SCHNAKE JOHANN ERNST HEINRICH
1814 - 1844 (29 years)1. SCHNAKE JOHANN ERNST HEINRICH was born on 16 Nov 1814 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen (son of SCHNAKE ERNST HENRICH and RODEFELD CAROLINE LOUISE FRIEDERIKE); died on 11 Jun 1844 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 14 Jun 1844. Notes:
Baptized November 20, 1814 Bergkirchen.
Confirmed 1829.JOHANN married RUETER MARIE CAROLINE (RUTERN) on 14 Jun 1840. MARIE was born on 18 Aug 1821; died on 22 May 1859 in Dod may be June 16, 1859. [Group Sheet]
Children:- SCHNAKE HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM was born on 8 Aug 1841.
- SCHNAKE ERNST HEINRICH was born on 13 Jul 1844 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen.
2. SCHNAKE ERNST HENRICH was born on 27 Jan 1785 in Hilverdingsen #19, Westfalen, Prussen (son of BRINCK TOENIES HENRICH and STUMPELMEIER ANNE MARIE ILSABE); died on 21 Dec 1832; was buried on 24 Dec 1832 in Bergkirchen Cemetery, Kreis Minden, Germany. Notes:
Baptized January 30, 1785 Bergkirchen. His baptismal witness was Friedrich Strumpelmeyer.
Ernst was a farmer and shoemaker.
Ernst died Friday, December 21, 1832 at 1:00 p.m. of Pneumonial.
SCHNAKES/BRINKS
This section concerns the Schnake/Brink family in Germany. It is included because two Schnake sisters were married to Friedrich Wilhelm Doennig. Those sisters were Louise Christine Schnake who married Friedrich August 31, 1836 andChristine Marie Ilsabein Schnake who married Friedrich May 7, 1844. Both were daughters of Ernst Schnake.
The descendants of the first Schnakes have multiplied and have scattered far from their original family home of Hilverdingsen by Unterlubbe, Westphalia, Prussia, West Germany to several states in America, including Illinois, and Missouri.
ERNST married RODEFELD CAROLINE LOUISE FRIEDERIKE on 9 Nov 1806. CAROLINE (daughter of RODEFELD JOHANN FRIEDRICH and GLIESEKER CATHARINE MARIE) was born on 25 Jul 1781 in Hille #17; died on 19 Oct 1860 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 23 Oct 1860 in Bergkirchen Cemetery, Kreis Minden, Germany. [Group Sheet]
3. RODEFELD CAROLINE LOUISE FRIEDERIKE was born on 25 Jul 1781 in Hille #17 (daughter of RODEFELD JOHANN FRIEDRICH and GLIESEKER CATHARINE MARIE); died on 19 Oct 1860 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 23 Oct 1860 in Bergkirchen Cemetery, Kreis Minden, Germany. Notes:
Baptized July 26, 1781 Hille.
Children:
- SCHNAKE ANNE MARIE ELISABETH was born on 7 Mar 1807 in Hilverdingsen #18, Westfalen, Prussen.
- SCHNAKE MARIE CAROLINE was born on 23 Oct 1809 in Hilverdingsen #13, Westfalen, Prussen.
- SCHNAKE MARIE CHRISTINE ELISABETH was born on 25 May 1812 in Hilverdingsen #13, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 23 Feb 1847 in Ruthenuffeln #33, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 27 Feb 1847.
- 1. SCHNAKE JOHANN ERNST HEINRICH was born on 16 Nov 1814 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 11 Jun 1844 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 14 Jun 1844.
- SCHNAKE LOUISE CHRISTINE was born on 9 Apr 1817 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 6 Jan 1844.
- SCHNAKE JUSTINE WILHELMINE FRIDERIKE was born on 17 Dec 1819 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen.
- SCHNAKE CHRISTINE MARIE ILSABEIN was born on 24 May 1822 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 25 Aug 1855.
Generation: 3
4. BRINCK TOENIES HENRICH was born on 30 Sep 1748 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; dob may be 4/30/1748;baptized 10/1/1748 Bergkirchen (son of BRINCK TONNIES (TOENNIES) HINRICH and BACHS (CATHARINA) ANNE MARIA TRIN ILSABE); died on 10 Mar 1796 in Hilverdingsen, Westfalen, Prussen; Pneumonia; was buried on 14 Mar 1796 in Bergkirchen, Westfalen, Prussen. Notes:
Toenies (Tonies) was from Eicksen #6 by Rothenuffeln. He was baptized on 1 October 1748 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bergkirchen. Apparently there were no male heirs for the family life and name was carried by the daughter, Anna Marie Engel Schnaken - the name in those days went with the house, rather than with the individual. So after Tonies Heinrich Brink married Anna Marie Schnaken, and having moved into her house, he was known as Tonies Heinrich Schnake, born Brink. He was a peasant farmer, Three children were born to this union.
