George Bachman1

b. 1686, d. 19 November 1753
George Bachman|b. 1686\nd. 19 Nov 1753|p11403.htm|Oswald Bachmann|b. 1657\nd. 1736|p11423.htm|Regula Tretchler|b. 1646\nd. 1706|p11424.htm|Hans J. Bachmann|b. 1629\nd. 1704|p11425.htm|Regula Strickler||p11426.htm|||||||

5th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
7th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     George Bachman was born in 1686 in Canton Zürich, Switzerland.2 He was the son of Oswald Bachmann and Regula Tretchler.2 He was baptized as Hans Jörgli Bachmann on 2 May 1686 in Richterswil, Canton Zürich, Switzerland.3 He married Anna Maria Schnebele, daughter of Hans Jacob Schnebele, in 1715 in Ibersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.4 He died on 19 November 1753 in Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.5 He was buried in Saucon Mennonite Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.6
     
     George, Anna Maria, and their small son Henry immigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania between 1717 and 1720, settling first in Bucks County, in that part set off as Northampton County in 1752, and Lehigh County in 1812.

Children of George Bachman and Anna Maria Schnebele

Citations

  1. [S1107] Sue Philips, online <http://www.phillipsplace.net/genealogy/index.html>, Sue Phillips (unknown location), downloaded 2006, citing "Bachman y-chromosome project," 2 July 2005, personal e-mail.
  2. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Baughman, J. Ross, Apart from the World, Edinburg, Virginia, Shenandoah History, 1997, p. 182.
  3. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Baughman, J. Ross, Apart from the World, Edinburg, Virginia, Shenandoah History, 1997, p. 49. As his authority, Baughman cites "Amt-Tåuferamt, Wiedertåuferen Gut" F III, 36b.14 'Rudolf Bachman von Richterswilerberg' (Ledgers of Confiscated Property and Disbursements 1640-1678, Staatsarchiv Zürich, Switzerland).
  4. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Washburn, Elizabeth F., Snively-Snavely; the Swiss ancestors and American descendants of Johann Jacob Schnebele (1659-1743) and other Snivelys and Snavelys of southeastern Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1986, p. 27.
  5. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing "Death date for Johann Georg Bachmann," 26 July 2005, personal e-mail.
  6. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Littrell, J. Harvey, Lewis Harvey Webster and Susan Agler, Their Descendants, Including the Baughman, Bradford, and Other Related Families, Manhattan, Kansas, J. H. Littrell, 1984, revised 1985, p. 102.
  7. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Family Bible of John George Bachman of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1536 Froschauer Schnebelli-Bachmann Family Bible, original Bible in possession of Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Harleysville, Pennsylvania; Alderfer, Joel D., "1536 Froschauer Bible with Schnebelli-Bachmann Family Records," Mennonite Family History, January 1992, v. 11, no. 1, p. 24-27.
  8. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006.
  9. [S1107] Sue Philips, 2006, citing Family Bible of John George Bachman of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1536 Froschauer Schnebelli-Bachmann Family Bible, original Bible in possession of Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Harleysville, Pennsylvania; Article by Ken Hottle, Baughman-Bachman Quarterly, Upland, California, 1989, v. 1, p. 23.