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| 101 | Dr. Joseph Stirnimann speculated that Peter Stirnimann came to the Lucern area around 1530 as a result of the settlement of the Reformation wars as a land trade from the protestant areas to the Catholic area. Peter Stirnimann is documented as the owner of the Witelingen farm near Pfaffnau for the period from 1534 to 1548. At the time mentioned, the Witelingen farm comprised 30 Wiesland workers, 150 Jucharten fields and pastures and was a fiefdom of the Cistercian monastery of St. Urban, to which the farmer had to pay the annual taxes stipulated in the arable land. In 1534 Peter Stirnimann had a legal dispute with the monastery because of the tithe, which the monastery wrongly claimed according to the fiefdom's statements. Court of Willisau decided the dispute in favor of the farmer. The conflict with the monastery is probably the explanation for why Peter Stirnimann was the only fief of his family in Witelingen. | Stirnimann, Peter (20800094)
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| 102 | Elisha B. Horne does not show up in 1850, 1860, 1870, or 1880 Census. | Horne, Elisha B. (I6233)
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| 103 | Elizabeth and her daughter Bessie were listed in the 1900 cencus as living with the Edwards family and lister as sister and niece. | Peal, Rosemary Elizabeth (I325)
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| 104 | Elizabeth Ann McCarty Cobb knew this family when she was a child. Her parents used to visit them at their home in Merit, Texas. She also remembers the Gulf station in Merit, across the railroad tracks on the road from Farmersville, where Will M. Coker used to work. They had a daughter, Bula Mae that lived with them and taught piano lessons for spending money. They also had as married son who lived across the street (perhaps Turman). Turman was the family of LuElla Mosley's first husband, Marion EdgarTurman, and their son, Marion Edgar Turman, Jr. Jr. was raised by Chester Allen McCarty who was LuElla Mosley's second husband. Their first son was Murrel Douglas McCarty. Thus Will M. Coker's sons were both named after Chester Allen's sons. | Coker, William Meeks (I7684)
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| 105 | Elizabeth McCarty Cobb remembers visiting this family when they lived in Greenville. She says she can still remember Gene Gresham on the front porch and hollering out when they arrived. She remembers eating with them and having raw milk and colored margerine for the first time. Prior to the visit she had had pasturized milk. Most margerine at that time was white rather than yellow like butter. | Gresham, Eugene (I3870)
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| 106 | Email from Max Ervin dated August 19, 2000: Don, The background on Amanda, wife of JFM Carty, is rather complicated. She is first found in the Russell Co 1850 census in the household of William Akers (HH #1056) at age 2, and listed as Amanda J. Dickenson. There is also a Henry Dickenson, age 1. In working with some Dickenson researchers, particularly with a descendant of this young Henry, we have come to the conclusion that this is Amanda Dunford, born out of wedlock to Rosannah Dickenson and William F. Dunford. The first clue came from the following from a descendant of this Henry: "In 1988, I went to a Dickenson family gathering in Kingsport and talked to 12 old folks, all granchildren of Henry Dickenson, and none of them could shed any light on the subject, except to confirm that Henry had a sister named Amanda. However, one 81 year old lady in a wheel chair told me the following: When Henry was one year old his father had left home and his mother in desperation placed Henry at a table with food and then went out and jumped off a "lover's leap" killing herself. That his true name was Dunford and not Dickenson, and that it was all recorded in a Bible her mother had." This was disregarded at the time, because her daughters said she was imagining it, that there was no Bible. But, she and her daughters went on to say they had visited Amanda several years previously on Copper Creek, that she had married a "Carter" or something like that, and that one of Amanda's daughters had married a Ring. The specifics are off a bit, in that Rosannah and Wm Dunford did marry in 1855, and Rosannah's suicide may have been around 1857, after the birth of Robert, not Henry. I am attaching my notes on Rosannah and her father Edmund Dickenson. As you can see, some of it is speculation, but the pieces seem to fit. It's somewhat messy, resulting from converting it to .txt, but it should be readable if you apply "Word wrap". Regards, Max | Dunford, Amanda J. (I3867)
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| 107 | Email note from Max Ervin about Amanda and her family dated August 19, 2000: Lived at Dickensonville, Russell Co. Believed to be the brother of Lewis Dickenson, who also lived at Dickensonville; and possibly the brother of Griffith Dickenson who lived at Gibsonville. Also George Dickenson's Will, executed March 1850 in Russell Co proves that he and Lewis are brothers. It is also believed that Joannah Dickenson Meade, second wife of Henry Meade (Russell Co), is a sister. All were born Hanover Co. Joannah's marriage bond was given by George Dickenson, probably her oldest brother, with her father, Henry, deceased. It is believed these Hanover people are the children of Henry Dickenson and Rosannah, based on the marriage record of Joannah. Based on location, Henry is probably a descendant of Nathaniel Dickenson, brother to Thomas who was the father of Russell County Hnery, from whom the other Russell Co Dickensons are descended. It appears that Edmund and his siblings came to Russell in the early 1800s, much later than Henry and his sons. Edmund was in Russell at least by 1813, when he substituted for Daniel Sutherland for the War of 1812, serving 6 months, and honorably discharged at Norfolk on 10 March 1814. Edmund Dickenson is listed as a Corporal in the War of 1812 Pay Rolls, page 338(LVA). In Edumnd's household in the 1860 census are Armanda 13, Henry Susan M 6, and Robert 4, believed to be grandchildren. In 1850 Amanda C. Dickenson 2, and Henry Dickenson 1, were in HH1056 with William Akers 34, and 6 Akers children. In the 1850 census, Polly is listed as age 45, and in the 1860 census as 65. In a statement for husband's pension, she states they were married about April 1817. (The marriage may have been later, as their first child Matilda, is believed to have been born about 1821). With what is believed to be their last child, Margaret, born in 1843, Polly was most likely born between 1800 and 1803. | Dickenson, Edmond (I4301)
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| 108 | Email note from Max Ervin about Amanda and her family dated August 19, 2000: Rosannah is living alone in the 1850 census, next door to Edmund Dickenson (her father). She is not in the 1860 census, but there is Martha Dunford, Age 8, in the household of Ralph Castle and wife Sarah Carty; and Rosannah's husband (m. 1855), William F. Dunford, age 64, is in the Hackney household. There are no other Dunford's in the Russell 1860 census, so it is assumed that Rosannah died prior to 1860. Martha may be her daughter, and may be the same person as Susan M. in Edmund's household in 1860 (counted twice by the census taker). Russel County birth records show that Susan M. J. was born to Rosannah on 10 Sept. 1853. Rosannah is likely the mother of Robert (Age 4 in Edmund's household, along with Susan, in 1860). This Robert is probably the same as "Doc" Dunford, age 14, in Edmund's household in 1870. Rosannah and William Dunford are probably the parents of Henry and Amanda Dickenson in the Akers household in 1850. (Henry kept the name of Dickenson, and married a first cousin Nancy Dickenson, daughter of John D. Amanda went byDunford, and married John Franklin McIlhenny "Pretty John" Carty.) Rosannah and William Dunford were indicted for lewdness in 1849 along with several other unmarried couples who were either cohabitating, or had had children out of wedlock (6 June 1849, Russell Co LOB 12, p200-201), but were acquited (7 Nov 1849, LOB 12, p244), lending credence to their having had Amanda and Henry out of wedlock. And, James M. Dickenson, b. 1839 and in Edmund's household in 1850 and 1860, was a son of Rosannah as evidenced by his marriage record of 2 June 1860. Rosannah's 1855 marriage bond lists her parents as Edmund and Polly. (In the 1850 Russell census there is a James W. Dunford, age 8, b. Giles Co, in the Anderson/Haggy household. This is probably a son of William F. Dunford by a former marriage, as there are no other Dunfords in Russell Co.) "There as an Albert Dunford age 22 in the 1880 census living with Harvey Speer, so I checked his marriage records and he was the son of William and Rosa Dunford. I wonder if Dock and Albert are the same person. Albert Dunford does not appear in the 1860 Russell County Census. If Albert was 22 in 1880 he would have been born about 1858. If Dock is the same person, he would have been born about 1856. (He was 14 in 1870). I wonder where Rosannah and this child were in 1860? Another thing I found was where a family of Hamiltons adopted or applied for legal custody of Susan Dunford. I wonder if this was Rosannah and William's Susan." | Dickenson, Rosannah (I4555)
