Ulrich Sommer b. 17 Mar 1639 Sumiswald, Bern, SW d. 8 Jan 1725 Rothau, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR: The Schrock-Birkey Connection
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Ulrich Sommer

Male 1639 - 1725  (85 years)


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  • Name Ulrich Sommer  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth 17 Mar 1639  Sumiswald, Bern, SW Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Religion Reformed 
    Residence Bellefosse, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • Ban-de-la-Roche
    Residence Abt 1671  Waldersbach, FR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 8 Jan 1725  Rothau, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 9] 
    • 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.-- ???
    Burial Fouday, Bas-Rhin, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Pastor attributes to Ulrich the Reformed religion.
    Person ID I8085  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2022 

    Father Matthias Sommer,   b. 16 Mar 1606, Sumiswald, Bern, SW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Anna Steiner,   b. 1610 
    Family ID F10673  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Christine Reiss (Rehsee, Resse),   b. Abt 1651, Goguesperg, Bern, SW Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1691, Fouday, Bas-Rhin, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 40 years) 
    Marriage 22 Nov 1669  Sumiswald, Bern, SW Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    • 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
    Children 
     1. Jean (Johannes) Sommer,   b. 7 May 1672, Waldersbach, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1706, Waldersbach, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    Family ID F5692  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2019 

    Family 2 Christine Kommer (Kammerer),   b. Abt 1651 
    Marriage 2 Feb 1696  Waldersbach, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14, 15, 16] 
    • Marriage with Christine Kommer
      Rothau, BMS, 1666-1719, 3E 414/2 page left 51/70 The year 1693, the marriage of Ulrich Sommer of the canton of Bern in Switzerland, widower of Christine Reis with Christine Kommer daughter of Antoine Kommer also native of Switzerland was celebrated on the eleventh of February in Waldersbach church.
    Notes 
    • Had a total of three children.
    Children 
     1. Claude Glade Sommer,   b. 1693
     2. Jacques Sommer,   b. 1695
     3. André Sommer,   b. 1698, Lutzelfluh-Goldbach, Bern, SW Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1765 (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F5693  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Mar 1639 - Sumiswald, Bern, SW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Bellefosse, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 22 Nov 1669 - Sumiswald, Bern, SW Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Abt 1671 - Waldersbach, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 Feb 1696 - Waldersbach, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Jan 1725 - Rothau, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Fouday, Bas-Rhin, FR Link to Google Earth
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  • 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.” [1, 17]

  • Sources 
    1. [S495] Ted Sommer, Sommer Register Report.

    2. [S920] Anne Augspurger Schmidt-Lange, The Family of Joseph Sommer (b. 1775) and Anne Marie Gerig: Documentation at the Sommerhof in France.

    3. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co.

    4. [S2359] Sommer Family Information, 1644.

    5. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz, 21 Apr 1644.

    6. [S495] Ted Sommer, Sommer Register Report, Birth: 1635-1645.

    7. [S403] Brumbaugh/Saltzman Family Tree, Life dates: 1639-1725.

    8. [S1055] Lee Summer, Family History of George and Anna Sommer.

    9. [S2359] Sommer Family Information.

    10. [S1059] Monique-Marie Francois, Genealogy of the Inhabitants of the Ban de la Roche.

    11. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co., 22 Nov 1669.

    12. [S2359] Sommer Family Information, http://archives.bas-rhin.fr/detail-document/ETAT-CIVIL-C410-P2-R126930#visio/page:ETAT-CIVIL-C410-P2-R126930-2536906.

    13. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co., 2 Feb 1696.

    14. [S495] Ted Sommer, Sommer Register Report, 2 Feb 1696.

    15. [S2359] Sommer Family Information, 11 Feb 1693.

    16. [S1055] Lee Summer, Family History of George and Anna Sommer, 1693.

    17. [S1000] Family Petit-Colin/Salzemann.


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