Hans Jacob Meili

Hans MEILI

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   * Father: Jacob MEILI

* Birth: 1583, Waltenburg, Birmensdorf, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
* Death: 1651, Stallikon, Reppischtal, Switzerland
* Sources: Individual
* Sources: Marriage Hans MEILI and Elsbeth HOCHSTRASSER
* Partnership with: Elsbeth HOCHSTRASSER
Marriage: May 29, 1603, Reformed Church, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Relationship Notes
o Child: Anton MEILI Birth: 31 AUG 1606, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
o Child: Martin MEILI Birth: 26 DEC 1607, Birmensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland
o Child: Katharine MEILI Birth: 8 OCT 1612, Stallikon, Switzerland
o Child: Hans Jacob MEILI Birth: 29 OCT 1614, Stallikon, Switzerland
o Child: Rudli MEILI Birth: 21 MAR 1618/19
Ancestors of Hans MEILI

       /-Jacob MEILI

Hans MEILI

Children of Elsbeth Hochstrasser and Hans Meyli are: +Katharine Meili (Meyli), b. Abt. 1612, Stallikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, d. 09 Apr 1681, Ober Mettmenstetten, Zurich, Switzerland. Elsbeth Meili, b. Abt. 1619, C1618, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. date unknown. Verena Meili, b. 1605, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. Bef. 1613, Switzerland. Thoni Anton Meili, b. 1606, Switzerland, d. Bet. 1634 - 1636, Stallikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Felix Meili, b. 1610, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. date unknown. Barbara Meili, b. 1611, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. Bef. 1613, Switzerland. Anton Thoni Meili, b. 1601, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 1633. Martin Meili, b. 1607, Altenberg, Birmensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland, d. Bet. 1658 - 1668, Duhren, Sinsheim, Kraichgau, Germany. Hans Jakob Meili, b. 1614, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 1661, Palatinate, Germany. Regula Meili, b. 1616, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. date unknown. Anna Meili, b. 1617, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland, d. date unknown. Rudolf Meili, b. 1619, Hottingen, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, d. date unknown. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/e/t/e/Susan-Etem/WEBSITE...

Descendants of Hans MEILI

1 Hans MEILI

 =Elsbeth HOCHSTRASSER  Marriage: 1603, Canton Zurich, Switzerland

2 Anton MEILI
2 Martin MEILI
=Katharine WINTSCH
3 Katharina MEILI
3 Barbara MEILI
3 Hans MEILI
=Anna Barbara BAR Marriage: 1635, Switzerland
3 Elsbeth MEILI
=Hans Jagli KUNDIG Marriage: 1666, Zurich, Switzerland
4 Elizabeth KENDIG
=Anstett VOLKEN
4 Martin KENDIG
=Elizabeth BAR
4 Henirich KENDIG
4 Susanna Orendorff KENDIG
=Hans GROFF Marriage: 1700, Germantown, Pennsylvania
3 Verena MEILI
3 Jakob MEILI
3 Hans Peter MEILI
2 Katharine MEILI
=Hans Heinrich FUNK
3 Anna FUNCK
=Hans Rudolph BAUMAN
4 Jacob BAUMAN
=Keller KUNIGIND Marriage: 7 DEC 1679, Jebsheim, Alsace, Germany
4 Christian BOWMAN
4 John BOWMAN
2 Hans Jacob MEILI
=Barbara BAR
2 Rudli MEILI
=Elisabeth HUBER
sources:

1. email: bobwolfe@umich.edu;janwolfe@umich.edu

2. www.ournetwork.net/FamilyConnections/family.php?famid=F2756

Mennosearch.com

Meili Family

Richard W. Davis

Hans Meili, b. 1583. He was of Birmensdorf, Zurich. He was a Mennonite preacher. He was about age 30 and had a wife and four children in 1613. He died by 1652. He became an Anabaptist in 1609. He was married to Elisabeth Hochstrasser of Landikon on 29 May 1603. He and his wife were called Anabaptists in 1637, 1640. He

moved from Altenberg in Birmensdorf to Tägerst in Stallikon in 1611. He may have been the Hans Meili who was arrested and was from Wädenswil valley in 1614 when he was exiled and led across the border on 28 Aug 1614.