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| 109 | Excerpt from Artolsheim Catholic Parrish History Book. According to the parish death register, in 1751 there was a certain Nicolas STEIBLI as Schoolmaster. That year, he signed as witness a death certificate at ARTOLSHEIM. Who was he? Born in 1689, son of Jean STEIBLI and Anne born SCHWARTZ, he was originallyfrom SOULTZ, in the upper Rhine. In 1751 he married Marie KLINTZ from HESSENHEIM. His son Francois-Joseph, who was born in 1758, became Schoolmaster from 1804 to 1821. He made the acquaintance of Madeleine BRANDHUEBER, the daughter of the Schoolmaster ofHESSENHEIM with whom he married in 1781. This was the godmother then at the benediction of a bell. From others we know that it was Nicolas STEIBLE who had erected a cross at the entrance north of the village: the inscription attests to it. He died in 1821, at the age of 63 years, leaving his succession to his son-in-law Jean-Baptiste SCHMITT, native of SCHOENAU and who had married his daughter Anne. At first very conscientious, working beyond his teaching duties, the post of Mayors secretary and his power as select vestry, he fell victim to drinking. His moral decadence also drug him down into debt. Ruined, he was forced to resign and his estate, about 8 hectares, was sold at auction: at the age of 70 years, he went to America with all his family, tempted by the prospect of regaining his fortune in the "New World." | Schmitt, Jean Baptiste (I607)
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| 110 | Farmed the Cato and Lockett farms using horses to pull the plows. See Wilbarger County, page 455 for more information. Connie and Polly remember going to the Chrysler Building in Dallas for a Centential Celebration in the summer of 1936 with Ida Bell and Bill, and Uncle Charlie and Aunt Vergie. The building was air-conditioned (nice and cool). Wayne King and Sammy Kay provided the entertainment. | Cato, Charles Henry (I3883)
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| 111 | Farmer | Stirnimann, Franz Xaver (97073669)
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| 112 | Farmer | Stirnimann, Joseph Leonz (I871)
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| 113 | Father of Civil War hero Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, John Sheridan, age 73, was a native of Beagh, Killinkere, in County Cavan, Ireland, where he married his second cousin Mary Minah (Meenagh) on April 10, 1826, the bride's 25th birthday. After working as tenant farmers on a local estate called Cherrymount, the Sheridans were encouraged to emigrate to America by John's maternal uncle, Thomas Gainor, who lived in Albany, New York. Early in the year 1831 they embarked for the United States with their two young children: 3-year-old Patrick, and Rosa, a baby who died during the voyage. After a brief stay in Albany, the couple moved on to Somerset, Ohio, where John found better employment opportunities to support his growing family, which by this time included the newborn Philip, and would in swift succession also include another daughter, Mary, and two more sons, John and Michael. Known as a devout, sober, and industrious man, Mr. Sheridan came to hold responsible positions in canal and railroad construction, but the work frequently kept him away from home. His steady character never-the-less exerted a positive influence on his five surviving children, as did that of their mother. Predeceased by their children Rosa, Patrick, and Mary (Mrs. John Wilson), he was survived by Mrs. Sheridan and their sons Philip, John, and Michael. With the exception of Rosa, who was buried at sea, and Generals Philip and Michael Sheridan, who were interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, all are interred here. | Sheridan, John Philip (I35)
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| 114 | Following the expiration of their terms of apprentice ship in Rahway, New Jersey, the three oldest children, Mary, Joseph and Gideon A. moved to Smithland, Marchall County, Kentucky, near the mouth of the Cumberland River. This was presumably between 1825 and 1830, the exact date is not known. He later moved to Paducah, Kentucky. He was twice married. There were five children of the first marriage. After the death of their mother, these children were reared by Gideon A. Haydock. The list of these five children in Haydock Family Notes by Melbourne Smith includes a "Mary" that is not included in the 1850 Census under Harriet Haydock; however, the 1850 Census list a "John" that is not listed in the Family Notes by Melbourne Smith. | Haydock, Joseph (I4580)
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| 115 | Following the expiration of their terms of apprentice ship in Rahway, New Jersey, the three oldest children, Mary, Joseph and Gideon A. moved to Smithland, Marchall County, Kentucky, near the mouth of the Cumberland River. This was presumably between 1825 and 1830, the exact date is not known. She died on the Kuykendall farm, in Marshall County, Kentucky, in 1873 or 1874. | Haydock, Mary (I4799)
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| 116 | Fought in the Civil War. | Cato, James Newton (I3856)
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| 117 | Found in Jackson Co., Florida Census: 1850 (with two children), 1860 (no children), and 1880 (no children). Ages during 1880 Census: 81 and 65. He bought land patents in Jackson Co., Florida before the Civil War on the following dates: 40 acres on April 20, 1837 when John P. was about 37 years old. 40 acres on April 20, 1837 80 acres on July 28, 1838 80 acres on June 16, 1856 when John P. was about 56 years old. 160 acres on April 2, 1860 when John P. was about 60 years old. All of the above patents were to "John P. Martin of Florida" or "of Jackson County, Florida." There were also two land patents purchased in Shelby Co., Alabama by a "John P. Martin of Shelby County, Alabama." that were probably a different John P. Martin: 80 acres on June 1, 1858 80 acres on December 1, 1860 John P. Martin's only son was Aaron D. Martin, birth state listed as Alabama. However, there was another Aaron D. Martin. There were several land patents purchased by this Aaron D. Martin in Alabama and in Jackson Co., Florida: 120 acres on October 25, 1831 in Houston Co., Alabama before this Aaron was born. 40 acres on December 10, 1841 in Dale Co., Alabama when Aaron was only 7 years of age. 160 acres on December 1, 1857 in Jackson Co., Florida 4 years after Aaron's marriage. 160 acres on April 2, 1860 in Jackson Co., Florida 3 years later. Again the ones purchased in Alabama were probably a different Aaron D. Martin as they list "Aaron D. Martin & Gibson Martin of Henry County" or "Aaron D. Martin of Dale County" rather than "Aaron D. Martin of Jackson County, Florida." Thus, this family owned and farmed as much as 720 acres of land in Jackson Co., Florida. The tracts in Alabama were probably owned by a different (although likely related) John P. and Aaron D. Martin. John P. and Nancy were still in Jackson Co., Florida during the 1880 Census and are most likely buried there. Aaron and his family moved to Texas after the 1880 Census and after the Civil War. | Martin, John P. (I7617)
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| 118 | Found name in SS index. Only George Rohlfing in Texas of appropriate age. Birth and Death ?. | Rohlfing, George Oscar Arnold (I3769)
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| 119 | French and Indian War | Lemaster, Jacob (I2668)
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| 120 | Frenchman who layed out Nebraska City in 1853. | Deneen, Joab (I627)
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| 121 | FROM "THE HANKS FAMILY" Written by Scott E. Sallee Abraham Hanks was born about 1745 in the northern neck of Virginia to Luke and Elizabeth Hanks. About 1768, Abraham Hanks married Sarah Harper, and settled in Prince William Co., Va.. where he engaged in blacksmithing. In the spring of 1775, Abraham Hanks joined, as a farrier, the party of William Calk which was going to join Daniel Boone in Kentucky. The group, which consisted also of Enoch Smith, Phillip Drake, and Robert Whitledge, met on the Rapidan River on March 14,1775, where, according to Calk's journal, "abrams Dogs leg got broke by Drakes dog." The following morning the party set off toward the Cumberland Gap. The incident the day before must have been a bad omen for Abraham Hanks, as Calk made the following entries in his journal: "Satrd 25 . Eanock Abram & I got lost..." Thurst 30th.. hors broke three of our powder goards & Abrams flask." "April mond 3rd...we had this creek to cross many times and very Bad Banks Abrams saddel turned and the load all feIl in..." "Tuesday 11th...abrams mair Ran into the River with her Load & Swam over he followed her & got on her & made her Swim Back again..." At Martin's Station, in the PoweIl Valley of Virginia, Calks party joined that of Richard Henderson and the two headed along the Wilderness Way, through the Gap, and camped at Rockcastle River, There they were met by refugees fleeing the Indians, who, according to Calk, told "Such news Abram and Drake is afraid to go any further." The following day.Apri1 13, 1775, Abraham Hanks tended his farrier duties, then turned back with Enoch Drake. But Abraham did not retreat far. He joined one of Henderson's work crews in the Powell Valley clearing the trails, then traveled to Boonesborough, arriving in time to help Calk survey the town and plant the first corn crop. Abraham Hanks also went with William Calk to the present site of Mt. Sterling to look at land that Calk entered, but the deal was not completed. Abraham returned to Virginia, where, according to family tradition, he was inthe Revolutionary War. Though no formal record of service exists, it is likely he did serve as a farrier from time to time for the patriot forces. About 1783, he moved his family to Campbell Co.,Va., where he, along with his wife, died in the early 1790s, and was buried in the Hanks plotof the Hatt Creek Cemetery. | Hanks, Abraham Sr. (I2413)
