Welcome to the Regenos / Regenass Families Website
This
site presents information pertaining to Regenass families and their
relatives who had their roots in the Lampenberg, Niederdorf and the
Ramlinsburg regions of Baselland, Switzerland. Although oriented
around Regenass Families it also includes many other Baselland families
linked by marriage. The primary source of the Swiss information has
been church records dating back to the 16th Century maintained in the
Staatsarchiv Baselland located in Liestal.
The Regenass Geneology Database is available by clicking the box above.
Some of the other Swiss families included in this database
are
Annen, Baschong, Börlin, Brodbeck, Buess, Bürgin, Buser,
Degen, Dettwiller, Ehrsam, Eng,Erb, Erny, Fiechter, Flubacher,
Frey, Furler, Gass, Graff, Grauwiler, Grieder,
Gysin, Häner, Häfelfinger, Haldi, Hanger, Heid, Heinimann, Hersperger, Hertner, Heinimann, Jenni,
Keller, Lüdin, Madörin, Mangold, Märklin, Martin, Meier, Müller,
Mundschin, Mundwiler, Mürrin, Oberer, Plattner, Plüss, Rickenbacher, Rieder, Roth, Rudin, Salathe, Schäfer,
Schaffner, Schaub, Schäublin, Schneider, Schwitzgebel, Schweizer, Schwob,
Seiler, Senn, Soland, Spinnler, Spitteler, Stohler, Straumann, Sumi,
Suter, Thommen, Tschan, Tschopp, Tschudin, Vöglin, Vogt, Wagner,
Weber, Weibel, Weiss, Wirz, Zeller, Zingre. The names in bold are grandparents of
mine.
Some of the Regenass families who have
immigrated from Switzerland are:
Johannes Regenass baptized 20 Jan 1704 of Lampenberg, his wife,
Margaretha Spielhofer of Eptingen and their four children: Johannes,
Maria, Elisabeth, Salome, and Johan Jakob; they left for Philadelphia
in 1738, but after that there is no record. One story, unconfirmed,
claimed they were killed by indians.
Johannes Regenass baptized 28 Aug 1707 of Lampenburg, his wife,
Elisabeth Hasler and their three children: Anna Maria Ester, Salome,
and Johannes reportedly left Switzerland in 1767, secretly and without
permission and are believed to have gone to America.
Hans Jakob Regenass (my GGG Grandfather) baptized 14 Mar 1751 of Lampenberg, his wife,
Barbara Flubacher and their four children: Hans Jacob, Elizabeth,
Verena and
Christian. They arrived in Philadelphia June 22, 1803 on the
Ship Traveler. Son
Hans Jacob adopted the name Regennas and
Christian's children adopted the name Regenos. Hans Jacob's son
Christian married Elisabeth Markley, she is the Granddaughter of
Hans George Marklin and the GGGranddaughter of
Hans Peter Sumi. Elisabeth Markley is also the GGGranddaughter of
Hans Conrad Graff. Charles Melvin Regenos is the Grandson of Christian Regenass.
Rommy (Remigius) Regenass born 1 Sep 1777 of Lampenberg and his recent
bride, Magdalena Rudin (my 5th Cousin 4X removed) also arrived in Philadelphia 22 June 1803
traveling on the same ship as Hans Jakob Regenass above. Also traveling
with them were Magdalena's parents, Ursus Rudin of Arboldswil and
Elisabeth Thommen of Ramlinsburg and their other children: Heinrich,
Friedrick, Ursus, Elisabeth, Barbara. Johannes, and Johan Jakob. Rommy
adopted the name Rhegness and the Rudin family adobted Rudy as their
surname.
Johannes Regenass born 23 Sep 1849 of Niederdorf arrived in New York 2
Oct 1879 on the Ship France. His wife, Elise Pauline Schneeberger
arrived a year later with their children: Elise, Johannes, Emil, and
Elisabeth Anna. They had four more children born in America. They
adopted the name Reganess.
The children of Wilhelm Regenass (my 5th Cousin 3X removed) born 23 Nov 1845 of Niederdorf and his
third wife, Elisabeth Schaub. Most of them adopted the name Regeness.
Wilhelm and Paul arrived in New York in 1904. Fritz arrived 25
September 1905 on the Ship La Gascogne. Henry is said to have arrived
in 1912. Earnest arrived on18 Mar 1912 on the Ship George Washington.
Elise arrived 5 June 1920 on the Ship Lapland.
The children of Jacob Schlag of Waldenburg and Elisabeth Regenass born
5 Jun 1800 of Niederdorf. They immigrated to America in the years after
Jakob died in 1834. Heinrich and his brother Jacob arrived in
Philadelphia 21 Oct 1847 on the ship "Seine". Gottlieb died in 1851.
The remaining children: Emanuel, Jacob and their sister, Anna Maria
arrived in 1852 where they rejoined their bothers in Allegheny Co., PA.
Elisabeth remarried and remained in Switzerland with her second
husband, Martin Berger.
The descendants of Heinrich Regenass (my 2nd cousin 3X removed) born 23 Dec 1830 of Lampenberg. He
and his wife: Anna Maria Rosina Schneider left Switzerland in January
of February 1859 where he had enlisted for 6 years with Holland's
Military Service. He died 28 Aug 1859 and was buried in Semarang along
the north coast of Java. His infant son, Heinrich remained
in Samatra with his mother and at some point moved to South Africa. He
married Anna Barbara Kohn of Bayreuth, Bavaria on 5 Aug 1886 in Natal,
South Africa. Most of these Regenass descendants still live in South
Africa, while some of them have since immigrated to America.
The first mention of the Regenass name was found on the occasion of a
court day in August 1422 presided over by the prefect of Waldenburg, Kaspar
von Regissheim. In that court day was the accused Werlin
Regennass of Reigoldswil to have slain Kleinhans von Sumiswald at
Waldenburg. Werlin Regennass was damned in contumaciam. Here is a
transcript of the proceedings from: Urkundenbuch der Landschaft Basel,
by Heinrich Boos, 1881.
Lampenberg is accepted as the primary origin of the Regenass family
with families from Lampenberg appearing in the Bennwil church records
in 1590 shortly after the beginning of the available Bennwil church records in
1587. Additionally, some Lampenberg records are recorded in the Waldenburg
church records from about 1681 to 1708.
A Friedlin Regenass of Lampenberg was baptized 7 Dec 1539 in
Bubendorf shortly after the first church records there in 1529. After that no
other baptism of Regenass infants was available until Maria Regenass in 1678
when her parents, Rudolf Regenass and Elisabeth Häner moved to
Ramlinsburg. About the same time Johannes Regenass of Lampenberg and
Chrischona Stohler of Arboldswil also moved to Ramlinsburg; their
daughter, Anna being born in 1681
The Niederdorf church records were available since 1660, but the first Regenass
families didn't appear in Niederdorf until the baptism of Sebastian
Regenass in 1693 the son of Friedrich Regenass of Lampenberg
and Anna Bosshart of Niederdorf. The next arrival was probably Christian
Regenass of Lampenberg and Anna Thommen of Niederdorf whose daughter,
Anna Regenass was baptized in 1700.