1. Verena Meili, b. 10 Feb 1605, Stallikon. She was dead by 1613.

2. Tönni Meili, b. 31 Aug 1606, Stallikon. He married Anna Schnebeli. He was an Anabaptist and died by 1634 at Stallikon.

3. Martin Meili, b. 26 Oct 1607, Stallikon. He died at Dühren by 1668. He moved to Alsace in 1647 and then in 1650 to Dühren, Germany. He married first about 1630 Katharina Wintsch and second after 1634 Anna Bär, daughter of Anabaptist Osli Bar of Ebertswil. He was called an Anabaptist in 1634 with his wife Katherina Winschli. He was called an Anabaptist at Stallikon in 1637 and 1640 with his wife Anna Bähr. Their marriage was unblessed. The son of Martin Meylin was from Dühren in 1661 when he attended an illegal worship meeting at Steinsfurt, Germany. According to Anna Bar's uncle Jacob Bar's estate papers in Switzerland in 1668 she was called the widow of Martin Meili living in the Pfalz and was reported to be an Anabaptist.

4. Felix Meili, b. 1 Jan 1610, Birmensdorf.

5. Barbara Meili, b. 31 May 1611. She died by 1613.

6. Katherina Meili, b. 8 Oct 1612. She married by 1636, Heini Funk of Obermettmenstetten.

7. Hans Jakob Meili, b. 29 Oct 1614, Stallikon.

8. Hans Meili, b. Sep 1615, Stallikon. He and his wife, Barbara Bähr were called Anabaptists in 1637 and 1640 at Stallikon. No children in household in 1637. He was imprisoned with his wife Barbara Bähr and his brother Martin on 3 May 1639. They were released in 1641. He was a carpenter. He lived at Ittlingen, Germany in 1652. He was of Ittlingen in 1661 when he and his son attended an illegal Anabaptist meeting at

Steinsfurt, Baden, Germany.

9. Anna Meili, b. 2 Sep 1617. She married Hans Kasper Bickel of Gamlion near Stallikon.

10. Elsbeth Meili, b. 2 Sep 1617. She married on 8 Jul 1635, Jacob Vollenweider and moved to the Pfalz.

11. Rudolph Mayli, b. 21 Mar 1619. He was age 18 in 1637 with parents, age 21 in 1640. He moved to Alsace in 1651 for one year and then returned to Zurich. He died in 1676 at Breitenmatthof near Aeugst in Zurich. He was not an Anabaptist. He married first Elisabeth Huber and secondly Katharina Lupold.

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Married: 1603 in Birmendorf

Children

Anton Thoni MEILI b: 31 AUG 1606

Martin MEILI b: 26 DEC 1607 in Birmensdorf

Katherine MEILI b: 8 OCT 1612

Hans Jacob MEILI b: 29 OCT 1614

Rudli MEYLI b: 21 MAR 1618/19

Children

Anton Thoni Meili b: 1601 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Verena Meili b: 1605 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Thoni Anton Meili b: 1606 in Switzerland

Martin Meili b: 1607 in Altenberg, Birmensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland

Felix Meili b: 1610 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Barbara Meili b: 1611 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Katharine Meili b: ABT 1612 in Stallikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland

Hans Jakob Meili b: 1614 in Zurich, Switzerland

Regula Meili b: 1616 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Anna Meili b: 1617 in Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Elsbeth Meili b: ABT 1619 in C1618, Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Rudolf Meili b: 1619 in Hottingen, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Martyr's Mirror

HANS MEYLI, SR., AND HIS SON'S WIFE, ABOUT THE YEAR 1638*

In the Knonow Bailiwick, the persecution, at this time, broke out with great violence, so that at one time about thirty thief catchers** entered, as by storm, the houses of the Anabaptists and defenseless Christians, made many watch-fires, raged and stormed, broke open doors and windows, ran with bare swords through the houses, and afterwards drank and rioted worse than soldiers.

Among others there was also vehemently assailed the house of an old man, named Hans Mevli, a minister of the church, who himself had been imprisoned in the year 1637; but now they also took along his son Martin's wife, notwithstanding she had an infant at the breast.

