Madeline Schafer

F, b. 4 July 1905, d. 31 May 1990
FatherJosef Schafer b. 1 Jul 1872
     Madeline Schafer was born on 4 July 1905 at Schrobenhausen. She died on 31 May 1990 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 84.
     Madeline was one of about 6 sisters. She came to the US in the 1920's under the sponsorship of her cousin Max Schafer, and worked as a nanny on Long Island for many years. When she was older, she married Willie Uhlig, and afte he retired, they moved back to Schrobenhausen in a nice apartment on an upper floor of a bank building which stood on the site of a former Schafer home. Wille died before she did, and at least one sister, Rosa Droessler survived Madeline. She was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Mary (Maria) Schafer

F, b. 16 February 1782, d. 29 October 1844
FatherJohn Schaeffer d. b 1808
MotherAnn Mary Ream b. 1760, d. 1812
     Mary (Maria) Schafer married Jacob Hildebrand, son of John Hildebrand and Margaret Gardner. Mary (Maria) Schafer was buried at Union Cemetery, East Berlin, PA. She was born on 16 February 1782. She died on 29 October 1844 at East Berlin, PA, at age 62.
     Married name: Hildebrand. Also apell Scheaffer, Scheafer. She was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Child of Mary (Maria) Schafer and Jacob Hildebrand

Max Schafer

M, b. 1888, d. 1948
FatherAndreas Schafer b. 4 Mar 1848, d. 22 Apr 1901
MotherAnna Kneissl b. 7 Dec 1854, d. 14 Dec 1924
     Max Schafer was born in 1888. He married Louise Litty circa 1914 (New York, NY). Max Schafer died in 1948.
     Max was the first member of the family to come to the U.S. He was the fifth of six living children of Andreas Schafer, Seilermeister (Ropemaker) of Schrobenhausen, Bavaria and his wife Anna Kneissl.
By 1910, Max had done his compulsory military service in the German army, and rather than go to FFB to be apprenticed as a butcher to his brother in law, my grandfather Johann Kneissl, he took his severance pay and went to Bremen, spent 5 pfennig to take the ferry to Bremerhaven and got a job aboard a ship, supposedly set to travel around the world.
He loved to tell the story that it cost him 5 cents to come to the U.S. He also liked to tell his great nieces and nephews that his job aboard ship was washing dishes, and that he was so seasick he just tossed the dishes out of the porthole! The other famiily story told was that when his ship landed in New York (unscheduled, because of an illness on board) he was standing on deck and a man called up from the dock in German, asking if a certain man was on board. Max said no, but what did he want with him. The answer was that he had a job for him. Max said he'd take it, and walked off the ship to begin working in the owner's delicatessen - no detours by way of Ellis Island for him!
He met and and by 1914 had married Louise Litty who'd followed (or preceded) her sister Carrie to the U.S. from Gebweiler in Alsace Lorraine. By the time WWI began, Max owned his own delicatessen in rented quarters at 878 Broadway in Brooklyn and Louise had given birth (caesarian) to a daughter Bertha and son Andrew. This, plus the fact that in 1917 he took advantage of the opportunity to become a US citizen rather than remain an enemy alien, exempted him from military service.
His decision not to return and become his brother in law's apprentice was fortunate, for of all the men in the crack German regiment that he had served with before coming to the U.S., only 3 survived WWI.

Max Schafer and his family appear in the 1920 census:
1920 Census NY vol.145, enumeration district 323, sheet#1, line #25.
National Archives, 6 May 1993.
Max Schafer, head of household, rented premises (878 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY), male, white, 31 (this would mean he was born in 1889), married, emmigrated to U.S. in 1910,naturalized in 1917, could read and write, place of birth -Prussia (no way!!!), mother tongue- German, Father born in Prussia(wrong again!), language German, and the same listed for his mother, he was able to speak English, his trade - merchant, nature of business, delicatessen employer. In addition to his wife(who was listed a not speaking English- she spoke both French and German with the Alsation dialect) and two children Bertha and Andrew, there lived in the building Anna Schneider, lodger, 40 year old widow born in N.Y. with German parents, who was a laundress; James Wenzel boarder,single, 25 came from Germany in 1915, alien, was a clerk at the delicatessen.

