{"id":1836,"date":"2026-05-18T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonadurer.ch\/women-nee-bonadurer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:44:24","slug":"women-nee-bonadurer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bonadurer.ch\/en\/women-nee-bonadurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, n\u00e9e Bonadurer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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History is mostly written down by men\u2014and so the daughters, mothers, and wives of the family rarely appear in documents. Yet they carry the family forward. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A woman who is named in the records: Stina Banadurera of Versam<\/b>. In 1691<\/b>, she marries the \u201cGerichtsw\u00fcrth zu Donath\u201d\u2014and thus brings the name Bonadurer to the Domleschg. <\/p>\n

In 1945<\/b>, it is a woman who leads to a change of name: the mother of Martin Josef Derungs from Vignogn had married a Bonadurer. The son then officially applied to change his name\u2014from Derungs to Bonadurer. <\/p>\n\n

The invisible halves<\/i><\/h3>\n

In every generation of the family there were women who cared for their parents, raised the children, and managed the farms when the men went off to foreign military service or seasonal work. Their names often appear only as a marginal note in the parish registers. <\/p>\n

Anyone who knows more about Bonadurer women\u2014whether as foremothers, daughters, wives, or sisters\u2014is warmly invited to get in touch. Every story matters. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe daughters of a lineage often carry the name on longer than the sons\u2014only under a different flag.\u201d\u2014 Folk wisdom<\/small><\/blockquote>\n

The name lives on through two daughters<\/h3>\n

Roland Bonadurer has two daughters: Nicole<\/b> (born 1977) and Nadja<\/b> (born 1980). Both live in Bern today. Through them, the name Bonadurer continues into the next generation in the 21st century. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1691<\/span>\nStina Banadurera\n(Donath)<\/span><\/div>\n
1945<\/span>\nMrs Derungs<\/span><\/div>\n
1977<\/span>\nNicole Bonadurer<\/span><\/div>\n
1980<\/span>\nNadja Bonadurer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Call for information<\/h4>\n

If anyone knows more about the women of the Bonadurer family\u2014old letters, marriage or death certificates\u2014please get in touch.<\/p>\nContact \u2192<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Women who carried the family forward<\/h1>

The story of the Bonadurer family does not end where a daughter took another surname through marriage. On the contrary: many women of the Bonadurer lineage carried their origins, their family ties\u2014and with them part of the family\u2019s history\u2014into other households and lineages. <\/p>

Church registers and old family records still give us occasional glimpses into these lives today. They show how closely the Bonadurer were connected over generations with families such as Gartmann, Joos, Henny, Buchli, or Jehli. <\/p>

Barbla Bonadurer of Versam, born 1672<\/h3>

The records of the schoolmaster Niclaus Caseli from Arezen offer a particularly personal glimpse. In them, he notes the birth of his future wife Barbla Bonadurer from Versam. Niclaus Caseli was born in 1671, Barbla a year later, on January 2, 1672. <\/p>

On July 4, 1698, the two were married according to Christian custom. Their daughter was born the very next year. Caseli describes her birth as a gift and a joy for the family. <\/p>

All the more striking is the later entry: in August 1715, the daughter died while still very young. With this news, the surviving family records break off; no further children are mentioned in them. <\/p>

Trina Bonadurer, 1626\u20131708<\/h3>

Trina Bonadurer married into the Gartmann family at the Boden near Arezen. In the death register of the old Versam church book, there is a remarkable entry by the parish priest Luzius Caviezel on her death in 1708. He refers to the 82-year-old Trina Gartmann, n\u00e9e Bonadurer, as his wife\u2019s grandmother. <\/p>

The brief note shows how closely connected the old Versam families were with one another, and how the Bonadurer lines continued through their daughters in other lineages.<\/p>

Stina Bonadurer, 1660\u20131712<\/h3>

Stina Bonadurer, too, married into the Gartmann family. Her husband, Christa Gartmann at the Boda, was a son of Trina Gartmann-Bonadurer. <\/p>

When Stina died in 1712, parish priest Luzius Caviezel described her in the church book as his beloved mother-in-law. One of her daughters was therefore married to the Versam parish priest, who served the parish from 1703 to 1713 and later looked after his home parish of Duvin for many years. <\/p>

Another daughter married Jos Joos at the Wintergad\u00e4. Through these connections, the family lines branched further into various long-established Versam lineages. <\/p>

Among the descendants were, for example, Christian, who married Anna Catherina Hunger in 1735 and moved to the Foppa farm, as well as Barbla, who in 1738 married Paulus Henny at Hiischera in Versam.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Elsa Bonadurer, 1687\u20131734, Fan<\/h3>

Elsa Bonadurer from Fan married Marti Joos and thus became the foremother of an extensive Joos line in Versam. The marriage produced eight children, whose descendants can be traced across many generations. <\/p>

Especially interesting is the connection back to the Bonadurer family: Elsa\u2019s daughter Magdalena, born in 1718, married Master Hans Bonadurer from Arezen. From this line later developed the family branches known as \u201cBonadurer in the M\u00fclli\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cBonadurer at the Boda\u201d<\/strong>. <\/p>

Stina Bonadurer and Rageth Buchli<\/h3>

Another Stina Bonadurer is mentioned in the old Versam church book as the wife of Rageth Buchli. The two were the parents of Marti Buchli, born in 1727. <\/p>

From him descends a Versam Buchli line that can be traced over generations. A later descendant was J\u00f6ri Buchli, who was married to Elsbeth Walther of Valendas\u2014whose mother, in turn, came from the Bonadurer family of Versam. <\/p>

In this way, the same families were repeatedly connected with one another over several generations.<\/p>

Zilgia Stina Bonadurer, 1728\u20131786<\/h3>

Zilgia Stina Bonadurer from Fan married Lazarus Jehli of Cal\u00f6rtsch in 1753.<\/p>

Her daughter Barbla, born in 1765, married the clerk of the court and sworn juror J\u00f6ri Buchli of Versam in 1787. Here, too, a Bonadurer daughter carried the family connections forward into another important Versam lineage. <\/p>

Elsbeth Bonadurer from Fan<\/h3>

Elsbeth Bonadurer married Bartholome Buchli at the Oberguot in Versam. Her descendants carried the family history far beyond the region. <\/p>

This line included the schoolmaster and lieutenant Bartholome Buchli, born in 1838. He emigrated to America on April 10, 1870, where he worked as a teacher and land surveyor. <\/p>

His uncle Jeremias Buchli, born in 1796, was a schoolmaster and farmer and lived with his large family in the Bandur.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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