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Original Schnake family lines in Germany

So far (December 1998) I have been able to find only five original Schnake families in Germany, two in the village of Unterluebbe and two in the nearby village of Schnathorst.  There is evidence that the two Unteluebbe families have a common origin, and it is probable that the same is true of the two Schnathorst families. There is no evidence that the families in the two villages were related, but it is logical to assume that they were. Most Schnakes in the U.S. go back to the Unterluebbe/Schnathorst Schnakes. However, there are Schnakes in Chile, South America, whose ancestors emigrated from near Cassel (Kassel), a city about 60 miles from Minden.  They came to Chile about 1890. They do not appear to be related to the Minden area Schnakes.  A small line of Schnakes settling in LaSalle County, Illinois, is from this same area and appear to be related to the Chilean Schnakes.

Remember that before the 19th century, in peasant farm families the name went with the farmstead (called a Hof), and the people took their name from that. A male marrying the heiress to a farmstead and moving to her residence would take her name. In the early 19th century, that custom began to change, and a male who married and moved away would sometimes take the name of his wife's family and sometimes not.

First let's look at the original families in Germany then the American Schnakes known to have descended from each line. Here's a brief summary:

  1. The Unterluebbe No. 19 Schnakes -- the oldest record of Schnakes -- 1572, farmstead no. 19 in Unterluebbe.
    1. The main line -- lived at no. 19 from 1572 until c. 1870
    2. The "Brink" Schnakes -- moved to 43 Unterluebbe. Descendents of Toenies Brink, who married a Schnake of No. 19, then he kept the Schnake name when she died Some of his descendents moved to no. 43 Unterluebbe..
    3. The Carl Wilhelm Schnake line -- moved to a nearby village. Carl Wilhelm was an illegitimate son of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake.  He retained the Schnake name but lived in his mother's village.  Numerous Schnakes descended from him.

      (For a generation by generation detailed account see Schnakes of Nr. 19 Unterluebbe 1572-1870)
  2. The Unterluebbe No. 33 Schnakes -- suddenly appeared 1682 at this farmstead; "no earlier records". An undocumented but logical Internet source traces these Schnakes to No. 19.
  3. The Schnathorst No. 4 Schnakes -- lived in the village of Schnathorst 2.5 miles from Unterluebbe in 1800, at Hof nr. 4.
  4. The "Kleine Bode" Schnakes--a mystery! (read below) but a hint they were connected with the Schnathorst no. 4 Schnakes.
  5. Snocker/Schnakes from the Dransfeld/Kassel(Cassel) area who are probably related to the Chilean Schnakes. A few of these Schnakes settled in Lasalle County,  Illinois. They were city people, craftsmen and members of the guilds, including the wealthy linen weaver guild, while all of the Minden area Schnakes were peasant farmers.  A relationship is unlikely. One branch of this family changed their name to Snockery.

KNOWN SCHNAKE LINES IN AMERICA

(Listed by connection with the family lines above)

The section below will give more detail on each of these families in Germany and will give details on their descendents in America.

Last revised 2/7/2000 Due to the abundance of same or similar names, I needed to find way to identify them. Which Henry or Heinrich Schnake is which? Much of the information comes from the very thorough research of Schnake descendent Donna Budzier. She used a genealogy program called Personal Ancestral File (PAF) published by the Mormons, which assigns an index number to each person. When possible, I will use her index number to identify a particular Schnake. I also have a database file with sequence numbers, and I will include these sequence numbers also. It will still be hard to keep it all straight but the numbers should help.

