Person:Johannes Steiner (4)

Notes for Johannes Steiner

Lived in Upper Emmenthal Valley in the Canton of Bern near the villages of Rothenbach and Eggiwil, Switzerland. Hans Steiner and Anna Brenneman were, shortly after their happy marriage forced by impending persecution and the seizure of their homestead to flee northward into the German Palatinate, which at that time was friendly to Anabaptists. Hans became a preacher in this sect, generally called Mennonites in Germany. Hans moved farther north into the Gronigen area of the Netherlands. Events moved smoothly until the Mennonites became involved in a church division.

Hans Steiner, his wife Anna, and their children made the decision to emigrate to Pennsylvania. There is no record of when they arrived there, whether they came as a group or in separate migrations, or exactly where they settled. In North America, Hans was ordained a Mennonite bishop.

Bishop Hans may have served in what is now the Hess and Hammer Creek districts in Lancaster County, PA or possibly in the Vincent Mennonite congregation in northern Chester Co., PA. He might have even been in Lebanon Co., PA

Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/o/Scott-S-Stoner/GENE1-0025.html#CHILD67633412

Sources

(Note: contains some very obvious date errors): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/p11052.htm