took his wife and put her bound in the loathsome Ottenbach prison. Then a proclamation was announced in the Reformed churches of Zürich, that no one would be allowed to lodge or give food or drink to Hans Müller, from the Groeningen Bailiwick under severe penalty.
Then they deceived him and sent abroad a proclamation that he would be allowed a three weeks safe conduct to argue with him, if he came forth. He trusted this and went the convent specified to discuss matter but as he was about to he was arrested in breach of and taken to Ottenbach: 60 weeks of which he spent 16 in chains. (Mirror p 1053).
As to the Müllers, Zürich had and now has many "Müller" (Millers). Mr. Schnebeli says a of the Müllers came in the early from Zürich; but the Müllers early distributed in Berne and Germany and elsewhere. However, he says the whole Canton of Zürich is full of Müllers. Among the dead the battle of Kappel in Affaltern, Canton of Zürich, where Zwingli was killed on October 11, 1531, were nine Müllers from Wipkengen, Zollikon, Kussnach, Thalvil, Affaltern, Lzattiken, Hetlingen, Wetzekon, and Gollikon, all In Switzerland. Mr. Schnebeli say that the Müllers always held prominent offices, did valiant and distinguished services for the state at home and abroad, and produced many able statesmen, such as Müller of Friedberg, of St Gallen, and the historian Müller, of Schaffhausen. He says also that the President of Switzerland in 1909 was a Müller.
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[9] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Miller Family D, [Website].
[10] Henry Frank Eshleman, Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: 1917), 86, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].