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| 122 | FROM "THE HANKS FAMILY" Written by Scott E. Sallee Fielden Hanks was born in 1783 in Campbell Co., Va., to Abraham and Sarah (Harper) Hanks. As a child, it is likely that Fielden lived with relatives, as he was orphaned at an early age. About 1804, Fielden Hanks came to Kentucky and married Lydia Harper, a full-blood Choctaw Indian whose parents, John and Mary Ann Harper ,had come to Kentucky from Mississippi. (Lydia Harper's sister Sibby married Fielden's brother, George Hanks) Fielden and Lydia Hanks settled on Slate Creek in Montgomery Co., Ky., where Fielden was first listed as a taxpayer in 1806. At that time, he owned only a horse, but quickly acquired more property. Records from George Hanks' estate sale on Jan. 3, 1814, show that Fielden Hanks purchased a sorrel horse. On Sept. 20, 1814, Fielden Hanks enlisted in the Kentucky Militia, and was assigned as a corporal in Capt. Micajuh McClenny's Company, of Major Peter Dudley's Mounted Battalion. Fielden served two months in this capacity, receiving his discharge on Nov. 14, 1814, at Detroit, Michigan. In 1818, Fielden Hanks moved from Montgomery Co. to Camp Town (present-day Campton), where he built the first permanent dwelling in what had been a miners' camp for men seeking the legendary Swift Silver Mine in the nearby Red River Gorge. In 1824, he waselected one of the first magistrates of newly formed Morgan Co., Ky. According to family tradition, Fielden was a great hand for hunting in the mountains, and Fielden, along with his cousin, James Hanks, were known as mighty hunters." Perhaps the most civic-minded of Fielden Hanks' children was his son, Cuthbert MiIlion Hanks, or "Cud," as he was called. Cud Hanks became one of the largest land owners around Campton, and was so instrumental in organizing Wolfe County, that he became known as "The Father of Wolfe County." He donated the land for the jail and courthouse, and served as the first sheriff. He served in the Kentucky legislature during the last year of the Civil War, representing the district which comprised the counties of Wolfe. Morgan,and Breathitt, and for twenty years thereafter, served as the Wolfe Co. jailer. Fielden Hanks died on August 13, 1861, and his wife Lydia (Harper) Hanks died on Oct. 12, 1861. Both are buried in the Old City Cemetery (formerly known as the Old Methodist Burying Ground) at Campton, Ky. | Hanks, Fielding (I2417)
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| 123 | FROM BOOK THE HISTORY OF POSEY COUNTY Joseph Schmitt, a farmer of Posey county, Indiana was born in Germany, his parents, Joseph and Anna Marie (VAN Waltensberger) Schmitt, being natives of Elsas Ardelsheim, where they engaged in farming and where their son, Joseph was born March 18, 1851. The family came to America in 1855, locating at Princeton, Gibson county, Indiana, where the father drove an ox team, hauling logs for one year, after which he removed to a farm in Robinson township, Posey county, the place where Adam Schmitt now lives, and remained here until his death in 1896. The mother died in 1900. Our subject started to school in Princton, and after the removal of his parents to Robinson township, attended school at St. Wendel. He worked on the home place until he was seventeen years of age, when he started learning the carpenter trade, working at this until twenty-one. He then worked on a farm one year, and in the summer of 1873 worked with a threshing crew. He was married in September of that year and in the fall cholera broke out and his wife's sister lost her husband and four children and her husband's father. After his marriage he began farming on the home place of his wife's father, and has continued farming ever since. In 1892 he was elected assessor on the Democratic ticket, and served five years, and since that time has been deputy assesor for the township every time one has been needed. In 1912 he was elected county commissioner, and is now holding that office. Mr. Schmitt is an auctioneer, and since he was twenty-four years of age he has cried over 300 sales. The marriage of Joseph Schmitt and Miss Amalia Dudenhefer occurred in Robinson township, Posey county, where the bride was born and raised, on September 29, 1873. She is the daughter of Jacob and Magdalene Dudenhefer, natives of Rheinprovinz, Hairxheim, Germany, who came to America, locating first in Cincinnatti, where they were married. Mrs. Schmitt was elected in the schools of St. Wendel. Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt became the parents of ten children: Helena, Anna, Alfonso, Amanda, Ollie, Cecelia, Louisa (deceased), Ida (deceased), Olevia, and Elvera. Elvera is a graduate of the St. Wendel school and lives at home with her parents. Helena married Jacob Rothlei, and had three children, Raymond, Daniel, and Elmar, the latter deceased. Anna married William Weyer. They live in Robinson township and have seven children, Urban, Viola, Arthur, Marie, Randolph, Wilmor (deceased) and Norman (deceased). Amanda married George Baehl, and has three children, Leona, Genevieve and Joseph, the latter deceased. Cecilia married William Engbers, and has one child William Joseph. Both Amanda and Cecilia live in Evansville. Olevia married Phillip Muehlbauer, and they live in Poseyville. The family are members of the Catholic church at St. Wendel, where Mr. Schmitt has been trustee of the church three terms, and is now director of the choir. | Schmitt, Francois Joseph (I14)
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| 124 | FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988 On the north side of the Ruswil Mountains, approx. four kilometers northwest of the village of Ruswil and approx. two kilometers southeast of the village Buttisholz, is the rural group of farms "In the Rot" (In the Red) in a scenic, delightful, protected and fruitful valley, flanked on the south and west by the Red Dog Ditch Forest. The farm "Unter Rot" with the powerful house and the old cheese factory is the core area of the former farm "In the Rot", which was fief-property of the monastery Muri. Since when and on which conditions the fief-farmers received the full vested titles, is not well-known. It was one of the large and richly wealthy farms with influential families from the period of the mid 15th up to the mid 18th centuries in central Switzerland. The farm and field-name comes from a near by brook, "the Rot (Red)", which is in the area of the upper Säliwalds on the Ruswil Mountains. The "Geißbach (Goat-brook)" and "Eselbach (Donkey brook)" springs rise and join to form the Rot. The two brooks flow north and south respectively by the real estate "Unter Rot" and unite below in the Red Forest that is adjacent to the "Rot". The Luzern Red Valley also received its name from this red brook, which flows below Ettiswil into the Wigger. The correct form of the farm name is different in various sources: In the Roth, Us of the Roth, Rot, Root, Rodt and Rott. The name Rot, Roth or Root frequently defines a larger or smaller farm which is because of a brook or a similar settlement which was situated in the Canton Luzern. The origin the name has different interpretations. For one, it is of Celtic origin and would mean "the run", others explain the name with red water, which can flow in the brook. 3. The Farm And The Families Stirnimann From 1610 to 1821 seven generations of the family Stirnimann lived on the farm in the Rot. These families had, as evidence from the following summary is largely economic, cultural and political influence in the district Ruswil. The farm in the Rot and the farmhouse in the today's "Unter Rot" became the actual master seat of the families Stirnimann in the Cantons Luzern and Aargau. 3.1. First Generation: Peter Stirnimann-Bircher Peter Stirnimann (1560?-1620), the son of Heinrich and Kunigunde Sinner of Luthern, acquired the farm in the Rot in 1610. He sold his former real estate in Luthern around the year 1610 to Jakob Luchs. A process between seller and buyer had preceded this sales, where the Mayor and Advisor of Willisau had decided in favor of Peter Stirnimann. The reasons, conditions and relations, which caused Peter Stirnimann to abandoned the farm in Willisau and start over with his family on the farm in the Rot in Ruswil, is not known but Dr. Stirnimann speculated that. The fact that his wife Adelheid Bircher originated from the wealthy and politically leading family of this valley, might have facilitated the acquisition of this farm for him. Peter Stirnimann had his domicile in Ruswil on the farm in the Rot since approx. 1610 with his family, his wife Adelheid Bircher and their children, as well as, his mother Kunigunde Sinner. Witnesses to it the entry of the family from 16 April 1610 in the second year donation book of the parish church at Sursee. The oldest, non-church document of the family on its new domicile in the Rot is a responsible-letter from 5 February 1613, which the Luzern City Clerk Renward Cysat (1545 to 1614) wrote and issued. From this responsible-letter it follows that Peter Stirnimann with his son Hans acquired the farm in Ruswil to the extent of 20 Jucharten country and 2 Jucharten forest for 950 guldens in cash. The marriage partners lived to the end of their lives on the farm in the Rot. The book of Sursee announces the death of Peter 1620 and of its wife Adelheid Bircher 1629.19 | Stirnimann, Peter (I787)
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| 125 | FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988 Father Peter Stirnimann probably transferred the farm in the Rot according to old custom to his oldest son Hans (1598?-1647). The farm might have at that time measured a surface of approximately 160 Jucharten.20 Documentation states that starting from 1630 Hans Stirnimann is a farmer on the farm in the Rot. This date carries the mortgage letter, with which Melcher Heine granted him a loan of 200 guldens. Stirnimann married Anna Bächler in 1613 in the parish church of Sursee. She bore five children according to the baptismal book of the parish Sursee, of whom all up to Katharina, died in infancy. Katharina married Jakobs Süess in 1638 in Buttisholz. Hans Stirnimann and his wife lived until their death on the farm. The dying book of Sursee contains the following entry "Anna Bächler of the Rott" 1636 and "Hans Stirnimann of the Rott" 1647 | Stirnimann, Hans (I1540)
