Male Schnell

Other Events:

• Census: 1910, Winsor, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1930, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York
• Residence: 1935, Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey
• Census: 1940, 29 Garfield Avenue, Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey

Notes:

Died:
http://www.pigeondistrictlibrary.com/jh%20obits%20.html

Name: George Schnell

Birth: 1883 in Zurich, Ontario

Death: (Date not listed) at home in Trenton, NJ - 69 years

Marriage: 1st in 1906 to Bernice Schluchter, who died in 1918
2nd after 1920 to (no name) in New Jersey, who died in 1930
3rd in 1932 to (no name)

Cemetery:

Newspaper: April 4, 1952

Survivors: Wife

Children: 2 children from 1st marriage - Joseph & Maurice
2 sons from 2nd marriage ? (no names given)
4 children from 3rd marriage ? 3 sons and 1 daughter
(This last information is not clear if they were total survivors or just from last marriage.)

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister (names not listed)

Comments: He was a former Pigeon businessman. He came to Pigeon as a young man. He left the vicinity in 1920.

George married Unknown in 1920 in New Jersey. died in 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1871, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1901, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario

John married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Weber on 14 Dec 1877 in Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario. Elizabeth (daughter of Casper Weber and Elizabeth Wurm) was born on 10 Sep 1856 in Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario; died in 1937; was buried in St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1901, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Residence: 1935, Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario

Notes:

Found at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/huron77.htm on March 11, 2006

004415-77 (Huron) John SCHNELL, 25, wagon maker, Hay, Zurich, s/o John & Martha SCHNELL, to Elizabeth WEBER, 19, Hay, same, d/o Casper & Eliza WEBER, wit: Frederick DEMUTH & Conrad WAGNER both of Zurich, 14 December 1877, Zurich

Johannes married Martha Elise Lerch. Martha (daughter of Joh. Heinrich Lerch and Anna Elisabeth Hölscher) was born on 07 Sep 1913 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: N 1/2 lot 23, con 14, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1861, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1881, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1901, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario

Notes:

1911 census shows Casper and Elizabeth living with daughter Lizzie Snell and son-in-law John Snell.



Accounts vary regarding when Casper Weber came to Canada from Germany. Accounts given the year of immigration between 1841 and 1850. Casper Weber was a stone mason in Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario. He and Elizabeth raised their family at N 1/2 lot 23, con 14, Hay Township. Casper Weber's tender of $403 to build a township hall in Zurich was approved by council in 1861.

Casper married Elizabeth Wurm. Elizabeth (daughter of Johann Heinrich "Henry" Wurm and Elisabetha (Elizabeth) Lein) was born on 16 Apr 1840 in Berlin, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 23 Dec 1922 in Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario; was buried on 26 Dec 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Confirmation: 7 Apr 1861, St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Residence: 12 Jun 1868, Ripley, Indiana, United States
• Census: 1881, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1901, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario

Notes:

Elizabeth Wurm was confirmed at St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario on 7 April 1861.

Census 1851, age 13, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Census 1861, age 21, Hay, Huron South, Ontario
Census 1881, age 40, Hay, Huron South, Ontario
Census 1891, age ??, Hay, Huron South, Ontario
Census 1901, age 60, Hay, Huron South, Ontario
Census 1911, age 71, Hay, Huron South, Ontario

Notes:

Birth information collected regarding the children of Casper Weber and Elizabeth Wurm suggests that the family residence was Zurich, Ontario with the exception of 5 to 8 years ending by 1873. During those years the family was in the United States, likely in Indiana where their fifth child, Louis Weber, was born.