She was bound hard, and confined in the convent prison called Othenbach, fed for a long time on bread and water, and very severely treated, in order to cause her to apostatize; but she continued steadfast in all her temptations, and was ultimately, through the grace of God, wonderfully delivered from bonds. Subsequently, being enceinte, she was again apprehended, and taken to the council house at Zurich, thence to Othenbach, and finally into the hospital, and there made fast to a chain, until the pains of travail came upon her, when she was loosed from her bonds, and seeing an opportunity for deliverance, once more escaped the persecutors' hands. See Tract of the year 1645, by Jer. M., fol. 4, B. and fol. 5, A.

NOTE.-The authorities laid their hands also on the property, movable a's well as immovable, of the old man, and realized from the sale of it fourteen thousand guilders, all of which they kept for themselves, without making any restitution.

NOTE.-On the 3d of May, A. D. 1639, the two sons of the afore-mentioned Hans Meyli, namely, Hans Meyli, Jr., and Martin Meyli, together with the wife of this Hans Meyli, were apprehended and imprisoned at Zurich, where there was inflicted upon them, especially upon the men, much misery, vexation and harm, with fetters and handcuffs, as well as iron shackles, which were put upon them twice, in order to make them apostatize from their faith.

Their children, as poor, forsaken orphans, were put out among strangers, which, as may easily be supposed, must have caused no small sorrow and anxiety to the hearts of these imprisoned parents; nevertheless they remained unchanged in their faith, refusing to apostatize therefrom, notwithstanding their love to their afflicted children, to whom they could not come, until they, on the Friday before Easter, A. D. 1641, after three years imprisonment, together with others of their fellow brethren, were delivered, in an unexpected manner, from their bonds, keeping a good conscience. See Tract of the year 1645, by Jer. Mang., fol. 5, A. B.

• The exact time, when this occurred, is not mentioned by the writers; but we find, from the circumstances, that it was about the year 1638.
  • There were with them two preachers (says the Swiss author), who went along with the thief catchers and helped them.

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1648 - 1660 Mennonite Refugees

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I [assume Richard W. Davis, site owner] have put this list together from emigration lists for Canton Zurich, court records of Bern and the list of Anabaptists taken at the time of their arrest for attending an illegal worship meeting at Steinsfurt, Germany.

Hans Meili, b. c 1585, of Stallikon, Zurich. -- Father

He was in Duhren, Pfalz by 1650.

Martin Meili, b. 1608, Stallikon, Zurich. -- Son

He went to Alsace in 1647 and to the Pfalz

by 1661.

Hans Meili, b. 1615, Stallikon, Zurich. -- Likely Son, Hans Jacob

He was living at Ittlingen, Pfalz by 1652.

Hans Meyli(Meili) was imprisoned as an old man 1637 with sons Hans (Jr.)and Martin,for about 3 years for their religious beliefs. Two women named Barbara and Elizabeth,probably the wives of Hans and Martin,were imprisoned 1639 and escaped the prison(Ottenbach Prison).Hans Martin's property was confiscated,and they were all held in chains and handcuffs;his sons' children were put out among strangers.Hans was a Swiss Brethren(Mennonite)Preacher and author. In 1645 Martin Mylin and Jere Mangold chronicled the Mennonite troubles. In 1658 Martin published his "Mennonite History". Ref.:Mennonite Encyclopedia,Vol.III,p.666. Hans Martin's first wife,Trini Wintsch,gave birth to three children:Tryni,born 18 June 1631;Barbel b.c1632;and Hans(Jr.)b.c1634. His second wife Anna Bar gave birth to Elsbeth,1636;Verena,1637;Jakob c1639;Hans Peter c1645;and Anna 1645. Some claim that Jakob c1639 was father of Martin the immigrant,but according to H.F.Eshleman's "Annals of the Swiss German Settlers of PA.",1917,Martin the immigrant was son of Hans Jr.(no mention of Jakob being the immigrant's father). Ref. also "Mirror",p.1052;and "Rupp",p.74. An interesting descendant of this Martin Meili/Meyli appears to be James Lewis (J.L.) Kraft (1874-1953),the cheesemaker.

1. Verena Meili, b. 10 Feb 1605, Stallikon. She was dead by 1613.

2. Tönni Meili, b. 31 Aug 1606, Stallikon. He married Anna Schnebeli. He was an Anabaptist and died by 1634 at Stallikon.

