Zimmerman - Carpenter Ancestry
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The Zimmerman Family Of Thurnen-Wattenwil, Switzerland, and related lines.
Excerpted and condensed from "Swiss
Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters"
Bendikt ZIMMERMANN b abt 1523 Switzerland; d Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland
m abt 1545 Switzerland Eva ?______ b abt 1524 Switzerland
One of their sons was:
Felix ZIMMERMANN-12288 b abt 1555 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland
m abt 1578 Switzerland Barbli ?______ b abt 1555 Thurnen-Wattenwil
Switzerland
One of their sons was:
Bendikt ZIMMERMANN b 26 Jun1580 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland; d Thurnen-Wattenwil
Switzerland
m abt 1607 BerneCanton Switzerland Dorothea THOENEN-6145 b abt 1582
Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland; d Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland
One of their sons was:
Heinrich ZIMMERMANN b 5 Sep1619 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland d Thurnen-Wattenwil
Switzerland
m 22Nov1641 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland Benedikta (Diktli) WENGER
b 14Feb1618 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland; d Switzerland, dau. of MELCHIOR
WENGER and Margretha STUCKI. (MELCHIOR WENGER b 30 Sep 1582 Thurnen,SWITZ;;
d Wattenwil,Thurnen, SWITZ, m Abt 1604 Margretha STUCKI b Abt 1583 Thurnen?,SWITZ;
d Wattenwil,Thurnen,SWITZ)
One son of Heinrich and Benedikta was:
Heinrich ZIMMERMAN b 20Feb1646 Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland d Berne
Canton Switzerland m2 16Jan1671 Wattenwil Switzerland Anna MEGERT
b abt 1649 Thurnen-Wattenwil? Switzerland; d Thurnen-Wattenwil Switzerland
One of their sons was:
Heinrich (CARPENTER) ZIMMERMAN b 7Sep1673 Wattenwil Switzerland; d abt
1747 LancasterCo PA
m. abt 1700 Switzerland Maria? Salome RUFENER b 3 Jul 1675 Blumenstein
Switzerland, dau. of Peter? Rufener b. 10/20/1633 and Anna Krebs?
(No Salome RUFENER was baptized at Blumenstein in the period 1670-80; some
genealogist arbitrarily added the Salome to the name of Maria RUFENER b
1675 to show the likely structure of the Blumenstein family of Henry CARPENTER's
wife. Her baptism was mistakenly identified by Seymour D. CARPENTER in his
pioneering 1908 biography of the CARPENTER-ZIMMERMANN family); d abt 1743
LancasterCo PA
Children of Henrich Zimmerman and Maria/Salome Rufener:
1. Emanuel CARPENTER b abt 1701 Wattenwil, Berne Canton
Switzerland; d 1Apr1780 EarlTwp, LancasterCo,PA
m abt 1724 LancasterCo PA Catharine (LINE)LEIN-385 b Apr1701 Obergimpern?,
Kraichgau, Baden GERM; d 1Feb1785 EarlTwp, LancasterCo PA(Some say that
Emanuel's wife was Catharine SCHWAB(SWOPE) b 1701 Leimen?, Baden GERM, sister
of Yost SWOPE, who married a daughter of John LINE)|
2. Gabriel CARPENTER b abt 1704 Wattenwil Switzerland; d. bef. 8Apr1767
EarlTwp, LancasterCo PA m abt 1726 LancasterCo PA Apalonia HERMAN b 1705
Switzerland ? dau Daniel HERMAN and Mary ?______; d 1792 LancasterCo PA
3. Salome CARPENTER b abt 1709 Germantown PA; d1736 Germantown PA
m 9Feb1731 LancasterCo PA Johannes(John WISTER) WUESTER b 1708 Hilsbach,
Baden GERM son Johannes Caspar WUESTER (b 1671; d 1726) and Anna Catharina
?______, came to Philadelphia PA in 1727; d 1789 Philadelphia PA
4. Elizabeth CARPENTER b abt 1711/2 Germantown PA;d MD, bur Keedysville,
WashingtonCo MD m abt 1733 LancasterCo PA Hans
GRAF (a.k.a. John GROVE) b 1697/8 GERM son of Susanna Orndorff and Hans
GRAF, d 1780 MD, bur Keedysville, Washington Co MD.
children of Elizabeth and John (Hans)
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