From: Priscilla Haines <phaines@pacificrim.net>
To: LUNENBURG ROOTS <LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com>
Subject: Re: Schlagenweit-Slauenwhite
I thought this information should be shared with the list. Iris said to
share it in her note so I will. Sounds like she has put a lot of work into
this. Priscilla
Iris Shea wrote:
> phaines@pacificrim.net,.internet writes:
> From: Priscilla Haines <phaines@pacificrim.net>
>
> Hi Wilf... The parents of Johannes are Frederic Schslagsameid and
> Cathrine > Elizabeth. Johannes had eight children. Do you have all of them?
> Priscilla
>
> Wilf Morley wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow Lunnies:
> > I've worked on the Bollivars,Crosses, and Spidels. This will make
> > no. 4 of my Barb's grandparents. Her grandmother was Jerusha Ann
> > Slauenwhite. Her parents were Jacob EDWARD Schlagenwhite(b 24 Mar
> > 1827 and died 1905) and Rachel Fancy. Edward's parents were Johannes
> > Schlagenwhite and Maria Magdalene Hirtle. That is as far back as we
> > were able to go. Any help on this?
> > Wilf Morley
>
> Hello to all of you Slauenwhite researchers:
> Here is information on the original Schlagentweit family, from Germany
> to Lunenburg on the Sally in 1752. This is all documented info, taken
> from the parish records, and on microfilm at Salt Lake City.
> All Nova Scotia Slauenwhites/Slaunwhites and Slaughenwhites descend
> from this family. Joseph Schlagentweit was the third child of Tobias
> and Maria Magdalena (her surname is difficult to read, but may be
> Blixendorfer). They were married 11 Nov. 1705 in Sternenfels,
> Wurtemberg, Germany. Joseph was born in Sternenfels. The information
> from Germany was gathered from the microfilms by Brenda Maruca, a
> researcher in Alburquerque, New Mexico, who kindly looked it up,
> interpreted it, and sent it to me by snail mail just this week. It was
> huge undertaking.
>
> I know there are a lot of people looking for Slaunwhites, so feel free
> to share this information.
> Joseph Schlagentweit,
> s/o Tobias and Maria Magdalene, bapt. 11 Nov. 1709 (Sternenfels
> Evangelische Kirche); d. 5 Feb. 1785, age 75 (St. John's Church,
> Lunenburg); m. (1) 12 Jan. 1731 Maria Catherine Majors in Nordheim,
> Evangelische Kirche, Nordheim, Wurtemberg, Germany, b. 14 Apr. 1709; d.
> pre Aug. 1742. There were several children born of this marriage, but
> only one, Helena Elizabeth, survived to adulthood and came to Lunenburg
> as the wife of Heinrick Feder. She was born and baptised 25 July 1733
> in Nordheim.
> Joseph m. (2) 27 Nov. 1742 Ursula Magdalene Keller, d/o Jacob and Maria
> Elizabetha, b. 24 Oct. 1712 in Durrenzimmern, Wurtemberg; d. 1793, age
> 83, in Lunenburg.
>
> 1. Johan Jacob, b. 11 Aug. 1743 in Nordheim; d. 1820 in Head of St.
> Margaret's Bay, Halifax County. (Estate Papers); m. 16 Dec. 1766 (St.
> John's Church, Lunenburg) Maria Elizabeth Rigoleau, d/o Vernier and
> Jeanne Rigoleau.(Bell's Notes).
>
> 2. Johan Frederich, b. 28 Aug. 1745 in Sternenfels, Wurtemberg; a
> marriage took place in Lunenburg of John Frederick to Margaret Arenburg
> in 1769, but the name of the mother in baptism records at Zion Lutheran
> Church, Lunenburg, is Catherine Elizabeth. There is a three year gap
> between the dates of the marriage and the baptism of the first child,
> so one might wonder if there was a second marriage. Johann John , their
> youngest child, was b. 28 Mar. 1797, and bapt. 11 Apr. 1797 at Zion
> Lutheran.
>
> 3. Helena Margareta, bapt. 12 Jan. 1755 (St. John's, Lunenburg); d. of
> smallpox, age 21, 22 Nov. 1775 (de la Roche's burial register,
> Lunenburg).
>
> 4. Catherine Elizabeth, b. 8 July 1757 (St. John's, Lunenburg); m. 19
> Nov. 1776 John Cashin, widower (St. John's, Lunenburg).
>
> Here are the microfilm numbers should anyone wish to order them from
> Salt Lake City through your local Family History Library.
> Stenenfels Evangelische Kirche records film #1187014.
> Durrenzimmern Evangelische Kirche records, film #1184787.
> Nordheim Evangelische Kirche records, film #1184757.
> All three parishes are in Wurtemberg, Germany.
>
> Hope this is useful information. I am following John Jacob and Maria
> Elizabeth's descendants who settled at the North West Arm and Terence
> Bay in Halifax County, so cannot be of help to those following John
> Frederick's descendants. There is a marriage for him to Margaret
> Arenburg at St. John's, Lunenburg, 28 Mar. 1769. It looks, however,
> that the mother of his children was Catherine Elizabeth. There are
> baptisms for 10 children at Zion Lutheran Church, Lunenburg, the last
> one is that of Johann John, b. 28 Mar. 1797, bapt. 11 Apr. 1797. Each
> baptism records the mother's name as Catherine Elizabeth or Elizabeth.
> Good luck in peicing those Slaunwhites together. It's a real challenge
> sorting out the Terence Bay ones, because they married their Slaunwhite
> cousins generatrion after generation. Some got wise, and changed the
> surname to Harrie, others to Martin. What was interesting was the
> Harries descend from John Henry Slaunwhite, s/o John Jacob and Maria
> Elizabeth, the Martins descend from John Martin Slaunwhite, a brother
> to John Henry. They also had a brother John Frederick, so the majority
> of today's families descend from all three brothers.
> Iris.
Maria Magdalena HIRTLE and Johannes SLAUENWHITE had the following children:
+387 i.
Jacob Edward SCHLAGENWHITE.
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