Schnake Line No. 1. The Unterluebbe No. 19 Schnakes:

(For a still more detailed treatment see Schnakes of Nr. 19 Unterluebbe 1572-1870) This family line is divided into three subdivisions  

a. The Original Family;
b. The "Brink" Schnakes;
c. The Carl Wilhelm Schnake line.

a. The original family:

The first German farmstead (Hof) to be called Schnake was Hof No. 19 in the village of Unterluebbe. The numbers were not applied until 1750, but the records on this farmstead show that it was called Schnake in 1572 and the farmer was Johan Schnak or Snak.1 From that time until 1869 or 70 when Karl Ludwig Hermann Schnake left for America, this farmstead was inhabited by Schnakes all descended from the original inhabitant.2  There are six Schnakes from this line who apparently emigrated to America. At this time (Dec 1998) four of these are known to have descendents in America.

ERNST HEINRICH SCHNAKE (AKA Henry) b. 22 Jun 1819, Unterlübbe 19, d. Sept 1904 Hoyleton, IL, m. LUISE BRINK (b. in nearby village of Rothenuffeln) in 1846, in Bergkirchen. Child MARY born in Germany; apparently died at sea. Came to America in early 1850s acc to a family history compiled by an unidentified descendent in 1954. (Henry's obituary says he came in 1849). Lived near New Minden, IL, for 8 yrs then moved to a farm 3 mi s. of Hoyleton, IL. Four of their six children survived to produce descendents, and they are numerous. I have a copy of the 1954 history. [RIN 807]  Click here to read his obituary.

The following five are siblings, nephews and niece of Ernst Heinrich above:

KARL GEORG LUDWIG SCHNAKE b. 19 Aug 1823, Unterluebbe 19, d. 14 Apr 1888, Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., Ind.. Married twice; (1) Marie Caroline Berning, b. 23 Nov 1819, d. 22 Nov 1852 in Unterluebbe. Two children; Georg Karl Friedrich b. 1848; no death record found in Germany, indicating he MAY have emigrated to America. Child No. 2 died in Germany in October 1854.  Married (2) Christine Wilhelmine E. Graefe, b. 12 Feb 1823, 1 child, Caroline Marie Louise, b. 25 Oct 1853, Unterluebbe, no death record, indicating she may have come to America with her parents. So far no American descendents known. [RIN 266] (He is half brother to the four below)

JOHANN HERM. ERNST HEINRICH SCHNAKE b. 26 Apr 1836 Unterluebbe 19 emigrated to America in 1852.  Source: Wolfgang Reichmann's book, Vivat Amerika; Auswanderung aus dem Kreis Minden 1816-1933 (Long Live America! German emigration out of County Minden 1816-1933), No further records as of now. [RIN 278]

 CAROLINE WILHELMINE (AKA Minnie) SCHNAKE BUHRMANN b. 3 Oct 1846, m. Henry Buhrmann, Hoyleton, IL. A listing was found of her departure from Germany in Wolfgang Reichmann's book, Vivat Amerika; Auswanderung aus dem Kreis Minden 1816-1933 (Long Live America! German emigration out of County Minden 1816-1933), showing that she migrated in 1865, bound for Evansville, Ind. We now know from descendents that she went first to Evansville then came to Washington County, IL, and married Fred Buhrmann. Click here for more on offspring in America, provided by her descendent Michael L. Jones.  [Minnie is RIN 282]

KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM SCHNAKE (AKA Fred W.) b. 16 Mar 1849, Unterluebbe 19, d. 1891 (acc. to newspaper article) or 1892 (on tombstone). m. Minnie Bocherding, b. 1851. He came to Evansville, Indiana, and set up a foundry there. He had nine children and many of his descendents survive. Some of his descendents spelled their name Schnacke.

