♀Adelheit Blonier

Adelheit Blonier (about 1566 – about 1635) was a woman of Röthenbach im Emmental, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, who married Peter Oppliger there on 12 March 1584. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Adelheid Oppliger (christened 1588).

Life

Adelheit was probably born at Röthenbach about 1566, a few years before the parish began to keep a register of christenings in 1569, and she is said to have been a daughter of Hans Blonier and Adelheid Neuenschwander. Peter Oppliger and Adelheit Blonier were married at Röthenbach im Emmental on 12 March 1584. Two daughters were christened there: Verena on 3 September 1586 and Adelheid on 21 November 1588. Adelheid married Christian Stauffer at Röthenbach on 18 June 1610. Adelheit is said to have died at Röthenbach about 1635.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through her daughter Adelheid and Adelheid’s son Hans Stauffer, and they meet again in Mary Magdalene Koons (1885–1977), the mother of Ora Emogene Walrath, whose parents Thomas Koons (1855–1938) and Magdalena M. Koons (1852–1923) both descended from Adelheit.

Notes

What rests on the registers

The marriage and both christenings rest on the Röthenbach parish register. It enters the marriage of 12 March 1584 as “Petter Opplinger / Adelheit Blonger”, and the christening of 21 November 1588 as “P. Peter Opliger / Adelheit Blonier. f. Adelheit” (father Peter Opliger, mother Adelheit Blonier, daughter Adelheit). Verena’s christening on 3 September 1586 is in the same register. Her surname is written Blonger at the marriage and Blonier in 1588.

Birth, parents and death

Her birth about 1566, her death about 1635 and her parents’ names come from an online family tree that gives no source for them; the same online tree gives her mother no source of her own. The Röthenbach register of christenings opens on 12 June 1569, after her birth, and her marriage entry names no parents. A Hanns Blönier sat among the Chorrichter, the members of the parish morals court^W, at Röthenbach in 1587, but no entry ties him to Adelheit. No other Blonier household had children christened at Röthenbach between 1569 and 1625.

Other children

An online family tree adds two sons, Daniel in 1591 and Peter in 1597. They are not entered in the family here.