Hans Jacob Brubacher

  Noted events in his life were:

• Surname Spelling. ⁷⁷⁷ The Brubacher's can be found in Switzerland as early as the 15th century in the vicinity of Horgen and Wadenswil. The initial form of the surname was Bruggbacher, which became Bruppacher and finally Brubaker. At the time this surname was adopted there lived a prominent person, in an imposing mansion near a bridge that spanned a wild mountain stream or brook, near Zolliker, on the right side of the lake of Zurich. It was he who combined the bruck or brugg, meaning bridge and bach meaning stream or brook

• Occupation. I was a farmer.

• faith. I was an Anabaptist.

Hans married Kleiann Hiestand, daughter of Jung Hans Hiestand and Verena Aeppli, in 1658. (Kleiann Hiestand was born in 1637 in Richterswil, Zurich, Switzerland and died about 1700 in Ibersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.)

  Marriage Notes:

The Brubacher's can be found in Switzerland as early as the 15th century in the vicinity of Horgen and Wadenswil. The initial form of the surname was Bruggbacher which became Bruppacher and finally Brubaker. At the time this surname was adopted there lived a prominent person, in an imposing mansion near a bridge that spanned a wild mountain stream or brook, near Zolliker, on the right side of the lake of Zurich. It was he who combined the bruck or brugg, meaning bridge and bach meaning stream or brook

Brubacher, Jacob N., The Brubacher genealogy in America Elkhart, Ind.: Mennonite Pub. Co., 1884, Children Anna Brubaker b: 1669 Jacob Brubaker b: 1678 d1751 Hans Brubacher b: ABT 1674 d. 1725 Maria Brubacher b: 1663