From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58631
Date: 2008-05-19
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> >> ==========
>> > The part about the Anabaptist is true --my
>> ancestors
>> > named Zirkle, Keller, Bosshart, etc. fled
>> Switzerland
>> > to Alsace but had to leave Alsace when Louis XIV
>> > arrived c. 1700. Do some research
>> >
>> ============
>>
>> Wikipedia states the influx of Anabaptists lasted
>> until 1711
>> and that the French control was complete in 1679
>>
>> Something does not fit in your story
>> France already was administering this area
>> when people took refuge there.
>>
>>
>> Between 1671-1711 Anabaptist refugees came from
>> Switzerland, notably from
>> Bern. Strasbourg became a main center of the early
>> Anabaptist movement.
>> France consolidated its hold with the 1679 Treaties
>> of Nijmegen which
>> brought the towns under her control.
>>
>> Arnaud
>>
>> =======
> My Swiss ancestors were from Solothurn, near Bern but
> they were forced from Alsace by the French, who did
> not tolerate non-Catholics. As I understand, they
> arrived in America via the Netherlands.
>
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Is this the story your own family is conveying ?
When did they move ?
This forcing-out is not documented.
Why should I not think that your ancestors freely moved out
for religious reasons in order to live for real in a new promised land
their reformed faith ?
Arnaud
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