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| 126 | FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988 From the fifth to the seventh generations of the family Stirnimann in the master real estate Unter Rot, only the names and years are well-known. One compares the family tree. Kasper Stirnimann-Arnet, whose marriage remained childless, sold the remainder of the large farm Unter Rot made up of 26 Jucharten country and 4 1/2 Jucharten forest to Kandi Grüter, citizen of Emmen, resident in Eschenbach, for approximately 4459 Gulden. The sales contract became complete in 30. November 1821. | Stirnimann, Johann Kaspar (I746)
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| 127 | FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988 Of the three sons of Hans Jakob the elder Sebastian and the younger Hans (Johann) take over with their families the large farm: Sebastian the farm Etzenerlen and Hans the farm in the Rot. Son Peter (1654-1706), who as Pater Jost, went to the monastery Muri after the death of his father Jakob (1670), received when he professed as monk the amount of 5000 guldens in 1673 from his two brothers Sebastian and Johann (Hans), who had divided the property left to them by their father. Peter, as Pater Jost, who was a twin brother to Elizabeth, has written a diary in the monastery which was preserved. The diary does not only contain a quantity of events from the life of his parents brothers, sisters and relatives in the Rot, but is also considered an important document to the building history of the monastery Muri from 1695 to 1697. Hans Stirnimann (approx. 1633?-1675) married Elizabeth Zimmermann in 1661. Hans died very early during a pilgrimage to Rome in 1675 and left the family with five children under age. Therefore his brother Sebastian and his brother-in-law Walter Meyer leased the farm in the Rot to Alp Schattsiten in Romoos first then to Jöri Tobmann for a rent of 780 guldens and later to Augustin Bühlmann for 670 guldens annually. In a record of the court from 1 September 1677 the inventory and division of the assets of Hans are recorded. His fortune amounted to approximately 16,647 guldens. His sons Peter and Leonz received 4350 guldens each, the three daughters 2600 guldens each. His daughter Katharina married Joseph Schmildli, later the Court Sergeant, and the daughter Rosina married German Wüest. She later became the nurse of the village Ruswil. | Stirnimann, Johann (Hans) (I778)
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| 128 | FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988 Whether the two sons of the deceased Hans, Peter (1667-1741) and Leonz (1671-1741) managed the farm together or separately, is not well-known. Surely the farm was legally not divided, and the two families each lived in their own house. A legal division of the farm into the Untere (lower) and the Obere (upper) Rot was made by their sons, Joseph and Peter in the year 1741 after the death of their fathers. In the tax rolls from 1691 to 1702 the brother Peter is always mentioned alone. Perhaps because it was up to the older to assume casual control. The farm in the Rot covered at that time 160 Jucharten country. But the two farmers paid 420 guldens per year duty and for Alp Schattsiten in Romoos another 150 guldens. After a land sale in 1695 on the Eglisberg of approx. 10 to 12 Jucharten for 2276 guldens they had to pay out an annual tax of 605 guldens altogether. 40 In accordance with the mentioned tax rolls the farm in the Rot was at this time the third largest farm and of a total of 218 taxpayers, Peter (with Leonz) was the fourth largest taxpayer of the village Ruswil. The building of the large upper expansion of the old family house are of special importance for farm history built in the Rot in the year 1705 by Leonz Stirnimann (1671-1741). He was married in 1691 to Elizabeth Bühlmann and had eight children. His older brother Peter married Anna Maria Steiner von Grossdietwil in 1688 and they had five children. Peter must have built a new house beside an old on the upper Rot at approximately the same time as brother Leonz. The fact that the large wealth of these two farmers in the Rot was not unlimited is shown by the fact that in the 18th century there was established for the first time two mortgages on the farm in the Rot. By Peter and Leonz three mortgage letters each were received from 1718 to 1729. One of the two mortgages which Peter had established for the value of 3000 guldens each in 1718 and had to pay 150 guldens annually, reads on Squire Jost Batt Franz Balthasar and is an example of the financial dependency of many farmers on the urban Patriziat, since the farmer war. Peter calls himself in the mortgages he established as residing "in the Oberen Rot." His farm borders on the possession of brother Leonz. Leonz notes in his mortgage letters that his farm "in the Roth" his brother borders. It would be quite possible that both the brothers established the mortgages for the building of their new houses. The daughter of Peter, Anna Maria (1692-1767), married in 1731 Hans Jakob Hüsler in Huprächtigen. The exceptionally built, largely baroque farmhouse (1734) on the today's farm Mittler-Huprächtigen has therefore, not coincidentally, a large similarity with the farmhouse in Unter Rot. | Stirnimann, Leonz (I733)
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| 129 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Augustin Stirnimann inherits the farm in the new Saal Since 15 November 1723 with Katharina Bucher married brother Augustin received the farm in the new Saal with house, barn and the following, stucco and Gueoetern, bordering east on Etzenerlen, ": Haus- und Baumgartendas Stockinauh die vordere Saalmattendie Grissenmatt-Matten den äusseren und inneren Geissbergden Weyerboden die hintere Saalmattendie Waldweid das Höfli und Baumgartendie Saalweid das 5aa1-Michelsweidlidie Riedweid die Schürweiddie gross Weid das Hölziiweidliden Lutacher (?) die große Stockmattdie Neuweid The following Luzerner Patrizier had mortgages on the farm in the Saal: the Junkers captain Jost at the Rhyn blessed inheriting: 400 guldens of the Junker hospital gentleman: 400 guldens Junker and District Governor to the Gilgen: 400 guldens Junker Ludwig to the AImend: 200 guldens Mrs. KIara Balthasar: 400 guldens the place of worship Werthenstein possessed a Glilt of 600 guldens To the farm in the Saal 115 Jucharten open matte and feasting country, everything belonged and together been situated. Augustin Stirnimann had obviously from the outset with financial difficulties to fight, nevertheless already sold it to 29. March 1727 a piece country named Weyerboden to the extent of 2 Jucharten for 300 guldens the master (supposed a craftsman) Leonz Staeger in Ruswil. On 24 February 1732 it established a mortgage in the amount of 500 guldens to favour of the Joseph Bueoelmann too strain-shrank on its farm. Two years later, i.e. on 24 February 1734, Augustin Stirnimann transferred and received its farm in the Saal by way of exchange to the Uoli Bueoelmann in the sunning waste dumps from this the Kastler property in the village Ruswil. Uoli Bueoelmann owed Augustin Stirnimann on 24 February 1734 the amount of 1307 guldens and 20 Schilling. | Stirnimann, Hans Augustin (I825)
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| 130 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Bought the farm in Mittelarig between 1748 and 1759. Godparents were: Joseph Stirnimann & Maria Eva Krauer. Before Joseph Stirnimann (1749-1817) closed on 22 April 1793 with the 19-year old Maria Agatha Hüsler in Nottwil. The bridegroom was the son of the Joseph Stirnimann, farmer in Mittelarig in Nottwil, and Anna Egli. The bride was the daughter Joseph Hüsler and Regina Mun, who moved from Small-Huprächtigen into Figlisberg situated highly over Nottwil in 1771. | Stirnimann, Joseph Leonz (I720)
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| 131 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Official Judge Joseph Stirnimann and Anna Hüsler The Official Judge Joseph Stirnimann was the firstborn, oldest son of the Court Sargent Jakob Stirnimann, from which in the last year circular the speech was. The baptizing book of the parish Ruswil announces his baptism on 31 March 1706. It was this one first of our family, which received the baptizing or first name Joseph. Joseph remained from then on into the most recent time one of the most frequent and most popular baptismal names of the Ruswil Stirnimanns. The same meets too for the names Peter, Johann/Hans, Leonz, Sebastian, Jakob and Mo-ritz. Joseph Stirnimann married one of the two daughters of Hans Martin Hüsler and Anna Maria Bucher of Mittler-Hu-prächtigen on 22 February 1734 in the parish church Ruswil Anna Hüsler. Hans Martin Hüsler was the second son of Hans Jakob Hüsler in Ober-Huprächtigen. Hans Martin and his brother Joseph managed for a while together in the years 1709 and 1713 the three real estate properties acquired in Mittler- and Unter-Huprächtigen. In the year 1734 Joseph Hüsler in Mittler-Huprächtigen builds the masterful in the year 1990 baroque farmhouse again made by a thorough restoration in its original splendor. House of the Hüsler in Mittler-Huprächtigen in Nottwil At the gable of the main front one sees the coats of arms of Hüsler and the Bächler. In the coat of arms of the Hüsler the initials I and H (Joseph Hüsler) are, in the coat of arms of the Bächler the initials V and B (Verena Bächler, i.e. the wife of Joseph Hüsler). It is this the safe proof that Joseph Hüsler of the designers of this artful house was. In the case of a division, probably after the death of the father in the year 1717, or took over then Hans Martin Hüsler, Joseph's older brother received, the farm Mittler-Huprächtigen with its splendorous house. The 1734 in Mittler-Huprächtigen of Joseph Hüsler build house have in its space structure and in its art-rich configuration large similarity with in the year 1705 the principal house of the Stirnimann in the Rot in Ruswil, extended by Leonz Stirnimann. Wehave every reason to the acceptance that the only daughter Steuerle-gers recommended and placed Peter Stirnimann her husband Hans Jakob Hüsler grown up in the Rot and his sons the architect or