The following extracts give some account of the Mennonite Hauri family at Hirschthal in Schöftland. The wool-weaver Hans Hauri left Switzerland in 1711 with his wife and two sons. The two sons, Hans and Ulrich, immigrated to Pennsylvania about 1717. A third son, Jacob, remained in Germany. “In the 17th century Kulm became the center…
Category: Genealogy
Quillen
The MacQuillans are an Irish sept, descended from a branch of the de Mandevilles, a Cambro-Norman who settled Ulster during the Anglo-Norman invasions under the de Courcys in the late 12th century. Their home country was in the areas of Antrim known as the Route and the Glens, with their seat at the castle of…
Diary of Wilford Woodruff
Excerpts from the Diary of Wilford Woodruff, LDS Apostle and President of the Church. Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898) was an early convert to the LDS church. He was responsible for converting the Luce family to Mormonism and led their party of 53 people in 10 wagons from Maine to Nauvoo in 1838. He became an Apostle…
Bernadotte
The Bernadottes derive from a family of old lineage in Béarn, France, whose earliest known ancestor owned an estate in Pau known as Bernadotte in the 17th century. Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (1763-1844) was the son of an attorney. Bernadotte joined the army, but not being noble remained an enlisted man until the Revolution. Thereafter, he…
von Reinach Family
In the 11th and 12th centuries the the Counts of Lenzburg ruled the Aargau, including the area of Beromunster and Reinach. When that family died out in 1173, the Counts of Kyburg inherited their possessions, to be succeeded after 1264 by their heirs the Counts of Habsburg. In 1273 Rudolf, Count of Habsburg was elected…