The work of Richard Warren Davis led Harry
Galley in his genealogy search from Germany
to Switzerland in search of our Galli line in Eggiwil, Switzerland. In his book,
Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners Vol. II printed in 1997, Davis
has a complete genealogy on this Peter Galle'/Galli family. Davis roams Switzerland and
gathers genealogy from small towns about the Mennonite families there. It is
customary in these countries for towns to keep books on each family in the
community, thus giving generations of genealogy. It is on page 159 in Davis’s
book that our Peter’s father is found and many generations back to an Ulrich
Galli born 1555 in Eggiwil, Canton Bern, Switzerland.
The
Swiss genealogy tracks the Galli's from the early 1500's when a Peter Galli, b.
about 1490 in France, migrated to Switzerland to make his home in Eggiwil.
It ends with Peter Galli/Galle b. about 1664 in Switzerland who then migrates to
Germany where he embraced the Mennonite faith. See the New research page
for more information on Peter Galli's migration to a new country. The line then continues on the German Genealogy page.
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John
Galle found this article (review of a book) that gives a particular time frame
for the crushing of the Peasant Revolt in 1653.
http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/history/faculty/f_details/rebel_suter9.htm
The
extensive and artillery-resistant fortifications of
Bern
[1][46]
and the skills of the Confederate armies’ experienced leadership in
fortifying open terrain overcame the peasant armies’ resolve for action
outside
Bern
on May 28 and in the Aargau on June 3 and the “war” ended swiftly with the
peasants agreeing to peace terms invoking the earlier arbitration agreements.
Why this sudden collapse into the moderate, “mild” position remains
unclear. Suter speculates that the peasants did not have artillery and yet he
also shows they could have gotten some.[2][47]
No doubt the financial means and full-time soldiers for multiple sieges were
lacking and the crop and dairy cycles called, but we miss the texts that could
tell us how the peasants recognized, while they were pushing things as far as
they could reasonably push them, their outclassed, “bypassed” position. In
any case, the dominoes fell yet again the other way, as the peasant
leaderships made separate peace agreements with their authorities between June
4 and 6, foregoing all political demands and trusting in their lords’
promises, if not of amnesty then of limited punishments. While peace
agreements were being concluded between the Lucern patricians and subjects
(the Stans Peace), the Bernese authorities already repudiated their agreements
on the 7th and set the course for the others by arresting suspects
far in excess of the numbers the peace terms had stipulated, interrogating
some with torture and punishing those convicted of rebellion with fines,
confiscations, galley slavery and death. It astonishes when Suter
characterizes this period as a return to “political everydayness” (der
politische Alltag).[3][48]
With
search and arrest units occupying villages and combing the countryside for
fleeing rebels by mid-June, public executions under way by early July and the
reversal of Lucern’s urban constitutional democratization on the 11th,
widespread accusations of “tyranny” and breaches of contract came together
in one final radicalization of the peasant resistance.
Although not mentioned by name, suspect that justice was quick back then,
which implies Ulrich Ueli Galli was probably executed early July 1653
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Deutschen (German Translation)
Harry Galley had been working with Urs Hostettler on some questions they had
about the Galli line in Switzerland. Urs had gone over some of this
questionable data at a meeting
in Worb and as of June, 2001 has confirmed the
following (what they suspected to be true).
Urs confirms a double adultery on the Giebel in 1664. Peter Galli was
baptized 5/13/1664 as an illegitimate child of Hans Galli and Elisabeth
Salzmann, while Han's wife, Verena Hofer was accused for adultery with Christen
Salzmann. (Taufrodel, church record, Eggiwil 1664)
The Galli family, Hans and Verena (who were really not married)
with children, left the Giebel around 1665. In 1666 they are found in
Aeschau, a group of houses further down
the Eggiwil valley.
The exact birth date for Verena Hofer is unknown because there is a lack in
the Signau Taufrodel (church book) after 1623, but she was definitely from the
Schwendi, opposite to
the Giebel. She was born sometime after 1623,
probably very young in 1649, as she bore children until 1681.
This new information gives us corrections to Verena's birth date and
Parentage as well as the birth date of Hans Galli. There was a Han's Galli
b. 1614, oldest son of Ueli Galli but due to the Bernese custom and law (which
states that the youngest son gets the house and land after the father's death)
Hans on the Giebel must be younger than Peter, who was b. in 1616. The
first Han's b. 1614 may have died as a child.
*The Bernese Church contain no noting of dead persons, as reformator Ulrich
(Huldreich)Zwingli forbid any kind of cults for the dead. This keeps us from knowing the
death of Han's
Galli b. 1614 (Ur Hostettler)
Our Hans Galli fathered 17 children, some of which were out of wedlock
including our Peter. Men, in those days, were not brought to court but the
women were and the children were
probably not treated well. (HDG)
This information has lead Harry to ask some interesting questions. Who
took care of our Peter? Was it Elisabeth Salzmann? Is this the
reason Peter learned the occupation of we
aving? Is this why, after
visiting his real father Hans in Aeschau, Peter was rejected by his step mother
shunning him because his father had him out of wedlock? Possibly for these reasons, Peter left the valley to see his Aunt Barbara in Germany where
his father's past would not effect his life and Peter embraced the Mennonite
faith there.
Giebel
in Switzerland where Ueli Galli lived
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The Church in Eggiwil
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To view some photo's of
Eggiwil, try the following web sites. To translate German sites into
English, go to the link below (Babelfish) then type in the url (www address)
where you see http: Select German to English on the translation
option. Have fun!
Babelfish translator
Try the sites below on the translator or click on them for the German
version.
Click here for a picture of Eggiwil
www.eggiwil.ch/dorf_galerie.asp?TYP=GAL
www.emmelink.ch
This one
may not translate. Once on the site click on the picture then go to Land &
Leute. When it comes
up click on the left side for Photo of Eggiwil.
www.eggiwil.ch In
German only. Once there
click on the picture
www.berghaus-eggiwil.ch
Bed and Breakfast in Eggiwil that belongs to
Ruth and Hans Kern. This one
has the option of English. When you get on click on the British Flag.
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Emmental
Valley in Eggiwil, Switzerland
where the Galli's
Resided.
The
Giebel is owned by Urs Haldimann and Hans Kern ownes the Berghaus
The
Giebel was built in 1697 by the Galli family and was the property of Ueli Galli
in Eggiwil,
Switzerland.
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Winter
scene of the Geibel
Swiss map
The
Farm was owned by the female Galli lines that married into the Haldimann line.
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