Jeff Aylor asked some questions. I would assume that Franke Rice is a female but I do not know for sure. The Rices have a presence in Madison County, Virginia, up to 1816, to judge by the marriage licenses, but there is no name that would be related to Franke.
There were three Schneider lines in Germanna, all of whom lived in the Robinson River Valley. I suspect that the line of John Snyder came from the Siegen area. Certainly the Schneider name is well known around Siegen if today’s cemeteries are any guide. (Two or three Schneider families lived in Trupbach in 1713.) John Snyder had three sons, John, Adam, and Michael, and five daughters, names not known. I believe he lived out to the east of today’s Madison Court House. This family is not found very often at the Lutheran church.
The line of Philip Snyder left eight children:
The third line of Snyders left no Snyder heirs. (This is Jeff Aylor’s line.) Henry Snyder and his wife Dorothy came in 1717 (from the Second Colony area in Germany). A few years later, their daughter Anna Magdalena came with her Aylor husband (no proof of this last fact?). This last marriage had taken place before 1717. Anna Magdalena married, second, John Harnsberger but there were no known children by this marriage. The Aylor children were Elizabeth, who married Christopher Tanner, and Henry, who married Margaret Käfer. The Tanner children are very well represented in the Lutheran church records, where they married into the families of Zimmerman, Rouse, Cook, Burdyne, and an unknown.
There is no known relationship between Philip Snyder and Henry Snyder. The name Schneider is a common in Germany and could easily originate in different parts of the country.
Three daughters of Henry Aylor married English men, Murray, Newman, and Bohannon. I will come back later with more questions about the Bohannons. Jeff perhaps could fill us in on some of the details that I glossed over here.
(02 Apr 03)
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