KARL LUDWIG HERMANN SCHNAKE (AKA Herman), b. 10 Sep 1851, Unterlübbe no. 19, d. 17 Jan, 1934, Lawrence Co., MO. Emigrated abt 1869/70. He is Doris (Schnake) Johnson's ancestor. He was born a year before his Uncle Henry came to America. He was the youngest in his family but apparently had the farm, from family oral history. Family oral history says he had two cows and one died; he couldn't farm with one cow, so he left his widowed mother and came to America. He came first to the Hoyleton/New Minden area of Illinois and joined his uncle Henry there. We saw a building he had helped build on his uncle Henry (Ernst Heinrich)'s farm when we visited there in the 1960s. He married Maria (Mary) Rahmöller 22 Feb. 1872 in Hoyleton, IL. The Rahmöllers came from Schnathorst, not far from Unterlübbe, a few years earlier. In the 1880s, Herman and Mary joined a Rahmöller migration to Lawrence County in Southwest Missouri. Their 11 offspring produced numerous descendents. Picture of this family in America

b. The "Brink-Stumpelmeyer" Schnakes:

In 1773, one Toenies Brink of Rothenuffeln married Anna Maria Engel Schnake, moved to Hof 19 in Unterluebbe, and took the Schnake name. They bore two sons and a daughter. In Feb. 1777 Anna Maria died and in May 1777 Toenies married Anne Marie Ilsabe Stumpelmeyer. Since he lived at the Schnake farm he was still called Schnake; so was she, and so were their six children. Many American Schnakes descend from this union, although their ancestors before this date were not Schnakes on either side.3

Descendents of Toenies Heinrich Brink (called Schnake) and his second wife, Anne Marie Ilsabe Stumpelmeyer who are known to have come to America:

CHRISTINE MARIE ILSABEIN SCHNAKE (AKA Maria) (Donnig, Fortmeier), b. 24 May 1822, Hilverdingsen section of Unterlübbe 43, d. 25 Aug 1895 Freistatt, MO. Originally thought to be Ernst Heinrich (RIN 807)'s sister. Emigrated abt 1862. I have 1982 letter from Mrs. Gary Budzier of Omaha, Nebraska, her granddaughter, doing research on Doennig-Schnake line. Maria first married a Donnig. Maria is buried in Freistatt, MO. Recently (Oct 1997) I have resumed contact with Mrs. Budzier and have found that Maria is NOT Ernst Heinrich's sister, but rather, his cousin, descended from Toenies Brink who married a Schnake. She is an aunt to Henry F. Schnake [RIN 178] Date of arrival in America is based on birth of a child in Germany in 1861 and another in America in 1863, so she must have arrived between those dates. [RIN 73]

ERNST HEINRICH SCHNAKE (AKA Henry F.), b. 3 Jul 1844, Unterlübbe 43, d. 12 May 1917, USA. Emigrated early 1850s. M. Sophie Caroline Nehrt in New Minden, IL, 1866. I have two family histories from this line. One history is of the descendents of Henry F and Caroline's fourth child, August Carl Schnake, supplied to me in 1972 by Pauline Schnake Pixley of Des Moines Iowa. The other is of the ancestors of Marsha Schnake Anglin of Lebanon, MO. a descendent from another of Henry F's offspring. 1/8/98 Budzier records prove him to be a brother of Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake, RIN 177. [Ernst Heinrich is RIN 178]

HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM SCHNAKE (AKA William) b. 8 Aug. 1841, Unterluebbe no. 43, Westphalia, Germany, emigrated bef. 1864, d. 12 Apr 1897. St. Louis, MO, m. Anna Elizabeth Kleiboeker b. 25 Dec 1838 d. 1929.; marriage date 8 Feb. 1864. Information came from Lois (Schnake) Stone of Newton Highlands, MA. 3/1/96. She writes that he was a farmer and carpenter; loved to hunt and fish. Married her here; they bought a farm near Hoyleton IL, and lost it because the person they bought it from did not have title. Moved to St. Louis and worked as a carpenter. She came to U.S. on a ship at age 15 (1853) with a brother (records lost) and a friend. Oct 1997--Found him in Donna Budzier's records. Donna Budzier's records prove him to be a descendent of the Brink line and a brother to Ernst Heinrich Schnake, RIN 178. [William is RIN 177] More information

c. The Carl Wilhelm Schnake line:

