I present some more information about the Scheible family, 1717 Germanna immigrants. They left Neuenbuerg with a significant number of other people in the summer of 1717. The best source of information about them is to be found in the “ Ortssippenbuch Oberoewisheim-Neuenbuerg ”. This information is more complete and correct than is found in Cerny and Zimmerman’s “ Before Germanna ”.
On the 13th of November 1692, Johann Georg Schaible, a weaver, married Maria Eleanora Ockert. He was born 11 February 1670 and she was born at Kleingartach, 29 June 1670. Five children were baptized at Oberoewisheim:
Anna Martha, b. 14 March 1697;
Anna Elisabetha, b. 17 September 1700;
Anna Maria, b. 18 March 1708, d. 4 April 1708;
Anna Maria, b. 15 June 1709, d. 12 July 1710;
Anna Maria, b. 24 July, 1711.
There are mentions of the parents in St. Mary’s (Lutheran) Church in London.
They appear on Alexander Spotswood’s Head Right List as Hans Jerich Chively, Maria Clora Chively, Anna Martha Chively, Anna Elizabetha Chively, and Anna Maria Chively. Some of the names have been mangled slightly but there can be no doubt about the identity of the family. All five members made it to Virginia. In Virginia, we would expect no more children as the parents were 47 years old by then.
On 15 April 1737, George Shuble gave his 78 acres of land to his grandson George Holt. George Holt’s mother was Elizabeth Scheible.
We have no information about the other two daughters, Martha and Mary, who would have been 20 and 6 years old when they came to Virginia. We could surmise that they did not have any children as George Scheible left nothing for them when he gave his land away in 1737 when they would have been old enough to have had children.
The parents of George and Eleanor are given in the Ortssippenbuch. His father was married a second time to Anna Catharina Rueckher (Rucker?). In this marriage he was identified as a weaver, court official, and mace bearer. Apparently, he was an honorable member of the community.
(07 Jul 06)
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