Information provided by Roy Johnson
In 1773 Toenies Brink of Rothenuffeln married Anna Maria Engel Schnake, moved to farmstead no. 19 in Unterluebbe, and took the Schnake name. They bore two sons and a daughter. The oldest son inherited the No. 19 farmstead.
Information provided by Roy Johnson
In 1777 Anna Maria died and May 1777 Toenies married Anne Marie Ilsabe Stumpelmeyer. Since he lived at the Schnake farm he was still called Schnake, so was she, and so were their two sons and four daughters. Only one son, ernst Henrich, survived to adulthood. He moved to a new residence at No. 48 Unterluebbe. (The records show that as late as 1762, there were only 42 houses in the village, so we know this was a new residence.) In the late 1700s and early 1800s, new residences were being opened up. A new peasant category was created, that of "Neubauer" (New Farmer). These "new farmers" were given only a few acres, sometimes only a garden spot, to farm, and therefore had to work away from home as day laborers. Sometimes the grant was for military service. Apparently Ernst Henrich acquired one of these new houses. Since it was a new residence, it would not have a name, so Ernst Henrich kept the Schnake name instead of taking the name of the farmstead where he moved. This is an interesting situation, as the descendentws of this line have no actual Schnake ancestry before Toenies, but must trace their past family trees through the Brink and Stumpelmeyer lines. This is why I have referred to them as the "Brink-Stumpelmeyer Schnakes".
Descendents who came to America include: Maria Schnake (Donnig, Fortmeier), b. May 24, 1822, Unterluebbe #43, d. May 12, 1917, USA. Emigrated early 1850s. M. Sophie Caroline Hehrt in New Minden, Illinois, 1866. I have two family histories from this line. One history is of the descendents of Henry F. and Caroline's fourth child, August Carl Schnake, supplied to me in 1972 by Pauline Schnake Pixley of Des Moines, Iowa. The other is of the ancestors of Marsha Schnake Anglin of Lebanon, Missouri, a descendent from another of Henry F.s offspring.
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Schnake b. August 8, 1841, Unterluebbe no. 43, Westphalia, Germany, emigrated before 1864, d. April 12, 1897 St. Louis, Missouri, m. Anna Elizabeth Kleiboeker b. December 25, 1838 d. 1929; marriage date February 8, 1864. Information came from Lois (Schnake) Stone of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 3/1/96. She writes that he was a farmer and carpenter who loved to hunt and fish. He married Anna Elizabeth here; they bought a farm near Hoyleton, Illinois, and lost it because the person they bought it from did not have title. They moved to St. Louis and he worked as a carpenter. She came to USA on a ship at age 15 (1863) with a brother (records lost) and a friend.
Information provided by Roy Johnson
Anna Marie Engel Schnake and Toenies Brinck had a son, who inherited the estate, but she only lived a few years before she died in childbirth. Toenies kept the Schnake name and married again. There are at least two descendents from that marriage who came to the U.S. They have no Schnake ancestry at all but are named Schnake.
So a large number of American Schnakes actually go back through the male line to Brink.
Seems the records for a few of the local villages in this area of Germany were not kept with the records for the Bishopric of Minden, but rather in the smaller church of St. Martini. Back in the middle ages (1300s), a couple of local nobles rebelled against the Principality of Minden. they got their comuppance and lost their land. It became church property and the Bishop got permission from the Pope to set up a monastery and make this land monastery property.
He set up the offices for the monastery of St. Martini but never got around to establishing the monastery itself. Instead, he took the land as his own private domain and used the monastery officials to collect the rents.
The Schnake family and a lot of others in the villages of Unterluebbe and oberluebbe were serfs on this land, so they became serfs to the so-called "monastery" and their records were kept in the church of St. Martini, the "patron", I suppose, of this "monastery."
When elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg (later Prussia) took this area over in 1848, it became protestanat (mostly) and he siezed the church property. However, using the "monastery" officials to collect the rent was handy, so he never abolished the "monastery" - no need to since it didn't exist anyway. His descendents became the kings of Prussia. The Schnakes and others were his serfs, but their landlord was listed as the "Monastery of St. Martini."
This left an unusual situation - nearly unbroken set of records from the 1500s to the 1900s kept in one place.
In the 1980s the St. Martini church opened its archives, and some local scholars wrote articles about the area, which were collected into a pamphlet. I have a copy of that pamphlet and a house-by-house listing of families in those two villages, plus some good articles about the area in general. Some of these I have translated and you will find links to them on the Schnake page.