Hope this doesn't embarrass any descendents, but history is history. On 5 Jan. 1796, a young lady living at the Schnake residence (possibly in return for doing housework or chores) gave birth to a child fathered by Toenies Brink's unmarried eldest son, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake.4 The child was born in a nearby village, possibly the home of her parents. The mother apparently had to leave when she became pregnant. Carl Wilhelm was given a church baptism with the Schnake name and grew up to father ten children by two wives. One source says he was an "impoverished hireling" -- a sad commentary on the customs and laws which robbed him of his heritage because he was illegitimate, no fault of his own. Usually, a person took the name of the farmstead where he lived, but in this case, he kept the name Schnake.. His offspring spread into several villages. It is not known if any descendents came to America but it is very likely.


Schnake Line No. 2.  The Unterluebbe No. 33 Schnakes:

In 1682, another Schnake suddenly appears in Unterluebbe. A Toennies Schnake, "no earlier records", is listed at that location in the pamphlet "Zwischen Berg Und Bruch" (Between Mountain and Marsh).5 Another source (6) simultaneously lists a Hinrich Schnake there who was probably his brother. This farmstead was named "Schnoaken". Neither dictionaries nor native Germans can tell me what Schnoaken means, but it appears related to Schnake or Schnaken. [NOTE: While chatting with a native German from central Germany, I told him my wife's maiden name was Schnake.  He said "Ah! Schnoake!" and chuckled.  Perhaps it is dialect for Schnake.] It is difficult for me to believe that a Schnake would suddenly appear 14 houses away from the "originals" and not be related to them. Records show Hoefen, 33, Ellerstrasse 33, Unterlübbe 33.  All are the same place; the designation of the address changed over time.

A chart of the relationships of this family back to a common ancestor will help to understand those who came to America.  The list below begins with Johann Reinhard Schnake, grandson of the Hinrich Schnake mentioned above.

(1) Johann Reinhard Schnake [RIN 1918]  b. 1747 d. 1802, Unterluebbe 33
   First spouse Anne Marie Clausemeier [RIN 66} b. 1746 m. 1770 d. 1792

Johann Reinhard Schnake second spouse Anne Marie Claus Volkmann [RIN 1918], b. 1819 m. 1870.  

In the town of Schnathorst, about 2.5 miles from Unterluebbe, the following Schnakes are found. They are from the upper peasantry, wealthier than the Unterluebbe Schnakes, and their records go back into the 1600s. It is not likely they stem from the Unterluebbe Schnakes, but it is possible that the Unterluebbe Schnakes come from this branch.  Rarely could peasants move up in the hierarchy, but quite often a younger son with nothing to inherit would accept a move down to get a farm, maybe marrying the heiress of such a farm or perhaps, back in earlier times, being set up by the landlord on a new farm.

Schnake Line No. 3: The Schnathorst #4 Schnakes:

On 30 Mar 1800, in the village of Schnathorst, a Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake married Anna Marie Louise Meier. They had ten children, all except one born in Schnathorst at Hof Nr. 4. (The first child was born in nearby Holsen.) Friedrich Wilhelm was born 11 Nov. 1776.  His mother was Catherine Marie Schnake, and his father was Johann Friedrich Wegener.  Wegener took her name, indicating she was an heiress, as it was the custom for the man to take the woman's name if she inherited the farmstead and he moved there. He had a second marriage with three children. His descendents drifted into villages 10 or 12 miles further south (by the early 1800s the name went with the individual, not the land) and several are known to have come to America.  Among them:

CARL /CHARLES SCHNAKE [RIN 74] Came to America 1849 with sons FREDERICK and CASPAR HENRY (AKA Henry). d. 4/13/1857. Positive identification made that he is the same person as CARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM SCHNAKE in the Schnathorst, Germany, parish records, b. 7 Jan 1809, Schnathorst, Westphalia, Prussia. Married first, Catherine Marie Roesch 1837, in Germany; second, Catherine Liekmann, Cass County, IL, 5 Sept. 1855. Came to America in 1848 or 49, via New Orleans; family oral history indicates he spent a short time in St. Louis, then moved to Beardstown, Cass County, IL

Information from his descendent Mel Schnake, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA indicates that he came here from Halstern, Mennighuffen, Prussia.  His first wife, Catherine Roesch, was from a village near Halstern, and residency records have been found indicating that he moved there prior to coming to the U.S.  Halstern is a village a few miles south of Schnathorst.

