Hans Graf

Bef 1590 -

• Name	Hans Graf
  Birth	Bef 1590	Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland
  Person ID	I788	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Family	Elsbeth Peter,   b. Abt 1588, Aaruti, Fischenthal, Switzerland
  Marriage	22 Mar 1612	Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland
  Children	+ 1. Jacok Graf,   c. 28 Jan 1616, Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland d. Aft 1683 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (Vol XIII, No. 2, Apr.1990, Jane Evan Best) "On March 22, 1612, Hans Graf of Baretswil, east of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, married Elsbeth Peter of Aaruti, in parish of Fischenthal. They had six children by 1625. The father and two of the children were not included in the 1634 census (Census of Baretswil, 1634-1723, Canton Zurich Archives, Zurich, Switzerland), and may have died in the 1629 plague. When the Anabaptists in the canton of Zurich were required to register in 1633, Elsbeth Peter was a forty-five year old widow who had been an Anabaptist for seven years. She lived with her four surviving children, aged ten to nineteen. In 1634 they lived in one of the five households in Betschwyl, now Bettswil, where the plague had struck particularly hard" A. Sierszyn, "Unser Baretswil, Aus der Geschichte seiner Fluren, Hoffe and Dorfer", (Baretseil, Zurich: 1983) p. 203, translated by Raymond T. Stoe. The first Bettswiler family of record is the Graf family in 1469. At least three families of this clan lived in the three Bettswil houses in 1541.