Elias BIETINGER

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The ancestry of Henry Herman's wife, Maria Bitinger, has been traced to her 3rd great grandfather, Elias Bietinger, who was born about 1570 in Gondiswil, Switzerland. Gondiswil, located on the Birs River, is near the northeast border of the Canton of Bern. The Biurs flows north to the Aare River at Murgenthal & the Aare flows northeast to the Rhine River at Waldshut, Germany, which then flows west to Basel, Switzerland and north through France & Germany before turning west though Netherlands to the North Sea at Rotterdam.

Elias and Barel Lybundgut (born 17 Sep 1581) married about 1613 in Gondiswil and their first child, Hans, was born 27 Feb 1614. hans grew up in Gondiswil, where he met and married marie Walchle (born 1639) in 1659. Their first child, Peter, was born 30 Sep 1660. Bietinger families were Protestants and by the later 1600's were among the wealthy families of Gondiswil. However, they were also among those being persecuted by Catholics and about 1680 (a few years before the King Louis XIV 1685 revocation of the 1598 Edict of Nantes) Hans, Marie, and their children migrated downstream along the birs & then traveled by boat down the Aare & Rhine past Basel and Strasbourg to the Alsace region of Germany (now part of France), settling near Durstel. the Herman & Baltzly families also lived in the Alsace region and the three families may have been acquainted before immigrating to America.

Elias married Barbel LYBUNDGUT about 1613 in Gondiswil, Switzerland. Barbel was born on 17 Sep 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hans BIETINGER was born on 27 Feb 1614 in Gondiswil, Bern, Switzerland.