One son, Frederick Schnake, born in Prussia (3/18/1838), married Louisa Raker in 1858. Another son, Casper Henry Schnake (went by Henry) (no birth date available), married Elizabeth Thron (10/19/1871), she died 2/2/1895. Carl/Charles Schnake died 4/13/1857. 11/97 connection made with German line #4, the "Schnathorst #4 Schnakes". Click here for more information.

KARL FRIEDRICH FERDINAND SCHNAKE, b. 17 May, 1860, Tengern, Ravensberg Land*, Westphalia, d. 9 Jul 1924, Hoyleton, IL. Obituary lists parents as FERDINAND SCHNAKE and LOUISE, born KOTTMEYER, birthplace Tengern. (In Germany, her name would probably be spelled KOTTMEIER) He was named to the Brüderhaus Nazareth in Bielefeld and apparently completed some studies there; if it still exists, there may be records. He was a minister. In 1884, he took charge of a Christian hospital in the Netherlands, then came to America and studied at Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, MO (St. Louis suburb). He married CATHERINE LOUISE STRUCKMEYER of Hülhorst, a village in the same area of Westphalia. The marriage took place in Hoyleton. I have a German study which shows a CARL FR. SCHNAKE being granted permission to leave the general Minden area in 1884, along with a brother and two sisters. This matches with a record sent me by Norman Rahmoeller of a CARL FR. SCHNAKE who was granted permission to leave the Schnathorst area in 1884. All of these would appear to be the same person. Carl Friedrich Ferdinand can be traced in the Schnathorst parish records. I have four generations of his ancestors. Positive identification has now been made (Dec. 1998 ) that he was a nephew of Carl Charles Schnake, index #61, and was a descendent of Line no. 4 (The Schnathorst #4 Schnakes) in the listing above. I can trace four generations of his ancestors in Germany. I have an excellent family history of his descendents prepared by Paul William Schnake of Portland, Oregon. Some of his descendents have responded to this page; click here for further information on this line. *Note: Ravensberger Land is the area south of the Wiehen ridge. During the Middle Ages it was one of the smallest German states and was completely independent. It was eventually joined to Minden and became a part of the Minden administrative district. Obviously it is still called "Ravensberg Land" locally.

Schnake Line No. 4: The "Kleine Bode" Schnakes.

This is a strange one. There was a custom that when an estate was divided the one who got the larger part was called "Grosse Whatever" and the lesser was called "Kleine Whatever". The "Whatever" was the former family name. However, in this case, on 6 Dec. 1805 Johann Christian Friedrich Kleine Bode "called Schnake", born 31 Mar 1768, son of Overseer Johann Christian Kleine Bode and Anna Kath Kuhlmeier, married Louise Boeker and they had ten children, all surnamed Schnake.8 I can find no one who can explain why Johann Christian Friedrich Kleine Bode was "called Schnake". There seems to be a connection with line 3 above, as one of their children was born at Schnathorst no. 4. So far, no American Schnakes have been traced to this line.

Schnake line no. 5: Snocker/Schnakes of Lasalle County, Illinois

In researching American Schnakes, when I could identify the immigrant ancestor, I found that all were descended from Minden area Schnakes except for a few listings in LaSalle County, Illinois, who didn't seem to fit in.  Finally, the two emails below gave me clues to research this line, and it turned out that the records led back to the area around Dransfeld/Wibbecke/Loedingsen in the state of Hanover just north of Kassel (Cassell), the same area as the Chilean Schnakes.  All signs (common town names and given names) indicate that the Lasalle Schnakes are related to the Chilean Schnakes and are not related to the Minden area Schnakes. Here are the records, particularly of one Frederick Schnake born in Wibbecke, Hanover, Germany in 1826, beginning with the emails that provided the initial clues. Some members of this line changed their name to Snocker.

