Catherine Güngerich

Notes:

Birth:
No doubt her father’s child from a second marriage

Died:
Bishdorf?

Family/Spouse: Joseph Sommer. Joseph (son of Sommer and Catherine Ringenberg (Rinqueberg)) was born about 1744-1746 in Neuviller-la-Roche, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 30 Jun 1801 in Bischtroff-Sur-Sarre, Bas-Rhin, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Christian Sommer was born in 1773 in Sparsbach, FR; died on 1 May 1843 in Bischtroff-Sur-Sarre, Bas-Rhin, FR.
2. Joseph Sommer was born in 1780; died in 1825.
3. Catherine Sommer was born on 26 Nov 1781 in Pistorf, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 14 Jul 1852 in Réding, Moselle, FR.
4. Barbe Sommer was born in 1787-1789; died in 1849 in Métairies-Saint-Quirin, Moselle, FR.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Minister
• Reference Number: 73
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: 1693-1695, Echery, Haut-Rhin, FR

Notes:

Gungerich, Gingerich, Gungrich (sometimes Jungerich) = old Germanic first name.

Jean Kingerique (Gungerich) from Schwarzenegg was living at Erguel in the Swiss Jura in 1724, his name appearing in a list of Anabaptists.... Hans Gungerich, known as "der Alte," was a long-time minister at Steinseltz in Alsace, near the German border. He died around 1785 at the age of ninety or more. He could have been the same Jean (Hans) in the French records of the Jura in 1724. The migration to Hesse came later, and the emigration to America was from there around 1820.

Hans (The Old) was a minister by 1711. Hans lived at Fronsburgerhof, Alsace, for some time before his death. Hans was first Reformed, then Swiss Anabaptist, then Amish.

IMH Mar 1990: "Minister of Fronsburg congregation; moved 1695 to Reidseltrz, Alsace; moved 1712 to Fronsburgerhof, Alsace."

"Hans is documented in 1693 in Eschery near Markirch (Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines) where Jakob Ammann had "banned" him (Robert Baecher). " Guth


Hans "The Elder" GUNGERICH-2799
Notes from BausHaus Family History Chad Baus
Elder of the Fronsberg congregation
Around 1693 he is named as a resident of Echery near Markirch in Alsace (where, according to one record, Jakob Amman had "banned" him), and in 1695 (together with Jakob Amman), in the neighboring village of Kleinleberau.
After 1711 he is on the estate Fronsburg, where he eventually dies. In 1726 and 1736 Hans is recorded on the estate Fronsburg with his sons Valentin and Johannes as co-leaseholders. The estate is located below a castle of the same name, which towers from a steep cliff above. As early as 1439 the castle itself was destroyed by troops of the Bishop of Strasbourg because it was a seat of marauding knights. Rebuilt in 1481 by the Fleckensteins, it was burned down late in the seventeenth century by the French General Montclar. Today part of the estate is used as a forestry house. The border between Alsace and the Palatinate has always been controversial. Today, the Fronsburg estate is within the French border.

In the year 1726 we find "Hans the Elder" as a signer of a lease agreement for his son Christian, whereby the Pfalzhof would pass to him in hereditary tenancy. Christian signed this agreement with his mark. Heritary tendancy meant that the leaseholder received the lease for life. After death, heirs or someone designated by the leaseholder had the right to continue the lease. From an economic perspective, property so leased was like personally owned property.

Even as a 90-year-old took part in the assembly of Amish elders in 1759 in Essingen as a representative of the Fronsberg congregation.)
From: http://www.diannebauer.com/publicroots/NAFZIGER%20JANTZI/ANCESTORS/nafzigerj/pafn08.htm#2799)

“He lived at Echery from 1693 to 1695, then a La Petite Lièpvre in the same time frame that Jacob Amman was there (1695-1712). The two villages are located on the road leading south from Ste. Maris-aux-Mines. Hans was one of Amman's followers who was placed 'under the ban' at La Petite Lièpvre in 1695. The gesture was meant to express humility before the Reist faction in a fruitless bid to reconcile.

After 1712 Hans lived between Niedersteinbach and Lembach on the Alsace-Palatinate border, about 8 miles from Berwartstein Castle. He leased grounds near le Château de Froensburg, a ruined sandstone castle that had been used for artillery practice by French troops in 1677. The land was exempt from Alsatian expulsion orders because it belonged to Zweibrücken Wittelsbachs. The leases almost coincided.
Over the years Hans held meetings of ministers at his home. He attended the assembly of ministers held at Essingen in 1759, representing the Froensburg congregation. He was 90 years old, and died the following year. “

Residence:
Echery near Markirch and southwest of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

Died:
Near Lembach

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: "Teacher"
• Reference Number: 74
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Baptism: 4 Jun 1648, Steffisburg, Thun, SW

Notes:

Anabaptist teacher who escaped from Schwarzenegg prison in 1692. This has not been documented, but is reported in the Mennonite Encyclopedia (Vol.II, p.520). Living at Hulshof, Wittgenstein, 1713.

“In 1695, Christian is mentioned for the first time in the Alsace, where he "together with his grown-up son" is a tenant on the Teutonic Knights Order castle estate at Riedseltz. (Archives Departementales du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg). After Christian lived on Lords von Fleckenstein's chateau estate at Niederrodern between 1708 and 1712, he seems to have moved for a time to the Fronsburgerhof near Lembach, Alsace. While his son, Hans, stayed there, father Christian moved with the rest of the family to the County Wittgenstein (actually Southern Westphalia) where he leased the Hulshof estate near Laasphe, together with his son-in-law, Christian Schlabach (lease contract of 1713).

“Christian Güngerich was born at Heimberg and baptized at Steffisburg June 4, 1648. In 1668 he married Barbara Rubi. Their descendants account for every known Amish Mennonite Güngerich or Gingerich.
Karl Manuel, the mayor of Thun 1686-92, was an outspoken critic of Anabaptism. He was responsible for the confinement of Christian Güngerich at Schwarzenegg in 1692. Christian escaped and went to Lower Alsace. In 1698 he is mentioned as a leaseholder at Riedseltz; 1708-12 on the Fleckensteinerhof near Wissembourg; then on the castle estate Froensbourg at Lembach; finally leasing an estate near Laasphe in the principality of Wittgenstein (now in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on its border with Hesse) in 1713.

Died:
Am unable to find this location

Christian married Barbara Rubi in 1668. Barbara was born about 1650 in Heimberg, Thun, SW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 75

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 76
• Religion: Reformed ?

Notes:

Lived at Heimberg.

Birth:
Info from Steffisburg registers by Helmut Gingerich

Michel + Anna Kolb. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 77