Katharina Streit

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family Origin. It is thought that the Streits may have been associated with the Teutonic Knighs, following them into Switzerland where the Knights had a branch at Koniz. The family settled around Englisberg, Switzerland.

Streit [stright] m. (-(e)s, pl. -e or igkeiten) dispute, quarrel, wrangling, argument, altercation, (coll.) squabble, row (über (acc.), about); strife, struggle, conflict, battle, fight, clash, brawl, feud, controversy, contest, difference (over); lawsuit, litigation (over); in - geraten, (have) a quarrel, clash, (coll.) fall out; in - liegen, be at loggerheads or variance; - suchen , pick a quarrel. Streitaxt, f. battle-axe; (fig.) die - begraben , bury the hatchet. Streitbar, adj. warlike, militant, belligerent, fighting, combatant, combative, valiant; quarrelsome, pugnacious, disputatious.

Katharina married Christian Gehman, son of Christian Gehman and Madlena Keller, about 1699 in Grosshöchstetten, Switzerland ⁵⁷⁶.^,577 (Christian Gehman was born on 1 Mar 1678 in Grosshöchstetten, Switzerland ⁵⁷⁸, christened on 1 Mar 1678 in Oberthal, Grosshochstetten, Canton Bern, Switzerland and died after 1745 in Peri La Hutt, Palatinate.)