Re: hans kauffman from Switzerland or Baden-Wuerttemberg
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hans kauffman from Switzerland or Baden-Wuerttemberg
Aaron Kauffman 9/06/03
It's possible that I can help.According to information that I've recently come up with, I had a great X a bunch grandfather named Niklaus Kauffman in Steffisburg, Switzerland.Niklaus had a son Michael who was my ancestor.Michael had a brother Johannes.Johannes had three wives:Anna Eichelberger, Elizabeth Christener and Anna Oesh.I'm not sure who was who's mother, but Johannes married Elizabeth in 1648 and Anna Oesh in 1658.Eichelberger was his first wife a almost for sure Hans' mother.Johannes was born in 1617, making him 26 when you Hans was born.That's probably a little old back then for having your first kid, but not ridiculously old.I don't have birthdays on the kids, because our lines diverge here, but here's what I've been able to find:Hans, Barbara, Peter, Anna, Christina and Verena.Hans married Katrina Arnold.They had a son, my notes say Andreas or Andrew and that he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717, making him one of the early Kauffmans to get here.I don't have anything on Andreas' siblings.I lost the line here.