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Marriage

Marriage

Man Jost Joseph Johann Stirnimann
Woman Anna Maria Elisabeth Weber
Date 10 Apr 1837
Place Sursee
Country Switzerland

Notes

FROM JOSEPH STIRNIMANN

It was of a large rarity that two became or even three sons of the same family priests or into an order a fraten. This was the case in the fore generation two Kapuzinern P. Karl and P. Sigismund Stirnimann and in the Benediktiner P. Leodegar Stirnimann. All three were sons of the husbands Jost Stirnimann and Elisabeth Weber in Neuenkirch. Jost Stirnimann, born on the 19th July 1807 in Mitelarig in Nottwill as a son of the couple Joseph Stirnimann and Agatha Hüsler, married on 10 January 1837 in the parish church Sursee Elisabeth Weber, the daughter born on 24 March 1818 in Neuenkirch of the couple Kaspar Weber and Ellsabeth Wüest. Jost Stirnimann took his wife's residential in Neuenkirch. The original shoemaker developed himself through the years to a adroit and wealthy leather merchant., Of the 10 sons a farmer, a court clerk and proprietor in Sempach, one Postillon in Sempach, four was became exercised the occupation of a businessman.