designer of the principal house in the Rot. Principal house of the Stirnimanns in the Rot in Ruswil To the farm Mittler-Huprächtigen belonged to 130 Jucharten country and 16 Jucharten forest. Together with this farm Hans Martin Hüsler possessed still another second farm to the extent of 111 Jucharten in the Bühl in Nottwil. From after his death (1755) on 2 August 1755 we experience created division log that Hans Martin Hüsler's only son Jakob (1710-1776) of the cash asset of the father 13,550 gulden, the two daughters (the same Anna was, the wife of Joseph Stirnimann) a dowry of over 8,130 guldens inherited6. Joseph Stirnimann had 8 sons and 2 daughters from his wife Anna Hüsler. The two daughters Anna Maria (2/27/1735) and Anna Maria Elisabeth (9/14/1752) and the 3 sons Sebastian (7/4/1736), again Sebastian (1/22/1738) and Peter Paul (6/26/1741) died very early. Candle master or guardian of the candles Since the early Christian time germinates the church the regulation and practice that before the tabernacle, while the celebration the Eucharist, with donating of sacraments and with devotions candles burn. It was also usual that on the occasion of the celebration by year times wax, of which the candles are made was donated to the place of worship. Until the invention of electricity one provided in our dwellings and places of worship to the nighttime particularly with the help of the candles the necessarylight. The production and procurement of the necessary candles was, particularly in larger parishes, usually the obligation and function of the candle administration or candle Kerzen-Pflegschaft, which the candle master or guardian of the candles managed. This was in Ruswil the case. The there parish archive keeps two invoice books of the parish church for the years 1628 to 1834, which together with the other offices of the parish, an exact list every two years of the candle master who can be acknowledged who can be selected again contains. This list acknowledged that Joseph Stirnimann was selected from 1756 to 1764 every two years to the candle master or acknowledged as such, from 1760 to 1764 he is at the same time called official. Guardian of the St. Eulogius Brothers The Brothers of church associations calling promoted themselves the religious life and customs, they sat down for the admiration of their patron saint, it was above all karitativ active, by themselves, the patient, who old persons and dying assumed and provided for a worthy funeral of such persons. Each Brother had usually called who administered above all the fortune the Brother's chief, guardian. The Brothers experienced since the 16th century in our areas a bloom time. So Ruswil had 16 Brothers in the year 1701. The same was the St. Eulogius or St. Eligius Brother. The holy Eulogius or Eligius was in the years 641-660 bishop von Noyon in the realm of Franconias. It was considered particularly as the patron saint of the blacksmith and the farmers, whichcalled them with horse diseases, the horse dealer and sattler. Joseph Stirnimann was as it were safe since 1764 and up to his death guardian of these Brothers. In the years 1780 to 1801 in Ruswil the today's splendorous parish church was built. The building book mentions among the numerous donors and benefactors four times the "honoring Stuerleger and guardian Joseph Stirnimann", the "outer Brothers of the holy Elogi" to the building of churches the following three money counted: Official Judge The highest and most honorable office, which provided Joseph Stirnimann, was that of the Official Judge. It as such mentioned in the directory of the candle masters in the years 1760-1764 and in the directory of the guardians of the St. Eulogius Borthers in the years 1764-1768. According to information Luzern public records is not today investigated the position, function and history of Ruswil of Official Judge until. The Official Judge originally obviously belonged to the higher officers. Later it was only color bearers at the swearing days and with other ceremonies, thus rather a civilian civil servant. The Official Judge was selected on suggestion of the government of the municipalities of an office on lifetime. He carried the official flag on the swearing days. Swearing days there were every two years.9 In fig. 14 the Luzern Kapell bridges is shown a Ruswil flag. Owner of 3 farms The Official Judge Joseph Stirnimann died on 28 May 1786 at the at that time unusually high age of somewhat over 80 years. His wife had died on 18 August 1775 at the age of approximately 65 years. To 15 and 17 July 1786 took place via the Court Sargent Aujon Erni, which office father Joseph Manig and the former office father i.e. lever guardian Sebastian Stirnimann of the hall the inventory of the deduction of the deceased in the presence of the five sons. The oldest son Peter had as assistance the ChurchMayor Stephan Schuermaun of Geiss, which had four sons Joseph, Mathis, the Jakob and Sebastian as assistance the guardian Augustin Hüsler of Ober-Huprächti-gen; this was the only son of Hans Jakob Hüsler and his wife from Ober-Rot coming from Mrs. Anna Maria Stirnimann. The inventory calls in the first place the farm Hinter-Etzenerlen with two houses, a barn, a granary and a Sennhütte, the fields and pastures and the appropriate forest, as the deceased inherited and took over purchased from his brothers. Then those are enumerated altogether 21 fields and pastures 154 Jucharten of the counting farm and the 12 Jucharten of global three forests. In second place that is book called 18 Jucharten country and 3.5 Jucharten forest counting home natures, whose house and barn were together built. In third place "more under" or "list as well" farm called, which bordered on the paternal farm and with its 83 Jucharten the at that time and today's Mittler- und Vorder-Etzen-erlen covered. This farm belonged in former times to the brothers Johann, Joseph, Leonz and Heinrich Stirnimann. These were grandchildren Walter Stirnimann (1676-1735), a large uncle of the Official Judge. The four brothers wanted to sell their farm in the year 1776 to the Ammann Leonz Meyer. There the Official Judge Joseph Stirnimann made his purchase option valid and acquired the farm to also 12.5 Jucharten forest belonged, for the substantial amount of 61,418 guldens. Thus our Official Judge had during the last ten years of his life a landed property of altogether 283 Jucharten. It was the last one of our master fathers, which united Vorder- Mittler- und Hinter-Etzenerlen again, even if only for short time, to only one possession. The inventory also holds that the deceased had the intention according to a message of his sons during lifetimes of giving a donation for the new church in Ruswil. The sons agreed on the amount of 300 guldens. This donation is acknowledged in the buildingbook of the parish church. Corresponds to the donation at that time of 300 guldens to a today's value from approximately 100 to 200,000 Franken. | Stirnimann, Joseph (I827)
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| 132 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN One of the most important personalities of the Ruswil Stirnimann family in the time before 1800 was Peter Stirnimann (1600-1709). He held the most important offices of the Twings (corresponds to the today's municipality), the administrative district and in the parish community Ruswil. Thirty-six years old, Peter Stirnimann was appointed or selected the Court Sergeant or District Governor of the Administrative District Ruswil and acknowledged again and again as such every two years up to its death. As an owner of the farms Etzenerlen (115 Jucharten) and Saal (116.5 Jucharten) was Peter Stirnimann one of the richest men of the Administrative district Ruswil. These few lines would like the substantial over this master father, from whom in the last year's newsletter the speech was, in memory call. In the following we deal with the sons of the Court Sergeant Peter Stirnimann as well as with the division from the father inherited ourselves two farms. From the six sons only three grew up: Johann Jakob, Johann Sebastian and Johann Augustin. The first name Johann or of the Hans' three sons is located only in the baptizing book. In the other church books and in national writing e.g. in the mortgages and purchase logs, the sons or brothers become in each case with the names Jakob, Sebastian (Baschi) and Augustin mentioned. Thus we hold it also in the following statements. | Stirnimann, Peter (I820)
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| 133 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Pater Fortunat Stirnimann (1733-18O8), Franziskaner des Klosters Werthenstein Like the Benediktiner Jost Stirnimann, also the Franziskaner Fortunat Stirnimaun perceived the light of the world in the oldest parent house of the family in Rot. The fourth and last son of Peter Stirnimann and Anna Maria Schweg1er of Wolhusen was baptized on 5 November 1733 in the parish church Sursee with the name Leonz. In the year 1758, Leonz entered into the Franziskaner cloister Werthenstein. The novice received the name Fortunat. Werthenstein built on a high rock and its mother-God-church were in the 18th century, next to Einsiedeln, of the most visits of rampart trips towns of Switzerland. This would be allowed to be the explanation why the farmer son in Rot decided on the Franziskaner-cloister Werthenstein. We are instructed incidentally well of the different financial achievements and assurance of the father of the novice vis-á-vis the cloister. The different contributions, above all the dowry showed for the prosperity and the generosity of the farmer in Rot. This obligated himself in an sales contract made with the cloister to receive the expenses during the Noviziats of his son for his livelihood, to give the son to Profess a new order robe and to pay the trip money for an at best removal into another cloister, and - the important assurance -the cloister after the Profess of the son as to deliver out of-tax a certain legal letter in the sum of 1200 