Friday, May 22, 2015

Other Zurich Switzerland lines!

Ernst has been helping me on all my Swiss lines, trying to take all back as far as records will take us.
I also learned that in Switzerland the had a marriage court that you had to prove you were no closer related than 4 generations or you couldn't be married. As sometimes I would find a Meier marrying a Meier or an Albrecht marrying an Albrecht.
With that in mind here is Margaretha Moor's mother's lineage. Margaretha's mother was Anna Albrecht;

Anna Albrecht chr-2 May 1675 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland  d-28 Jan 1710 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland married Heinrich Moor b-17 Oct 1669 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland married 9 Dec 1703 in Niederharli, Zuerich, Switzerland

Anna Albrecht’s parents are Hans Rudolf Albrecht and Margaretha Frolich

Hans Rudolf Albrecht chr-12 Jul 1648 d-10 Apr 1703 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland wife Margaretha Frolich b-abt 1650 d-9 Apr 1685
children
Anna chr-2 May 1675(our line Margaretha Moors b-1707 mother) d-28 Jan 1710 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Hans chr-17 Apr 1677 rest of the children in Niederhasli
Junghans chr-21 Sep 1679 d-17 Jun 1749
Elsbeth chr-23 Jan 1681 d-3 May 1703
female b-16 Mar 1682 d-16 Mar 1682
Jakob 1683 (they didn't have this date)
female b-31 Mar 1685 d-31 Mar 1685
Hans Rudolf  Albrecht 2nd wife Barbara Huber married 30 Oct 1689 she died
12 May 1735
children all born Niederhasli
Anna chr-1 May 1691 d-8 May 1691
Heinrich chr-29 Jan 1693
Konrad chr-21 Apr 1695 d-5 Feb 1696
Konrad chr-6 Jun 1697 d-22 Apr 1759
Felix chr-28 Apr 1700 d-9 Jun 1754
Jakob chr-9 Dec 1703 d-21 Dec 1705
Barbara b-abt 1705 d-8 May 1735

Hans Rudolf Albrecht’s parents are Konrad Albrecht and Verena Huber

Konrad Albrecht chr-8 Jan 1615 in Niederhasli died 23 Aug 1688 married Verena Huber 25 Jun 1639 in Oberhasli, Zuerich, Switzerland
children
Barbara chr-24 Mar 1640 Niederharli, Zuerich, Switzerland
Konrad chr-12 Dec 1641 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Junghans chr-26 Dec 1642 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Hans Rudolf chr-19 Oct 1645 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Hans Rudolf chr-2 Jul 1648 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland(our line)
Verena chr-4 May 1651 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Joseph chr-1 Jul 1655 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Elsbeth chr-15 May 1657 Nöschikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Konrad Albrecht’s parents are Jakob Albrecht b-abt 1573 dying 25 Mar 1627 wife Regula Weidmann they were married 9 Jan 1612 in Niederhasli
Jakob and Regula children were
Anna chr-6 Dec 1612 in Niederhasli
Konrad chr-8 Jan 1615 in Niederhasli dying 23 Aug 1688(our line)
Heinrich chr-26 Sep 1619 Niederhasli



New research Albrecht research in Zurich, Switzerland

Basically a miracle has happened in my life the past 6 months. I met on an international genealogy site a man named Ernt Frei. He is related on my Moor side, Margaretha Moor b-1707 wife of Johannes Albrecht b-1701. His wife is related on my Albrecht side. Needless to say it has been an unbelievable several months. One of the things I learned was that some of my Albrecht lineage was wrong. Really it was a recording error in the 1600's by a Pastor, as in certain censuses in Zurich the Pastor helped the Government do the census. Ernst was the first one to tell me that in some of the censuses that our Hans Jacob was born in 1631 not 1629 as previously thought.

We started out that Ernst would go to the Zurich archives and then Christmas came and he let me know it would be closed for a couple of weeks. So I sent him what records I could copy in SLC if that would work. So I have been to SLC many times copying censuses, Church records, Tax records, etc.
What a learning experience this has been, I really am being taught by Ernst on reading the records. I can pick out the ancestors but can't tell what it says, so I have Ernst translate for me.
I was able to help him solve a family mystery for him as his great grandma came to America and he never knew what happened to her. Through a miracle that can't be described other than Heavenly intervention, I was able to find her, get her obituary and death certificate, even though her name had been misspelled.

So here is the new information;
I had been going over records of Zurich, Switzerland with our cousin in Zurich.
We had discovered an error that there is no question as to being attached to the wrong lineage.
Here is the correct info.
Hans Jakob Albrecht bap 21Jun 1631 in Neerach, Zurich, Switzerland and Margaretha Volkart b-1637 married 1655
Hans Jakob parents
Felix Albrecht born 2 Sep 1599 and Barbara Hauser b-1602 married 1625
Felix Albrecht father
Felix Albrecht before 1567

Since Ernst had noticed the 1631 birth date I decided to check each census as the Swiss would do it every 3 years starting in 1634.

I had noticed after 1634 census that Heinrich Albrecht and Elsbeth Scherer no longer had a son Hans Jacob who was born 1629(originally thought to be my ancestor) in 1637, 1640, 1643 or any other census after that. He had died before 1637. I told Ernst that I think your right as to none of the censuses contained a Hans Jacob Albrecht b-1629 in Stadel or Neerach. (thinking maybe he went to live with a relative). Later census showed my Hans Jacob was b-1631 and was the son of Felix Albrecht and Barbara Hauser. It is proven!

What is interesting is that in notes by Julius Billeter from Neerach, Zurich, Switzerland that I just recently copied, he notes that this Hans Jacob Albrecht b-1629 must have died.