In 1921 Max returned to Germany to visit his family, and a photograph was taken of him with his mother and siblings- he was the only one of his brothers who had not been in the German army during WWI.
He sponsored the entrance of Tony Shafer of Aichach, the son of his oldest brother Andreas, to the U.S. that year, and in 1922 on a return visit to Germany, he sponsored Tony's friend George Hofstetter from Aichach and his niece Anna Kneissl of Fuerstenfeldbruck(my parents.) Later came Tony's brother Andrew Shafer, Anna's brothers Hans and Tony Kneissl and others. Altogether he sponsored about 16, mostly relatives, although several went back to Germany for family reasons, or after saving some money.
By the time George Hofstetter and Anna Kneissl married in Brooklyn in 1927, Max had sold his delicatessen business (before age 40!) and retired. It was said his retirement income came from holding mortgages and other investments- they must have been stocks that were not wiped out in the crash of 1929 as he and Louise and the children always lived comfortably and travelled to Germany and throughout the U.S., although at one point during the Depression he was said to have worried that he might have to go back to work.
Max (who inherited the Schafer trait of graying early) and diminutive Louise were the family center of those who had immigrated - nieces, nephews, removed cousins and friends. Christmas was always celebrated at the home in Jamaica, Queens they had purchased after retirement. Nieces (Martha Gayman- Louise's niece) and grand-nieces (Louisa Hofstetter and later her sister Ellie) spent a few weeks with them every summer,learning to cross stitch, cleaning and dusting in the house and helping in the large vegetable garden Max planted in the empty lot next door, going to Jones Beach and Jamaica Bay swimming, singing songs in French and German with Louise while she washed the dishes and the girls dried. They were more like grandparents than those who lived in far off Germany. Louise was Louisa's godmother as well.
Daughter Bertha, 13 years older than Louisa and her mother Anna's first cousin, was a secretary to Mr. Meier, a central American with an import export business, and she was always coming home to Jamaica with exotic items from his office, including raw sugar cane which tasted sweet when chewed and leather handbags with Aztec symbols.
Their son Andrew George, two years younger, studied at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute to become a Civil Engineer and before getting a job with the Tennessee Valley Authority was always about the house with his many friends and his dog Laddie. When WWII approached, Andrew requested service in the Pacific- he did not wish to fight his German cousins whom he had come to know on visits to Germany. Andrew became an officer in the SeaBees - the civil engineering branch of the Navy that built airstrips on many of the Pacific islands involved in the war against Japan.
Old world standards applied in education with the Shafers. Andrew went to college, Bertha to secretarial school. Max asked her parents why they would send a girl to college when Louisa was the first in her family to attend.
After a long and contented retirement, Max died suddenly of a stroke in his home in 1948.
In 1949 Bertha married Franz Ritz, a roofer from New Rochelle. Soon after, the house in Jamaica was sold and Louise moved into her daughter's home in New Rochelle. Bertha and Franz had two daughters, Marilyn and Joan.
Andrew had been married by 1941 to Marie, whom he'd met while working in West Virginia. He had rejoined the TVA after the war upon leaving the Navy and lived in Nashville, Tenn. He and Marie loved golf. A smoker, he died of cancer in 1970 after recovering from a heart attack.
By 1973, Bertha who was widowed in 1858 when Franz died of a heart attack while shovelling snow, had moved to Nashville. Her daughter Joan attended Vanderbilt University there, and Bertha brought her mother Louise with her. Still not gray, Louise died in Nashville on 16 Feb 1973 at 85 and was buried in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Max Schafer and Louise Litty