From: "Linda Mondschean" <lmondschean@earthlink.net>

To: <schnake@surnameweb.org>

Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:57 AM

Subject: Fredrick w Schnake

 

  My husband is a descendent of a Fredrick Schnake who was living in Lasalle county Illinois in 1856. He had two brothers in the same county in 1860. he was born in 1826 and died in Hallem, Nebraska in 1892. His headstone said he was born in Wippige in hanover province Germany. I have studied your Schnake information but am unable to connect with any of the lines you have listed. I thought he may have been from the illegitimate line you discussed. This didn’t seem likely however because he seemed to have quite a bit of money. land records show he bought land in Illinois in 1865 for which he paid six thousand dollars. My research found 2 Fredrick Schnakes in eastern Nebraska in 1884. One was the editor of the Omaha newspaper. Do you have any suggestions as to the origin of these Schnakes? Have you ever heard of Wippige in Hanover area? [Note: Wippige can only be Wibbecke, the only similar name in Hanover, and indeed, a record of Frederick has been found there.]

 

From: Rick Snocker <outpost@together.net>
To: Roy Johnson <royj@webster.edu>
Reply-To: outpost@together.net
Date: Mar 10 2006 - 6:59pm

 

(In an earlier email, now lost, Rick explained that for some reason, his branch of this family has changed the name to Snocker)

 

More on the meaning of the name...I remember my mother telling me when I was a youngster that the name meant "little mosquito". She must have heard that from my father or someone else in the family. Unfortunately, he does not have a computer/email. Other family lore is that my gg grandfather, Frederick Wilhelm Schnake emigrated to Seneca, LaSalle County, Illinois. He supposedly had some money and brought some valuable horses with him to America. After arriving in Illinois her married Mary Vogle, who was born in Hohenzollern Province, Germany. Their son Henry (my g grandfather) and his family moved to Nebraska, back to Illinois, then back to Nebraska to give their children "a good Christian education".

 

More on my Frederick Wilhelm Schnake born 9/8/1825 [discovered later to be 1826-see Linda Mondschean and the Wibbecke records belos]] in Wibbecke, Hannover...He had 8 children:
Hannah Schnake b 1857
Carrie Schnake b 1858
Louise Schnake b 1859
Mary Snocker b 1860
Henry Snocker b 2/19/1861 (my great-grandfather)
Frank Snocker b 1867
Albert Frederick Snocker b 1869
Berthina Schnake b UNK


Rick

 

I discovered and contacted an excellent genealogical researcher in Germany, Jens at hrs@hist.de, who discovered Rick and Linda's ancestor in the Wibbecke records.  I highly recommend Jens as an honest researcher with reasonable rates.  Jens Mueller-Koppe -- Web site http://www.hist.de--email hrs@hist.de

 

Roy Johnson

 

From: hrs@hist.de
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 4:01 PM
> To: Roy Johnson
> Subject: RE: Schnake surname

 

(Researched and translated by Jens)

 

WIBBECKE BAPTISMAL RECORDS (No. 8/1826)
> * 08.09.1826, baptized. 24.09.1826
> Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Schnacke
> father: Johann Ernst Schnacke
> mother: Marie Dorothea Möhle
> godparents: Georg Wilhelm Schnacke; Friedrich Wilhelm Brauns; Henriette
> Charlotte Möhle

 

Note: There is a Georg Wilhelm Schnake b. 17 May 1772 Dransfeld in the Chilean Schnake line.

