hegnauer.family
hegnauer.family

Switzerland

Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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Mapped offline 27 Sep 2026 from the variant-spelling harvest of the same day (Variant-spelling harvest, FamilySearch historical records), following Mapping every Hegnauer (family reconstruction, offline); edits file edits/2026-09-27-map-variants.json. Every record is index-only (FamilySearch); no image has been read. The earlier Luzern and place-less entries of the first mapping are in Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish; the people who belong to the lines below are listed here as well.

Correction, 27 Sep 2026: this file was first written with the "'Schwyz' index series" of 1590–1736 as its first section. That series is the register of Volketswil ZH, the parish of Hegnau: DGS 8120584 = Film 889427, item 1 (Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Volketswil, Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1588–1801). The index gives only "Schweiz", and FamilySearch standardizes that as "Schwyz". The series, its people and the 149 entries harvested since are now in Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801. No entry of the study comes from the canton Schwyz. The other "Schwyz" entries of the study are Ardez GR, Wülflingen ZH, Liestal BL and Uster ZH (see volketswil.md), and tools/fs_places.py now keeps FamilySearch's "Schwyz" out of the data. The name of this file is kept so that links to it still work; it now covers only central Switzerland.

Summary

  • Luzern Seetal (Catholic), now from 1584. 175 records (19 to people of the first mapping), 160 people added (106 Hegnauers). Pfeffikon (from 1584: Jagli × Margreth Thomman; Rudolff × Dorothea Marta Wyler; Melchior × Anna Sutter; the marriages of 1627–1667; Jacobus × Maria Blattner and Joannes × Elisabetha Kreienbühl, children to 1685), Schongau (1618–1737: Udalricus × Anna Bütler; Jost × Barbara Nill; Kaspar × Ena Keller; Jost × Margaritha Müller; Joannes × Elisabetha Meyer), Hochdorf (1608–1676), Aesch (1620–1739), Emmen (1613), Ebikon (1630), Hitzkirch (1645), Altishofen (1672–1689), Eschenbach (1693), Richenthal (1681); and Cham ZG, where three "Hogenauer" siblings married in 1700–1703 (possible Hegnauers; cf. Maria Verena × Georg Dominicus Haussel, Cham 1731).
  • A lead joining lines (geographic only): Pfeffikon adjoins Seengen AG, the second old Hegnauer citizenship (Familiennamenbuch). The Pfeffikon Hegnauers are there from 1584; the Seengen registers are not filmed, and no record joins the two. If the Seengen family is the Seetal family, the Swiss lines reduce to two centres, Zürich (Elgg, Uster, the villages) and the Seetal.
  • Surnames: Hegnauwer is the usual form (Hegnawer, Hegnatter, Hegnasser, Hegnauter, Hegnarwer, Hegnaunder in Luzern). The Luzern entries of 1630–1685 are in Latin (Joannes, Jacobus, Mariae), those of Pfeffikon before 1630 in German.

Chart format as above: Name (b./bapt. – d./bur.) [H-ID] {occurrence IDs}; × introduces a spouse; children are indented under their parents' marriage; ‹link: probable/possible› marks a parent link that is not proven (reasons in the evidence list). People already in the study before 27 Sep 2026 keep their H-IDs (H0001-H1449); the people added from the variant harvest are H1450-H2189. Dates are those of the FamilySearch index; no register image has been read (index-only).

Luzern: Pfeffikon, 1584–1733

No family link: Hansli Hegnauer (– bur. 12 December 1645) [H1949], Elsbethli Hegnauer (– bur. 29 October 1645) [H1950], Anna Maria Hegnauer (– d. 18 April 1652) [H1951], Melchior Hegnauer (c.1655 – bur. 23 April 1733) [H1947], Barbara Hegnauer (c.1659 – bur. 3 May 1733) [H1948].

Luzern: Schongau, 1618–1737

No family link: Anna Hegnauer (– d. 23 August 1647) [H1997], Jacob Hegnauer (– bur. 31 May 1630) [H1964], Aegidius Hegnauer (– bur. 6 January 1656) [H1999], Georgius Hegnauer (– d. 25 September 1681) [H1998], Christophorus Hegnauer (– bur. 1703) [H2000], Catharina Hegnauer (– bur. 19 June 1707) [H2001], Henricus Hegnauer (– d. 24 November 1717) [H1992], Maria Hegnauer (– d. 16 November 1721) [H1994], Elisabeth Hegnauer (– d. 16 December 1721) [H1996], Anna Maria Hegnauer (– d. 9 October 1729) [H1993], Margaritha Hegnauer (– d. 5 December 1737) [H1995].

