Margaretha Rüesch

Brief Life History of Margaretha

When Margaretha Rüesch was born on 30 August 1646, in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, her father, Bartholome Rüesch, was 24 and her mother, Ursula Bentzinger, was 25.

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Family Time Line

Bartholome Rüesch
1621–1681
Ursula Bentzinger
1620–1690
Heinrich Rüesch
1643–1691
Hans Rüesch
1645–1653
Ursula Rüesch
1657–1689
Georg Rüesch
1677–1726
Margaretha Rüesch
1646–
Bartholome Rüesch
1648–1708
Anna Rüesch
1651–1655
Hans Rüesch
1653–1692
Anna Rüesch
1655–
Elsbeth Rüesch
1658–1710
Jakob Rüesch
1660–1685
Michel Rüesch
1662–1690
Ulrich Rüesch
1665–1688
Georg Ruesch
1677–1726

Sources (3)

  • Margreth Rüesch, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
  • Bartholome Rüesch & Ursula Bentzinger Billeter Family Record, Genealogy of the Ruesch family of Sankt Margrethen, Kt. St. Gallen, Switzerland and th Rüsch family of Speicher, Kt. Appenzell, abt. 1550-1935
  • Margaretha Rüesch, "Genealogy of the Ruesch Family of Sankt Margrethen, Switzerland", Page 5 No. 114

World Events (1)

1648

All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Aloys, Hartwig, Jurgen, Kurt, Merwin.

German and Swiss German (Rüsch): variant of Rusch 1 and a habitational name from a place called Rüsch in Schleswig-Holstein.

German (Rüsch): from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrōd ‘fame, renown’. Compare Rusch 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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