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- For background information about the political/religious climate in Eggiwil at the time Zehr/Zurfluh ancestors lived there see Source .
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“A close match for the same date for a Peter Zurfluh from LDS records has him born on June 24, 1687, from Trub, Canton Bern. His parents are Hans born 1663 and Christine Baumgardner, born 1667. Hans also has a brother born about 1653. Another Peter Zurfluh was born 1678 at Brienz, Canton Bern, who married Anna Hirni and had the following children:
Margret Zurfluh, b. 1710
Peter Zurfluh b. 1712
Johannes Zurfluh, b. 1716
Elizabeth Zurfluh, b. 1720
“The Zehr’s probably dropped the Fluh part of the name in France because in French it means fluid, and in German it means high up n a ledge….There is some evidence that the Zurfluhs were Jews at one time and were from the Roman province of Septasemia in France.
“A problem is that their son Christian’s Bible has a marriage date of about 1705, meaning that he and his brother Johannes were born in the 1600s.
“….the Zehr’s may or may not also fall under the Scher surname.”
(Two of the children’s birthdates do not fit into the dates for parents—may not be in the correct family.)
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Source gives the following information:
Birth
Taufrodel Reutigen 1753-1804, Seite 26.
Family Note
Marriage with Barbara SCHÜTZ
Eherodel Reutigen 1754-1826, Seite 39.
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“In the Bernese dialect a Zehr can be a boarder or tenant.
The Heimat or place of legal origin for Swiss citizenship rights for this surname is Aeschi bei Spiez. The village is located on a ridge between the Kander Valley [Ger. Kanderthal] and the southwestern shore of Lake Thun.
A marriage entry created July 8, 1687 at Steffisburg said that Peter Zehr von Räütingen [Reutigen] had married Barbara Schütz von Bl?menstein [a Schütz is a guard]. Reutigen is inland on the western shore of Lake Thun, five miles south of that city. Blumenstein is six miles west of that city.
Reutigen, Blumenstein, Oberstocken, Niederstocken, and Pohlern were located in the Stocktal, a valley between the Stockhorn chain of alps and the ridge-plateau that holds Amsoldingen.1
The three oldest registers of baptism records for Reutigen, Niederstocken, and Oberstocken covering the years 1550-1697 have been missing since 1901.2 Perhaps the baptisms of Peter and two of his sons were recorded in the third register.
Or perhaps, Peter’s baptism entry can be found in the adjacent community of Wimmis. Hans Zeÿer and Anni Wÿss had a son Jaggi baptized in the Protestant Reformed Church there Dec. 18, 1657, and a son Peter baptized July 12, 1663.
It is thought that Peter and Barbara lived at Oberstocken after marrying. Family passdown said they came from that location when they emigrated.” [1, 2, 5, 7]
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