Johann Michael Schneider Sr. (1698 - 1737)

Born 19 Feb 1698 in Langwieden, Pfalz, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara (Putman) Schneider — married about 1725 in , , Germany

Descendants

Died 17 May 1737 at age 39 in Gerhardsbrun, Zwe, Nuedlinger, Germany

Biography

Johann was born on 19 February 1698 in Langwieden, Pfalz, Germany. He was the son of Jacob Andreas Schneider and Elisabeth Neumann.^[1][2]

Johann died at the age of 39 on 17 May 1737 in Gerhardsbrun, Zwe, Nuedlinger, Germany.^[3][4]

Johann was buried after 17 May 1737 in Labach Cemetery, 2 mi. from Gerhardsbrun, Germany.^[5]

Research Notes

Notes from external profile

Note:  !DEATH: The Schneider ancestors are buried in the Babocher (Bocher) churchyard 20 miles from Gerhardstbrun, Nuedlinger, Germany.

GERHARDSBRUNN, GERMANY -- information from Neal Umstot removed email for privacy who got it from Otto Mueller's history book about Gerhardsbrunn and its inhabitants.

Gerhardsbrunn, Germany is a farming village, about 30 miles from the French border in the Duchy of Zweibrucken in the heart of the Rhenish Palatine. In the 1700s it was comprised of only 15 houses and farms. The village existed prior to the Thirty Year War but it was destroyed and abandoned during that war. In 1702 a charter was granted to reorganize the village of Gerhardsbrunn. The charter stated that the village was for farming only and that no tradesman could settle in the village. The village consisted of approximately 2200 acres and no one farm could be less than 100 acres, allowing for a maximum of 22 farms. The village was laid out so that the houses, church, etc. were all at the center with the farms stretching out as spokes.

By 1760 the village was settled and all of the land committed. Most of the villagers had become related through marriage. The limited land, large families and a system of primogeniture left little hope of farm ownership for the many young farmers. So many went to the "New Land" or America to find opportunities -- many, such as the Schneiders, the Hohs, the Rauchs, the Kieffers and the Muellers ended up in Brothers Valley, Somerset, Pennsylvania, or York or Berks counties, Pennsylvania. Some went to Hagerstown, Maryland. The village people had become a tight group to the exclusion of most others and Otto Mueller laments in his book, Gerhardsbrunn, the loss of so many young farmers.

Neal Umstot's cousin, Chestore Devore, visited Gerhardsbrunn in 1981. It is small and not on a map, but he was able to find the village through the German post office. Chester said that the Gerhardsbrunn terrain was similar to that of Bedford and Somerset counties in Pennsylvania. He met Otto Mueller who wrote the history book about Gerhardsbrunn. Otto wrote in his book that after church services, the Lutheran minister or town chronicler would read letters from the "Auslanders" but after 1840 the letters stopped and as Otto put it, "Sadly, the new American generations had lost interest in the old country."

RESEARCH LEAD: Blanche Pederzolli authored a Schneider family book. In it she mentions that "it is hard to believe that three gravestones in Somerset County noted that the interred was born in Gerhardsbrunn -- not that the deceased was born in Germany, nor the Palatine, Pfalz or Bavaria, but in a small insignificant farming village of 15 houses and not even on a map." Obviously the town of Gerhardsbrunn was important to those who came from there.

Other marriages

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Jakob Andreas Schneider married Elizabeth Neumann on 13 September 1694 in Langwieden, Germany. The couple had 6 children: Anna Margaretha Schneider, Johann Michael Sr. Schneider, Anna Catharina Schneider, Hans Velten Schneider, Anna Maria Schneider and Johann Walther Schneider.^[3]

Issues to be checked

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Sources

1. ↑ Birth: Abbreviation: Database Records. Title: Database Records. Subsequent Source Citation Format: Database Records. BIBL Database Records. TMPLT TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Database Records. Citing: TMPLT FIELD Name: Page Note: belonging to Audrey Dalrymple of West Allis, Wisconsin. Copy sent to me. Says Michael Schneider (Sr.) was born 1690 in Gerhardsbrun, Zwe, Nuedlinger, Germany. (accessed 7 May 2021)
2. ↑ Birth: Abbreviation: Database Records. Title: Database Records. Subsequent Source Citation Format: Database Records. BIBL Database Records. TMPLT TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Database Records. Citing: TMPLT FIELD Name: Page Note: "Descendants of Johannes Georg Schneider" sent to me by Bill Snyder of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, 2003. Says Johann Michael Schneider was born 19 Feb 1698. (accessed 7 May 2021)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Death: Abbreviation: Descendancy Chart Title: Descendancy Chart Subsequent Source Citation Format: Descendancy Chart BIBL Descendancy Chart. TMPLT TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Descendancy Chart FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Descendancy Chart FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Descendancy Chart. Citing: TMPLT FIELD Name: Page Note: "Descendants of Johannes Georg Schneider" sent to me by Bill Snyder of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, 2003. (accessed 7 May 2021)
4. ↑ Death: Abbreviation: Database Records. Title: Database Records. Subsequent Source Citation Format: Database Records. BIBL Database Records. TMPLT TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Database Records. FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Database Records. Citing: TMPLT FIELD Name: Page Note: from Neal Umstot who got his information from an LDS Patron, Mrs. Sorenson at FamilySearch.org. (accessed 7 May 2021)
5. ↑ Burial: Abbreviation: History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. Title: History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. Subsequent Source Citation Format: History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. BIBL History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. TMPLT TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE History compiled by Wm. Howard Morrison, MD. Citing: TMPLT FIELD Name: Page (accessed 7 May 2021)

See also:

• FamilySearch ID: L7FR-9HQ.