Local copy: ../Family Tree Archive/bern-registers/Pieterlen/Pieterlen_02_Tauf_Ehe_Toten_1683-1758.pdf (207 images). Baptisms 1683–1758 to image 150 (1744 at 120, 1754 at 140, 1756 at 146, March 1757 at 148, Jan 1758 at 150); marriages from image 151 (1684 at 152, 1691 at 154); deaths after. Pieterlen parish includes Pieterlen, Meinisberg, Lengnau(?) and Romont; entries carry a village abbreviation in the margin. Next volume: K Pieterlen 3 (ID 227957), baptisms 1758–1788.
Peter Sprunger, baptized 20 November 1757 (image 149, right column)
den 20. Wintermonat [November 1757]. Infans: Peter. Par[entes]: Conrad Sprunger, [occupation or residence, partly illegible; possibly ”… im Lengnau”], [and] Elsbeth Grob[er] [von Sumiswald]. Testes: Peter Grob[er], … and Catharina Grob[er], … von Sumiswald.
The date is exactly the birth date the Sprunger family gives for Peter Sprunger (1757–1840) (“November 20, 1757 at Pieterlen”). The father’s name, Conrad Sprunger, is clear. The mother’s surname and the place, uncertain in this entry, are confirmed by the 1752 marriage below: Elsbeth Grober of Sumiswald. The child was baptized in the Reformed church, which fits the family account that Peter became an Anabaptist only at his marriage.
Marriage of Conrad Sprunger and Elsbeth Grober, 15 November 1752 (image 175, right column)
den 15. Wintermonat [1752]. Samuel Grober von Sumiswald, [and] Verena Sprunger von Dießenhofen in dem Thurgäu. Item: Conrad Sprunger von Dießenhofen, [and] Elsbeth Grober von Sumiswald. Eodem Die: Jacob Sprunger von Dießenhofen, [and] Susanna Kunz[?] von Affoltern[?] in der Pfarr Kirchberg bey Burgdorf[?] … mit Attestation.
A triple wedding at Pieterlen: three Sprungers of Diessenhofen in Thurgau (probably siblings: Conrad, Verena, Jacob) married two Grobers of Sumiswald in the Emmental (probably siblings: Samuel and Elsbeth) and a Susanna Kunz[?] of Kirchberg parish. This confirms the GAMEO statement that the Sprungers came from Thurgau, and gives the mother’s surname as Grober. The godparents of Peter in 1757 were Peter and Catharina Grober, presumably her relatives.
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Record compiled 1 November 2026.
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