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The Allaman Heritage, Durward B. Allaman / Richard J. Henry Johannes Jacob Allemong of St. Stephan in the territory of Canton Bern, Switzerland married in Hornbach to Magdalena Zuercher (Buechtler) of Frutigen in the territory of Bern," Reformed Church records, original burned in WW2, partial reconstruction by Hans Fuch (Fox), unpublished. This married couple resided in Diedendorf (Dr. Hein, Diedendorf pages 125-126) for on 14 Mar 1728 Magdalena Zuercher (Buechtler), wife of the "Adjunkt im Scholl" Johannes Alleman, died in Diedendorf (Hein page 125). The Hornbach record shows that they took part in the immigration of Reformed Swiss to that area. This immigration occurred in several waves from 1660 until 1730 filling the gaps in the population of this area resulting from the Thirty Years War. So our ancestry starts with Johannes Jacob Allemong, 1656 computed, a member of the Reformed church of St. Stephan in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. This is south of Lake Thun, Switzerland. In 1715 he is found as a farm tenant in Bassel, Vinstigen county (Hein, Diedendorf, page 150), same in 1717 (Hein Diedendorf page 209). He was married in 1690 in Hornbach (Hans Fuchs, Ermittlungen, page 100) to Magdalena Zuercher (Hans Fuch Diedendorf), Reformed of Frutigen in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. She died 14 March 1728, no age given. Later he resides in Diedendorf as a resident of the castle, Château d'Diedendorf, with his two sons, Jacob and Christian. He died 25 April 1731 in Diedendorf, aged 75 years.
The Two Emigrant Brothers, Jacob and Christian Maria Margaritha Valentin Marx Jenffer, a widow of Valentin Jenffer, computed 1667, was married September 1730 in Diedendorf as the 2nd wife of Johannes Jacob Alliman (Hein Diedendorf, page 126). She was the daughter of Abraham Valentin of Altweiler of Sarrewerden county. Her first husband was the Swiss schoolteacher in Diedendorf, Marx Weiss, who died 2-October-1712 Diedendorf. She is listed on the 1742 census of Diedendorf as follows: The widow of Johann Jacob Alliman, day-laborer, aged 75 years, Reformed, 1 house, gardens, meadows, acreage, fortune bad, cattle. The kids were prepared and not surprised by the death of their stepmother on 1-Nov-1749 Diedendorf, aged 82 years, 3 months, 10 days (Hein Diedendorf page 416), for already on 2-Nov-1749, one day after the burial, an inventory was made and the property divided by the three kids (Hein Diedendorf, page 14) remaining in Diedendorf. If there were more kids from the first marriage, say kids living overseas, this inventory should normally enumerate them. But if they went away and had already received their share from their deceased father and their deceased mother there was no need to list them in the inventory. So there may or may not be more children of Johannes Alleman. Johannes Jacob Allemann and Magdalena Zuercher (Buechtler) along with sons Christian Alleman (b. 1691), the grandfather of the Warren County, Illinois Allaman families, and his brother, Johann Jacob Alleman (b. 1701), lived in the palace of Diedendorf, Château d'Diedendorf. Diedendorf Reformed church records give their professions as a "tenant in the castle" in Diedendorf. The castle, founded in 1559, lies on a hill overlooking the Saar valley. In 1559, the concept had been that the inhabitants of Diedendorf should go to church in nearby Wolfskirchen. But this belonged to Sarrewerden County and half to Vinstigen County and the service was Lutheran. The Diedendorf inhabitants were not happy with this. In 1570, the village was given as a feudal tenure to the nobleman Johann Streiff Von Lauenstein. W. Habicht, in his studies of the villages founded in 1559, thinks that this was a kind of remuneration for him in attracting new settlers and thus enhanced the economic power and tax of the county. He started in 1577 to have a fortified nobleman’s castle farm built there, the so called castle. This castle is still standing today, encompassing ruined and still inhabited buildings. He also initiated the building of the Reformed church in Diedendorf 1588-89, for he himself was Reformed. So in this castle, we find the Allemann Families in Diedendorf. The above Johannes Allemann was, in "Adjunkt im Schlob." Normally "Adjunkt" means "vice-." But in the castle was the Rentmeister, responsible for the collecting of taxes. Christian Allemann, was in 1711-1728, Hofman im Schlob bei Streiff von Lauenstein, farm tenant in the same castle, and the Johann Jacob Allemann was also at the time Hofman, or farm tenant, in the same castle. Christian Alleman is the only Alleman that appears on a census 7-Aug-1723, No. 8 Christian Alleman, 2 children This census is signed by the Reformed schoolteacher of Diedendorf, it looks as if he lists only families with children, not all families, thus it is perhaps a census of families with children under 14 or perhaps these are the only children in school age. Christian Alleman, farm tenant of the Streiff von Lauenstein family, in the castle in Diedendorf, sponsors in 1711, 1719, a native of St. Stephan Canton Bern, Switzerland. Other records referring to Allemann/Allemand in Dr. Hein's family register of the Diedendorf Reformed church. Listed them here for completeness and together with the records from Dr. Hein’s family register of Rauweiler Reformed church records we will get one more complete Allemann family in Schalbach. Allemand-Anna Margaretha of Schalbach, sponsors 1721 In this chapter, I have quoted often from A. Giradin's four books on the history of and the inhabitants of Hellerogen, Kirberg, Lixheim and Goerlingen and "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America" by Annette Kunselman Burgert. The books are full of the history and of the people of that area. Giradin is himself a native of Helligren. |
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