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About Caspar Scherch
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TAS E Born Sumiswald in Canton Bern, Switzerland. ERP2 gives the date 1666.7.8. Married Barbara Grundbacher, 1672.11.5 1736,, (i1728.8.23) about 1695 in Switzerland. Swiss refugee in the Palatinate. Arrived on "Mortonhouse" in Philadelphia on Aug. 24, 1728 at the age of 65 with several of his adult children. Settled in Schoeneck in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co., PA in about 1732. His birth date of 1663.3.9 is from Thomas A. Sherk article in Our Mennonite Immigrants. The Swiss spelling was Schurch. The name in America became Scherch, Scherich, Sherrick, Sherk, Sherck, Shirk. He may have had daughters Martha and Jeanette. See Henry Yocum Shirk's book. He is reported to have married Helene Myer, 1681 a French-Swiss girl, but all of his sons had daugthers named Barbara and no Helens. PMH Vol. XV #1 query John S. Shirk 3000 Butter Road Lititz, PA 17543 -lb- E in Sherk Book
TAS E Born Sumiswald in Canton Bern, Switzerland. ERP2 gives the date 1666.7.8. Married Barbara Grundbacher, 1672.11.5 1736,, (i1728.8.23) about 1695 in Switzerland. Swiss refugee in the Palatinate. Arrived on "Mortonhouse" in Philadelphia on Aug. 24, 1728 at the age of 65 with several of his adult children. Settled in Schoeneck in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co., PA in about 1732. His birth date of 1663.3.9 is from Thomas A. Sherk article in Our Mennonite Immigrants. The Swiss spelling was Schurch. The name in America became Scherch, Scherich, Sherrick, Sherk, Sherck, Shirk. He may have had daughters Martha and Jeanette. See Henry Yocum Shirk's book. He is reported to have married Helene Myer, 1681 a French-Swiss girl, but all of his sons had daugthers named Barbara and no Helens.
PMH Vol. XV #1 query
John S. Shirk
3000 Butter Road
Lititz, PA 17543 -lb- E in Sherk Book
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Caspar Scherch's Timeline
| 1663 |
March 9, 1663
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Sumiswald, Trachselwald District, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
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| 1698 |
September 18, 1698
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Sumiswald, Bern, Schweiz (Switzerland)
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April 3, 1701
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Sumiswald, Bern, Schweiz (Switzerland)
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August 20, 1704
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Sumiswald, Canton, Bern, Switzerland
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December 19, 1706
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Sumiswald, Bern, Switzerland
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1706
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Canton, Basel, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
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1708
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Canton, Basle, Switzerland
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October 24, 1709
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Sumiswald, Trachselwald District, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
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