Jean (Johannes) Sommer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Landowner at Waldersbach
• Religion: Reformed

Notes:

Died:
Ban de laRoche
"Jean Sommer of the reformed religion, a 34-year-old landowner at Waldersbach, died there Feb. 10, 1706 at 3 a.m., and was buried the following day in the cemetery at Fouday."

Jean married Catherine Kommer before 1700. Catherine was born in 1680 in Rothau, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died in Waldersbach, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jean Sommer was born about 1700-1705 in Palatinate, GR.
2. Nicolas Sommer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Reformed
• Residence: Bellefosse, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR
• Residence: Abt 1671, Waldersbach, FR

Notes:

“The Sommer family is identified with Sommerhof, a farm that was abandoned when the last of the extended family came to America in 1834. It was located outside Neuviller (later Neuviller-la-Roche), at the Croix-Rouge meeting of the Rothaine Valley (coming from the western Rothau direction) and the Chergoutte Valley (coming from the eastern Barr direction) in the le Ban de la Roche area of Lower Alsace. This location was so deeply embedded in woods that 19th-century travelers were afraid to pass at night.

“Le Ban de la Roche is on the east side of the valley of the Bruche River; what was once the Principality of Salm was on the west. The families at Sommerhof had several children born at La Broque, Les Quelles, and Plaine.”

Residence:
Ban-de-la-Roche

Died:
Rothau, BMS, 1720-1741, 3E 414/4, right page 106/119 ...... at the same time was buried also in Rothau cemetery, Ulrich Sommer the Swiss, after having died on January 8 between 4 & 5 o'clock in the morning, 90 years old. Also on Waldersbach Protestant parish, register BMS 1691-1734 page 133/152: Ulrich Sommer from German Switzerland died about the 90th year of his age.-- ???

Buried:
Pastor attributes to Ulrich the Reformed religion.

Ulrich married Christine Reiss (Rehsee, Resse) on 22 Nov 1669 in Sumiswald, Bern, SW. Christine was born about 1651 in Goguesperg, Bern, SW; died on 16 Oct 1691 in Fouday, Bas-Rhin, FR; was buried on 18 Oct 1691 in Fouday, Bas-Rhin, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Reformed

Notes:

Died:
Rothau, Protestant parish, register BMS 1666-1719 page 64/70. Has passed away Christine Ris of Switzerland from the Reformed religion, wife of Ulrich Sommer aged about 40 years and was buried in Fouday on October 28th.--

"On Oct. 16, 1691, between 11 p.m. and midnight, Christine Ris, the Swiss wife of Ulrich Sommer died at Fouday between 11 p.m. and midnight Oct. 16, 1691, and was buried there Oct. 18."

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Married:
Rothau, BMS, 1666-1719, 3E 414/2 on the left 46/70 Ulrich Sommer from the village of Sommiswald in the canton of Berne in Switzerland married Christine Resse (Reiss) from the village of Gogesbard (?) In the canton of Bern in Switzerland on December 22, 1669

Matthias + Anna Steiner. Anna (daughter of Peter Steiner and Barbli Walthart) was born in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andreas + Verena (Verenra?) Miescher. Verena was born in 1583. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter + Barbli Walthart. Barbli was born in 1584. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]