Lindauer families of Switzerland

The earliest known Lindauer in Switzerland was Todocus Lindauer (c1603-?) of Einsiedeln, who married Anna Maria Wiser. . His descendants are well documented, thanks to the work of researcher Caroline Atterton. The name Todocus is likely to be an abbreviated form of Theodoricus. The earliest recorded generations (1600s) of the Lindauer family in Germany also had a Theodoricus, which probably indicates that the Swiss Lindauers were an off-shoot of the larger Lindauer family of Germany.