Ursula Mosimann

  Noted events in her life were:

• Notes of Interest. 1. The first appearance of the Mosimann family in the records as Anabaptists is in 1633, when Madlena and Elsbeth Mosemann were taken before Bernese authorities for belonging to this forbidden sect (Anabaptist). From that time until 1670 the Bernese records report nine similar cases against members of the Mosimann family. This is one of the few families that had members who remained in the Emmental region during the times of severe persecution. The name, Mosiman can still be found in Mennonite congregations today. Until 1952, Fritz Mosimann was an elder in the Langnau congregation.

a. From the Pennsylvania Archives: In 1733 alone, there were 11 Mosemans who immigrated to Pennsylvania. The ship “Muscliffe Galley” lists Johann Mosiman as an immigrant to Pennsylvania in 1744. Ulrich Christiana Mosimann came to this country from Sumiswald, Switzerland in 1857. His descendant Andrew Mosimann died in Holton, Kansas.

Ursula married Ulrich Kuehni before 1580 in Langnau Bern, Switzerland. (Ulrich Kuehni was born about 1550 in Langnau Im Emmental, Canton Of Berne, Switzerland and died about 1620.)