Luzern: Hochdorf, 1608–1676

No family link: Margaretha Hegnauer (– bur. 12 February 1619) [H2024], Anna Hegnauer (– bur. 22 April 1651) [H2025], Barbara Hegnauer (– bur. 10 February 1676) [H2026].

Luzern: other parishes, and couples of the Luzern series with no place indexed

No family link: Casparus Hegnauer (– bur. 29 April 1620) [H2027], Barbara Hegnauer (– bur. 7 January 1647) [H2030], Elisabetha Hegnauer (– bur. 8 March 1693) [H2042], Anna Hegnauer (– bur. 9 January 1681) [H2045], Maria Hegnauer (– d. 8 March 1739) [H2031].

Zug: Cham, 1700–1703 ("Hogenauer", possible)

  • Maria Anna Hogenauer [H2062] {O05164} × Joan Heinricus Suter [H2063]; m. 15 February 1700, Cham
  • Beat Michael Hogenauer [H2064] {O05167} × Anna Maria Sidler [H2065]; m. 24 February 1703, Cham
  • Joan Leonti Hogenauer [H2066] {O05166} × Verena Sidler [H2067]; m. 1 October 1703, Cham
  • Barbara Hegnauer [H2068] {O05057} × Johannes Huber [H2069]
  • Barbara Hegnauer [H1945] → Joannes Hegnauer [H1943] × Elisabetha Kreienbühl [H1944]: probable — baptism indexed '27 March 1876' (a misread 1676), parents Hanss Hegnawer × Elisabethae 'Frinnbäel' - read Kreienbühl
  • Barbara Hegnauer [H1970] → Casparus Hegnauer [H1143] × Ena Keller [H1969]: possible — baptism names Kaspar Hegnatter/Hegnasser × Ena Keller; the Kaspar is taken to be Casparus (m. 1643, b. 1623) in a second marriage - possible
  • Anna Hegnauer [H1971] → Casparus Hegnauer [H1143] × Ena Keller [H1969]: possible — baptism names Kaspar Hegnatter/Hegnasser × Ena Keller; the Kaspar is taken to be Casparus (m. 1643, b. 1623) in a second marriage - possible
  • Maria Hegnauer [H1972] → Casparus Hegnauer [H1143] × Ena Keller [H1969]: possible — baptism names Kaspar Hegnatter/Hegnasser × Ena Keller; the Kaspar is taken to be Casparus (m. 1643, b. 1623) in a second marriage - possible
  • Adults identified with a baptism (occurrence links):
    • Casparus of Schongau (m. 1643) is the Casparus buried there in 1702, b. 1623 (probable), and probably the Kaspar × Ena Keller of 1652–1664 (possible).
    • Barbara, b. 1652 (Kaspar × Ena Keller), is the Barbara buried at Schongau in 1723, b. 1652 (probable).
    • Melchior, b. 1584, is taken to be the Melchior × Anna Sutter of 1613–1621 (probable) and the widower who married Maria Büelman in 1627 (possible).
    • The Volketswil identifications of this list (Andreas, Marx, Hans Rudolf, Rudolf × Susanna Kuhn) are in Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801.
  • Year misreadings: two Pfeffikon baptisms are indexed 1875 and 1876 with the parents of 1675–1678 (Jacob × Maria Blattner; Joannes × Elisabetha Kreienbühl). They are read as 1675 and 1676 (probable).

Left unplaced

Barbara "Hegani" × Joseph Bousch, 1696 (surname doubtful). Jacob Fischer (b. 1653, bur. 1706, parent "Meister Hegnauer") is a Volketswil entry: see Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801.

Open questions

  1. Pfeffikon and Seengen: the Seengen registers (not filmed) and the Pfeffikon register images would show whether the Seengen Hegnauers of the 19th century descend from the Seetal family of 1584.
  2. The Luzern Catholics of 1630–1739: are the Schongau, Hochdorf, Aesch and Pfeffikon families of the 1640s–1680s one family? Jost × Barbara Nill (1643–1649) and Jost × Margaritha Müller (1657–1674) may be one man, as may the two Melchiors who married at Pfeffikon in 1650.

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