guilders in Lucerne currency, of which the monk Fortunat as long as he would live, annually 10 guilders should receive. To deliver himself further obligated the father, the cloister immediately after the Noviziat or some years a bed including mattress, three head pillows, two suits and four linen cloths. In addition to the Guardian and four monks, also Peter Stirnimann, the father of the novice, this sales contract, a proof signed that also he was able to read and write, for a Steuerleger at that time obviously a basic assumption. Peter Stirnimann erected this legal device in the value of 1200 guilders "the -worthy Mr. fathers Franziskaneren to Werthenstein" on 24 February 1760 on his farm Unter Rot. The sum of 1200 guilders corresponds approximately to a current value of ca. 200,000 Swiss francs and might one of the highest if the highest dowry be been not, that received the cloister Werthenstein ever of a novice. Pater Fortunat was spiritual in the cloister of the Franziskanerinnen in Bremgarten. From 1792 to 1807, he accommodated this service in the sister's cloister in Muotathal. In the year 1799, this Bergtal was the scene of the warlike discussions between theFrenchman on the one hand and the Austrians and Russians on the other hand. With the population of the valley, also the cloister, in which 400 caught and wounded soldiers were quartered, was located after the war in largest need. This caused P. Fortunat to gather a month long in the Luzembiet for the cloister money and groceries. P. Fortunat died on 12 August 1808 in Werthenstein as a Senior of the cloister in the 75th year of life and became Innenhof of the cloisters, to the left of the churches portal site. Note also the detailed article about P. Fortunat Stirnimann in the circular Nr. 16 (1992), S. 3ff. 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 parishchurch 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. Of the three order men in the following, the speech is. | Stirnimann, Leonz (P. Fortunat) (I742)
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| 134 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN The first and at the same time most important son of the Court Sergeant Peter Stirnimann and his Mrs. Anna Brunner was Jakob. The baptizing book of the parish church Ruswil calls 1 March 1683 as date of his baptism. The numerous responsible offices, whichthe father provided already early and in his best years in the Twing and particularly in the service of the Administrative district Ruswil, were the environment and the school, which shaped and formed also his oldest son Jakob. Already early Jakob Stirnemann in the purchase and division logs is mentioned as juror or an advocate. It is reminded of the fact that this official before court the interests of the plaintiffs deplored or represented. The juror was also the official appraiser of properties. In the years 1724-1736 Jakob Stirnimann male nurse i.e. trustee of the St. Kuemmernis is Friar. The legend hl. of the Kuemmernis or Wilgefortis, an alleged Portuguese king daughter, spread since that 14th Century almost in the whole German linguistic area. The statutes and until 1893 of the existing St. Kuemmernis created in Ruswil in the year 1608 - Friar calls the cleanliness of the Gemueoets and Hertzens " as their purpose ". From 1736 to 1752 Jakob Stirnimann male nurse was the Friar of our love Mrs., themost outstanding the damals16 Friars of the parish Ruswil. It is reminded of the fact that the Friar was connected on the closest with the church life always. The Friars maintained and promoted above all the religious life and customs and the practice ofcertain good factories. The members of certain Friars took care of the patients, the old persons and the dying and provided for of them a nice funeral, particularly in the plague times. Like several of his relatives Jakob Stirnimann was also office father, i.e. army male nurse (still in our century Waisenvogt gennant). Particularly into the Teilugsprotokollen " the inheritance and the office father Jakob Stirnemann " is again and again mentioned. The office father represented the rights and interests of the orphans. Since 1723, very probably however already beforehand the Etzenerler farmer Court Sergeant or Untervogt of the Administrative district Ruswil was safe. Everything speaks for the fact that the lifelong political experience of the father and it by the population brought strongly the confidence smoothed also the way for the son. Like already the father, then also its son, particularly in the division logs, again and again mentioned as " more deer honor close eighth, pious, honoring ehrsame and wohlbescheidne Court Sergeant Jakob Stirnemann. The signature and the seal are shown above, with which the Court Sergeant Jakob Stirnimann explains one of farmer Jakob Meyer on 14 February 1738 on its farm in the Moos in Ruswil established mortgage as valid. This signature is the proof that the Court Sergeant Jakob Stirnimann could read and write, is enough for what at that time and still, particularly with the rural population, a rarity was. Jakob Stirnimann used the seal of his father's (P ST = Peter Stirnimann). The coat of arms shows the well-known own brand, beseitet is from one sechsstrahligen asterisk each. Second lieutenant Like already its father as well as the uncle Walter dressed also Jakob Stirnimann in the company Ruswil the rank of a second lieutenant. This testifies the Brigaderodel from the year 1723 concerning the brigades i.e. troop departments of Willisau, Rothenburg, (Bero =) Mimster, Ruswil, discharge book. On page 17 becomes as 2. Lieutenant of the Company Ruswil gennant: Court Sergeant Jacob Stirnimann of Etzenerlen. Rosina Eggenschwiler On 5 February 1704 Jakob Stirnimann in the parish church Ruswil Rosina Eggenschwiler had married. The bridegroom was 21, the bride 18 years old. Rosina became the first (and only?) daughter of the farmer Gabriel Eggenschwiler and Maria Boesch on the stately farm Elischwand born. The baptizing book of the parish church calls 1 September 1686 as date of her baptism. Jakob Stirnimann had from his wife six sons, of whom Joseph, which oldest ones, which to Etzenerlen transferred paternal farm and was office with, and two daughters. In the next circular the speech will be from these. Division of the farms Etzenerlen and Saal After the death of the Court Sergeant Peter Stirnimann (+ 9 January 1709) and managed his three sons the Jakobs, Sebastian and Augustin possessed from the father inherited two farms (behind) Etzenerlen and Saal (usually new Sahl written) the 16 years longtogether. In the year 1725, probably on St Mathis (24 February) took the three brothers fly-end division forwards: The Jakobs and Sebastian transferred together the farm and the goods to Etzenerlen with two new houses, a barn, a Spyr and the following mats and pastures: die Husmattendie Rossweid die Morgengab die Schüölimatt das Rohr der Krumbaum die Geisselermatt die unter und ober Buochrnatt die Breiten die Grossweid der Burst die Rinderweid die Eien das Baumgätli bei dem neuen Haus das Steiweidli der Geissberg die Brunmatt die Hellmatt das Studenweidliein Stuck ab der neuen Saalmatten From the farm Etzenerlen referred the following creditors annual soil interest and deliveries: the hospital in Luzern the Parish Ruswil, above all donate (= lever maintenance) to choir gentleman pin the St. Michael in (Bero -) cathedral the friendship of our love woman in Ruswil of the ministers in Ruswil | Stirnimann, Hans Jakob (I823)
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| 135 | FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN The Sale by Sebastian Stirnimann On the same day Jakob Stirnimann bought out his brother Sebastian (Baschi), by promising him 2400 guldens " in Muenz of the city Luzern " and 2 Dublonen tip. Sebastian received the warranty that he will receive 2000 guldens in cash in one year on St Mathis (24 February) and the remaining 400 guldens in two annual contributions without interest. Sebastian, which was married since 1 January 1719 with Anna Maria Rucklin, was allowed to live still another one year long with his family in the new house, he received a cow and all for the Lebenunterhalt of his family necessary one. On St Mathis 1728 acquired Sebastian of the brothers Claus and Jost Imgrueth for 6500 guldens derne Sässhof and Güter in Tan; this farm is approximate in the center between Rueediswil and Werthenstein. | Stirnimann, Hans Sebastian (I824)
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| 136 | FROM HERMAN MUEHLBAUER ON HIS GRANDFATHER SCHMITT (1985): His family lived in the province of Alsace Lorraine, which is near the French border. They lived in a large complex of buildings and the family all lived together on the farm. The main building was called the new house (although it was very old) and hadmany additions down through the years as the family grew. It was called the new house because the ruins of the old house were still partly standing. The old house was made of fieldstone while the new house was built of cut stone. The family lived near one of the nearly dozen "free" cities in the Alsace province and were one of its "protectors." According to Grandpa, the family had lived there for many, many generations. The family owed its allegiance to the Hapsburg family and was bound to serve it when called upon. In the meantime the sons, uncles, brothers, nephews could serve any Duke, Count, Country, etc. for a given period of time by requesting permission from the ruling Hapsburg. When that period of service was over they had to reapply for permission again. Although the farm consisted of hundreds of hectors, it could not support all of the extended family so that some of them had to go to work. Soldering was their job and profession and they had no trouble selling themselves to other armies on a contract basis. Some of our ancestors served in the Austrian-Hungary armies, Napoleon I, III, Bismarck, Duke of Burgundy, etc. Alsace Lorraine was often overrun by other armies and after major