1594 Anna Landis, daughter of Hans Landis and Margareth Hochstrasser, was baptized on December 1 in Hirzel. [1]
1611 Rudolph Bauman, son of Leonhart Bowman and Barbara Bar, was baptized on August 25 in Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland. [2]
before 1633 Rudolph Buman and Anna Landis were married. [3]
1633 Hans Rudolf Bauman lived at Hirzel [4] [5].
In Hirzel, during a 1633 head count of known Anabaptists, 46 were named, including the families of Hans Landis the martyr, Hans Rudolf Bauman and Conrad Strickler.
1640 Rudolph Buman was an Anabaptist living in Alsace. [6]
1641 Hans Rudolph Bowman is mentioned as a minister at Hargerberg, and as being taken to Zurich prison. [7]
Rudolph Bauman was an Anabaptist and was exiled from Switzerland.
1660 Rudolf Bauman signed the Dordrecht Confession at Ohnenheim, Alsace, as deacon from Jebsheim. Signed by Deacon "Hans Rudi Bumen of Jepsenheim". [8] "On Feb. 4, 1660, six preachers and seven deacons from Alsace, in a meeting held at Ohnenheim in Rappoltstein, adopted the Dordrecht Confession 'as our own'." [9] Jane Best reports [10] [11]:
Hans Rudolf Bauman (BU416) and his wife, Margaretha Landis, were servants in 1633 in Boden, Hirzel, of Anabaptist Anna Bär, widow of Jacob Huber. In 1660 Bauman was a deacon in Jebsheim, Alsace, when he signed the Anabaptist Dortrecht Confession at Ohnenheim. He may have been the grandfather of the Wendel Bauman who immigrated in 1710, and of the John Bauman who signed the Dortrecht Confession in 1727 in Pennsylvania.
1668 Rudli Buman, perhaps this one, lived in Alsace, said to be a Touffer. [12]
1673 Hans Rudolph Bowman of Jebsheim visited at Obenheim. [13] [14]
About 1673, the Catholic priest that served Ohnenheim and Heidolsheim complained that nobody was attending his church services, and denounced the secret worship meetings held by the Mennonites. Not only did they ignore his ministry, but during the last decade, they dared to take over the mill at Ohnenheim to host a Mennonite conference on their Confessions of Faith. On that occasion, the hosts had been the ministers Ulrich Hauser and Jacob Gochnauer along with Johann Ringger, the Mennonite elder from Heidolsheim. Among the others joining them were the elders Jacob Schnebblifrom Baldenheim, Adolf Schmidt from Markirch; as well as the ministers John Rudolf Bauman from Jepsenheim, and Jacob Schmidt from Markinch. This Catholic priest's abbot, Charles Marchand, recalled that the Anabaptists had been granted permission to settle only on the expressed condition that they should not practice their religion. Complaints such as this were not uncommon and were sometimes heard as far away as Vienna and Versailles, and edicts were issued and reissued.
Research Notes:
The ancestry that we show for Rudolph Bowman and Margreth Landis largely follows that in a published pedigree. [15] [16][17]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History 10 (1991), 53-58, at 57, BU416.
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History 10 (1991), 53-58, at 57, BU416.
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History 10 (1991), 53-58, at 57, BU416.
[4] J. Ross Baughman, Apart from the world : an account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites (1995), p 53, [FHL Book].
[5] New York. Genealogies 1600–1900 | Massachusetts. Religious Histories 1797–1876, IGN=007642503, image 1362, [FamilySearchImage].
[6] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History 10 (1991), 53-58, at 57, BU416.
[7] H. Frank Eshleman, A. K. Hostetter, Charles Steigerwalt, "Report on the True character, Time and Place of the first Regular Settlement in Lancaster County", Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 14 (1910), 21-71, 76 at 41, citing Martyr's Mirror, page 1059, [HathiTrust].
[8] John C. Wenger, Glimpses of Mennonite history and doctrine, 227, [URL].
[9] Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Dordrecht_Confession_of_Faith_(Mennonite,_1632), content subject to change, [GlobalAnabaptistEncyclopedia].
[10] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History 10 (1991), 53-58, at 57, BU4162.
[11] Jane Evans Best, "Anabaptist Families from Canton Zurich to Lancaster County, 1633 to 1729: A Tour", Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, (October, 1994), 16 to 23 at 16.
[12] Jane Evans Best, "A Bear Saga: Albis to America," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October, 1986), 14-25, at 19, person 22.
[13] J. Ross Baughman, Apart from the world : an account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites (1995), p 63, [FHL Book].
[14] New York. Genealogies 1600–1900 | Massachusetts. Religious Histories 1797–1876, IGN=007642503, image 1367, [FamilySearchImage].
[15] Genealogical Forum of Oregon (Portland, Oregon), Oregon pedigree charts, Pedigree E96, p 22, 40, [FHLCatalog].
[16] Oregon. Genealogies, Pedigree E96, p 22, IGN=008956386, image 1243, [FamilySearchImage].
[17] Oregon. Genealogies, Pedigree E96, p 40, IGN=008956386, image 1262, [FamilySearchImage].