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     Adolf Schafer died circa 1944 at Russia (He went missing in WW II.)¹

     Andreas Schafer was born on 23 December 1878 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Franziska Umfahrer on 28 October 1902 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     Name variation: SeilerM.¹      He was a Seilermeister (ropemaker) of Aichach, also a Feldwebel and Jager, he leased forest land to hunt. His father was still seilermeister in SOB, so they set him up in business in Aichach. He was in Flanders and France during WWI.¹

     Andreas Schafer was born on 4 March 1848 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Kneissl, daughter of Anton Kneissl and Veronika Tafelmeier, on 25 September 1875 at Palling bei Traun, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He died on 22 April 1901 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 53.¹
     His father in law did not approve of his marriage to Anna. Called him a gernstrick passemantier. (He was a ropemaker- apassementier referred to the fancy cording on military uniforms of the time) He had been a soldier in the Franco Prussian War.

BIOGRAPHY: #30,31
Name Andreas Scha'fer, Seilermiester (Ropemaker) Born 4 March 1848, Schrobenhausen
Married 25 Sept. 1875, Palling bei Traunstein
Died 22 Apr. 1901
Buried Schrobenhausen
Father Georg Scha'fer,Seilermeister
Mother Elizabeth Weissmu'ller Seilermeisters daughter
11 children were born- the following survived

Most information found in Anton Kneissl's prayerbook dated 1828, and added to by his grandaughter Ottilie Schafer Kneissl.¹

     Andrew Schafer married Marie.¹ He was born in 1917 at Brooklyn, NY.¹ He died in 1970 at Nashville, TN.¹
     Degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in Civil Engineering
He worked for the TVA upon his graduation. Married Marie while in West Virginia.
He Served as an officer in the SeaBees in WWII- he did not want to fight cousins in Germany.
Lived in Nashville Tennessee. He and Marie had no children, but he was a generous Godfather to many, including Peter John Lavelle.
Yearly his godchildren received a share of stock of a well known company.¹ Name variation: BCE.¹

     Andrew Schafer was born circa 15 February 1903 at Aichach, Germany.¹ He married Emma Elisabeth Borsum on 22 May 1930 (Brooklyn NY.)¹ He died at New York.¹
     First cousin of AOH. She says he was a teacher in Germany, got a young girl (minor?) pregnant, and would have been jailed, but at his father's request, his Uncle Max let him come to NY, and get him into the delicatessen business. He also made advances to AOH, and Marie Schamberger came to the US thinking he'd marry her, but he then married the Lutheran Emma. OSK told AOH that after his marriage, he had an affair with a neighbor.¹

     Anton Schafer married Ottilie Kneissl, daughter of Xavier Kneissl and Maria Siegel.¹ He was born in 1879.¹ He died on 28 May 1959 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     The third surviving child of Andreas and Anna Schafer, he was a pastry chef (Konditor). He was a journeyman in Austria.
He was in Macedonia when WWI ended, and walked all the way back home, carrying a box turtle for his children. He had married Ottilie Kneissl, half sister of Johann Kneissl(25) and lived in FFB, where his coffee and pastry shop (Konditorei) was located.
Children
1.Ottilie (Tilly)
m. Hans Huber also wounded in WWII
son Hans MD has 2-3? children living in FFB in 2000

2.Anton Missing in Russia during WWII- never married.¹ Name variation: Condit.¹

     Anton Schafer was born in December 1903 at Aichach, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He died at Aichach, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     He lived in the US in the 1920's, was a friend of George Hofstetter from Aichach, cousin of Anna Kneissl and godfather to their daughter Louisa. Daughter is Elizabeth Swart- she has children in Aichach.¹

     Anton 'Tony' Schafer died circa 1944 in WW II.¹
     Missing in WWII.¹

     Bertha A. Schafer was born on 25 February 1915 at Brooklyn, NY.¹ She married Franz Ritz on 27 August 1949 (,Queens, NY.)¹ She died on 4 February 1992 at Nashville, TN, at age 76.¹ She was buried on 7 February 1992 in New Rochelle.¹
     1920 Census NY State, Brooklyn County. NY Vol.145, enumeration district 323, Sheet #1, Line #25. from National Archives 6 May 1993.
Listed as Betta Schafer, living at 878 Broadway, Brooklyn with parents and brother Andrew. She was 5 years old, did not yet attend school, born in N.Y., her parents listed as Prussian (wrong) and their mother tongue German.