Ottilie Schafer

F, b. 26 November 1876, d. 28 December 1960
FatherAndreas Schafer b. 4 Mar 1848, d. 22 Apr 1901
MotherAnna Kneissl b. 7 Dec 1854, d. 14 Dec 1924
     Ottilie Schafer was born on 26 November 1876 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany. She married Johann Baptist Kneissl, son of Xavier Kneissl and Anna Maria Schrem(s), on 26 July 1896 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G). Ottilie Schafer died on 28 December 1960 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany, at age 84.
     She was Type: Identifier Number 7. Oldest living child of Andreas Shafer and Anna Kneissl. Her daughter said that the parents were married in Palling instead of Schrobenhausen because Anna was pregnant.
She married Johann Kneissl, the first cousin of her mother, requiring a papal dispensation because of the relationship. After several moves, they settled in 16 Hauptstrasse Fuerstenfeldbruck where Johann established his Metzgerei (meat business) and there raised their 4 sons and a daughter. Married name: Kneissl. She was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Ottilie Schafer and Johann Baptist Kneissl

Ottilie Schafer

F, b. circa 1844
FatherJosef Schafer b. 28 Dec 1843
MotherAnna Schmid b. 15 Nov 1846
     Ottilie Schafer was born circa 1844.
     She was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer

F, b. circa 1921, d. 16 August 1982
FatherAnton Schafer b. 1879, d. 28 May 1959
MotherOttilie Kneissl b. c 1892
     Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer married Hans Huber. Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer was born circa 1921. She died on 16 August 1982 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.
     Married name: Huber. She was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Raimund Schafer

M, b. 10 February 1883, d. 2 February 1938
FatherAndreas Schafer b. 4 Mar 1848, d. 22 Apr 1901
MotherAnna Kneissl b. 7 Dec 1854, d. 14 Dec 1924
     Raimund Schafer was buried at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany. He married Viktoria Stieff. Raimund Schafer was born on 10 February 1883 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany. He married Elisabeth Schafer, daughter of Josef Schafer and Anna Schmid, after 1930 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G). Raimund Schafer died on 2 February 1938 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 54.
     Second wife was Elisabeth Schafer,daughter of Josef Schafer the Spengler - she was his first cousin, also a cousin of Madeline Schafer(299)

Ropemaker (Seilermeister) in Schrobenhausen, tho he was not the oldest son, he took over his father's business and ran it for his mother when she was widowed - she set up Andreas, her oldest son, as a ropemaker in nearby Aichach. He taught his niece Anna (14) how to make knotted items- she made a dolls rope hammok among many other things which was given to her great granddaughters in Danbury CT.
During WWI, Raimund was in Galacia(Poland), Russia and France.
In 1937, when Louisa visited from the US, he gave her his late wife's necklace - a silver lavaliere with emralds. He was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Raimund Schafer and Elisabeth Schafer

Raimund Schafer

M, b. circa 1935, d. 1985
FatherRaimund Schafer b. 10 Feb 1883, d. 2 Feb 1938
MotherElisabeth Schafer b. c 1875
     Raimund Schafer was born circa 1935. He died in 1985.
     He was a fence builder. He was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Rosa Schafer

?, b. after 1905
FatherJosef Schafer b. 1 Jul 1872
     Rosa Schafer was born after 1905.
     D, they moved back to Schrobenhausen in a nice apartment on an upper floor of a bank building which stood on the site of a former Schafer home. Wille died before she did, and at least one sister, Rosa Droessler survived Madeline. Rosa Schafer was Type: Record Change on 30 November 2001.

Ruth Deming Schaffer

F, d. 23 December 1974
     Ruth Deming Schaffer married Donald Alfred Truss, son of Walter George Truss and Ada Mary James. Ruth Deming Schaffer died on 23 December 1974.
     Name variation: Ruth Deming Truss.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Ruth Deming Schaffer and Donald Alfred Truss

Truus Schagen

F, b. 21 August 1884, d. December 1972
     Truus Schagen married John Martens, son of S. W. Martens. Truus Schagen was born on 21 August 1884. She died in December 1972 at Haledon, Passaic County, NJ, at age 88.
     Possible marriage for the parents:
Burgerlijke stand - Huwelijk (Bruidegom)
Archieflocatie Noord-Hollands Archief
AlgemeenToegangnr: 358
Inventarisnr: 120
Gemeente: Texel
Soort akte: Huwelijksakte
Aktenummer: 49
Datum: 16-10-1873
BruidegomPieter Willemszoon Schagen
Leeftijd: 23
Geboorteplaats: Texel
BruidCornelisje Timmer
Leeftijd: 22
Geboorteplaats: Texel
Vader bruidegomWillem Schagen
Moeder bruidegomNeeltje Visman
Vader bruidBiem Timmer
Moeder bruidPietertje Dogger
Nadere informatieberoep bg.: zeeman; beroep vader bd.: arbeider

