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Notes for Hans Heinrich Bar and Verena Mayer

1640 Heinrich Bar was baptized in December in Hausen, Zurich, Switzerland. [1]

1643 Heinrich Bar was in the census for Richterswyl, Switzerland. [2]

1661 Heinrich Bar was a Mennonite tenant farmer at Streichenberg. He attended the Steinsurt meeting. [3]

c 1662 Heinrich Bar married a daughter of Michael Mayer of Reihen, perhaps Verena. [4]

1662 Heinrich Bar wrote a letter asking to be excused from paying 18 florins to get married. [5]

1676 Mayer wife died. [6]

Research Notes:

1661 Streichenberg is 12 km south of Steinsfurt/Sinsheim.

1662 Does Reihen refer to Richen, northeast of Streichenberg?


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.

[2] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.

[3] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.

[4] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.

[5] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.

[6] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 13, BA123.