 

Parents

 

WIBBECKE MARRIAGE REGISTER (No. 6/1811)
> oo 29.08.1811
> the unmarried blacksmith Johann Ernst Schnacke from Erbsen
> youngest legitimate son of the deceased forester from that very place
> [Erbsen], Heinrich Christian Schnacke
> and the unmarried Dorothee Henriette Moehlen from Wibbecke
> oldest daughter of the local farmer ("Ackermann") Johann Wilhelm Moehle
>>
> The marriage took place in Erbsen

 

It is a good idea to keep records of other Schnakes who might be related.  I have assembled the following from various sources.

 

From Teutoberg Family Genealogy Forum, http://genforum.genealogy.com/teuteberg/messages/1.html

jes12367NO!SPAM@juno.com (remove the NO!SPAM before sending

 

12. Teuteberg, Johann Friedrich, b. Wibbecke, Hanover 5 Apr 1746, d. Wibbecke 12 Dec 1799,
Lutheran, lived in Wibbecke, md. Wibbecke 25 Oct 1767
13. Klinge, Maria Dorothea Sophia, b. Ferlingsen, Hanover 7 Apr 1744, d. Wibbecke 11 Mar
1802, Lutheran
children, born and baptized in Wibbecke:
a)       Henrich Andreas, b. 19 Sep 1769, confirmed Erbsen/Wibbecke 1784
b)       Marie Elisabeth, b. 18 Sep 1771, confirmed Erbsen/Wibbecke 1786, md. Wibbecke 13 Oct 1799 Andreas Heinrich Thormann, of Knutbuehren, Hanover; 1 daughter born in Wibbecke
c)       Dorothee Charlotte, b. 16 Mar 1774, md. Wibbecke 26 Oct 1806 Christoph Schnake, of Loedingsen, Hanover

 

From Wellhausen web site http://www.wellhausen.com/stamm.html?http://www.wellhausen.com/ahnen/wellhausen_loedingsen.shtml

 

 

Johann Friedrich Wellhausen
* 06.01.1727 Lödingsen
oo 14.11.1747 Lödingsen (20)
† 07.08.1788 Lödingsen (61)
 
Sophie Elisabeth Schnake
* 05.03.1723 Lödingsen
oo 14.11.1747 Lödingsen (24)
† 05.04.1808 Lödingsen (85)
 
Johann Ernst Wellhausen
* 07.02.1766 Lödingsen
oo 10.11.1793 Lödingsen (27)
† 08.04.1830 Lödingsen (64)
 
Marie Friederike Schnake
* 09.12.1766 Lödingsen
oo 10.11.1793 Lödingsen (26


Trauregister aus den Kirchenbüchern in Südniedersachsen (Marriage register of the Church books of southern Lower Saxony)

Herausgegeben von Jürgen Ritter (Published  by Jurgen Ritter)

Band 2 (Volume 2)

Vom Jahre 1700 bis zum Jahre 1750 (From the year 1700 to the year 1750)

Eingesandt von Karlo Vegelahn. Homepage  Sent from Karlo Vegelahn's home page

Lödingsen 14.11.1747 Stammbaum vorhanden Johann Friedrich Wellhausen
 		 Sophia Elisabeth Schnake
 		 2.2a 215

 

List of all Names (From the Wellhausen site)

This list contains 4024 names
Last changes: 13.01.2003
Assembled by Jörn Wellhausen

Schnake names drawn from the above

Schnake, Julie Wilhelmine Dorothee Luise (F); AT Beate; * 17.04.1848 Dransfeld; oo 26.12.1871 Dransfeld; † 15.02.1927 Göttingen
Schnake, Marie Friederike (F); SB Wellhausen_loedingsen; * 09.12.1766 Lödingsen; oo 10.11.1793 Lödingsen; † 12.09.1835 Lödingsen
Schnake, Sophie Elisabeth (F); SB Wellhausen_loedingsen; * 05.03.1723 Lödingsen; oo 14.11.1747 Lödingsen; † 05.04.1808 Lödingsen

 

The following other Schnakes are found in LaSalle County, Ill. census records

 

