Heinrich Wäber (bef. 1621 - 1696)

Born before 7 Jan 1621 in Hirzel, Canton Zürich, Switzerland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elsbeth (Rüggin) Wäber — married 26 Jan 1641 in Bäretswil, Zürich, Switzerland

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1696 after age 75 in Bäretswil, Zürich, Switzerland

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Biography

From Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage - Volume XIII, Number 2 April 1990 - Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families by Jane Evans Best – page 16 - George Wäber's Son Heinrich, Anabaptist of Albis and Bäretswil ^[1]

The earliest known record of Heinrich Wäber, is on January 7, 1621, in the church book of Hirzel, Canton Zürich, Switzerland, when his father and mother, Elsbeth Schnebli, had a son, Heinrich baptized. There is no further record of this family in Hirzel.

In 1633 Klei Jörg Wäber, Heinrich's father, aged fifty-five, was recorded on the list of Anabaptists in Canton Zürich. This is his first record at Mühlekram at Neuthal, in the parish of Bäretswil, in the mountainous Oberland on the east side of Lake Zürich. The pastor noted that he was a widower with children, Sara, aged 16, and Jörg, aged ten, had been separated from his wife for several years before her death, and had come three years before from Albis, a mountain range west of Lake Zürich.

In 1634 Klei Jörg Wäber lived at Mühlekram with son Heinrich, aged fifteen, and a servant from Swabia, Germany.

From Martyrs Mirror - "In 1639 there was also apprehended the Brother George Weber, an old man, from the county of Kiberg. The same was also taken to Zürich, into the convent Othenbach, and there fed on bread and water. Finally, through the hardships and long duration of his imprisonment, be became greatly impaired in his body, and fell into a severe sickness, after he had been confined there seventy weeks. Afterwards, through some of his fellow prisoners, who opened the prison, he was released, but never again recovered his property. As regards the homestead of this George Weber, the owners of the same must each annually pay therefor to the authorities five hundred guilders."

The 1640 census of Bäretswil shows he was in Zürich, and his son Heinrich Weber was living in Hinter Gryffenberg, now called Hinterberg, with the Uli Ruegg family whose daughter, Elsbeth, who was married the next year to Heinrich Weber.

In 1649 Jorg Weber, Anabaptist widower, lived in Mühlekram with his son Heini, his son's wife, Elsbeth Ruegg, and their five children.

The birthplace of Jörg Weber is unknown. A Weber family is recorded in 1529 at Gemlikon in the parish of Stallikon in the Albis mountains. A Hans Weber, son of Hans Weber of Medikon, Stallikon moved to Muhen,then in Canton Bern, now in Canton Aargau, to the Anabaptists living there. Later he moved to the Palatinate, and in 1663 lived near Eichtersheim, Angelbachtel, in the Kraichgau region. A Verena Waber, Anabaptist widow aged 55, lived in 1634 at Unter Ratlisberg, now called Hinteralbis in the parish of Hausen in Albis. She was the widow of Hans Hitz, lived with her son's family, and , and may have been a sister of Jörg Weber (WB).

The 1621 church record at Hirzel provides proof of the name of the mother of Heinrich Weber (WB2). An Elsbeth Schnebli (SN6127) was baptized May 1, 1593, at Affoltern, Zurich, the daughter of Jacob Schnebli. A sister, Margaret, (SN6122) baptized July 12, 1578, may have been the first wife of Oswald Landis.

Heinrich Weber had ten children born between 1641 and 1664. The 1670 census lists Heini Waber widower at Mühlikram, mentioning ten children, three of whom were in the Palatinate, two near Sinsheim. Hans Weber was baptized at Bäretswil on January 10, 1658, and in 1670 lived with his father at Muhlikram. In the 1682 census of Bäretswil he and his sister Barbara are listed at Hamm, near Ibersheim, in the Lower Palatinate, while his brother Jörg lived near Neustadt in the Weibstrasse. The two youngest children, Rudolff, aged 20, and Verena, aged sixteen, lived at Mühlekram with the family of Samuel Weber and his wife Barbara Pfenninger, and their three small children.

