All known German emigrants to America with the name Ketternring, etc. have been traced back to Hans Jacob Kettenring. He arrived at Landstruhl as a traveling journeyman butcher. He married 1) Margaretha Metzel before 1590. She died in 1601. He and his second wife, Anna Evan, were married in 1601.

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John Hans Lidi (ca.1715-1760) and his family emigrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia in 1744, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. He anglicized his name to John Leedy. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, California and elsewhere. Includes some detail about the family origins in Switzerland. Some descendants immigrated to Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.