> Census Index information:
>
> 1860 North Illinois [2 June 1860]
> Schnake, Augustus 25 m laborer LaSalle county b. Hannover pg 022
> Dayton Town
> no family listed in this household with him
>
> Schnake, Ernst m LaSalle County pg 257
> Manlius
> 1848 1859 household info pg 257 21 or 27 June 1860 LaSalle Illinois
> Ernst Schnake 48 m farmer $250 b. Hanover
> Hannah 42 f b. Prussia
> Charlotte 11 f b. England
> attending school
> August 8 m b. England check mark,
> attending school

> Elizabeth 3 f b. Illinois
> Wilhelmine 1 f b. Illinois
> Schnake, Frederick m LaSalle County 1860 pg
> 232 Manlius
> 1672 1682 household info pg 232
> Frederick Schnake 33 m farmer $2400 400 b. Hanover (handwritten 15 or
> scratch on film?)
> Mary 28 f b. Prussia
> Joanna 3 f b. Illinois
> Bertina 1 f b. Illinois

 

 

Unidentified and miscellaneous: positive identification has not been made of the German origins of the American Schnakes listed below:

[Index # 62] Came Bef 1861 - ANDREAS SCHNAKE. Added to list 7/27/95 as per letter from Judge Paul W. Schnake of Aurora, IL (photocopy from Rick Schnake). Came to US "shortly before civil war" w/son Carl who was abt 6 yrs old. Settled on a farm, then 14 miles west of Chicago. Now the area is part of Chicago metropolitan area. One of a few Schnakes found so far who did not come first to the Hoyleton/New Minden area of Illinois or the area near Evansville, Indiana.

Unknown Schnake line

This picture was downloaded from a German site on the Internet. It was clearly labeled "Schnake." Despite the most diligent research, we have been unable to discover which Schnake line this individual belongs to. Any information will be appreciated.


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Footnotes for the four Schnake lines:

1. Archaelogie Siedlungsgeschichte Shulwesen, Heft 1: Heimatverein zwischen Berg und Bruch: Oberlübbe und Unterlübbe. Hille, 1989, p. 71.
2. Ibid.
3. Germany, Prussia, Westfalen, Bergkirchen, Evangelisch, FHL film # 0470112, vol. -4, p. 266-277, entry #3, #2 Single with Single, 1773.
4. Germany, Prussia, Westfalen, Bergkirchen, Evangelisch, FHL film # 0470111, vol. -3, entry #5, #1 illegit. sons1796.
5. Archaelogie, op. cit., p. 71.
6. Reichmann, Heinz, Die Familien des Kirchspiels Bergkirchen 1670-1770, p. 270, entry # 2292.
7. Marriage (1) Germany, Prussia, Westfalen, Schnathorst, Evangelische, FHL Film #0473533, Vol. -9, entry #5, 1800. Marriage (2) Germany, Prussia, Westfalen, Schnathorst, Evangelische, FHL Film #0473531, Vol. -6, entry #11, 1831.
8. Germany, Prussia, Westfalen, Schnathorst, Evangelische, FHL Film #0473533, Vol. -3, entry #11, 1805.

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Important links:

I wrote a beautiful song for the 50th wedding anniversary of my in-laws 20 years ago. It is now available on CD and I havae set up several Internet sites to sell it. Go to any of the following:

Golden Love site at http://goldenlove.att.net
Golden Love site on SchnakeNet http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schnake/goldenlove.htm
Golden Love site on Pace Network http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pace/goldenlove.htm
Golden Love on FortuneCity http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cern/1343/  or http://www.nav.to/compu-tutor1
Golden Love main site http://goldenwedding.net

Rick Schnake has an interesting hobby/part time business. He collects and sells authentic historic signatures on original documents. He has US Presidents and many other historical figures represented. Why not check it out?

Rick's main site at "http://www.historyinink.com"
Mirror site on Schnakenet at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schnake/HistoryInInk.htm
Mirror site on Pace Network http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pace/HistoryInInk.htm