The 1689 census of Bäretswil shows that Jorg, Hans and Barbeli Weber, brothers and sisters, were living at Neustadt, while Rudli Weber and Samuel Weber lived with their families at Mühlekram. The 1700 census of Bäretswil shows that the wife of Samuel Weber was now Verena Meyer, and that he continued to live at Mühlekram with his four youngest children and the family of Rudolff Weber,

A Hanss Weber with wife and children was recorded with the group of Anabaptists who left the Palatinate in October 1693 for Freidrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany by way of Amsterdam. Also in the group was Martin Mayle, probably the Martin Meilin who came to Pennsylvania in 1710, and who died in Lampeter Twp., Lancaster County in 1749. Most of the group returned to the Palatinate in 1698.

On June 30, 1711, Johann Rudolphus Bondeli patented 500 acres of land in the Conestoga section what was then Chester County, now in West Lampeter Twp., Lancaster County. Johann (Anton) Weber, his sons, and the sons of Jakob Guth (d. 1730) executed an agreement of ease with Bondeli for this land. On October 31, 1717, Bondeli deeded the land to Hans Weber and Ulrich Houser, probably brothers-in-law.

In 1716, a Hans Weber is recorded as an Anabaptist living in Oggersheim near Frankenthal in the Neustadt Oberant. By 1718 the four sons of Hans Weber had imigrated to Pennsylvania and they were naturalized on February 14, 1729.

The nunculpative will of Hans Weber was dated December 17, 1724 and proved November 3, 1725, at Philadelphia. The administrative bond was signed on the later date by his oldest son, Hans Weaver, as well as by Christian Herr and John Herr, who may have been brothers of Maria Margaretha, the widow.

Sources

1. ↑ Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage - Volume XIII, Number 2 April 1990 - Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families by Jane Evans Best – page 16

• Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage - Volume XIII, Number 2 April 1990 - Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families by Jane Evans Best – page 17

WB2 Heinrich Weber, bap. Jan. 7, 1621, Hirzel; d. after 1670, in 1640 lived in Hinterberg while his father was in prison in Zürich; in 1641 lived at Mühlekram.

m. Jan. 26, 1641, Bäretswil, Elsbeth Rüggin, bap. Oct. 22, 1622; d. before 1670; dau. of Uli Rüggen and Anna Ruegg of Hinterberg.

WB21 Jagli Weber, bap. Nov. 28, 1641, Bäretswil; in 1670 in Palatinate.

WB22 Samuel Weber, bap. Jan. 8, 1643, Bäretswil; d. after 1700

m.(1) by 1670, Barbara Pfenninger, d. by 1700

m.(2) by 1700, Verena Meyer

WB23 Anna Weber, bap. Mar. 17, 1644, Bäretswil; in 1670 "lame & not much understanding."

WB24 Elsbeth Weber, bap. July 5, 1646, Bäretswil; in 1678 aged 32, lived in the Palatinate.

WB25 Heinrich Weber, bap. Oct. 24, 1647, Bäretswil; in 1670 lived near Sinsheim; not in 1678 census.

WB26 Barbeli Weber, bap. June 23, 1651, in 1670 lived near Sinsheim, in 1678 aged 28, lived in Hamm; in 1682 lived in Hamm; in 1689 lived with brothers Jorg and Hanns in Neustadt.

WB27 Georg Weber, bap. Nov. 18, 1655, Bäretswil, in 1670 lived in Mühlekram; in 1678 aged 23, lived in Neustadt; in 1682 lived in Neustadt.

WB28 Hans Weber bap. Jan. 10, 1658, Bäretswil; d. Dec. 17, 1724, Lancaster Co.; in 1670 lived at Mühlekram; in 1678 aged 20, lived at Hamm; in 1682 lived at Hamm, in 1689 lived with his brother Georg and sister Barbara in Neustadt.

m. Maria Margaretha [?Herr, d. after Nov. 1725]

WB29 Hans Rudolf Weber, b. 1660; in 1682 lived in Bäretswil.

m. by 1689, Adelheit Pfenninger

WB20 Verena Weber, b. 1664; in 1682 lived in Bäretswil, aged 16.

• Ancestry Family Trees 1 citation provides evidence for Klei Jörg Wäber aka George Weber
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 1 citation provides evidence for Birth, Name
• World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1 - 2 citations provide evidence for Birth, Death, Custom Event, Name, Marriage