1. HANS1 FLOHRI was born 1610 in Switzerland?, and died April 11, 1685 in Birkenau, Darmstadt-Hesse, Germany. He married APOLLONIA.
Notes for HANS FLOHRI:
According to a German family tradition that, to an extent, is corroborated in Birkenau municpal records, Hans Flohri and his wife, Apollonia, came to the town in the 1640's. Birkenau had been devastated both by disease and the effects of the Thirty Years' War. Acordingly, the mayor sent out for skilled workmen, and Hans came as a carpenter.
Despite his skills, Hans is listed as a farmer in town records. That he possessed carpentry skills, though, is indicated by the fact that his descendants became the town's wagon makers. When his great grandsons Johannes and Adolph migrated to America in 1754, they both founded a long line of carpenters and farmers.
Birkenau records list but one son, Peter, who, like his father, was born outside the town, perhaps in Switzerland. It is entirely possible that Hans brought with him several children to Germany, and that they, after a period of time, moved elsewhere.
In 1655, Birkenau records indicate that Hans was worth about 200 gulden, about average for the town, but only a little above poverty level. The relative income situation for his descendants changed very little, and this may have been the primary reason for his great grandchildren, George, Johannes, and Adolph emigrating to America.
More About HANS FLOHRI:
Fact 1: Was Cantzlerin Hofbauer on May 23, 1655 at Birkenau City Hall
Fact 2: Was a carpenter called in by town because of lack of carpeneters
More About APOLLONIA:
Fact 1: Burial date is July 14, 1671
Child of HANS FLOHRI and APOLLONIA is:
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PETER2 FLOHRI, b. 1637; d. January 31, 1719/20, Birkenau, Darmstadt-Hesse, Germany.