3. Martin Meili, b. 26 Oct 1607, Stallikon. He died at Dühren by 1668. He moved to Alsace in 1647 and then in 1650 to Dühren, Germany. He married first about 1630 Katharina Wintsch and second after 1634 Anna Bär, daughter of Anabaptist Osli Bar of Ebertswil. He was called an Anabaptist in 1634 with his wife Katherina Winschli. He was called an Anabaptist at Stallikon in 1637 and 1640 with his wife Anna Bähr. Their marriage was unblessed. The son of Martin Meylin was from Dühren in 1661 when he attended an illegal worship meeting at Steinsfurt, Germany. According to Anna Bar's uncle Jacob Bar's estate papers in Switzerland in 1668 she was called the widow of Martin Meili living in the Pfalz and was reported to be an Anabaptist.

4. Felix Meili, b. 1 Jan 1610, Birmensdorf.

5. Barbara Meili, b. 31 May 1611. She died by 1613.

6. Katherina Meili, b. 8 Oct 1612. She married by 1636, Heini Funk of Obermettmenstetten.

7. Hans Jakob Meili, b. 29 Oct 1614, Stallikon.

8. Hans Meili, b. Sep 1615, Stallikon. He and his wife, Barbara Bähr were called Anabaptists in 1637 and 1640 at Stallikon. No children in household in 1637. He was imprisoned with his wife Barbara Bähr and his brother Martin on 3 May 1639. They were released in 1641. He was a carpenter. He lived at Ittlingen, Germany in 1652. He was of Ittlingen in 1661 when he and his son attended an illegal Anabaptist meeting at Steinsfurt, Baden, Germany.

9. Anna Meili, b. 2 Sep 1617. She married Hans Kasper Bickel of Gamlion near Stallikon.

10. Elsbeth Meili, b. 2 Sep 1617. She married on 8 Jul 1635, Jacob Vollenweider and moved to the Pfalz.

11. Rudolph Mayli, b. 21 Mar 1619. He was age 18 in 1637 with parents, age 21 in 1640. He moved to Alsace in 1651 for one year and then returned to Zurich. He died in 1676 at Breitenmatthof near Aeugst in Zurich. He was not an Anabaptist. He married first Elisabeth Huber and secondly Katharina Lupold.

HANS MEYLI, SR., AND HIS SON'S WIFE, ABOUT THE YEAR 1638

"In the Knonow Bailiwick, the persecution, at this time, broke out with great violence, so that at one time about thirty thief catchers** entered, as by storm, the houses of the Anabaptists and defenseless Christians, made many watch-fires, raged and stormed, broke open doors and windows, ran with bare swords through the houses, and afterwards drank and rioted worse than soldiers. Among others there was also vehemently assailed the house of an old man, named Hans Mevli, a minister of the church, who himself had been imprisoned in the year 1637; but now they also took along his son Martin's wife, notwithstanding she had an infant at the breast. She was bound hard, and confined in the convent prison called Othenbach, fed for a long time on bread and water, and very severely treated, in order to cause her to apostatize"

She didn't though and got free. However she was again apprehended, and taken to the council house at Zurich, thence to Othenbach, and finally into the hospital, and there made fast to a chain, until the pains of travail came upon her, when she was loosed from her bonds, and seeing an opportunity for deliverance, once more escaped the persecutors' hands.

NOTE.-On the 3d of May, A. D. 1639, the two sons of the afore-mentioned Hans Meyli, namely, Hans Meyli, Jr., and Martin Meyli, together with the wife of this Hans Meyli, were apprehended and imprisoned at Zurich, where there was inflicted upon them, especially upon the men, much misery, vexation and harm, with fetters and handcuffs, as well as iron shackles, which were put upon them twice, in order to make them apostatize from their faith. Their children, as poor, forsaken orphans, were put out among strangers, which, as may easily be supposed, must have caused no small sorrow and anxiety to the hearts of these imprisoned parents; nevertheless they remained unchanged in their faith, refusing to apostatize therefrom, notwithstanding their love to their afflicted children, to whom they could not come, until they, on the Friday before Easter, A. D. 1641, after three years imprisonment, together with others of their fellow brethren, were delivered, in an unexpected manner, from their bonds, keeping a good conscience. See Tract of the year 1645, by Jer. Mang., fol. 5, A. B.