Wendel Bauman

Abt 1681 - Bef 1735  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Wendel Bauman  [1, 2]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1680  [3]
  Birth	Abt 1681	Alsace, France   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1681	Switzerland   [6]
  Death	Bef 7 Apr 1735	Pequea, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania   [3, 7]
  Burial	Bishop Tschatz's Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania   [8]
  Person ID	I26571	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BAM
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Hans Rudolf Buman,   b. Bef 26 Dec 1636   d. Jebsheim, Alsace, Germany
  Mother	Anna Funck,   b. Bef 25 Oct 1635   d. 1709, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age > 73 years)
  Family ID	F6610	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna   d. Bef 1735
  Children	+ 1. Anna Bauman,   b. 1703, Netherlands d. 11 Feb 1771, Weaverland, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F15885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Wynant Bauman, Bowman. Some accounts treat Wendel and Wynant as separate individuals, but there is evidence to suggest that they were the same person. If they were not, they were probably brothers, and the Anna who married Jacob Weber/Weaver was likely a daughter of one or the other of them. A thorough overview of what is known about Wendel/Wynant/Wynand Bauman, with extensive references, can be found here at Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. "Wendel Baumann, the original settler of this family, came to Pennsylvania at a very early date. He was born in Switzerland about the year 1681. When about seventeen years of age, he in company with his parents, moved to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties of southern and central Europe, by William, Prince of Orange, afterwards William III of England. Here the old progenitor lived until the beginning of the seventeenth [sic] century, when he set his face for America. He landed safely at Philadelphia, but date of landing is not known. We find that in 1709 a number of families moved westward from Philadelphia, seeking a tract of land where they might settle in one vicinity. The choice of their location was on a tract situated north of Pequea Creek, extending to the Conestogo (Their settlement was Strasburg Tp., Chester Co., now West Lampeter Tp., Lancaster Co.), containing ten thousand acres of land. The warrant for this was recorded and the land surveyed to them on October 23rd, 1710. Among these settlers we find the name of Wendel Baumann." [Ezra E. Eby, citation details below] Said to have come to America under the leadership of Rev. Hans Herr, a Swiss Mennonite minister.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3530] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13:2, Apr 1990. [S4283] Lancaster, Pennsylvania Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, database at ancestry.com based on the card file of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. [S3564] Jane Evans Best, "Bauman and Sauter Families of Hirzel, Switzerland." Mennonite Family History 10:53, Apr 1991. [S3537] Emmert F. Bittinger, "The Children of Wendell and Ann Bowman Reconsidered." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 18:18, Oct 1995. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy., place only. [S3531] A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and Other Townships of the County, Being a History of the Early Settlers and Their Descendants, Mostly All of Pennsylvania Dutch Origin by Ezra E. Eby. Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy., month and place only. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.