Lived in New Rochelle upon marriage in 27 Aug 1949 to Franz Ritz, a roofer. They had two daughters:
Marilyn, b. 15 Aug 1950 in New Rochelle
Marilyn was married to Tom Meehan, and they had a son
Brian Christopher Meehan, b. 6 Mar 1974 in Portchester, NY
She later married Mr. Beaty who was killed in an accident.
Nicholas Alan Beaty was born of this marriage 22 Jun 1986 in Nashville, TN
In 1999 she was living at 4121 Lone Oak Rd.
Nashville TN 37215
Her son Brian had graduated from college as an education major and was his half brother Nicholas' teacher.
Joan Ellen, b. 21 Apr 1952 was not married as of 1999
Her address in 1999 4112 Lone Oak Rd.
Nashville TN 37215

Franz Ritz died 16 Feb 1958 of a heart attack while shovelling snow. Bertha, her mother and the girls continued living in New Rochelle until about 1972. Joan had become an art student at Vanderbilt College in Nashville, and Bertha and her mother made the move to Nashville.

Bertha had a stroke in 1979 and heart problems, and died in Nashville 4 Feb 1992. Her daughters buried her in New Rochelle.¹ Married name: Ritz.

     Clement Schafer married Walburga Hoffman.¹ He was born in October 1891.¹
     The youngest in his family, Clement was in Flanders and Alsace in the German army during WWI.
He was a court clerk in Schrobenhausen and lived in Dorfen with his wife. His son, Adolf was reported missing in Russia in WWII and presumably died there.¹

     Elisabeth Schafer died at Schrobenhausen, Germany.¹ She was born circa 1875.¹ She married Raimund Schafer, son of Andreas Schafer and Anna Kneissl, after 1930 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G.)¹
     Elisabeth was the daughter of Josef Schafer, Raimund's father's brother. So she was his first cousin.¹ Married name: Schafer.

     Georg Schafer was born on 2 May 1801 at Dettenhofen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Elisabeth Weissmuller on 12 April 1839 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G.)¹ He died on 25 January 1853 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 51.¹
     F28
Georg SCHA'FER, (Schafheiss) Name Elisabeth WEISMU'LLER, Seilermeister(Ropemaker) Seilermeister's daughter 23 May 1801 Dettenhofen Born 7 Oct 1813 Pfaffenhofen an Ilm 12 Apr 1839 Schrobenh'sen Married
by 1853 Died 20 Aug 1894
Buried
Johannes Georg SCHA'FER Father Andreas WEISMU'LLER Anna GAUGIGL
Mother Barbara STRAUBINGER
Other spouse Philip DOLLINGER,
Seilermeister

Children Born Place Died Place Josef b.28Dec1843 Schrobenhausen
Viktualenha'ndler (Feed and grain merchant)
m. 21 Feb 1881 Anna Schmid b.15 Nov 1846,in Kiefersfelden
child:1) Josef Scha'fer, Handelsman
b.1 Jul 1872 Sandizell
m. 29 Apr 1985 Karoline Kuchler,b.2Ja1874 SOB
2) Ottilie, m. Raimund SCHA'FER?
Ludwig b.14Dec1845 SOB
Mo'wber,(feed and grain merchant)
Madeline Schafer Uhlig's grandfather
Andreas(#30) 4Mar1848 SOB 22Apr1901 SOB
m. Anna Kneissl 11 children, 5 survived


According to Hubert Klebel,Elisabeth's second marriage to Philip took place 28 June 1853. On the marriage record Philip is listed as a Privatier, the wedding was in Schrobenhausen and was witnessed by Sigmund Dollinger and Joseph Lachner. Philip's father was Sigmund Dollinger, and his mother was Annemarie Andrien.
There were no known children of this second marriage.
Since Andreas Schafer was born in 1848, his father must have died before he was 5 years
old, as Elisabeth remarried in 1853.
Philip Dollinger and his brother were known to have been very congenial, according to
Anna Hofstetter, and also according to an article in an old Schrobenhausen newspaper
found by Hubert Klebel, which even had a picture of them.

Freom HK, church records of Parish church of St. Jakob, Georg dies at age 51 at 9 PM, and was buried 28 Jan 1853. Cause of death was consumption. He recieved the sacraments before death.