parts of the farm were confiscated or given up for ransom when the wrong group won. If the winners were friends the land was returned and possibly even a little extra. So down through thegenerations the size of the farm was always changing. The sharecroppers or tenants were assigned to the land, similar to renting and stayed with the land regardless of which the winners of the many wars assigned to the land. The line of authority transferred from Baron to eldest son, who then moved to the new house. Very often this forced brothers of the former baron and their sons to go elsewhere to offer their services. It kept peace in the family. The new baron had to stay on the land and protect it, train his small army and remain on call for any need of the Hapsburg family. FROM GERMAN GENEALOGY WEB PAGE (1997): Alsace Lorraine Always closely tied to the Rhine River, which forms its eastern boundary, Alsace has found itself a border region for most of its history. It was first conquered by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC and remained a part of the Roman province of Prima Germania for the next six centuries. The region was conquered by the Alemanni, a Germanic tribe, in the 5th century AD and then by Clovis and the Franks in 496. Under his Merovingian successors it was Christianized and became a duchy. In the ninth century, this region became part of the heartland of the re-constituted Roman (more accurately "Carolingian") Empire of Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse). When Charlemagne's grandsons divided his Empire at the Treaty of Verdun of 843, Alsace withLorraine (Lotharingia) became part of a narrow middle strip granted to Lothar with German- and French-speaking kingdoms to either side. Buffeted on both sides, the new kingdom did not last long and Alsace eventually became a part of the Holy Roman Empireas a result of the Treaty of Meersen in 870. At about this time the entire region began to fragment into a number of secular and ecclesiastical lordships, a situation, which prevailed until the 17th century. It was during this period that Strassburg (Strass=street and burg=fortification), which had been an Episcopal see since the 4th century, became part of the Holy Roman Empire in 923. In 1262, after a long struggle with the ruling bishops, the citizens gained the status of free imperial city for Strasbourg. A stop on the Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route, as well as a port on the Rhine route linking southern Germany and Switzerland to the Netherlands, England and Scandinavia, it began to flourish and became the political and economic center of the region. Cities such as Colmar and Haguenau also began to grow in economic importance and gained a kind of autonomy within the "Decapole", a federation of 10 free towns. In 1469, following the Treaty of St. Omer, Upper Alsace went to Charles of Burgundy who also ruled over of Netherlands and Burgundy). Although Charles was the nominal landlord, taxes were paid to the German Emperor. The Emperor was able to wreak this tax to his advantage and managed to gain full control of Upper Alsace in 1477 when it became part of the personal demesne of the Habsburg family, who were also hereditary rulers of the Empire. By the time of the Reformation in the 16th century, Strasbourg was a prosperous community, and its inhabitants accepted Protestantism at an early date (1523). The reformer Martin Bucer was a prominent Protestant reformer in the region. His efforts were countered by the Roman Catholic Habsburgs who tried to eradicate heresy in Upper Alsace. As a result, Alsace was transformed into a mosaic of Catholic and Protestant territories. This situation prevailed until 1639 when most of Alsace was conquered by France as part of the conflict of the Thirty Years War. So, in 1646, beset by enemies in the Thirty Years War, the Habsburgs were forced to sell their territories (mostly in Upper Alsace) to France, which had occupied it, for the sum of 1.2 million thalers. Thus, when the hostilities finally ceased in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia, most of Alsace went to France with some cities remaining independent. The treaty stipulations regarding Alsace were extremely byzantine and confusing; it is thought that this was done purposely so that neither the French king or the German Emperor could gain tight control, but that one would play off the other, thereby assuring Alsace some measure of autonomy. Supporters of this theory point out that the treaty stipulations were authored by Imperial plenipotentiary Isaac Volmar, the former chancellor of Alsace. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) had been one of the worst periods in the history of Alsace. It caused large numbers of the population (mainly in the countryside) to die or to flee away, because the land was successively invaded and devastated by many armies (Imperials, Swedes, French, etc.). After 1648 and until the mid-18th century, numerous immigrants arrived from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Lorraine, Savoy and other areas. France consolidated her hold with the 1679 Treaty of Nimwegen which brought the cities under her control. This settlement was reinforced at the 1691 Peace of Rijkswik (Ryswick) although the Holy Roman Empire did not accept and sign the document until 1697. Thus was Alsace drawn into the orbit of France. The year 1789 brought the French revolution and with it the first division of Alsace into the départements of Haut- and Bas-Rhin. Many of the residents of the Sundgau made "pilgrimages" to places like Mariastein, near Basel, in Switzerland, for baptisms and weddings. During the last decade of the 18th century, many Alsatians were in opposition to the Jacobins and sympathetic to the invading forces of Austria and Prussia who sought to crush the nascent revolutionary republic. When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it. When they were later permitted to return (in some cases not until 1799), it was often to find that their lands and homes had been confiscated. These straitened conditions led to emigration by hundreds of families to newly-vacant lands in the Russian Empire in 1803/4 and again in 1808. A poignant retelling of this tale based on what he had himself witnessed can be found in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. In response to the restoration of Napoleon, in 1814 and 1815, Alsace was occupied by foreign forces, including over 280,000 soldiers and 90,000 horses in Bas-Rhin alone. This had grave effects on trade and the economy of the region since former overland trade routes were switched to newly-opened Mediterranean and Atlantic seaports. At the same time, the population was growing rapidly, from 800,000 in 1814 to 914,000 in 1830 and 1,067,000 in 1846. The combination of factors meant hunger, housing shortages and a lack of work for young people. Thus, it is not surprising that people fled, not only to Russia, but also to take advantage of a new opportunity offered by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Empire had recently conquered lands in the East from the Turkish Empire and offered generous terms for colonists in order to consolidate their hold on the lands. Many Alsatians also began to sail for America, where after 1807 slave importation had been banned and new workers were needed for the cotton fields. Many American and Russian recruiters worked for shipowners and made grandiose, fictitious promises to the restless Alsatians. Once they agreed and surreptitiously left Alsace, they often found themselves forced into indentured servitude. This was so abused in fact that in 1818 the Louisiana general assembly enacted legislation protecting the rights of such immigrants, which sometimes led to new tactics such as shipowners demanding exorbitant passage fees. Even so, tens of thousands of settlers emigrated to Russia and the United States between 1817 and 1839. The Panic of 1825 can be cited as another spur to emigration. In the 1840's, enterprising Alsatian Henri Castro contracted with the Republic of Texas, to bring in Alsatian settlers in exchange for large land grants. Thus, starting in 1842, many left for Castroville and other Texan communities, Castro proving to be only second to Stephen Austin in numbers of settlers attracted. Alsace-Lorraine In 1871, as a concession after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), France gave up Alsace, along with the Moselle portion of Lorraine, to the new unified Germany and the history of Alsace becomes that of the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen or Alsace-Lorraine. This period of Germanization continued until World War I (1914-1918), at the conclusion of which, Alsace returned to French control. A similar transfer occurred during the World War II conflict (1939-45) at the end of which the region was again ceded to France. Still today, however, two German language newspapers are published here. There is even still spoken here and there a German dialect Alsacien (Elsässisch), but it is vanishing. | Schmitt, Francois Joseph (I87)
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| 137 | 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. | Family: Jost Joseph Johann Stirnimann / Anna Maria Elisabeth Weber (F181)
