Teague-Earnest Family Tree » JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Sr. 10th GGF (1582-> 1629)

Personal data JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Sr. 10th GGF 

• He was born on February 14, 1582 in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.Source 1
• He died after 1629 in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.Source 1
• A child of Wolfgang Schnepp and ELSBETH Veltin

Household of JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Sr. 10th GGF

Child(ren):

1. JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Jr.  1605-> 1670 

Notes about JOHANNES Hans Schnepp Sr. 10th GGF

NOTE! A number of Schnepp/Schnepff family trees on Geneanet, and "Ancestry.com" list Johannes [Hans] Schnepp's wife as Maria or Maria Otillia Hermann (1579 sometimes 1583-1659), who lived and died at Oberhausen in the parish of Grafenhausen, Baden.

There was a Maria Hermann, born 1579, daughter of Wendel Hermann of Oberhausen, who married Hans Schempff at Oberhausen in 1598. [1] Someone obviously misread the German cursive handwriting as "Schnepff" and attached the record to Hans Schnepp of Plobsheim in Alsace. The fact that Maria was born at Oberhausen, married and died there should have been a red flag, since Oberhausen is no where near Alsace. Many people copied this without question and have now proliferated this error.

Johannes (Hans) Schnepp, "laborer and Citizen" of Plobsheim was the father of Johannes (Hans) Schnepp who married Apollonia Mauser in 1629. There is no record of his wife, or when and where he died but he was definitely a member of an extensive Schnepp family that lived in a number of towns and villages in Alsace by the middle of the seventeenth century.

The Schnepp family of Alsace appears to have its roots around Niederschaeffolsheim, Waltenheim and Mommenheim about 30 miles north of Strasbourg on the Rhine, where the name, often spelled Schnepff, appears in late 16th and early 17th century records. The Schnepps who came to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia are descendants of Johannes (Hans) Schnepp, who was born about 1605 in Alsace, son of Hans, and married Apollonia Mauser at Plobsheim, a village a few miles southeast of Strasbourg in 1629. Their marriage record, found in the Plobsheim Parish Register reads as follows (English Translation):

On the 23d and 24th Sundays Post-Trinity, 1629, Hans Schnepp, shepherd in Haegen, son of laborer and citizen, Hans Schnepp here, and Apollonia Mauser, single daughter of deceased Georg Mauser, laborer and Citizen here, also the Step-child of Christmann Gotz, the shepherd here, pronounced their banns and on Monday November 16th were joined in marriage.[2]

Careful research and analysis of the parish registers of Plobsheim and neighboring Illkirch-Graffenstaden show enough close ties between the Schnepp and Mauser families of Plobsheim as well as the Schwing and Ammel families of Illkirch-Graffenstaden to state with confidence that the Hans Schnepp, Citizen and laborer at Plobsheim, the father of Hans, is the Johannes Schnepff, born at Illkirch-Graffenstaden, February 14, 1582, son of Wolff Schnepff and Elsbeth.[3]

Sources
Parish registers of Plobsheim and Illkirch-Graffenstaden in the Archives du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, France.

Footnotes
↑ Records of Maria Hermann and the extensive Schempff family at Oberhausen can now be found in the digitized records of the Grafenhausen parish, FHL microfilm #234011, online at "Württemberg, Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1500-1985" at Ancestry.com.
↑ Plobsheim Paroisse protestante BMS, 1588-1714, 3E 378/5, p. 69. Archives du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, France.
↑ Illkirch-Graffenstaden Paroisse protestante BMS, 1569-1594, 3E 217/1, p. 115, Archive du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, France.

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