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My ancestor, FEHR - Johan Heinrich
was born * Flatz, canton Zürich; (I could not locate any place of that name in Switzerland)
1795 secretary of the Swiss regiment of Capt. Lachman in Venlo (the Netherlands).
x LAUSELET(H) Anna Maria (Maria)
Came to Holland on or before 1778.
His sister Elizabeth Fehr came to Holland as well.

See:
http://www.antenna.nl/~daktari/fehr.htm

We are looking for ancestors/relatives in Switzerland.

Henri van Asten
Nijmegen
Niederlande - Netherlands - Pays Bas

Goedenavond, mijnheer van Asten, Good evening, mr. van Asten

Ik antwoord in het engels: Please, see what I wrote about the subject under the thread Schweizer Regimenter in den Niederlanden of this Forum. To establish better, where you should search for your ancestor. On page 268 of Gens Nostra, 1987, you can read that most likely the officer in question was the Colonel-owner (not a captain anymore) G.Lochmann (1794-1796) of the Regiment, which once was known as the Regiment of Milord of Albemarle, and later always named after its last owner. In the State Archive of Zurich there are still a range of documents of this Regiment present. All depends of the year, in which your ancestor came to the regiment (The regiment finally marched back from Bergen-op-Zoom to Zurich in 1797) . Since he had a rather important rank, there might be a considerable chance to trace him and the place he came from, or had his so called Heimatrecht. About the Fehr family and its places of origin before 1800 I cannot give you any information (See: Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz - if he was of Swiss origin and not for example german, as in those years there were always foreigners in Swiss regiments).

With kind regards,

Bernard J.J.Krijbolder
- Editiert von Kraehe am 03.09.2007, 00:26 -

I suppose that "Flatz" means "Flaach" in northern canton of Zurich, where Fehr are citizens since before 1800 (p.e. Thomann Fehr, mentioned as "Leutpriester zu Flaach" 1466).

Kind regards

Thomas