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     Therese Schaeffler was born in 1882.¹ She married Raimund Kneissl, son of Xavier Kneissl and Anna Maria Schrem(s).¹

     She was of Munchen.¹ Married name: Kneissl.

     Aletta Schaets was born in 1643 at Albany, NY.¹ She married Daniel Verveelen, son of Johannes Verveelen and Anna Jaarsvelt, in 1662.^1,2

     Name variation: Alida Schaets.³ Married name: Verveelen.

     Bartholomeus Schaets was born in 1578 at Edam, The Netherlands.¹ He married Alida.¹ Bartholomeus Schaets died in 1659 at Tricht, Gelderland, The Netherlands.¹

     Gideon Schaets was born in 1607 at Leerdam, The Netherlands.¹ He married Agnietje Moens on 5 November 1634.¹ Gideon Schaets died on 27 February 1693/94.¹

     Mathias Schaets was born in 1550 at Brussels, Belgium.¹ He married Janne Schagun.¹ Mathias Schaets died in 1603 at Leerdam, The Netherlands.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

     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 Andreas Schafer died on 22 April 1901 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria.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.¹

     Andrew Schafer was born in 1917 at Brooklyn, NY.¹ He married Marie.¹ Andrew Schafer died in 1970 at Nashville, TN.¹

     He had a 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

     Andrew Schafer was born circa 15 February 1903 at Aichach, Germany.¹ He married Emma Elisabeth Borsum on 22 May 1930 (Brooklyn NY.)¹ Andrew Schafer died at New York.¹

     Anna Schafer was born on 5 October 1912 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     Anton Schafer was born in 1879.¹ He married Ottilie Kneissl, daughter of Xavier Kneissl and Maria Siegel.¹ Anton Schafer 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 (1) married NN.¹ He died at Aichach, Bavaria.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

     Bertha Schafer was born at Aichach, Bavaria, Germany.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 Bertha A. Schafer died on 4 February 1992 at Nashville, TN.¹ She was buried on 7 February 1992 in New Rochelle.¹

     Married name: Ritz.

     Clement Schafer was born in October 1891.¹ He married Walburga Hoffman.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.¹
     Their son Adolf was reported missing in Russia in WWII and presumably died there.¹

     Elisabeth Schafer was born circa 1875.¹ She married Raimund Schafer, son of Andreas Schafer and Anna Kneissl, after 1930 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ Elisabeth Schafer died at Schrobenhausen, Germany.¹

     Elisabeth and Raimund were first cousins.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 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ Georg Schafer died on 25 January 1853 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, at age 51, of consumption (he received the sacraments before death.)¹ He was buried on 28 January 1853 in St. Jakob's Cemetery.²

     Johannes Georg Schafer was born on 10 January 1779 at Dettenhofen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Maria Gaugigl, daughter of Marcello Gaugigl.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 12 November 1759 (the same year as the German poet Friedrich Schiller.)¹ He married Anna Maria Felbermeier.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 28 December 1843 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Schmid on 21 February 1881.¹

     Josef Schafer was a Victualenhandler (feed and grain merchant.)¹ He and Anna had more children.²
     One of the relatives of Andreas had a son, Sigmund Mayer who was a baker and a problem.
The man's father asked Max Schafer 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 known 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.)

     Josef Schafer was born on 1 July 1872 at Sandizell, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     Josef Schafer was a "Handelsman" (merchant.)¹

     Ludwig Schafer was born on 14 December 1845 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     He lived in Schrobenhausen; his granddaughter Madeline Schafer came to the US in the 1920's and 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 c. 1992; he before 1983. (NOTE: Madeline is also listed as a granddaughter of Josef and Anna Schmidt!)¹

     Madeline Schafer was born on 4 July 1905 at Schrobenhausen.¹ She died on 31 May 1990 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.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 was born on 16 February 1782.¹ She married Jacob Hildebrand, son of John Hildebrand and Margaret Gardner.¹ Mary (Maria) Schafer died on 29 October 1844 at East Berlin, PA.¹ She was buried in Union Cemetery in East Berlin.¹

     Name also spelled Scheaffer, Scheafer.¹ Married name: Hildebrand.

     Max Schafer was born in 1888 at Germany.^1,2 He married Louise Litty, daughter of ? Litty, circa 1914 (New York, NY.)¹ Max Schafer died in 1948.¹

     The 1920 census lists Max Schafer and Louise at 878 Broadway at Brooklyn, NY, with their children Bertha and Andrew, and two boarders.^1,2
     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 had 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.

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 Ottilie Schafer died on 28 December 1960 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.¹

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

     Married name: Huber.

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

     During WWI, Raimund was in Galicia (Poland), Russia and France. Raimund Schafer was a ropemaker (Seilermeister) in Schrobenhausen. Although 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 how to make knotted items- she made a dolls rope hammock among many other things which was given to her great granddaughters in Danbury CT. at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ Raimund and Elisabeth were first cousins.¹

     Johannes Jacob Schaffi was born on 4 March 1849 at Pleisweiler, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Margarethe Aspenleiter on 4 February 1973.¹