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| 138 | FROM KENNETH GENE CARPENTER All of the branches of the Hanks Family in England and America seem to have come from the beautiful town of Malmesbury in Wiltshire. It was not far from Malmesbury, in Edington, that in 878 A.D. Alfred the Great defeated the Danes who had over run the whole kingdom of the West Saxons. All the Malmesbury men that fought under Alfred the Great in this battle, were rewarded with certain tracts of land which are still held by descendants of these old families. Among these so called "commoners", each of whom had 500 acres, were two brothers by the name of John and George Hanks, whose descendants still hold the commoners rights in Malmesbury. King Athelstan the Grandson of Alfred the Great having given them a charter, King John another later, etc. The ancient town of Malmesbury is 96 miles from London. The celebrated Foss road, on the great four military roads which the Romans constructed, runs near Malmesbury, through Gloucester shire, Stow and other cities up to London and York, and into the far north, to Scotland. Malmesbury is also neat and the marvelous ruins of Stone hedge, were built it is believed, ages ago by the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids. As the word ank in H "ank" S itself is and Egyptian word meaning soul, it is believed that this family had lived in Malmesbury for ages. They were a clannish race and for four centuries it is said, many of them never left their native home. It is recorded that one of Hanks family was at one time shot by other members of the family when he ventured to leave the native home and they feared he would "mix the breed". That was nearly a thousand years ago when it was a crime to leave the town to sleep in King Athelstan time. It was along the old Foss road, that the descendants of the Hanks family traveled when they first left their native heath. | Hanks, John (I2584)
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| 139 | FROM KENNETH GENE CARPENTER Whether or not BENJAMIN HANKS was married to Abigail when he sailed from England is debatable. The late Edgar Hanks of Indianapolis, IN, who had conducted some very careful research, gives evidence that John Heiford, a resident of Braintree, MA, on or before 06 April 1667, married Abigail Albins in 1678/79. It was their daughter, Abigail Heiford, who married Benjamin Hanks, Sr. in 1700, at Braintree. From that date on, the early American records are well researched and proved, thanks to Susan C. Tufts. It is believed that Benjamin and his wife Abigail sailed with their friends, Richard and Catherine White, who, as their old records show, came from London in Oct. 17, 1699, and landed in Plymouth, Mass. This Benjamin Hanks was the brother of William Hanks, who is the Great Grandfather of the mother of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the U.S... (Nancy Hanks) According to the deeds in Plymouth we find that Benjamin first settled in Pembroke county, and among the parish records of Rev. Daniel Lewis, found the records of the birth of his children. These children were all born in Benjamin's first home on the land consisting of 30 acres, being in the township of Pembroke, which township is part of the 35th lot in ye land commonly known as, "Major's Purchase". Here they all lived until Abigail, the wife and mother, died in the year 1725. Two years later, Benjamin married Mary Ripley of Bridgewater, and moved to Boston, where another son, Jacob, was born. In 1736, he moved to Plymouth, where he bought of Robert Bartlett, for the sum of 700 pounds, 7/8ths parts of the uplands and the beach of the island of Saguish, lying and being in the harbor of Plymouth, together with all the dwelling houses, barns and fences on said island standing, and being also 2 pieces of salt marsh and meadow to said island adjoining". He later, June 6, 1745, bought the rest of the Saguish for 80 lbs., "paid by Benjamin Hanks of Plymouth, yeoman, for my one eighth part of the upland on the place commonly known as called Saguish in Plymouth aforesaid, with my rights in the beach". It was here in Saguish, once owned by Benjamin Hanks that Fort Standish was built during the Civil War, and that the French Cable was laid July 27, 1869. From the records we find the history of New England, where they are known as a "remarkably inventive family" and "a family of founders". the first Bell sever made in U.S. were cast on Hanks Hill on their old New England farm. It was on the descendants of Benjamin Hanks, that The Tower Clocks of America, one of which stood where the post office is now in New York City, a unique affair of windmill attachments of bells and chimes made by this family are now ringing all over the world, on the land and on sea, on of them being the bell in Philadelphia which replaced the old Liberty Bell, which hung in front of the Administration Building at the Worlds Fair in 1893 in Chicago. This bell weighed 13,000 lbs. to represent the 13 original states, and was made from relics of gold, silver, old coins and metal sent from all parts of the world. On the Columbia Liberty Bell were inscribed the words, by the 3rd great grandson of Benjamin Hanks of Plymouth, "glory to god in the highest, and on earth, peace and good will toward men; Proclaim liberty throughout the land andunto all the inhabitants there of. " A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another!" BENJAMIN HANKS OF PEMBROKE AND EASTON, MA., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS By SUSAN COTTON TUFTS of BOSTON, Mass. BENJAMIN HANKS, of Pembroke and Easton, Mass., husbandman, was born in England about 1665, and died at Easton 9 Jan.1755, "in the ninetieth year of his age as he saith" (Easton records). He married first, in England, ABIGAIL HEIFORD , who died at Pembroke6 Sept. 1726 (Vital Records of Pembroke) ; and secondly, at Pembroke, 23Mar.1727 (Vital Records of Pembroke and of Bridgewater), MARY RIPLEY, widow of William Ripley of Bridgewater, Mass. She died at Easton 21 Oct. 1760, in her 83d year (Easton records).Benjamin Hanks and his wife Abigail, according to a statement in a notebook of his friend, Richard White, "came from London Oct. 17th 1699" and landed at Plymouth, Mass. Benjamin Hanks settled in the western part of Duxbury Mass., in the part of that town which was established in 1712 as the town of Pembroke. The earliest reference thus far found to the land of Benjamin Hanks is in a deed dated 25 Feb. 1713/14, by which John Partridge of "Duxborough" in Plymouth County, for £9 in current money, conveyed to Benjamin Hanks of Pembroke "30 acres of land in Pembroke part of the 35th lot in the land commonly known as 'ye Majrs Purchase, '" bounded "on ye Northerly corner to a Hemlock Tree standing in a Swamp from thence running Easterly 62 Rods to a Stake marked 36.35, from thence Running by ye 35th Lot to a Stake with Stones about it Standing by ye most Southerly Way that Leads to ye Swamp commonly Called & known by ye Cedar Bridge and from said Stake by ye sd Path over Sd Swamp to a white oak tree marked which is the Westerly Corner Bounds & from thence Running Northerly to ye aforesd Hemlock Tree," etc. This deed was acknowledged 16 Sept. 1715 and was recorded 7 Mar. 1715/16.(Plymouth Deeds. 11: 205.) On 24 Apr. 1725 Benjamin Hanks of Pembroke, for £ 120 in cur-rent money, sold to Isaac Little of Marshfield, Mass., the 30 acres of land, with all buildings, part of Lot 35, where he then dwelt. This deed was recorded 2 May 1738. (Plymouth Deeds, 32: 33.) On 21 Apr. 1725 Benjamin Hanks of Pembroke, for £60, bought of Isaac Little of Marshfield Lot 68 in Pembroke, in the Major's Purchase, bounded west by lot 67, north "from a Stake at N. E. corner of 67th lot on the south side of a cart way ranging e. S.E. 69 Pole to a great horn bound tree marked xxxxxxvli xxxxxxlx standing in the Cedar Swamp; South from S. E. Corner of Sd 67th lot, being a white oak tree marked 67,68 standing on the East side of a hill, E. S.E. to a small white oak marked 66-68 standing about 3 pole from cedar Swamp line, and so on ye same Range home to the Cedar Swamp Line; & from thence the Easterly side bounded by Cedar Swamp Range to the great horn bound tree marked before mentioned," etc. This deed was acknowledged the same day and was recorded 21 Apr. 1726. (Plymouth Deeds, 20:109.) On30 Mar. 1733/4 Benjamin Hanks of Pembroke, husbandman, for £ 160, sold to Jonathan Peterson Lot 68, with buildings, fences, orchards, gardens, etc., and his wife Mary released her rights of dower. Benjamin made his mark and Mary signed her name. (Plymouth Deeds, 30: 38.) About 1746 Benjamin Hanks's son Benjamin moved from Saquish Island, in Plymouth Harbor where he had lived since his marriage 1724, to Mansfield, Conn., where he had owned land since 1737; and soon after the departure of his son for Connecticut, Benjamin, Sr., moved to Easton, in Bristol County, Mass., nineteen miles northwest from Plymouth, where his youngest son Jacob, then unmarried, had become a resident as early as 1744. There Benjamin, Sr., built a house for himself, and there he died. Children by first wife, born in that part of the ancient Duxbury which was established in 1712 as the town of Pembroke, their births (except that of Jacob) being recorded at Pembroke. | Hanks, Benjamin Sr. (I2390)
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| 140 | From Pampa area. | Overstreet, Virgie (I3839)
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| 141 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Sedrick Tig (I2910)
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| 142 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Ralf Peter (I2905)
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| 143 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Markus (I2903)
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| 144 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Roman Werner (I3429)
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| 145 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Kevin Plyaphong (I2909)
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| 146 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Natalie Alice (I3428)
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| 147 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Pascal Daniel (I3426)
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| 148 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Hinnen, Marianne (I3427)
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| 149 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Tiffany Alicia (I3425)
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| 150 | From Peter Stirnimann, Basel, Switzerland, 2003. | Stirnimann, Roger Felix (I2906)
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