I am descended from Hans Zimmerman. He and most of his family removed from
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the 1750's to the Lincoln County area of
North Carolina. I have printed a history of the Carpenter family.
I had assumed or guessed for years that my Zimmerman line came from
Wattenwil in the Kanton of Berne. This is where Heinrich Zimmerman, the
major Zimmerman/Carpenter pioneer of Lancaster Co., Pa., had originated.
Because of the work of Richard Warren Davis in his three volume set of
Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners, I believe a different lineage for our
Zimmermans.
I believe that this family originated in Steffisburg, which is near Thun,
and not too far from Wattenwil. This family became Anabaptist in the middle
of the 1600's. Or at least some members of the Zimmerman family did.
In the 1690's a number of the Zimmermans left Steffisburg. While some went
to the Rhine-Pfaltz, a number went to a village in Alsace. Its French name
(which is what it is known today) was Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines. Its German
name was Markirch. The Zimmermans apparently stayed in Alsace for a
generation or so and then removed to America from there. Another member of
the family resided in Monbeliard, also in Alsace.
I have been unable to definitively prove the family and make the Steffisburg
connection through Alsace. Mormon records exist for Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines
but I have not had the opportunity to look through them.
I assume that you are descended from Peter Bricker of Lancaster Co., Pa. I
suspect a close relationship existed with Hans Zimmerman and Peter Bricker.
I suspect it was a European familial relationship or a religious one. So
far we have not proven a kinship.
I hope I have helped without being too wordy. I would like to continue our
discussion. You might want to email me separately to further discuss these
families.
Thanks,
Robert Carpenter
----- Original Message -----
From: <dbricker(a)cyburban.com>
To: <ZIMMERMAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: [ZIMMERMAN-L] Hans Zimmerman, 1732 on ship Pink Plaisance, from
where?
I am trying to find out where the Hans Zimmerman, who came over to
American in
1732 on the ship Pink Plaisance, came from. I mean town or village in
Germany
or Switzerland.
Thanks much
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