Pieter and Cornelia Schagen are in both the 1900 and the 1910 census in Paterson, however, the older children are not with them. Name variation: Thresa Marten. Married name: Martens. Name variation: Trientje Schagen. She immigrated on 12 May 1893 on the Werkendam, with her parents Pieter (42) and Cornelia (43 ), and siblings Neeltje (19), Pietje (16), Maartje and Cornelia (2) and Anke (1). They were going to Paterson. Trientje is 18, which does NOT correspond with the birthdate from the SSDI. She and John Martens appeared on the census of 1920 at 39 Belle Ave, Paterson City (1st Ward), Passaic County, NJ. with their son Jochan (4 + 7 mo, b. NJ).

Janne Schagun

F
     Janne Schagun married Mathias Schaets.
     Married name: Schaets.

Child of Janne Schagun and Mathias Schaets

Doris Schainholts

F
     Doris Schainholts married William Austin Myers, son of Beckwith Myers and Grace B Miller.
     Married name: Myers.

Child of Doris Schainholts and William Austin Myers

George Schamberger

M
     George Schamberger married Ursula Kokeisi.

Child of George Schamberger and Ursula Kokeisi

Joseph Schamberger Sr.

M, b. 26 December 1858, d. 1 January 1934
FatherGeorge Schamberger
MotherUrsula Kokeisi
     Joseph Schamberger Sr. was born on 26 December 1858 at Kydne, Bohemia. He married Anna Dorothy Svantner, daughter of Anton Schwandtner and Anna Panosch, on 21 January 1882 at Nonakdyne, Czechoslovakia. Joseph Schamberger Sr. died on 1 January 1934 at Garfield, NJ, at age 75.
     He lived at 78 Wessington Ave, Garfield, NJ. He was owner of a shoe store and wove rag rugs for sale. He immigrated on 22 July 1891 to Port of New York, New York City, NY.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Joseph Schamberger Sr. and Anna Dorothy Svantner

Lizabeth Schamers

F, b. 1738
FatherSamuel Schammers
MotherSara Cortright b. 2 Aug 1719
     Lizabeth Schamers was born in 1738. She was christened on 30 May 1738 at Machackemeck Dutch Reformed Church, Orange County, NY.

Samuel Schammers

M
     Samuel Schammers married Sara Cortright, daughter of Cornelius Hendricksen Cortright and Christina Hendricksen Rosekrans, before 1738.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Samuel Schammers and Sara Cortright

Sara Schammers

F
     Sara Schammers married Abram Kermer, son of Isaac Kermert Styntje Keyser, at Hurley, NY.
     Married name: Kermer.

Herbert Schank

M, b. 6 August 1897
     Herbert Schank married Louise Tuers, daughter of Charles Veers Tuers and Jennie Moulton. Herbert Schank was born on 6 August 1897 at New York, NY.

Magdalena Schank

F, b. 26 February 1725, d. 27 November 1801
     Magdalena Schank was born on 26 February 1725. She married Adrian Bogaert, son of Tunis Gysbert Bogaert and Catherine Hegeman, on 18 November 1748. Magdalena Schank died on 27 November 1801 at age 76.
     Married name: Bogaert.

Atje Schaper

F, b. 29 April 1897
FatherRein Schaper b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
MotherGeertje Lunenburg b. 18 Mar 1862, d. 20 Feb 1936
     Atje Schaper was born on 29 April 1897 at Gaasterland, Friesland, The Netherlands.
     Name variation: Alice Koning. Name variation: Aaltje Schaper.

