 1631 - 1678 (47 years)
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| Name |
Melchior Brenneman, II |
| Suffix |
II |
| Born |
1631 |
Oberdiessbach, Konolfingen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1678 |
Griesheim, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany |
| Person ID |
I646013458 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2006 |
| Family |
Christina Reusser, b. 18 Dec 1636, Steffisburg, Thun, Canton of Bern, Switzerland , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
| | 1. Melchior Brenneman, III, b. 1665, Canton of Bern, Switzerland , d. 1 Jan 1737/38, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 73 years) |
| | 2. Christian Brenneman, b. Abt 1665, Switzerland , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F557665819 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
161882
His birth date is established from the archives at Bern, Switzerland and
he lived at Ober-Deissbach, on the north slope of the Buchhalterberg.
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The source of much Brenneman history is The Brenneman Family of America,
by Professor Albert Harwell Gerberich. Printed by Mennonite Publishing
House, Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, 1938.
Had 7 children, who were aged 1.5-15in 1672. Four sons' names are given;
were the other 3 girls?
His home is supposed to have been at Ober-Diessbach on the north slope of
Buchhalterberg, somewhere near Zurich or Bern.
A letter written 1 Jan 1672 refers to him livingin a village of Swiss
Mennonite refugees in Griesheim, Germany, in Rhein-Hessen 40 miles NW of
Worms. He owned one horse, one trundle bed and bedding, and 43
rix-dollars. There were 53 families in the village, all poor.
While in Switzerland, he refused to abjure the Mennonite belief, was
warned and finally imprisoned in the Castle of Thun in 1659. He fled from
Switzerland to Griesheim, twenty miles northwest of the city of Worms, in
Germany in 1671, probably because of the strict Swiss government mandate
of 1670.
We next hear of him in 1671 when he left Switzerland, bound for Germany.
He was 40 years old and his wife 35. There were 7 children between the
ages of 18 months and 15 years. His worldly possessions consisted of one
horse, one trundle bed and bedding, and 43 rix-dollars. He had been
fortunate to escape with his life. He ended up at Grieshem, which was
located 20 miles northwest of the city of Worms. William Penn visited
Griesheim in September of 1677, told of his plan to form a haven, etc.
Melchior the Exile did not go, but his son Melchior the *Emigrant* did.
They probably never returned to Switzerland.
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