View source for Komes, Teunis (1535-after 1607)

Teunis (<em>Tönis</em>) Komes (Comes, Commerts), owner of the Gatherhof at [[Rheydt (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)|Rheydt]], in 1591 signed the [[Concept of Cologne (Anabaptists, 1591)|Concept of Cologne]] as a representative of the Mennonite congregation at München-Gladbach, Rheinland, [[Germany|Germany]]. He was an ancestor of the [[Gottschalk, Jacob (1666-ca. 1763) |Jacob Gottschalk]] who immigrated to [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and was a preacher in the church in [[Germantown Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)|Germantown]]. The family name of Kernes, spelled in different ways: Kommes, Komms, Kohmsen, was also found in [[West Prussia|West Prussia]] before 1700. They may have been related to the Rhineland branch of this family.
= Bibliography =
Niepoth, W.  "Jakob Gottschalk and His Ancestry." <em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em> 23 (January, 1949): 35-47.

Reimer, Gustav E. <em>Die Familiennamen der westpreussischen Mennoniten</em>. Weierhof: Mennonitische Geschichtsverein, 1940: 112.

Risler, Walter. "Das München-Gladbacher Mennonitenverzeichnis von 1654." <em>Beitrage zur Geschichte rheinischer Mennoniten</em>. (Weierhof, 1939): 94-130, especially 109.
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