Hans Heinrich Lotschar ¹

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Notes for Hans Heinrich Lotschar:
AKA: Hans Heinrich Latschar, Hans Heinrich Lattschar, Hans Heinrich Lotschar,
Hans Heinrich Latshaw
In 1714 came to Masmunster, Upper Alsace, as religious refugee and in 1715 to
Kuhbornascheshof in Palatine. d. 1747, Farmer and
Mayor of town of Kuhbornascheshof, Germany.
M. 1st Maria Margarethe ______ , m. 2nd Anna Maria ________. One source says
three children born to 1st marriage and eleven
to 2nd. Other source gives only one child born to 1st marriage.
Some of his six sons settled in Mehlinger, Germany and Erpotzheim, Germany, and
later came to America. His son Frantz came to
America on the "Mortonhouse", landing August 23, 1728, at Philadelphia. His son
Peter Joseph came to America in 1722 abords
the "Marlborough" and settled first in Germantown, later moved to York County,
PA. Son Abraham Joseph settled in York Co.,
PA.
[The Mennonites of the Kuhbornscheshof in the Vicinity of Katzweiler]
"The Kuhborncheshof (the name of a Hof, or landed estate), on the hill country
west of Katzwweiler, is listed as one of the larger
Mennonite settlements in the Palatinate.
The supposed origine of the estate was under the Crown Elector Karl Philipp
through the Elector's court in Heidelberg. On the date
of January 19, 1717 the Mennonite Hans Heinrich Lattschar by the 'Kipp Henges
Brennen' (by the spring on the Kipp slope) was
given a piece of land 220 acres (the acre equivalent of a Morgen is hard to
state, for it varies from time to time and place) as an
inheritance, for which he was to pay eight measures of rye and seven measures of
oats to Martin for the right to the slope on the
Lauter (Lauter, in this case refers to the river in the area).
'Kipp Henges Brennen' indicates that there was a spring that belonged to Henchen
(Henry) Kipp, and from this old name
'Kuhbornscheshof' came into existence.
Hans Heinrich Lattschar, a Mennonite, who fled for his faith out of the
Simmenthal (Simmen Valley) in the Canton Bern,
Switzerland, by way of the Alsatian cathedral (Masmunster) in 1715 into the
Palatinate, originally cultivated the land with his wife
and children and built the Hoff, (landed estate). He is the original ancestor of
the widely branched Zipp Lattschar (Latschar,
Latscha) family, who lived on the estate for 250 years, and still occupys it as
well as many other parts of the Palatinate and of the
German Confederation. Two sons of the immigrant emigrated to Pennsylvania as
early as 1728 and 1741. From there the family
spread out, even to Canada. And in later years more families moved to the USA
from Kuhborncheshof."
More About Hans Heinrich Lotschar:
Name 2: Hans Heinrich Latchar
Name 3: Hans Heinrich Lattshar
Date born 2: Abt. 1670, Simmenthal Valley, Canton Bern, Switzerland
Date born 3: Abt. 1695, Kaiserslautern, Near Manheim, Germany.

Hans married Maria Margarethe between 1680 and 1685. (Maria Margarethe was born about 1665 in Switzerland and died in 1695 in Kuhbornascheshof, Palatine, Germany.)

Hans next married Anna Maria. (Anna Maria was born about 1695 and died about 1759 in Kuhbornascheshof, Palatine, Germany.)