Ottenbach ZH - baptism - 1747 - Sidler - Elisabetha

Kent Gardiner

https://www.gatheringgardiners.com/2019/12/elisabeth-sidler-1747-1807.html

WSeelentag

1747 Den 10. Xbris: Lisabeth Sÿdler

H(ans) Jacob Sÿdler u(nd) Anna Hug, zu Ottenbach

Melcher Berli zu Ottenbach / Lisabeth Meÿer Hanß Häberligs H(aus)fr(au) zu Bickwil

Kent Gardiner

https://community.familysearch.org/en/profile/WSeelentag Thank you, Wolf,

I have looked at these documents and often wondered what treasures they hold. The witnesses will be interesting. I assume Melcher may or may not be married and Lisbeth and Hans are a married couple.

We will have to see what the Pastors do with her name. Lisabeth is an interesting start. The Sidler's may have decided on her name from Lisbeth Meÿer.

All the best, KG

WSeelentag

"I assume there is no way to tell from the entry if the witness are a married couple?"

They are definitely not married to each other!

Lisabeth Meÿer is Hanß Häberlig's wife ;-).

Kent Gardiner

https://community.familysearch.org/en/profile/WSeelentag

Hans Häberlig: FS ID: 2HMS-SZ4 - born 1683- died 1765.  Had nine children with Barbara Galmann.

Second wife:  Lisbeth Meÿer born 1704 died 1754,  two children. So Jakob Sidler and Anna Hug chose an older people for Elisabeth's birth witness couple. Hans Häberlig died in Ottenbach at 82 years old on 14 July 1765.

One of the nice things about Switzerland is that whenever a person and place are mentioned in documents it is almost always their birth place.