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About Jacob Jacob Gochnauer
On the shores of beautiful Lake Zurich is a small village named Gruningen and here was the ancestral home of the Gochenours.
It is recorded in the "Ausbund" which is the original hymn book of the Mennonites, published in 1751, that one Jacob Gochnauer of Gruningen suffered persecution in 1654 because he adopted the faith of his choice, that is held to the tenets of- the Mennonite Church. He was imprisoned in a castle dungeon and his family was turned out in the fields.
We find evidence of the Gochenours living in the German Palatinate. This is an area along the Rhine River and in the Seventeenth century was divided into many small principalities. The rulers of these provinces at various times allowed persecuted religious sects to live in their dominions subject to various discriminations.
In "The Mennonite Quarterly Review", Vol. 14, (1940), is published a list of Mennonites permitted to live at Churpfalz Landen in 1685, and among the list is the name of "Heinrich Gochnaur" saying he had eight children. These Mennonites we permitted to live in this province on paying a fine to the ruler. The lists were made to show who had paid the fine.
Another list published in the Quarterly shows that the following Gochenours were living in this vicinity. Jacob Gochnauer and Hans Gochnauer. Later lists for 1738 and 1740 omit the names of Jacob and Hans Gochnauer. Large numbers of the inhabitants of the Palatinate came to America in this period. Often the rulers of the several German states revoked their consent or license to the religious dissenters mostly Mennonites, and began to persecute them. Also a series wars devastated the area causing the unhappy people to leave the country and come to America.
The large number of German-Swiss persons emigrating to Pennsylvania aroused fears in the Governor and Council of that state that these persons would make Pennsylvania a German state. Consequently laws were passed requiring that the captain of each ship make a list of aliens (persons other than Englishmen) that he was bringing to America, that each person sign an oath acknowledging themselves to be subjects of the King.
(I give credit here to an online family tree of Gwendolyn Bailey from which I extracted this story.)
This information was originally extracted from Chapter I of HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB GOCHENOUR, Robert Lee Evans [3512 North Third Street; Arlington, VA 22201], 1977, Carr Publishing Company, Inc., Boyce, VA 22620.
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Jacob Jacob Gochnauer's Timeline
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1696
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Kohlhof,Bad Rappenau,Heilbronn,Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
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1717
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August 1722
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Conestoga, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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1722
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Kohlhof, Heilbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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1732
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Strasburg Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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1735
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Manhaim twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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1735
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York, Lancaster, PA, USA
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1735
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Pennsylvania, usa
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April 1736
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Manhaim twp, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colony of America
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