* Regul Aeschmann

  Noted events in her life were:

• Notes of Interest. ⁶⁹⁹ Aeschmann like all other “names of old” changed over time. This surname can be found as Aeschmann, Aeschman, Aeschlimann, and Ashleman. The name was changed to Ashleman and Eshleman when family members migrated to America.

The Aeschmann families were first known in the Langnau district of Switzerland in 1550 as recorded by Ernest Muller a noted historian. The origin of the Eshleman name is not clearly established. Imobersteg who published a work on the Emmenthal in 1876 says that the Aeschlimann family originates from Aeshlen in Gemeinde of Diesbach in the Emmenthal. It is also said that Aeschmann may mean one who came from the village of Aeschlen or Aeschi or Aeschli, which they were named after they removed to another location to denote their original home. Finally, it is thought that Aeschlimann was one who was an overseer of an Aesch, a section of cultivated land extending around a small town. In Switzerland the land round about a town was called the Aesch and the tenants lived in the center in a small cluster of houses. The overseer for the nobleman was the Aesch-man. The “li” is said to be a Swiss localism whose use made the name of the overseer the Aesch-li-mann.

The coat of arms for the Aeschmann family is a man with an Eschbaum (Ash tree), yet in another instance the coat of arms can also be found with a man holding a fish “Aeschi”.

Aeschmann's were numerous throughout the Emmenthal in Trachselwald, Summiswald and Burgdorf. Family members began embracing the Anabaptists beliefs around 1530. A Michael Eshleman was one of the leaders of the peasant war against the industrial tyranny and landed tyranny of Bern, Switzerland in 1653.

Elizabeth Aeschman, who was known as the “old fish woman”, along with her two daughters (Magdalena and Elsa) were driven out of Langnau for being an Anabaptists in 1692. Ully Aeschlimann and his wife Magdalen Herman of Rigenen were driven out of their home the same year. Michael Aeschlimann an Anabaptists deacon was imprisoned on February 27, 1710 along with Magrith Aeschlimann. Michael and Magrith were placed on a ship and sent to Mannheim. Verena Aeschlimann was a prisoner in the upper hospital in Bern on July 27, 1710. Bern authorities intended to send her by ship to Alsace in the Palatinate. Verena was able to escape from the ship in Mannheim.

Daniel Ashleman immigrated to Pennsylvania prior to 1717 when ships began keeping records of their passengers. Jacob Eshleman arrived in Pennsylvania on the ship Mortonhouse on August 19, 1729. John Eshleman arrived in Philadelphia on a ship with 269 passengers from Rotterdam by way of London and Cowes on September 21, 1731. Hans Meylin settled his passage and head money

Regul married Hans Junghans Hiestand, son of Jung Hans Hiestand and Verena Aeppli, on 4 Oct 1651 in Richterswil, Zurich, Switzerland. (Hans Junghans Hiestand was born in 1629 in Richterswil, Zurich, Switzerland ⁶⁹⁶, christened on 21 Mar 1630 in Richterswil, Zurich, Switzerland ⁶⁷⁶ and died about 1688.)