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THE STORY OF SCHNAKE

By Roy Johnson
Current revision: September 2000

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter I--The Name Schnake

Chapter II--Sources of Information

Chapter III -- The Home of the Schnakes--Land and People

Chapter IV--The History of the Schnakes: General Background

• Religious history I: The coming of Christianity
• Religious history II: The Schnakes become Protestant
• Social conditions
• Political Changes

Chaptev V--The Earliest Schnakes

Chapter VI--The Schnakes of No. 19 Unterluebbe 1572-1870

Chapter VII--Other Schnake Lines

• The "Brink-Stumpelmeyer" Schnakes:
• The Unterlübbe No. 33 Schnakes:
• The Schnathorst #4 Schnakes
• The "Kleine Bode" Schnakes
• Schnakes in Chile

Chapter VIII: Germany to America

• Why they came
• How They Came
• The Atlantic Voyage

Chapter IX: Family memories of the trip and experiences in the new land

• Karl Ludwig Hermann Schnake
• Minnie Schnake
• Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake (AKA William)
• Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Brink

Conclusion

Appendices

• Apppendix I: Historical Events Timeline
• Appendix II: Some Old Schnake Dowries and Marriage Customs
• Appendix III: Bergkirchen Church History
• Appendix IV: Ancestors and descendents of Karl Ludwig Hermann Schnake
• Appendix V: Bergkirchen church documents (coming)
• Appendix V: Peasant costumes of the Minden area
• Appendix VIII: A Pictorial Essay of the Schnakes in Germany