Johannes Niklaus Kistler, 17221778 (aged 56 years)

Name
Johannes Niklaus /Kistler/
Name
John Nichols /Kistler/
Family with Anna Maria Magdelena Brossman
himself
17221778
Birth: 1722Auerbach, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death: October 23, 1778Albany, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
wife
17221743
Birth: about 1722 29 21 Waldangelloch, Württemberg, near Heidelberg, later in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death: April 19, 1743Albany, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Marriage MarriageApril 19, 1743Tulpehocken, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
-2 months
daughter
17431822
Birth: January 14, 1743 21 21 Tulpehocken, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Death: about 1822Lincoln Co, Missouri, USA
3 years
daughter
17451820
Birth: 1745 23 23 Tupehocken, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: January 17, 1820Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
3 months
son
17451804
Birth: April 13, 1745 23 23 Tulpehocken, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: October 24, 1804Albany, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
6 months
son
17451809
Birth: October 19, 1745 23 23 Goshenhoppen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: August 28, 1809Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
3 years
son
17481790
Birth: October 18, 1748 26 26 Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 1790Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA

Kistlers in Auerbach

The Kistler-connection is of special interest, since this involves a possible tie to Switzerland. At the start of the Thirty Years War (1618), there were some 200 inhabitants of Auerbach. By the end (1648), due to combat and plague, as few as three (and maybe a few more hiding in surrounding villages). The community was resettled in good part by French-speaking Huguenotts (many from Switzerland) and Waldensians (normally Italian Protestants). The French speakers received a number of privileges to draw them to Auerbach. The Kistlers may well have been part of this group, though I know nothing of their language-group; the Swiss Reformed included chiefly French-, but also German-speakers. The name Kistler itself sounds more German (or German Swiss).