| Descendants of Christian Crabill (also seen as Craibill and Creybill and Grabill) |
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Ancestry of Ulrich Krahenbuhl, husband of Madlena Stauffer Ancestry of Madlena Stauffer, wife of Ulrich Krahenbuhl and daughter of Nicolaus Stauffer and Trina (Catherina) Lehman Stauffer Liechti is Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, Swiss German Liechti (SOURCE: http://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/Liechti). The name is also seen as Liechty, Lichdi, Lichty, Leichty, Leighty, Leichti, Liechti. A Mennonite family name, Lichti is likely derived from Lichtgut, a farm that gets much sun located at the end of a valley near Signau, in the Emmental, canton of Bern, Switzerland. The first known home of the family was near Landiswil in the Bowil district of the canton of Bern. The name appears in the earliest records of the area, dating back to the latter part of the 14th century. The earliest known Anabaptist in the family was Jacob Liechti, who was born about 1540 near Landiswil, where he was a farmer (SOURCE) |