Oldest child of Georg Schafer and Elizabeth Weissmuller
Josef b.28 Dec. 1843 he lived in Schrobenhausen all his life, a Victualenhandler (Flour, feed and grain merchant)
He was the father of Elisabeth, who was the second wife of her first cousin, Raimund Schafer.
Child #2
Ludwig b.14 Dec 1845
lived in Schrobenhausen
his granddaughter Madeline came to the US in the 1920's worked as a nanny in NY for many years, eventually married Willie Uhlig when they were older, and in the 60's
returned to Germany to live - she died in 1992? - he before 1983.

one of the relatives of Andreas (55) had a son , Sigmund Mayerwho was a baker and a problem.
The man's father asked Max Schafer (189)to sponsor him in the US. Max took him in and paid his
debts up to a point. Some time in the 1920's, Max had enough and told the baker to get
out. If he stayed in the US, it is not known. He was probably an alchoholic and it is not where he went with his wife Matilda.

This was the only Shafer who came to the US that cannot be traced in that generation.
It is possible that George Shafer, b. 1801 had siblings that did not stay in Germany - or
Johannes Georg, his father, but there is no family tradition that anyone came to the US
before Max in 1910.

Information from the prayerbook of Anton Kneissl, written by his granddaughter Ottilie Schafer Kneissl,
and corroborated in SOB records by her granddaughter Annemarie Kneissl Brandner.
There were other children of this marriage.¹

     Hubert Schafer died circa 1985 at Schrobenhausen, Germany.¹

     Infant Schafer died circa 1920.¹ Infant Schafer was born circa 1920.¹
     First child of Anton Schafer - died of diptheria.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 12 November 1759.¹
     He was born in 1759, the same year as the German poet Friedrich Schiller.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 28 December 1843 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Schmid on 21 February 1881.¹
     Confused notes about the brothers of Andreas Schafer.
Josef was either a Victualenhandler or (feed and grain merchant) or Mowber (Melber?) same thing?¹

     Josef Schafer married ?unknown.¹ He was born on 1 July 1872 at Sandizell, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     Name variation: Handelsman.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 13 March 1799.¹

     Ludwig Schafer was born on 14 December 1845 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     Name variation: Mowber.¹

     Madeline Schafer was born on 4 July 1905 at Schrobenhausen.¹ She died on 31 May 1990 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 84.¹
     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.¹

     Mary (Maria) Schafer married Jacob Hildebrand, son of John Hildebrand and Margaret Gardner.¹ She was buried in the Union Cemetery in East Berlin.¹ She was born on 16 February 1782.¹ She died on 29 October 1844 at East Berlin, PA, at age 62.¹
     Married name: Hildebrand.      Also apell Scheaffer, Scheafer.¹

     Max Schafer was born in 1888.¹ He married Louise Litty circa 1914 (New York, NY.)¹ He died in 1948.¹
     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.¹

     Ottilie Schafer was born on 26 November 1876 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ She married Johann Baptist Kneissl, son of Xavier Kneissl and Anna Maria Schrem(s), on 26 July 1896 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G.)¹ She died on 28 December 1960 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany, at age 84.¹
     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.¹ Married name: Kneissl.

     Ottilie Schafer was born circa 1844.¹

     Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer married Hans Huber.¹ She was born circa 1921.¹ She died on 16 August 1982 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.¹
     Married name: Huber.

     Raimund Schafer was buried in Schrobenhausen.¹ He married Viktoria Stieff.¹ He was born on 10 February 1883 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Elisabeth Schafer, daughter of Josef Schafer and Anna Schmid, after 1930 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G.)¹ He died on 2 February 1938 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, at age 54.¹
     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.¹

     Raimund Schafer was born circa 1935.¹ He died in 1985.¹
     He was a fence builder.¹

     Rosa Schafer was born after 1905.¹
     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.¹

     Ruth Deming Schaffer married Donald Alfred Truss, son of Walter George Truss and Ada Mary James. She died on 23 December 1974.
     Name variation: Ruth Deming Truss.
General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Truus Schagen married John Martens, son of S. W. Martens.^1,2 She was born on 21 August 1884.^3,2 She died in December 1972 at Haledon, Passaic County, NJ, at age 88.^1,3,2
     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.² Name variation: Thresa Marten.^4,2 Married name: Martens.^3,2 Name variation: Trientje Schagen.^5,2 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.^5,2 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.)^4,2