Cornelia W. Schaper

F, b. 1891, d. after 1939
FatherLeonard Littel b. 1866, d. a 1941
MotherCornelia Littel b. 1870, d. b 1910
     Cornelia W. Schaper married Jacob Schaper, son of Rein Schaper and Geertje Lunenburg. Cornelia W. Schaper was born in 1891 at The Netherlands. She died after 1939.
     The an unknown date directory lists them as removed to New York, although Cornelia seems to be listed as a bookkeeper in Little Falls, with rental at 510 West Saddle River Road. Name variation: Katie W. Little. Married name: Schaper. She and Jacob Schaper appeared on the census of 1920 at West Saddle Farm Road (#250), Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. with three children: Cornelia W. (3), Gertrude (1 1/2) and Leonard (1 mo). Cornelia W. Schaper lived in 1927 at West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. She lived in 1934 at State Highway #2, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, They lived at there until 1935, when they moved to Chester, New York. She lived in 1939 at Goshen, Orange County, NY.

Durk Schaper

M, b. 12 May 1864
FatherWabe Schaper b. 1840
MotherJantje Reins de Bok b. 1836
     Durk Schaper was born on 12 May 1864 at Workum, Friesland, The Netherlands.

Geeske Schaper

F, b. 14 May 1867
FatherWabe Schaper b. 1840
MotherJantje Reins de Bok b. 1836
     Geeske Schaper was born on 14 May 1867 at Molkwerum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands. She married Auke Faber on 29 May 1891 at Stavoren, Friesland, The Netherlands.
     Married name: Faber. Geeske Schaper and Auke Faber appeared on the census of 1920 at Hill Street, Midland Park Borough, Bergen County, NJ. with their son Dick (21, born in NJ).

Jacob Schaper

M, b. 26 July 1887, d. 7 October 1939
FatherRein Schaper b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
MotherGeertje Lunenburg b. 18 Mar 1862, d. 20 Feb 1936
     Jacob Schaper was buried at Valleau Cemetery, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. He married Cornelia W. Schaper, daughter of Leonard Littel and Cornelia Littel. Jacob Schaper was born on 26 July 1887 at Gaasterland, Friesland, The Netherlands. He died on 7 October 1939 at Newburgh, Orange County, NY, at age 52.
     Six children, two brothers and three sisters survived him. He was in the scavenger business in Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ with his uncle an unknown person at Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. He was re-elected as diaken in the Dutch Reformed Church at an unknown place. The an unknown date directory lists them as removed to New York, although Cornelia seems to be listed as a bookkeeper in Little Falls, with rental at 510 West Saddle River Road. He immigrated on 1 May 1911 on the Nieuw Amsterdam, from Rotterdam (22 Apr 1911), arriving in New York on 1 May 1911. They were going to their uncle an unknown person in Ridgewood. Both listed their father as their contact in Holland. Jacob was from Balk, Wopke van Sloten. He and Cornelia W. Schaper appeared on the census of 1920 at West Saddle Farm Road (#250), Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. with three children: Cornelia W. (3), Gertrude (1 1/2) and Leonard (1 mo). Jacob Schaper lived in 1927 at West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ. He lived in 1934 at State Highway #2, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, They lived at there until 1935, when they moved to Chester, New York. He was in 1935 worked in 1935 for the Franklin Lakes Dairy Products, 510 West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, proprietor Harvey B. Greene at Franklin Lakes Dairy Products, 510 West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ.

Jan Schaper

M, b. 1903
FatherRein Schaper b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
MotherGeertje Lunenburg b. 18 Mar 1862, d. 20 Feb 1936
     Jan Schaper was born in 1903 at Balk, Friesland, The Netherlands.
     Name variation: John Schaper.

Jan Schaper

M, b. 16 November 1869
FatherWabe Schaper b. 1840
MotherJantje Reins de Bok b. 1836
     Jan Schaper was born on 16 November 1869 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands. He married Jantje de Vries on 13 August 1891 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.
     1930 census: Wybren & others. 7 children in Tresoar, but in 1923 (Ellis Island) there are a number of children born after 1902:
Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1891, Aangiftedatum 28 december 1891, akte nr. 164, Wabe Schaper, geboren 25 december 1891, Zoon van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1891, Aangiftedatum 28 december 1891, akte nr. 165, Wybren Schaper, geboren 25 december 1891, Zoon van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1893, Aangiftedatum 24 augustus 1893, akte nr. 121, Jantje Schaper, geboren 23 augustus 1893, Dochter van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1894, Aangiftedatum 27 december 1894, akte nr. 140
Tettje Schaper, geboren 25 december 1894
Dochter van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1896
Aangiftedatum 7 augustus 1896, akte nr. 104
Wybren Schaper, geboren 6 augustus 1896
Zoon van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1900
Aangiftedatum 30 november 1900, akte nr. 147
Harmen Schaper, geboren 29 november 1900
Zoon van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries

