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Dr. of Physics Hans Heinrich Neff

Male 1682 - 1745  (63 years)


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  • Name Hans Heinrich Neff  [1, 2, 3] 
    Title Dr. of Physics 
    Born 1682  Bavaria, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 10319 
    Died Apr 1745  Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Person ID I10319  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father (Unknown) Neff 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1 Apr 1663  Zürich, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F16  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F18  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Franca (Unknown) 
    Married Bef 1739 
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F3235  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 (Unknown) 
    Married Abt 1704  Bavaria, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Abraham Neff,   b. 1719, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1793, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)  [natural]
     2. Catherine Neff,   b. 15 May 1711, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1789, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [natural]
     3. Daughter Neff,   b. Abt 1721, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     4. John Henry Neff,   b. 1705, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1784, New Market, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)  [natural]
     5. Johannes Hans Jacob Neff,   b. 1709, Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Feb 1717, Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 8 years)  [natural]
     6. Barbara Neff,   b. 1715, Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Apr 1743, Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)  [natural]
     7. Esther Neff,   b. 1724,   d. 1750  (Age 26 years)  [natural]
     8. Elizabeth Neff  [natural]
     9. Magdelena Neff  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F3237  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1682 - Bavaria, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Abt 1704 - Bavaria, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Apr 1745 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Hans Heinrich NEFF was born about 1682 probably in Dühren, Germany. Hans Heinrich died April 1745 in Lancaster Co., PA, Lancaster Twp. He married (1) ____ about 1704 in the area of Dühren or Bonfeld Germany. There are 5 known children of Hans Heinrich NEFF and ____ (see Generation 2). Before 1739 he married (2) Franca _____ who was the stepmother of his 4 surviving children in 1745. She was probably the widow of Heinrich Funk who died in 1735.

      This Neff family immigrated from Bonfeld, Germany in 1717 with his brother and family. Bonfeld is a town about 10 miles east of Dühren. They left Bonfeld on 23 May 1717 with the families of Heinrich Funk and his son Martin Funk. They were listed as Anabaptist. This Bonfeld Church record does not give the first names of the Neff brothers. But the Pennsylvania records of 1717 and 1718 show that the Neffs associated with these Funk families were Hans Heinrich A2-Line and Jacob Neff D-Line. Heinrich Funk and Hans Heinrich Neff settled next to each other on the Conestoga River in Lancaster, Twp. Jacob Neff D-Line and Martin Funk (son of Heinrich Funk) settled in Coventry Twp. Chester Co. PA. (See the D-Line) These Neff and Funk families must have been closely related because the children did not intermarry. We do know that the great grandparents of Heinrich Funk were Jacob Funk married to Anna Neff from Ober Mettmenstetten in the Knonau District of Canton Zurich, Switzerland. But this marriage would not have prevented intermarriage of these Neff and Funk families in PA.

      Recent research has proven that Dr. Francis Neff and family came in 1719 and was not one of the Neff brothers that immigrated from Bonfeld in 1717. See A1 Dr. Francis Neff concerning his relationship to Dr. Hans Heinrich Neff A2 and see the D-Line for more on Jacob Neff’s family.

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;;), Database online.
      Record for Hans Henry Neff

    2. [S22] OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;;), Database online.
      Record for Hans Heinrich Neff

    3. [S22] OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;;), Database online.
      Record for Heinrich Naf