Christian Nafziger[1]
1648 - 1754 (105 years)-
Name Christian Nafziger Birth 22 Mar 1648 Thierachern, Bern, SW [2] - 22 Mar 1649 according to Greg Wolf website
Gender Male Religion Amish Mennonite [2] Death 6 Mar 1754 Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW [2] - At age 105
Burial Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW [2] Person ID I10491 Schrock-Birkey Connection Last Modified 25 Sep 2020
Father Melchior Nafziger, b. 1600, Wurttemberg, GR d. Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW Mother Eva Schmucker, b. 28 Jul 1605, Beatenberg, Bern, SW d. Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW Marriage Abt 1627 Beatenberg, Bern, SW [2] Family ID F7380 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Anna Schnyder, b. 1651, Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW d. 30 Nov 1686, Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW (Age 35 years) Marriage 28 Nov 1672 Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW - according to Greg Wolf website
Children 1. Ulrich Nafziger, b. 24 Jan 1686, Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW d. 1754, Green Garden, Leacock Two., Lancaster Co., PA (Age 67 years) Family ID F7379 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Dec 2008
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Event Map Birth - 22 Mar 1648 - Thierachern, Bern, SW Marriage - 28 Nov 1672 - Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW Death - 6 Mar 1754 - Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW Burial - - Uetendorf, Thun, Bern, SW = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - “General Notes:
The large family of Mennonite Nafzigers (also Nafzier, Naftzger, Noftsger, and Noffsinger), goes back to two brothers, Christian and Ulrich, who immigrated to the border area between Alsace and Palatinate from Uetendorf near Thun in Canton Bern, Switzerland, about the year 1705. Originally the Nafzgers had come from Wurttemberg, where the name still appears today as Nefzger (Nehzer comes from the Swabian verb nefzen meaning to doze or nap, thus a designation for a slow, easy-going person). Zacharias Nafzger, a smith, settled in Thun in 1621. Since that time his descendants have lived around Thun as craftsmen (pewterers and silversmiths).
In 1707 he is named as leaseholder in Birlenbach in Lower Alsace (Bas-Rhin), where he had difficulties with the local clergyman (Robert Lutz). He had apparently left his Swiss homeland (Uetendorf in Canton Bern in Switzerland) of his own free will together with his brother Ulrich Nafziger, born in 1686. At least there are no indications of either banishment from their native land or of Anabaptist origin. Possibly the two young men set out to seek their fortunes and only because members of the Amish congregation through marriage to Mennonite women.” [2]
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