Geboorteakte Hemelumer Oldeferd, 1902
Aangiftedatum 26 augustus 1902, akte nr. 125
Tetje Schaper, geboren 25 augustus 1902
Dochter van Jan Schaper en Jantje de Vries.

Child of Jan Schaper and Jantje de Vries

Jantje Schaper

F, b. 1891, d. 22 May 1983
FatherRein Schaper b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
MotherGeertje Lunenburg b. 18 Mar 1862, d. 20 Feb 1936
     Jantje Schaper married Walter Leentjes, son of Folkert Leentjes and Popkjen de Vries. Jantje Schaper was born in 1891 at The Netherlands. She was born on 21 April 1891 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands. She died on 22 May 1983 at Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff, Bergen County, NJ. She was buried on 26 May 1983 at George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, Bergen County, NJ.
     Married name: Leentjes. Surviving are five daughters: Gertrude (Secor) of Miami, FL, Pauline (Engel) of Fort Lauderdale, FL, Alice (Hollman) of Bergenfield, Johanna (Gould) of Cocoa Beach, FL, and Jewell (Loehr) of Nutley, and a son Frederick of Midland Park. Name variation: Janet Leentjes. She immigrated on 24 July 1911 on the Noordam, from Rotterdam, arriving 24 Jul 1911 in New York. She is from Balk, her contact in Holland is her father R. Schaper. She is going to Hohokus, NJ. Her contact is her uncle an unknown person. She and Walter Leentjes appeared on the census of 1920 at Orchard Street, Franklin Township, Bergen County, NJ. with three daughters: Jewel (7), Pauline (4) and Jesse? (2 + 7 mo).

Jeltje Schaper

F, b. 21 March 1900
FatherRein Schaper b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
MotherGeertje Lunenburg b. 18 Mar 1862, d. 20 Feb 1936
     Jeltje Schaper was born on 21 March 1900 at Gaasterland, Friesland, The Netherlands.
     Name variation: Julia Schaper. Name variation: Julia Green.

Rein Schaper

M, b. 12 May 1864, d. 14 May 1934
FatherWabe Schaper b. 1840
MotherJantje Reins de Bok b. 1836
     Rein Schaper was born on 12 May 1864 at Workum, Friesland, The Netherlands. He married Geertje Lunenburg on 6 November 1890 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands. Rein Schaper died on 14 May 1934 at 441 Farview Ave, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, at age 70. He was buried on 17 May 1934 at Valleau Cemetery, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ.
     Surviving, besides his wife, are three sons and three daughters. He was a cement block manufacturer at Hawthorne, Passaic County, NJ. Name variation: Reim Schaper. Name variation: Ryan Schaper. 1930 census. Also: who is the cousin in the 1920 census? On an unknown date is the registration of the official recognition of Jacob by his father. He immigrated on 9 April 1914 on the Ryndam, from Rotterdam, arriving 9 Apr 1914 in New York, with four children: Wabe (21), Aaltje (15), Jeltje (14) and Jan (11). Their last residence was Balk. Their contact in Holland was her brother H. Lunenburg in Balk. They were going to their son and brother an unknown person in Midland Park. Also mentioned is their daughter and son-in-law in Paterson. He and Geertje Lunenburg appeared on the census of 1920 at Wortendyke Roads (#148), Franklin Township, Bergen County, NJ. with three children: Wabe (26), Julia (18) and John (16), and a nephew Ryan (20). The family immigrated in 1914, Ryan in 1919. The men were masons and cementblock contractors, Julia was a weaver. Rein Schaper lived in 1931 at 441 Farview Ave, Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ.

Children (not necessarily in order) of Rein Schaper and Geertje Lunenburg