Johannes Bichsel was christened on 8 April 1649, in Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland as the son of Ulrich Bichsel and Anna Hebeisen. He married Anna Salzmann on 8 June 1668, in Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Neuenschwand, Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland in 1649.
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Swiss German: cognate of German Büchsel, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of small boxes or a woodworker, from a diminutive of Middle High German bühse ‘box’.
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