Brinks mostly did not live in Unterluebbe or Oberluebbe, as I recall. Still, there are some mentioned and I will check to see if there are more. These records pre-date the church records by a century or more.
Information provided by Roy JohnsonTOENIES married STUMPELMEIER ANNE MARIE ILSABE on 9 May 1777 in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bergkirchen, Westfalen, Prussen. ANNE was born about 22 Dec 1757 in Maschege #30 by Oberlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 2 Nov 1815 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 5 Nov 1815. [Group Sheet]
5. STUMPELMEIER ANNE MARIE ILSABE was born about 22 Dec 1757 in Maschege #30 by Oberlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 2 Nov 1815 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 5 Nov 1815. Notes:
Last name may be spelled Strumpelmeier.
Children:
- SCHNAKE CHRISTIAN was born on 29 Oct 1779 in Hilverdingsen, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 29 Apr 1802 in #30 Oberlubbe, Westfallen, Prussen; was buried on 1 May 1802.
- SCHNAKE ANNE MARIE was born on 3 Apr 1782; died on 18 May 1785.
- 2. SCHNAKE ERNST HENRICH was born on 27 Jan 1785 in Hilverdingsen #19, Westfalen, Prussen; died on 21 Dec 1832; was buried on 24 Dec 1832 in Bergkirchen Cemetery, Kreis Minden, Germany.
- SCHNAKE ANNE MARIE CHRISTINE was born on 8 Feb 1788 in Hilverdingsen, Westfallen, Prussen..
- SCHNAKE CATHARINE ILSABEIN was born on 28 Feb 1791 in Hilverdingsen, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 18 Apr 1835; was buried on 21 Apr 1835.
- SCHNAKE CHRISTINE LOUISE was born on 20 Jul 1795 in Hilverdingsen, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 24 Jun 1867.
6. RODEFELD JOHANN FRIEDRICH JOHANN married GLIESEKER CATHARINE MARIE. [Group Sheet]
7. GLIESEKER CATHARINE MARIE Children:
- 3. RODEFELD CAROLINE LOUISE FRIEDERIKE was born on 25 Jul 1781 in Hille #17; died on 19 Oct 1860 in Hilverdingsen #43 by Unterlubbe, Westfalen, Prussen; was buried on 23 Oct 1860 in Bergkirchen Cemetery, Kreis Minden, Germany.
Generation: 4
8. BRINCK TONNIES (TOENNIES) HINRICH was born on 18 May 1724 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; baptism May 28, 1724; dob may be 30th (son of BRINCK TONNIES (TOENNIES) and BRINCK ANNA MARGARETHA); died about 1758 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; buried April 24, 1758 in Bergkirchen Cemetery. TONNIES married BACHS (CATHARINA) ANNE MARIA TRIN ILSABE on 19 Nov 1747 in Bergkirchen Par., Westfalen, Prussen.. (CATHARINA) (daughter of BACHS JOHAN HERMAN RUSCHMEYER gen. and RODEMEYER ANNA MARIA (ROMEYER)) was born about 1726 in Haddinghausen, Westfalen, Prussen; Baptism March 6, 1726; died on 19 Nov 1779 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen.. [Group Sheet]
9. BACHS (CATHARINA) ANNE MARIA TRIN ILSABE was born about 1726 in Haddinghausen, Westfalen, Prussen; Baptism March 6, 1726 (daughter of BACHS JOHAN HERMAN RUSCHMEYER gen. and RODEMEYER ANNA MARIA (ROMEYER)); died on 19 Nov 1779 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen.. Children:
- BRINCK ANN TRINKE (TRIN) ILSABE was born on 6 Jan 1750/51 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 23 Jun 1772.
- 4. BRINCK TOENIES HENRICH was born on 30 Sep 1748 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; dob may be 4/30/1748;baptized 10/1/1748 Bergkirchen; died on 10 Mar 1796 in Hilverdingsen, Westfalen, Prussen; Pneumonia; was buried on 14 Mar 1796 in Bergkirchen, Westfalen, Prussen.
- BRINCK FRIEDRICH WILHELM was born on 21 Jun 1753 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; bapt. 1/21/1753;dob may be 1/21/1753; died on 8 Jan 1816 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; buried 1/10/1816 in Bergkirchen Cemetery.
- BRINCK ANN CHRISTINE MARIE ILSABEIN was born on 21 Feb 1755 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; died in in Prussen; was buried in Feb 1758.
- BRINCK ANNA MARIA CATHARINA was born on 26 Nov 1756 in Eicksen, Westfalen, Prussen; dob may be 10/26/1756.
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