Benedict VERLI

Bef 1646 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Benedict VERLI
  Birth	Bef 1646	France
  Gender	Male
  _FSFTID	G1KL-BW3
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G1KL-BW3
  _UID	B199925162864BC282B32B89F66A436614E0
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I594783696	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family	Anne RETTEMOND,   b. Bef 1647, France d. 1685, Indre, Loire-Inférieure, France (Age ~ 38 years)
  Children	1. Jehan "Hans" VERLI, Verly, Werli,   b. 31 Aug 1666, Rothau, Bas-Rhin, France d. Alsace Lorraine, France
  Family ID	F536733635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  We only know these parents from the birth records of their children, but cannot find birth, marriage and death records for Benedict and his wife Anne Rettemond at this time. Ages are estimated from childrens birth records. Research Notes of Bruce (Fosnocht-12) I have in my possession a spreadsheet containing every BMD (Birth, Marriage, Death) record from the church books of Wahlern and Guggisberg in Canton Bern. In addition to every Wehrli record from those 2 parishes, I have added every Wehrli/Verli record from the church books for Waldersbach and Rothau in Ban de la Roche in Alsace. To make the spreadsheet sort and filter properly, I standardized the surname in Alsace to Wehrli, and changed the forename Jean to Hans. There is absolutely no doubt that this is the only Wehrli family that moved from Wahlern or Guggisberg to Alsace. It would be logical to assume that their son Hans(1646) was the Hans who married Marguerite Neuvillers in 1690. Many people, including myself, were guilty of making this incorrect assumption. After adding every Wehrli/Verli record from the church books for Waldersbach and Rothau into my spreadsheet, I discovered another Hans, son of Benedict Veolin (sic) and Anna Rettemond, born 31 Aug 1666 in Rothau. By sorting the spreadsheet for Hans Wehrli events by date, I was able to identify, and print out, 4 family group sheets, as follows. 1) Hans married to Anna Rothen 1675-1680, with no children and no further record. This could not be the Hans born in 1666 in Rothau, so it must be the Hans born in 1646 in Switzerland. 2) Hans having a 1st child named Christen with Barbara Utiger 25 Jan 1682, and further children through 21 Aug 1691. The Hans born 31 Aug 1666 in Rothau would be only be 15 years and 5 months old in 1682, so this must be Hans the 1646 son of Hans from Switzerland. 3) Hans having a 1st child with Marguerite Neuvillers on 1 Apr 1691 and further children until her death on 18 Mar 1708. 4) Hans quickly re-marrying Elsbeth Aeschliman 24 Jul 1708, with further children through 1719. Noticing the overlap between the mothers Utiger and Neuvillers, we must assign the Utiger marriage to the earlier Hans born 1646 in Switzerland, and assign the marriage to Neuvillers to the later Hans born 1666 in Rothau. These assignments are confirmed by one other line of data from the spreadsheet. The only one Christen Wehrli in the Alsace records was the first son of Barbara Utiger. At his marriage on 19 Jun 1708, he was identified as the son of the deceased Hans Wehrli from Switzerland, who could only be the 1646 son of Hans Wehrli and Christina Stoll from Switzerland. By default, this is the final proof that Hans, the 31 Aug 1666 son of Benedict Veolin(sic) and Anna Rettemond, was the one who married Marguerite Neuvillers.