Bouvier and Kauffman Families

Isaac Kauffman

Person Chart

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Elsbeth Mergerdt 1657 Michael Kauffman
Barbara Kauffman
Isaac Kauffman
Jacob Kauffman
Elsbeth Kauffman
Christian Kauffman
Magdalena Kauffman
Christina Kauffman

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 20 Nov 1653 Erlach, Seeland, Bern, Switzerland
Marriage 18 Feb 1676 Erlach, Seeland, Bern, Switzerland
Occupation Anabaptist minister
Death 1715 Steffisburg, Thun, Bern, Switzerland

Notes
Was an Anabaptist Minister. Jailed in Thun, Switzerland, in 1785. Later moved to Alsace, France, where he joined the Amish when they got started in the 1690s.

Note: Occupation: Tauferlehrer - Exiled Taufer preacher
Note: Descended from the Kaufmanns in the vicinity of Thun and the neighborhood of Steffisburg, Heimber, and Homberg. (Kauff p.1)

He became a Mennonite teacher by 1680, and was constantly on the move to avoid arrest. In 1694 he was said to be living in some Alp pasture near Schangnau; in 1699 he was a Mennonite teacher of Homberg, District of Thun, and was sent to Berne, where the authorities desired to banish him to Amsterdam for deportation to the East Indies; in 1700 he had returned to Berne, and was again hunted; he was at Steffisburg in 1701; and in 1709 he was still being pursued by the authorities, now at Grindelwald, Canton or Berne. Married Feb. 18, 1676.@S244@@S244@@S244@