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Joseph Adam Stirnimann

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Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Adam Stirnimann	1730	Maria Anna Müller

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Anna Maria Fischer		Anna Maria Barbara Stirnimann Catarina Barbara Utilda Stirnimann Peter Johann Joseph Stirnimann Peter Joseph Jacob Stirnimann Joseph Stirnimann Joseph Johann Jacob Stirnimann

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	18 Aug 1767	Mittelarig, Luzern, Switzerland
Christening	18 Aug 1767	Notwil, Switzerland
Marriage	27 Nov 1794
Death	15 Apr 1799

Notes


Two dead in the Beetle War After the French Revolution, the French also submitted Switzerland and established French military rule with the support of elements hostile to the state. The whole country was plundered by French troops and by the political and military representatives of France, especially the state coffers were confiscated in the most unrestrained way. As in most cantons, resistance to the new Helvetic constitution, created on the French model, formed in the canton of Lucerne which the people had to take the oath on August 19, 1798. In the then office of Ruswil, the resistance and incitement to the new constitution was so strong that Ruswil and four other communities were occupied with three battalions of French troops. The population of Ruswil finally gave in and swore the oath to the constitution. In the spring of 1799 the Helvetic French government had to provide 18,000 men to defeat Austria and Russia the in the war and they also planned to move 20,000 men to protect the internal order. As a result of all this, an open uprising broke out in Beromünster, Nottwil, Ruswil and Entlebuch against the hated Helvetic government, which was called the Beetle War because of the year of the beetle flight. ' On the night of April 14th to 15th, 1799, the Helvetic government sent a force of 1,000 men, including 500 French soldiers, into Nottwil. Some of them moved from Neuenkirch up the mountain towards the Flüss Chapel. The rebels were beaten and dispersed by the government troops on the heights of the Flüss and near Upper- and Middle Arig. The descendants of Adam Stirnimann-Müller knew until the recent past - according to the master tailor Anton Stirnimann, who worked for a long time in the old schoolhouse in Nottwil until he moved to Sursee with his sister Rosa and there on March 12, 1967 at the age of 90 years - to report how French soldiers broke into the two houses of the Stirnimann family in Mittelarig and shot the two brothers Joseph and Xaver. The death register of the parish of Nottwil records the names of eight men who perished in the war on April 15, 1799 (“in bello obierunt”). In the first place are the two brothers Joseph Stirnimann vir, Mittelarig Xaver Stirnimann vir, Mittelarig called. The names of the next five should also be recorded here: Mathias Kaufmann famulus (= servant), Elischwand Johannes Schmidli, Oberbernern Joseph Bächler, Oberbernern Joseph Hug, Oberbernern Jakob Meier, Bramegg The last person named is a peregrinus (= stranger) whose name nobody knew. The Latin word vir means a married man. The former Joseph Adam Stirnimann, who was married to Anna Maria Fischer, left two sons, of whom descendants still live today. The marriage of Xaver Alois Stirnimann, who was married to Anna Maria Katharina Birrer, remained childless, as the Franciscan Fortunat Stirnimann informed his brother-in-law Niklaus Felix in Römerswil in a letter dated 29th fallow month 1800: It also happened that Xavery Stirnyman died blissfully without children and his quoted remittances were distributed among brothers and sisters.

Two dead in the Beetle War
After the French Revolution, the French also submitted Switzerland and established French military rule with the support of elements hostile to the state. The whole country was plundered by French troops and by the political and military representatives of France, especially the state coffers were confiscated in the most unrestrained way. As in most cantons, resistance to the new Helvetic constitution, created on the French model, formed in the canton of Lucerne which the people had to take the oath on August 19, 1798. In the then office of Ruswil, the resistance and incitement to the new constitution was so strong that Ruswil and four other communities were occupied with three battalions of French troops. The population of Ruswil finally gave in and swore the oath to the constitution.

In the spring of 1799 the Helvetic French government had to provide 18,000 men to defeat Austria and Russia the in the war and they also planned to move 20,000 men to protect the internal order. As a result of all this, an open uprising broke out in Beromünster, Nottwil, Ruswil and Entlebuch against the hated Helvetic government, which was called the Beetle War because of the year of the beetle flight. ' On the night of April 14th to 15th, 1799, the Helvetic government sent a force of 1,000 men, including 500 French soldiers, into Nottwil. Some of them moved from Neuenkirch up the mountain towards the Flüss Chapel. The rebels were beaten and dispersed by the government troops on the heights of the Flüss and near Upper- and Middle Arig. The descendants of Adam Stirnimann-Müller knew until the recent past - according to the master tailor Anton Stirnimann, who worked for a long time in the old schoolhouse in Nottwil until he moved to Sursee with his sister Rosa and there on March 12, 1967 at the age of 90 years - to report how French soldiers broke into the two houses of the Stirnimann family in Mittelarig and shot the two brothers Joseph and Xaver. The death register of the parish of Nottwil records the names of eight men who perished in the war on April 15, 1799 (“in bello obierunt”). In the first place are the two brothers

Joseph Stirnimann vir, Mittelarig
Xaver Stirnimann vir, Mittelarig
called.

The names of the next five should also be recorded here:

Mathias Kaufmann famulus (= servant), Elischwand
Johannes Schmidli, Oberbernern
Joseph Bächler, Oberbernern
Joseph Hug, Oberbernern
Jakob Meier, Bramegg

The last person named is a peregrinus (= stranger) whose name nobody knew.

The Latin word vir means a married man. The former Joseph Adam Stirnimann, who was married to Anna Maria Fischer, left two sons, of whom descendants still live today. The marriage of Xaver Alois Stirnimann, who was married to Anna Maria Katharina Birrer, remained childless, as the Franciscan Fortunat Stirnimann informed his brother-in-law Niklaus Felix in Römerswil in a letter dated 29th fallow month 1800:

It also happened that Xavery Stirnyman died blissfully without children and his quoted remittances were distributed among brothers and sisters.

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
Verband Der Familien Stirnimann	No. 20	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

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