Teague-Earnest Family Tree » JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Jr. 9th GGF (1605-> 1670)

Personal data JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Jr. 9th GGF

• He/she was born on October 12, 1605 in Plobsheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.Source 1
• Occupations:
• in the year 1638 village herdsman in Plobsheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.
• January 1633 shepherd at Entzheim in Entzheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.
• in the year 1632 "Shepherd at Entzheim," in Entzheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.
• He/she passed away after 1670 in Plobsheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.Source 1
• A child of JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Sr.

Household of JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Jr. 9th GGF

This person is married to APOLLONIA Mauser.

They got married on November 16, 1629 at Plobsheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, at the age of 24 years.

Child(ren):

1. JOHANNES "Hans" Schnepp  1633-1701 
2. Georg Schnepp  1635-????

Notes about JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Jr. 9th GGF

NOTE: Several biographical sketches of Hans Schnepp on Geneanet and Ancestry.com have a specific date of death at Ingenheim. THERE IS NO SUCH RECORD in the Ingenheim parish register.

Young Hans Schnepp was working as a shepherd at Haegen, a hamlet in the parish of Maurermünster (now Marmoutier), a few miles west of Plobsheim in 1629, but came back to Plobsheim, where his father lived, to marry Apollonia Mauser.[1] It is not known where Hans grew up but it was probably in the Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Plobsheim area and he probably knew Apollonia for some time, perhaps he had even apprenticed as a shepherd with her step-father, Christmann Götz.

Hans and Apollonia soon settled in the village of Entzheim, several miles north of Plobsheim, where he worked as the community shepherd and a daughter, Maria, was born in February, 1631. Long-time associate of the Mauser-Götz family, Balthasar Klipfel, a brickmaker, along with Hans Wandereiss and his wife Anna from Plobsheim and Andreas and Magdalena Melchior from Graffenstaden, traveled to Entzheim to act as sponsors for the first child of Hans and Apollonia. [2]. In the spring of 1632 Hans Schnepp, "Shepherd at Entzheim," sponsored a son of Hans Wandereiss at Plobsheim. He was still a shepherd at Entzheim when his next child, a son, Johannes, was born in January 1633 and taken to Plobsheim for baptism on January 24th. His sponsors were the same friends and associates who had sponsored their first child.

Many families from the Alsatian villages near the City of Strasbourg fled their homes as the French armies came through in 1635 and took refuge in Strasbourg. Hans and Apollonia Schnepp were among them and while there a second son, Georg, was born and baptized at St. Nicholas Church, June 28, 1635. The baptismal sponsors were the same old friends and associates from Plobsheim who had sponsored their other children, and who like Hans and Apollonia, had taken refuge in Strasbourg. [3]

By 1638 the war was still raging but the situation in the countryside had improved and villagers began to return. Hans and Apollonia did not go back to Entzheim but went to Plobsheim, where he became a village herdsman, in time for daughter, Christina, to be born there. They took her into Illkirch to be baptized, December 16, 1638, and the pastor wrote Hans's name in the register as Hans Schnepff. The war had taken its toll and the only long time associate who was among the sponsors of Christina, was Anna, wife of Hans Wandereiss. [4]. They were still in Plobsheim when Apollonia died and was buried September 12, 1640. Her age was given as 34 years. [5].

Hans Schnepp married Maria Helffer, "daughter of the late Hans Helffer of Ohnheim," May 9, 1641 at Plobsheim. [6]. Ohnheim was in the Plobsheim parish but there is no other mention of Maria or her father in the records there. Hans and Maria remained at Plobsheim and had a son, Valentin, baptized there, February 8, 1642. By this time the only associate from the earlier years among the sponsors of Valentin, was Anna, now the widow of Hans Wandereiss [7]. The next child to be born to Hans and Maria was Matthias, baptized at Entzheim, February 18, 1644 [8]. None of the sponsors were old associates of the Mauser-Gotz family.

Hans and Maria moved into Graffenstaden, in the Illkirch parish, in 1645, where he became the community shepherd-herdsman. Their daughter, Maria was baptized December 9, 1645 and was sponsored by Anna, wife of Hans Bischoff, a cow-herder from Wibolsheim and Agnes, daughter of Andreas Melchior of Graffenstaden, who had himself sponsored several of the children of Hans and his first wife, Apollonia. [9] Hans and Maria had another son, Martin, baptized at Illkirch November 1, 1647 and again Agnes Melchior was one of the sponsors. [10]

Hans and Maria remained at Graffenstaden for the next decade, but sometime after 1656, when his son, Hans "the younger," married there, and before 1664, they moved further north and west to Ingolsheim, where Hans continued to work as a shepherd. His daughter, Maria, married Hans Hammann at Ingenheim in 1664, his son, Valentin, married in 1665 and Hans was still called "shepherd here" when his son, Matthias, married at Ingolsheim in May, 1670. [11]. Hans would have been close to age 65 by then and no doubt died within a few years but no death date has been found. There is also no further record of his second wife, Maria Helffer.

Sources
Parish Registers of Plobsheim, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Strasbourg and Ingolsheim, Archives du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, France, cited in Footnotes. digital versions of the original records are now online.

Footnotes
↑ Plobsheim Paroisse Protestante BMS 1588-1714, p. 118/59.
↑ Entzheim Paroisse protesante 1594-1666, p. 55
↑ St. Nicholas Paroisse protestante BMS, 1623-1639, p. 117.
↑ Illkirch-Graffenstaden Paroisse protestante BMS, 1620-1661, p. 142
↑ Plobsheim Paroisse protestante BMS, 1588-1714, p. 308 / 327
↑ Plobsheim Paroisse protesante BMS, 1588-1714, p. 421
↑ Ibid., p. 160/83
↑ Entzheim Paroisse protestante, BMS, 1594-1666, p. 118/64
↑ Illkirch-Graffenstaden Paroisse protestante BMS, 1620-1661, p. 179.
↑ Ibid. p. 189
↑ Ingenheim Paroisse protestante BMS, 1650-1736, p. 83

Entzheim is located about 10 miles SW of Strasbourg, France, and Plobsheim is located about 10 miles S of Strasbourg. In any case, the two villages are located about 5 or 6 miles from each other.)
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After the Franco-Prussian War, it was annexed by the newly-created German Empire in 1871. It remained in German control until after WWI.
In 1919, the territory was returned to France by the Treaty of Versailles (another "diplomatic/political" solution).In 1940, the territory was once again annexed by Nazi Germany, but reverted to France after WWII in 1945. It has remained French territory ever since.
An interesting thing about this portion of France is that if you look on a map in small-scale, you will see that the towns and villages have German names. If you look at it geographically, it looks as though it should be part of Germany.
Actually, the early occupants of that region were Germanic in origin, not French. At the time when immigrants were leaving that area and coming to America, they were predominately of German origin and spoke German, not French.
These Colonial emigrants from Alsace-Lorraine settled in PA and VA among other German emigrants.Looking at the names in this database, I see many, many people with German names, from towns and villages with German names, but actually from what is now (and was then) France! Many researchers have them from "Alsace-Lorraine, Germany"; but, the dates for these people don't support entering them being born or married, or having died, in Germany. For all those events and dates, the territory was FRANCE.
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