Hunt for Neuenschwander's

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

On 26 October 1670, a daughter
Catharina [Neuenschwander] was christened/baptized in the Signau Evang. Ref. Church.

She is the daughter of: Christian Neuenschwander and Margreth Stauffer.

Witnesses: George Hofer, Vrini Huldiman, and Babi Wyss.

Source: LDS FHL #2005715, Signau Evang. Ref. Church located in Signau, Bern Canton, Switzerland.
This is Signau K-2 book, page 143.
Allyson's temporary file number 600_77. She must have died before the age of 5 because another sister was given the same name.

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What's Behind the Name?

.The word Neuenschwand means a place where the forest was recently cleared for farming. Adding the 'er' references a person from or of Neuenschwand.

A 'Schwand' in the German-Swiss dialect is a forest area which has been "thinned out" or causing the forest area to "disappear". Thus, the cutting of trees and rooting out the stumps leaving cleared fields and pasture lands. Around the years 1200 to 1300, numerous area had been cleared. Later a newly cleared area received the name of "Neuen-Schwand" or new clearing. People who lived in Neuen-Schwand were called Neuenschwander. The surname is a mark of origin and is connected in every case with the village of "Neuenschwand" near "Eggiwil."

*Information from www.iowaz.info/surname/neuenschwander.htm

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