Greetings,
It appears that a number of us are descendants of Christian Zug and his
wife Anna. Anna's last name appears variously as Kanabel, Kannabel,
Kanabell, and Knoble. I suspect that "Kanabel" is an Anglicized spelling.
"Knobel" is plausible (I think it means "dice" in German), but I'd
like to
add to the confusion by speculating that her surname may actually have been
Kneubühl (also spelled Kneubuehl or Kneubuel). There appears to have been a
Swiss family of this name from Steffisberg in Canton Bern, and at least
some of them appear to have been Anabaptists. Do any of you have any
thoughts on the matter?
I also have some questions about a few other points, that perhaps some of
you with more ready access to original sources can answer.
1) Is it known when the 3 Zug brothers (Christian, Moritz, and John)
arrived in America? One reference indicates that Moritz, at least, arrived
aboard the "Francis & Elizabeth" on 21 Sep 1742. Did the 3 sail together or
arrive at different times? Is it possible that their father (believed to
have been John Zug) also sailed with them? Is the ship passenger list
available anywhere?
2) Where were they living in Europe before their migration to America? Did
they come more or less directly from Switzerland or did they live for a
while in Germany?
3) How strong is the evidence that their father was named John and their
grandfather Hans (note that both John and Hans are short forms of "Johannes")?
4) Is anything known about the relationship of the "3 brothers" to
immigrant Ulrich Zug?
Any enlightment would be welcome!
Cheers,
Eric Zurcher
CSIRO Division of Entomology
Canberra, Australia
E-mail: ericz(a)ento.csiro.au