Notes:

http://www.tritthart.net/stammb/onlinep/I1182.html

Matthias married Anna Barbara Knerr on 27 Nov 1731 in Pirmasens, Pfalz. Anna (daughter of Johannes Jakob Knerr and Maria Katharina Heilbronn) was born on 16 Apr 1711 in Gersbach, Pfalz; died on 18 Dec 1781 in Gersbach, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna Margaretha Tritthart was born on 14 Jan 1732 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
2. Maria Eva Tritthart was born on 16 Feb 1734 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
3. Maria Elisabetha Tritthart was born on 29 Jul 1737 in Gersbach, Pfalz; died on 4 Apr 1795.
4. Katharina Barbara Tritthart was born on 1 Jan 1739 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
5. Jakob Heinrich Tritthart was born on 6 Apr 1742 in Gersbach, Pfalz; died on 21 Sep 1797 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
6. Johannes Jakob Tritthart was born on 30 Mar 1745 in Gersbach, Pfalz; died on 18 Jun 1747 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
7. Johannes Georg Tritthart was born on 17 Feb 1747 in Gersbach, Pfalz.
8. Anna Maria Tritthart was born on 19 Feb 1751 in Gersbach, Pfalz; died on 16 Aug 1776 in Gersbach, Pfalz.

Notes:

As far as we know by now the roots of our family are based in Switzerland. As early as 1488 Andreas Trüthart is mentioned in this place. Most interesting for us (start of teh family tree line) is Jackob Treuthardt (born about. 1555) from Zweisimmen in the canton of Bern. He married Magdalena Franz in 1583, and they had 10 children.
Note: I'm not an expert in history. I only try to write down what I know so far. If anyone knows more about our family background I will be pleased to add it here or to make corrections to this explanations. Mail
About a 100 years later one of his descendants, Johann Jakob Treuthardt (1634 - 1705), moved from Switzerland to Palatinate which today is part of Germany (southwest of Frankfurt). It was the time of the so called reformation and religious splitting. Probably Johann Jakob - as many other Swiss people by that time - left home because of his religious opinion or even religious prosecution. They headed for Palatinate because after the 30-years-war (1618-1648) Palatinate needed people to re-build the land. Elector Karl Ludwig called for workers giving them more rights in religious affairs. Johann Jakob and his family settled in Gersbach which is nowadays part of the city of Pirmasens. His name changed to Tritthard (probably just because of the pronounciation, spelling Tritthart or Truithart one can find, too).

Until the end of the 19th century Trittharts lived in the area of Pirmasens. Among others Peter Tritthart (born 1849) and Jakob Tritthart (1863 - 1953) emigrated from Palatinate to America. Jakob moved to New York, Peter went to the west, he died in Camas, Idaho.

In 1872 Johann Treuthardt moved from Zweisimmen to Finland. That's the reason why nowadays many relatives live in Scandinavia (see picture of their family meeting in 1993)

Back to the 18th century. In 1784, Johann Georg Tritthart, his wife, and three sons went from Palatinate (Hainzenthal, Sippersfeld) via Vienna to Galicia¹, which belonged to Austria by that time. Again, poor farmers, acting in good faith, followed the promises of their rulers. This time it was to settle more people in the eastern regions of the Austrian Empire of Josef II. and to hold the borders to the Catholic Poland (that is why they looked for Protestants from Palatinate).
Johann Georg stayed in Brigidau, his sons lived in Brigidau, too, and in Josefow (north of Lemberg). Part of the Family - we know of Johann Trithardt (1847 - 1927) moved even more to the east: to Bessarabia. Early 20th century some emigrated from this place to Canada (spelling Trithart or Trithardt), others were forced to go back to Germany in 1939. This call-back into the Reich was part of an agreement of Nazi-Germany and Russia and affected those Trittharts, too, who had remained in Galicia. They moved back to Austria and to Germany.

http://www.tritthart.net/stammb/offen.htm

Johannes married Katharina. Katharina was born in 1638; died in in Gersbach, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]