Anna Buman

  Noted events in her life were:

• Surname Spelling. ^{800,801,802,803} 1. Buman is of English and German origin. The surname of Buman is also known as Bauman and Bowman. It originally referred to the servant of the peasant. This surname begins with “Bau” which comes from the German word Bauer, which means to build. Baumann is terminated by the term “mann”, the general Germanic term for a vassal or human being. The thought is that the Baumann's were men who built. In English, “Buman” described a person who planted only five or ten acres and occupied a small cottage.

2. The Buman families lived in Durenmoos, Switzerland and were known to be an Anabaptists family. The progenitor of the Buman family was Uli (Julius the farmer) who was born about 1369. He lived in Zimmerber, Zurich, Switzerland. Anna Buman's roots, in all likelihood extend back to Uli, but the connection has not been proven.

3. Hans Rudolph Bauman of Horgerberg was imprisoned in Zurich in 1640 after having been robbed by the state church and the government of his property worth 3000 guilders. Bauman the Younger is listed as a prisoner in Bern, Switzerland in 1710 in the upper hospital.

4. The Baumann genealogy begins with a 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 17 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 King William III of England). Here the old progenitor lived until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when he set face for America. Wendel is identified as a settler in the Pequea Valley in 1712.

Thus far the Mennonite colonists in Pennsylvania were nearly all of Dutch descent, and came either from Holland or from the Dutch congregations in Lower Germany. In 1707 began the steady immigration of the Palatines, which lasted throughout the century. The first contingent of this new element to arrive at Germantown (a little north of Philadelphia) was the Kolb brothers' -Martin, John and Jacob, from Wolfsheim near Worms. Wynand Bowman immigrated in the same year

Anna married Jacob Ryeff, son of Hans Ryeff and Elsi Unknown, about 1589 in Wadenswil, Switzerland. (Jacob Ryeff was born on 29 Sep 1566 in Wadenswil, Zurich, Switzerland ^712,713 and died about 1636.)