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    Person Info
  • Name: Hans LANDIS
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1581 b
  • Baptism: 31 Dec 1581 in Horgen, Switzerland c
  • Death: Before 1657 d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Hans LANDIS Birth: 1543 Death: 29 Sep 1614 in Hirzel, Switzerland
  • Mother:
  • Barbara HOCHSTRASSER Birth: Abt 1550 Death: After 29 May 1580

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Caspar LANDIS Birth: Abt 1614
  2. Hans LANDIS Birth: 1615
  3. Margaretha LANDIS
  4. Elsbeth LANDIS Birth: Abt 1620
  5. Hans Heinrich LANDIS
  6. Rudolf LANDIS Death: Before 1670
  7. Anna LANDIS
  8. Jacob LANDIS Death: Before 1633
  9. Verena LANDIS
  10. Barbara LANDIS
  11. Hans Rudolf LANDIS Death: 30 Nov 1635 in Hirzel, Switzerland
  12. Elsbeth LANDIS Death: 4 Jul 1637 in Hirzel, Switzerland
  13. Margaret LANDIS

Bibliography
  1. Best, Jane Evans, Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Apr 1990. pp9-25. LMHS Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Best SwissOrigins p[0-9]*].
  2. Bittinger, Emmert F, Ancestors and Descendants of "Hill" John Landis (1779-1858) of Manheim Township, Lancaster County, PA. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Apr 2001. LMHS Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p[0-9]*].
  3. Wagner, Roland, Two letters from 1637 by Hans Landis, in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Jul 1995. pp9-14. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner LandisLetters p[0-9]*].
  4. Wagner, Roland, Exodus of Anabaptists from Canton Zurich to Alsace - Landis Family. in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Apr 1995, pp2-15. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner Zurich2Alsace p[0-9]*].
  5. Wilcox, S Michael, Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Jan 1995. pp13-18. LMHS Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wilcox LANDIS p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
bp 31 Dec 1580 [Ref: Wilcox LANDIS p14]
bp 31 Dec 1581 [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29],
parents:
[Ref: Best SwissOrigins p22, Bittinger LANDIS p29, Wagner Zurich2Alsace p4, Wilcox LANDIS p14]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
1588 [Ref: Best SwissOrigins p22]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29, Wilcox LANDIS p14],
place:
[Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29, Wilcox LANDIS p14]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 1657 [Ref: Wagner Zurich2Alsace p4]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elsbeth ERTZINGER
names:
[Ref: Wagner Zurich2Alsace p4],
child:
[Ref: Best SwissOrigins p22, Best SwissOrigins p23, Bittinger LANDIS p29, Wilcox LANDIS p14, Wilcox LANDIS p15]
Research Notes:
1637: while imprisoned in Oetenbach in Zurich, wrote letters to his family [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29, Wagner LandisLetters p9]

1637: imprisoned and property confiscated [Ref: Best SwissOrigins p22]

1637: incarcerated in 1637 and held for at least sixty weeks [Ref: Wagner Zurich2Alsace p4]



Pedigree of Hans LANDIS
          /-----Hans LANDIS
 /-----Hans LANDIS
|         \-----Katharine SCHINZ
Hans LANDIS
 \-----Barbara HOCHSTRASSER



Descendants of Hans LANDIS
1. Hans LANDIS m. Elsbeth ERTZINGER
m. Elsbeth ERTZINGER father: Uli ERTZINGER

2nd generation

2. Caspar LANDIS m1. Susanna PFISTER m2. Catharina DANHERR
m. Susanna PFISTER
m. Catharina DANHERR
6. Hans Heinrich LANDIS m. Barbara BUELER
m. Barbara BUELER
7. Rudolf LANDIS m. Christine METTLER
m. Christine METTLER father: Hans METTLER mother: Adalheit ANDRESUTER

3rd generation

17. Hans Rudeli LANDIS m1. Elizabetha GRANDHOMME m2. Anne GOTZ
m. Elizabetha GRANDHOMME
m. Anne GOTZ
27. Hans LANDIS m. Anna GOOD
m. Anna GOOD
29. Jacob LANDIS m. Ann WITMER
m. Ann WITMER

4th generation

43. John LANDIS m. Anna GOOD
m. Anna GOOD
44. Henry LANDIS m1. Veronica GROFF m2. Mary KNIESLEY
m. Veronica GROFF father: Hans GROFF mother: Susanna KENDIG
m. Mary KNIESLEY
45. Benjamin LANDIS m. Maria WEBER
m. Maria WEBER
46. Barbara LANDIS m. Theodorus BUCKWALTER
m. Theodorus BUCKWALTER father: Francis BUCKWALTER mother: Mary Magdalena DURST
47. Anna LANDIS m1. Christian MOSSER m2. Henry TINKEY
m. Christian MOSSER father: Peter MOSER
m. Henry TINKEY

5th generation

50. Anna LANDIS m. Christopher ROYER
m. Christopher ROYER father: Emich ROYER
51. (Unk Dau) LANDIS m. (Unk) KREIDER
m. (Unk) KREIDER
53. Mary LANDIS m. Michael SHENK
m. Michael SHENK father: Michael SHANK mother: Anna BAR
55. Anna LANDIS m. John Sr DOWNER
m. John Sr DOWNER father: Michael DOWNER mother: Magdalena (DOWNER)
57. Barbara LANDIS m. Arnold BECKER
m. Arnold BECKER father: Valentine BECKER mother: Christiana HESS
58. Susanna LANDIS m. John HESS
m. John HESS father: Jacob HESS mother: Veronica BAR
59. Margaret LANDIS m. Jacob ALTER
m. Jacob ALTER father: John Heinrich ALTER
60. Elizabeth LANDIS m. Abraham HERSHEY
m. Abraham HERSHEY father: Christian HERSHEY mother: Esther EGLI
61. Magdalena LANDIS m. Abraham DOWNER
m. Abraham DOWNER father: Michael DOWNER mother: Magdalena (DOWNER)
62. Katherine LANDIS m. Benjamin HERSHEY
m. Benjamin HERSHEY father: Christian HERSHEY mother: Esther EGLI
63. Henry LANDIS m. Mary ERB
m. Mary ERB father: Jacob ERB mother: Magdalena SCHRANTZ
64. Banjamin LANDIS m. Anna SNEVELY
m. Anna SNEVELY father: John SNEVELY
65. Abraham LANDIS m. Maria BEAR
m. Maria BEAR father: Martin BARR mother: Anna Elisabeth GROFF
67. Jacob LANDIS m. Anna (LANDIS)
m. Anna (LANDIS)
69. Henry LANDIS m. Maria BRUBAKER
m. Maria BRUBAKER
71. Anlea BUCKWALTER m. Tobias KREIDER
m. Tobias KREIDER father: Jacob KREIDER
72. Veronica BUCKWALTER m. Johannes Feldman STAUFFER
m. Johannes Feldman STAUFFER
73. Magdalena MOSSER m. Martin HOOVER
m. Martin HOOVER
76. John MOSSER m. Christina ENGLE
m. Christina ENGLE